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Host/Producer Dmae Roberts.  Aired Live from the KBOO studio.

Each week Dmae Roberts talks with performing, literary and media artists from the Portland Metro area as well as around the Northwest.  As a two-time Peabody award-winning radio producer and writer, Roberts brings national quality to regional arts scene. Dmae often features her national radio work on Stage and Studio.If you have an event please send an email to stagenstudio@aol.com two months before your event.   The earlier the better!

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Remembrance: On Time And Distance

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Mon, 04/30/2012

Join Dmae Roberts for a special radio memorial on the 10th anniversary of her mom's death. Remembrance: On Time And Distance is part memoir and a collection of radio pieces she's produced about the complex ties that bind a mother and daughter.

For Remembrance: On Time And Distance, Dmae presents excerpts from Mei Mei and The Journey of Lady Buddha. She recounts her weekend trip to Taiwan to rescue her mom when she fell ill and plays her piece Messages from the phone messages she saved while taking care of her mom in her final years.

Featured music from: Dave Pasche, Stephen Hoyt and special thanks to Aaron Meyer from his CDs Walk, Don't Walk and Near The Edge. Hear him at AaronMeyer.com.

Memoir excerpt: 10 Years and I still feel anger and pain. The seven stages of grief have long left me but these two emotions keep coming back.

Ten years ago my mom passed away from a recurrence of breast cancer. Three years before that her doctor left her in a hospital gown in a cold radiology room not knowing why she was there. She called me crying when I was two hours away by car and not able able to help her,

Six months before that I took a weekend flight to Taipei, Taiwan to bring her back after relatives I had never met emailed me saying she was sick.

Time and distance. They say that it heals all wounds. Who are they? These mysterious people who offer sayings with vague meanings. Does time heal? Is there ever a way to heal wounds completely that have been opened up over and again through a lifetime?

Time and distance are what separated my mom and me. She of another race, another generation, culture and language. Anger and Pain brought us together and drove our ambitions in life."

Please join Dmae for this personal show about a complex relationship, caregiving and healing.

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TriangleProductionsGracie_LindaHutchinsArt

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Tue, 04/24/2012

 With three books and a new musical called Gracie, Triangle Productions' Don Horn is making sure that Gracie Hansen won't be forgotten. Best known as the "Queen" of the '62 Seattle World's Fair, Hansen ran the Roaring 20's Room in Portland for five years, before taking a stab at running for governor of Oregon. We'll talk with Horn and Julianna Jaffe who's portraying Gracie Hansen. And in the latter part of the show we hear a sound piece from artist Linda Hutchins who's opening a new artshow performance at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art.

At the age of 40, Gracie Hansen became the “Queen” of the ’62 Seattle World’s Fair. She set out to “save the Fair (to which it was billed as the Science Fair) from science.” She went on to run a 500 seat Las Vegas style show room in Portland Oregon for five years before turning her attention on the governorship of the State of Oregon. \

The musical GRACIE is an unusual story about a bored housewife in 1953 who helps a local PTA to raise money to buy playground equipment and begins a local “follies” type stage show. It ran for five years and was shut down because of  “some nudity on stage” caused by some local loggers.

Gracie Hansen then opened a pavilion at the ’62 World’s Fair after raising $90,000 (that’s $630,000 in today’s dollars). After the fair closed, Hansen came to Portland to run the Roaring 20’s Room at the Hoyt Hotel for seven years. In 1970 she became the first woman to run for Governor of Oregon. She came in third out of the eight candidates.

Julianna Jaffe plays Gracie Hansen; with a chorus of eight dancers and five band members. With book by: Donnie (Donald Horn) and music by various composers.

Performances are May 3rd -May 27th Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 7:30; Sunday @ 2 pm (no show May 6). Tickets: $15.00-$35.00 Call: 503-239-5919 or go towww.tripro.org to order. Triangle Productions is located at The Sanctuary located at Sandy Plaza 1785 NE Sandy Blvd.

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And in the last part of the show, we hear a sound piece from artist Linda Hutchins who is appearing with three other artists in Low Lives, an international festival of live performance-based works transmitted online and in real time at multiple venues in the U.S. and around the world.

