Dance the night Away

From: South Coast Folk Society

Subject: South Coast Community Contra Dance!

When: Saturday Evening, October 6, 2018

Time: 7:00PM to 10:00PM

Where: Coos Bay Senior Center, 4^th and Ingersoll, Coos Bay, OR

Featuring: Music by THE OUTSTANDING OPEN BAND

Dance Calling by STACY ROSE

Folk Society to Host a Contra Dance October 6, Public Welcome

On Saturday evening, October 6, the South Coast Folk Society will host a public Contra Dance in Coos Bay.  All are welcome to this special event which features live music by the South Coast’s own Outstanding Open Band, and great calling by Stacy Rose of North Bend. The Contra Dance will be held at the Coos Bay Senior Center Dance Hall, located at 4^th and Ingersoll, from 7-10PM. Contra dancing is a light-hearted form of social dancing that is easy to learn and fun for all ages.  Singles, couples and families can all enjoy this exciting new form of dance. New dancers are always welcome.

The Outstanding Open Band consists of many talented musicians from Coos and Curry counties dedicated to playing great dance music. This is a popular local band with gifted musicians who have played for numerous Folk Society events over the years. They will be on stage for three hours.

The Folk Society has arranged for a skilled guest caller from North Bend, Stacy Rose, to guide dancers throughout the evening.  She will teach all the steps and patterns you need to know.  Over the past 15 years, Stacy has called contra dances locally and for folklore societies around the state. She has led community dances with church groups, school groups, weddings and other private parties. Stacy is a local favorite, making beginners feel right at home while keeping it fun for the veteran dancers. 

Stacy has an exciting repertoire of dances that are appropriate for all ages and skill levels.  She will give a lesson at 7PM, and first-timers who show up for this lesson will receive a ticket for free admission to their next dance.  Wear your dancing shoes, casual clothes, and a big smile.

This event is alcohol and fragrance free.  Refreshments are available.  Doors open at 6:45PM.  Admission: General=$7; Seniors 60+=$6; Members=$5; Students are always free, and Supervised Children under 6 are also free. For more information call 541-404-8267 or visit www.southcoastfolksociety.com.

   

PRESS RELEASE   Contra Dance  PRESS RELEASE

The South Coast Folk Society is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation, study, teaching, enjoyment, and continuing evolution of traditional and historical dance, music, and song.

Watch for the Signs

“VET INK: Tattoos Inspired by Military Service”

Opening on October 17, 2018, at the Coos History Museum

The Coos History Museum will present a new exhibit entitled VET INK: Tattoos Inspired by Military Service with an opening ceremony scheduled on Wednesday – October 17, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. The ceremony is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.

Historically tattoos have many meanings as well as misconceptions. Traditionally military inspired tattoos depict the story of wars and battles and symbolize lost soldiers or achievements in service. Vet Ink: Tattoos Inspired by Military Service is an exhibition created to honor the more than 8,000 veterans who reside in Coos County, Oregon.

The exhibit features several local military personnel, active duty and retired, and the stories behind their military inspired tattoos. The exhibit takes a closer look at the story behind the “ink” – providing the men and women in the exhibit an opportunity to share some of their perspectives and experiences while serving in the military. The exhibit components include audio visual and a series of interpretive panels that feature photographs related to the individual and the unique story behind their ink.

VET INK: Tattoos Inspired by Military Service was created with the help of local professionals and businesses. Coast Metal Works, Inc., WOW arts & exhibits, Inner Sanctum Studios, and local photographer Aron Tyler all contributed to the exhibit. Vet Ink sponsors include Coast Metal Works, Inc., West Coast Contractors, Oregon Pacific Bank, Coos Bay – North Bend Rotary, and the City of Coos Bay, with additional support from KDOCK Radio and the Coos Bay Lions Club. The exhibit will run for 9 months, from October 17, 2018 through the summer of 2019, at the Coos History Museum. The interpretive panels will later be available for loan to local schools, museums, libraries, businesses, government offices and other public spaces. For more information, please visit the website at: www.cooshistory.org.

About the Coos History Museum:

The Coos History Museum creates a better understanding of life in Coos County and Oregon’s South Coast, past and present. The Museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and receives no direct government support. The museum is supported by donations, memberships, grants, museum store sales, special event rentals, and legacy/bequest gifts. The Coos History Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, from 10am to 5pm, with additional evening hours on the First Tuesdays of February to June, and August to December, from 6:00pm to 8:30pm. Second Sunday of each month is a FREE ADMISSION DAY. General admission to the Coos History Museum is free for CHM members, active duty military, and NARM members. The Coos History Museum is a Member of the North American Reciprocal Museum Association, the American Alliance of Museums, and the American Association for State and Local History. The Coos History Museum is located on the waterfront along Highway 101, adjacent to downtown Coos Bay, at 1210 North Front Street, Coos Bay, Oregon. For more information, contact the Coos History Museum at 541-756-6320 or visit the website at www.cooshistory.org.

