This Way Out - HIPFiSHmonthly

Season’s OfferingsSpooky Show III and Films At LightBox Photographic GalleryLightBox Photographic Gallery will host theopening of the Spooky Show III. This exhibit openson Saturday October 8, 2011 with an artist receptionfrom 6-9pm, and continues through November5. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Drive indowntown Astoria.This years Spooky Show consist of photographicimages from over 40 Photographic Artists fromaround the country, as well as Spain, Great Britainand Sweden. Michael and Chelsea Granger ofLightBox began the Spooky Show in October of2009, soon after opening the gallery, to celebratethe month of Halloween and the spooky historyof Astoria. Images from the group show focus onphotographs that are haunting and mysterious innature, evoking a sense of uneasewhile maintaining an element ofbeauty. The works presented cover arange in photographic processes fromtraditional silver gelatin prints to avariety of alternative methods.Also showing as a featured artist isAnnette Fournet and her photographicseries “Last One’s Standing”, imagesof the vanishing Scarecrows of EasternEurope. The series of twenty SilverGelatin prints was photographed inremote villages where the craft ofthe traditional scarecrow is a fadingtradition that has been past on forgenerations. Annette Fournet lives inMemphis, Tennessee and in Prague,Czech Republic.This year LightBox will be showinga series of Spooky films in the gallerytheatre. The series will run on thenights of October 28, 29, 30 and ofcourse, the 31st, Halloween night. Showings willbegin at 7:00p.m. Titles to be announced. Seatingis limited to 25 people, donations are accepted,please call the gallery for info and reservations at503-468-0238.Contact the gallery to enjoy the Spooky filmsshowing on Halloween weekend. LightBox Photographicpromotes creative photography on theNorth Coast, they offer photographic framing, traditionaldarkroom printing, scanning, archival digitalprinting and photo restorations. LightBox Photographicis located at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria.Hours are Tuesday–Friday 11-5:30, Saturday 11-5.Visit their website at lightbox-photographic.com.A. Lincoln at The CoasterFollowing a popular performance lastspring, the critically acclaimed play “A.Lincoln” is returning to the Coaster Theatre inCannon Beach for a two-night run, October21st and 22nd. The one-man show bringsLincoln to life as he tells his own story throughletters, speeches, newspaper stories and conversationswith imagined others on stage. Heoften addresses the audience directly, tellingjokes and even reciting his own poetry.Craig Shepherd, Executive Director of theCoaster Theatre, says, “Last spring’s performancewas a real success. The audienceenjoyed it a great deal. It’s often moving,sometimes funny and gives us a truly intimateportrayal of Lincoln. After the performance, Iwas struck by how many people stopped meon the street, telling me how much they likedthe play and asking me whether it would becoming back. So we decided to schedule asecond run.”In addition to its previous run at the Coaster,the two-act play, written and performed bySteve Holgate, has gained critical and popularsuccess throughout the West Coast states aswell as in Mexico, Sri Lanka, Bahrain and theRepublic of Maldives.Holgate, originally from Tigard, Oregon, wrotethe play while serving as a diplomat with theDepartment of State. “Lincoln was a great writerand I tried to have the good sense to makesure that most of the words in the play are his,”Holgate says. “I try to bring out the fact that,while our ideas of who Lincoln was are, in fact,pretty accurate, he was far more complex thanmost of us realize.”The play focuses on Lincoln’s evolution onmatters of race and leadership. It does notavoid controversy. Holgate said, “We hearin the play things that we don’t like to hearcoming from Abraham Lincoln. He had hislimitations, like any of us. But unlike most ofus he transcended them. We watch him growand change, giving us a clearer idea of hisgreatness.”“A. Lincoln” will run Friday and Saturday,October 21st and 22nd at 7:30 at the CoasterTheatre, 108 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach. Admissionis $14 for adults and $8 for students.For information and reservations, call (503)436-1242, or look online at www.coastertheate.com.Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart at Tillamook LibraryAward-winning storyteller,Christopher Leebrick,returns to Tillamook! ChristopherLeebrick, to perform a chillingand riveting performance of EdgarAllan Poe’s masterpiece, “TheTell-Tale Heart,” at the TillamookCounty Library on October 29 at3pm. Leebrick’s dramatic interpretationof the classic horror talewon a 2009 Storytelling WorldAward. The presentation alsofeatures a discussion of the storyand its author as well as othereerie tales from around the world.“The Tell-Tale Heart” performanceis recommended for adults and teens.Arrive early and make a ghoulish treat. Tillamook County Libraryteens will help library patrons of all ages create ghoulish treats from2:00-3:00pm on October 29th. Come and have a ghoulishly goodtime.All programs are free and open to the public. For additional information,please call the Tillamook County Library at (503) 842-4792or visit the Tillamook County Library Web site at www.tillabook.info.Dark and Stormy Beach WeekendFor Writers and Artists Nov 4 - 6Calling all writers (and other artists!) The Dark & StormyBeach Weekend November 4-6 in Manzanita is packed full of workshops,and a great way to spend a Dark & Stormy weekend at thebeach? Improving your craft, and workshopping ways to fund yourwriting and art projects.For Writers:On Saturday, November 5, Mindy Hardwick will lead two writingworkshops. Workshops will run from 10 to 12 and 1:30 to 330pm.Fee for each is $25. Both workshops will be at the Hoffman Center,594 Laneda Avenue in Manzanita. Writing From Life: Flash Fiction(a great workshop for writers wanting to learn more about Flash Fiction,memoir writers looking for new writing ideas, and high schoolwriting teachers looking for new ways to teach writing. Also: Writingthe Picture Book. (Picture books are the most beloved story form ofchildren’s writing. But, how easy is it to write a picture book and howcan the knowledge of picture book writing help writers who are workingon longer stories?).For Writers and Artists:Fund Your Creative Project: Grant Writing for the Visual, Literary& Performing Artist.Sunday, a workshop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., bring a brown bagfor lunch. Fee is $65 for the first twelve attendees who register byOctober 24th; $95 thereafter. The workshop will be at the HoffmanCenter, 594 Laneda Avenue in Manzanita.In this hands-on workshop, artists and writers learn to take a goodidea and transform it into a compelling grant proposal. Instructor GigiRosenberg is a writer, speaker, workshop leader and grant-writingguru.To register go to: hoffmanblog.org. The weekend is a joint eventof the Manzanita Writers’ Series/Hoffman Center and the ManzanitaBusiness Alliance, and is made possible in part by a grant from theTillamook County Cultural Coalition.Dark and Stormy Nightat Driftwood Public LibraryDriftwood Public Library announces the 8th year of its Dark andStormy Night Mystery Series this October. A different mystery authorwill visit the library each Thursday afternoon in October at 4pm tospeak to readers about their work.Authors include Doc Macomber, October 6. Ann Littlewood– October 13, Susan Windgate – October 20, and Larry Brooks –October 27. All of the programs will take place at the library, 801SW Highway 101 (2nd Floor) in Lincoln City. All inquiries aboutthe programs should be directed to Ken Hobson, 541.996.1242(kenh@driftwoodlib.org).oct11 hipfishmonthly.com24