Columbia Center for the Arts
  ARTS IN THE GORGE
                   August 1 , 2007
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Events at Columbia Center for the Arts
 

 

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Art Show
   
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Land of Winding Waters
David Jensen
Edge of the Wheatfields
Catherine J. Lee
 
July Evening Above Weston
Cheryl Williams-Cosner
 
  East of the Cascades  
  Featuring three landscape artists from Eastern Oregon

Meet the Artists:
Friday, August 3, 6 - 8 pm
 
 
  • David Jensen, photographer, Enterprise, OR
  • Catherine J. Lee, oil painter, Condon, OR
  • Cheryl Williams-Cosner, pastel artist, Weston, OR

Artist presentations at 7 and 7:30 p.m.

Click here for more information.

Opening and Artist Reception

Learn about the artists and their art. Chat it up with your friends. Have a glass of wine and something to eat.  Enjoy!

Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade St., Hood River, OR

 
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Theatre
   
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Aug. shows to benefit:

-- Helping Hands
-- SMART
-- The Next Door

 

Sept. shows to benefit:
-- Hood River Police
    Sunrise Fund
 

 

  The Tavern  
  Opens August 24  
  Proceeds to benefit Columbia Gorge area non-profits.  
     
  A play for non-profit in cooperation with Samuel French  
  Staring Jack Trumbull as The Vagabond  
  Play by George M. Cohan  
  Directed by Lynda Dallman  
     
  What It's About: In a lonely tavern, on a wild and stormy night, a zany cast of characters encounters a mysterious vagabond.  
 

 

When

8:00 pm shows: Aug. 24, 25, 31 and Sept. 1
2:00 pm shows: Aug 25, 26 and Sept 1, 2
Tickets $15 adults / $10 seniors & students
Available at Columbia Center for the Arts
and Waucoma Books
Where Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade St., Hood River, OR

 
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Art Classes
   
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Eric Jacobsen

  Plein Air Painting Workshop  
 

September 8 & 9
With Noted Plein Air Painter Eric Jacobsen

For painters of all levels, this workshop focuses on organizing and simplifying your subject, and on making key decisions that will enable you to successfully paint the landscape.

Click here for more information and to learn how to register.

 
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Film Series
   
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Film

Mark Your Calendar!

Films
every fourth Wednesday
of the month

  Besieged  
  August 22nd  
     
 

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.

An African medical student exiled in Italy, keeps house for M. Kinsky, an English pianist and composer. When he besieges her with declarations of his love, can she make him sacrifice all to rescue her political prisoner husband?

Free! (A $5 donation appreciated.)

When

Wednesday, Aug 22
7:30 p.m.

Where Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade St., Hood River, OR

 
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Opportunities for Performers
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  Auditions for Wit  
 

Audition dates & times:
July 31 and August 1 at 6:30 p.m.

Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. In this extraordinary play, she comes to reasses her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.

Looking for the following characters:

  • 3 women, ages 20 - 80's
  • 2 men, ages 20 - 50's
  • 4 ensemble members, men and women, ages 20 - 30's

Click here to learn more.

 

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Get Involved in the Arts
   
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Arts
  Mention the Arts in Your Will  
 

Leave a legacy. Mention Columbia Center for the Arts in your will. Click here for more information.

 

 

 
Thanks to Columbia Center for the Arts Sponsors
for July, August, September
  Jean Harmon and Paul Randall
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Columbia Arts
       
  Columbia Center for the Arts is an art organization that nurtures creative life in the Gorge. We are dedicated to bringing you visual, performing, and literary art events that will thrill your heart, make you think, give you a laugh, and touch your soul.

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for your upcoming events.

541-387-8877