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March 9, 2006
There will be a showing
of the film “Keep Not Silent,” winner of the Israeli Academy Award
for Best Documentary 2004, at 2 and 8 p.m. Friday at Southern Oregon University’s
Britt Ballroom in Britt Hall.
Photographer
prefers to be in the thick of it
For new Ashland artist Patrick Moore, farming and photography have been closely
intertwined over the years. He’s been avidly taking pictures ever since
he received a Christmas gift of a Brownie camera during junior high in ‘68
in New Jersey.
March 2, 2006
There are two love stories
woven into “Guys and Dolls,” the 1950 Broadway musical that
Ashland High School Theatre is presenting tonight in its Mountain Theatre for
a limited run. It is an event in which over 100 AHS students will participate.
Directed by Bruce Hostetler, it promises to be a rich and rollicking revival.
Shaktari
Belew back from hiatus with Headwaters show
For Ashland artist Shaktari Belew, it’s all a matter of perspective,
from her art to her life philosophy. After a long hiatus from painting spent
writing a book, Belew is exhibiting her art and book in her show, “Deep
Perception” at Headwaters through March.
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February 23, 2006
Welcome to the jungle
Southern Oregon University’s Department of Theatre Arts continues its
season of classic and contemporary plays with the opening of two very different
shows.
Joshua
Heuertz: A theater man for all seasons
Joshua Heuertz is sort of a theatrical jack-of-all-trades, a producer/playwright/tech
person/performer/poet, but he doesn’t have to think twice about his niche:
Improvisational theater.
February 16, 2006
The Tony Award–winning
Oregon Shakespeare Festival opens its 2006 season with four productions
on two stages Feb. 24-26, 2006.
Ann
DiSalvo paints in dialogue
“Looking at other art inspires me. When I see other art I want to respond
with my art, like being in dialogue,” says Ann DiSalvo, a multimedia artist
specializing in pastel paintings of figures and landscapes.
LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT
February 9, 2006
A weekend of Environmental
films
5th annual event features reception welcoming the new director of the Siskiyou
Project
Blue
Star carves out a niche in Ashland
Blue Star, creator of over 10,000 custom made flutes, is in the midst of creating
two films that share a common energy. All are inspired by, as he says, “Love.
By becoming unconditional love and sharing unconditional love.”
February 2, 2006
Camelot opens its 2006 season
with William Gibson’s Tony Award Winning play, “The Miracle Worker.”
This stirring dramatization of the story of Helen Keller is one of the most
successful and warmly admired plays of the modern stage.
An
evolving art form
Digital art often gets a bad rap, but eventually this new art form will likely
follow in the path of what also was once thought to never be a true art, photography,
says digital artist Bruce Bayard.
BOOKS: Authors speaking in Ashland
January 26, 2006
Cabaret Theatre kicks
off its 20th Anniversary season with “Honky Tonk Laundry,” a new country
musical written by Roger Bean, creator of OCT’s 2002 show “Route 66.”
Jussara
Luz Padilha
Jussara Luz Padilha’s new series of original prints, paintings, and
collage work will be showing at Village Shoes and Art Gallery in downtown Ashland
at 337 E. Main St. through April.
 LOCAL
ENTERTAINMENT |
Book Review & Movies: Now playing
January 19, 2006
Brian Freeman will perform
Scottish songs at the First Methodist Church, 179 N. Main St., on Saturday at
7:30 p.m. Christine Williams, Jim Finnegan, and Murray Huggins will accompany
Freeman. Williams is a soprano, Finnegan is a baritone, and Huggins is a pipes
master.
With
pencil in hand
David Bjurstrom (pronounced b-yoor-strum) has earned many awards for his graphite
pencil drawings in some of the West’s most prestigious art shows, including
the C. M. Russell Auction of Original Western art, and he is recognized as one
of the best and most innovative Western art graphite pencil artists in the nation.
 SOU
and JPR’s One World Concert Series present the Indigo Girls in
concert on January 25, 2006 at the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater in Medford
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Book
reviews:
The Plot against America
The Lincoln Lawyer
January 12, 2006
Chamber Music Concerts
will present the Pacifica Quartet on Friday at 8 p.m., and with pianist Alexander
Tutunov on Saturday at 3 p.m. at the SOU Music Recital Hall.
Ashland
photographer goes ‘On Safari’
Photographer Judy Benson LaNier says her art is mostly about "making
the insignificant significant by focusing attention on things that are usually
ignored."
The 18th annual Ashland Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday celebration is
scheduled for noon to 1:15 p.m. Monday at the Historic Ashland Armory in downtown
Ashland.
January
5, 2006
How GREEN
was my ballot?
Bay Area playwright brings political one-woman show to Oregon Stage Works
Alzado: From soap opera to Broadway to off Bardway
Camelot
Theatre Company presents the first in its Second Stage Music Series
for 2006: “Spotlight on The Life and Music of Billie Holiday … a Little
Biography and a Lot of Music!” starring Livia Genise.