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Fiddlle-dee-dee

 Fiddle supergroup Childsplay Releases Final Album, “The Bloom of Youth” Album release kicks off national farewell tour (Cambridge, Mass, September 4, 2018) The fiddle choir Childsplay: Fiddlers, Fiddles and Fiddlemaker is pleased to announce the release of their seventh album, “The Bloom of Youth.” The album is the first step in a final farewell tour for the band, many of whom have been in the band for 30 years. Led by violin maker Robert Childs, Childsplay is made up of over 20 musicians from around the United States and Ireland, with each member of the string section playing a violin or viola handmade by Childs himself. To imagine what is unique to Childsplay, picture what a family that sings together sounds like, all the voices of the violins have a familial tone. Add in 30 years of touring, a film on PBS, and the recent release of their seventh album and you begin to get a sense of what makes this tour and album so special. It is said, that of all the musical instruments, the violin is the most like the human voice when played soulfully. Karan Casey, one of the most innovative and celebrated voices in Irish traditional and folk music, sang on the album and will be joining Childsplay for their farewell tour. Childsplay is made up of a cast of 12 incredible fiddlers, ranging from all-Ireland and national Scottish fiddle champions to members of the Boston Symphony, and also includes 9 all-star instrumentalists, singers and dancers who altogether create the sound that is truly Childsplay. Childsplay will kick off their final tour dates in the Pacific Northwest, playing several shows in Washington and Oregon in November, before concluding at the Somerville Theatre in Somerville, MA on November 20. “Since our first gig in 1988, our band of talented musicians have strived to take fiddle music beyond mesmerizing repetition and into the realm of harmonies and counter rhythms—traditional fiddle sounds in a contemporary world,” Childs said. “We are so grateful to all of our fans for their continued support as we tune our strings for the final time, and hope to meet new fans along the way!” A full schedule of the tour can be found below. Ticket information can be found at www.childsplay.org/concerts. San Juan Community Theatre Friday Harbor, WA Saturday, November 10 at 8pm Nordstrom Recital Hall/Benaroya Hall Seattle, WA Sunday, November 11 at 7pm Egyptian Theatre Coos Bay, WA Tuesday, November 13 at 7:30pm Austin Auditorium at the LaSells Stewart Center Corvallis, WA Wednesday, November 14 at 8pm Aladdin Theatre Portland, OR Thursday, November 15 at 8pm Admiral Theatre Bremerton, WA Friday, November 16 at 7:30pm Lincoln Theatre Mount Vernon, WA Saturday, November 17 at 8pm Somerville Theatre Somerville, MA Tuesday, November 20 at 8pm Known to its audiences as a celebration of spirited, innovative and exuberant music Childsplay has performed in the United States and Europe, showcasing some of the leading virtuosos in traditional and contemporary fiddle tunes and songs. different styles of fiddle music. From humble dance halls to feature performances at The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., before world music audiences in Sweden and public radio audiences throughout the United States, Childsplay has introduced many thousands to the delights of. For more information please visit childsplay.org.

A Date With Death

So It Goes Coffeehouse presents an original stage adaptation of horror cult camp sensation MURDER PARTY by the Lab of Madness.

EVERYBODY DIES 

It's Halloween night in Brooklyn. Chris, a lonesome and unremarkable fellow, finds a mysterious invitation on the street and follows it to what he thinks will be a fun costume party. It turns out to be a lethal trap set by a gang of deranged hipster artists who plan to lure someone to their remote warehouse base and ritually murder them as part of an extreme artistic event to impress their wealthy and sinister guru/patron. As the booze-and-drug-fueled night wears on, rivalries within the group flare and chainsaws rage...

MURDER PARTY is for audience members 18 years of age and over and features Amanda McNulty, Michael Pedder, Joe Allen, Dylon Bessey, Taylor Marchant, Maxwell Freeman, Marissa Marchant, and Nothus Rex as Chris the Brown Knight. Directed by John Beane and Daneal Doerr.

Performances are October 19-31, Fri/Sat/Sun at 8pm with two special performances at 7pm & 11pm on Halloween. Tickets are $15 and are available at the shop or online at soitgoescoffee.com. Performances take place at So It Goes Coffeehouse, 190 Central Ave, Coos Bay, Oregon.

MURDER PARTY won the 2007 Slamdance festival and was the first film from Jeremy Saulnier and Macon Blair (Green Room, Blue Ruin). So It Goes Coffeehouse previously presented PULP SHAKESPEARE and DASH RIPROCK AND THE TENTACLES OF DOOM.

For more information contact John Beane here or at 541-290-9726.

Production images coming 9/24.

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John Beane

So It Goes Coffeehouse  

541.808.9333 www.soitgoescoffee.com     

www.facebook.com/soitgoescoffeehouse

The Three S's

Call to Artists:

Call to Artists: October 2018

Shanties, Shacks, & Other Structures

The Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center will host a show of artworks created depicting buildings of all sorts—shanties, shacks, barns, bridges and warehouses. All structural things man-made are subjects for the artist's consideration.

Artists may enter 1-3 pieces using painting, collage, mixed media, drawing, photography or assemblage in all artistic styles: representational, abstract, or futuristic. All works must be able to be hung on the wall. This show runs October through December 2018.

As usual you can be creative in your interpretation of the theme, keeping in mind that art on the hospital walls is meant to entertain and de-stress the patients, families, staff, and general visitors. It is not a venue for nudity, violence, morbidity, or as a political soapbox. Thank you for your continued positive approach to art in these shows.

 

Show Calendar:

Show runs October, November, and December 2018

Reception:

Sunday, October 7, 2018 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Delivery of Art:

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 2 p.m.

Bring ready-to-hang art plus paperwork to the SCHHC, Bandon.

See you there!

 

Questions: Contact Susan Lehman at studioblue@mycomspan.com

or Ava Richey at yarnfarm@frontier.com

Just a hobby

Are you a journeyman artist or just a hobby dilettante?

The reason I ask is a conversation I had with Charles of Charleston the other day. We were talking about how so many artists wait for inspiration to hit them and wind up waiting for days. (Weeks/months/years)

If you are really a working artist you can't waste time waiting for an idea to come along. That idea may have decided to visit Disneyland and there you are waiting by the side of the road while that idea is off riding on the Log Flume.

Inspiration is just one of many excuses artists use for not working. Art can't be taught.

Yes, I know there are schools and classes and while they are very good and might in some cases be helpful, art has to be earned. It is earned with sweat equity. The daily grind of getting up, coming to, sorting your equipment, squeezing time, (The kids need school supplies and the dog is barfing on the rug and The Thing On The Couch hasn't turned off football since the middle of August, your mother is coming on Sunday) and you still have to find time to work!

You want to be an artist, you have to work at it daily. Those skills you admire so much don't come in a kit you can buy on Amazon, they come from doing it wrong a thousand times and then doing it wrong another thousand times and then doing it wrong one more time until it finally looks right.

I have it easy, I am a photographer and I have a wonderful machine right in front of my face which is on most days a lot smarter than I am, but it don't use those smarts unless I tell it what to do.

That means I have to use the camera day in and day out until I know where every bell and whistle is and what every adjustment does and why I should do this instead of that and why it might take some tweaking in the computer even after I get it out of the camera.

And let me tell you finding something new and inspiring every day is not a job for sissies. But it has to be done. The camera is just a paper weight unless it is used.

How much harder is it for artists in other disciplines who have to learn how to make paint and brushes do what they want when arthritic fingers would just as soon lift another cup of coffee grab a blanket off the bed and see what new outrage the politicians have done today.

Just last weekend I was at the Blackberry Fest doing some outdoor street photography. Takes steady nerves, a quick eye and complete knowledge of how the camera works. Get the wrong guy in frame and you get your assets kicked cause he is out on parole and doesn't want his face where his PO can see that he isn't at the Food Cupboard passing out apples to hungry chillen.

And how 'bout women? Well, yes as a general rule I like them a lot, as I may have mentioned from time to time, but in the Me Too culture, you can get labeled a perv and get your assets kicked by the boyfriend who is nine and half feet tall and just out on parole and ducking his PO and would like to stay out of jail so that he can make sure his honey isn't letting some other bee sip all her nectar.

And even if the boyfriend isn't nine and a half feet tall, the perv label has some heavy weight these days and you do want to stay out of court so those brilliant pictures can be shown at a public venue and not as part of a prison art show traveling around the country to raise money so that you can buy smokes at the canteen to bribe off the nine and a half foot tall guy who wants you to be his honey while he is waiting to get released and go back to his honey and you don't want that so you have to be careful. 

 

Then too you don't really want to catch people with their mouths full, or open or with their pants hanging on their hip bones or with something nasty they accidentally sat in while taking a break from all of the festing. But you do want to catch the unique, miracle moments which happen while you are out walking around and aren't you glad you brought your camera along.

Like kids doing pole vault demonstrations

Which there actually was at the fest and I had my camera and I got a shot or two, but I had to know all sorts of things cause you see pole vaulters have just one or two seconds of high drama in between running and thinking and handling that pole so you have to do all of the calculations and setting the settings and holding your breath so that you don't shake at just the important moment and what about all of that blue sky which will throw your exposure all to hell and gone?

But if you wait to be inspired when do you get in the practice which teaches you how do do all of the things which have to be done in a split second when the miracle happens?

You have to work at it, work at it every day, work at even when you feel like what that dog just did to the rug, when the kids are screaming and The Thing on the Couch is whining and the whole world is going to hell. You work not because you are inspired, but because you are an artist and work is what makes great possible.

Three Golden Rules

“Location! Location! Location!” You are invited to a reception for the artists at Oregon Bay Properties/Oregon Community Gallery at the corner of Virginia and Hwy. 101 South in North Bend on Friday, July 20th from 4-7 pm.

There will be refreshments and music by Mark Tierney. Featured artist is Janne LaValle from Lakeside but there is a large group of others (see poster below). Show is up through December 2018.