Linda Hutchins will combine drawing and percussion in White Out, a performance that weaves repeated strokes of silver from ten thimble-clad finger into a rhythmic pattern on the walls. Immediately following the performance, Hutchins will re-paint the wall, erasing all traces of the work. Hutchins is a Portland-based artist with a background in textiles and computer engineering. She was awarded the Juror’s Prize for her wall drawing in the Tacoma Art Museum’s 2009 Northwest Biennial and has received national press coverage from American Craft, Fiberarts and Art in America. She is represented by Pulliam Gallery in Portland.

Low Lives presents works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice through live online broadcasting networks. This year, PICA contributes three live, five-minute projects in a two-day festival with Austin Adkins, Linda Hutchins, and Robert Tyree.

Performances are April 27, 5:30–8:30pm and April 28, 1:00–3:00 pm at PICA, 415 SW 10th Ave, Suite 300 in Portland. Visit http://www.lowlives.net/ for details on the streaming link.

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SNS41712-WellArtsPoems

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Tue, 04/17/2012

 Healing through art with Well Arts Institute, an 11-year-old nonprofit theatre that focuses on people with physical or mental illness and pairs them with actors to perform their stories. Dmae Roberts talks to Katy Liljeholm, artistic director of Well Arts  and actor Kristen Olson-Huddle about their 'Beautiful Minds' project. In the latter part of the show some Writers Read poetry on the theme of time and distance in honor of National Poetry Month. 

Well Arts has projects telling the stories of elders in Voices of Our Elders (with Hollywood Senior Center and Friendly House), veterans in Soldier’s Heart (with Portland Vet Center), nurses in Nurses’ Story Project, and a yearly writing workshop with former participants called Returning Heroes.

Well Arts current 'Beautiful Minds' project is with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Washington County Center to perform stories written about mental illness written by people living with mental illness in a production titled What’s Important is the Story.

Performances:

April 20- 7:30pm at Village Baptist Church 330 Murray Blvd Beaverton

April 21- 2pm at Hillsboro Artists’ Regional Theatre 185 SE Washington Hillsboro.

April 27-7:30pm at Southminster Presbyterian Church 12250 SW Denney Rd Beaverton.

April 28 -2pm at Serendipity Playhouse 500 Washington Street Vancouver, Washington.

Tickets are $8 online at wellarts.org or call 503-459-4500. Tickets are $10 at the door.

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And in latter part of the show, some thoughts and poetry on the theme of time and distance with writers Laurence Overmire and Terri Lojacano share their poems for our Writer's Read segment. We'll also hear Dmae's sound poem about Time.

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Brother/Sister Plays + Brian Tierney Benefit

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Tue, 04/10/2012

Dmae Roberts talks with Portland Playhouse about three African American plays performed in repertory. Artistic director Brian Weaver and actors Bobby Bermea and Ramona Lisa Alexander join for The Brother/Sister Plays running in repertory till May 13. In the latter part of the show, we also hear about opera singer Brian Tierney who was shot on his way home from his job. Liz Bacon joins us to talk about a benefit concert on April 22nd to help his family mounting medical costs.

The first play is called IN THE RED and BRown Water (PART I)

Description: Oya runs -- fast enough to win a scholarship out of the projects. But then the grief of family and the spirits of the bayou tear up the path beneath her swift feet, threatening to pull her beneath the waters. How strong is the song of Oya’s run and can she outpace the call of fate?

Plays are presented in two parts in repertory:

THE BROTHERS SIZE (PART II)

Description: Orphaned in early childhood, Ogun and Oshoosi Size are inextricably bound. Always the responsible one, Ogun has borne the weight of his younger brother his entire life. Now, Os-hoosi’s out on parole and back home, floundering to find his way amidst dead ends. Ogun’s willing to give him one more chance, but Oshoosi has to escape his past, which, no matter how far he drives, is always close behind.

MARCUS: OR THE SECRET OF THE SWEET (PART II)

Description: A devastating storm’s heading to the bayou, and sixteen-year-old Marcus is haunted by a dream of pounding rain and an unidentifiable man – a dream his father once had and no one wants to hear. Marcus’s quest for its meaning takes him to the bayou’s darkness. The quest may cost him friendships and a mother’s love, but may 

Portland Playhouse presents...

THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS by Tarell Alvin McCraney and directed by Victor Mack. Cast includes Ramona Alexander, Bobby Bermea, Jennifer Lanier, Damian Thompson, Lava Alapai, Brian Jones, Salim Sanchez, Jonah Weston. Show runs through May 13, Thursday–Sat 7:30pm; matinee Sundays at 2pm; Sat 4pm on some days. Tickets $12 - $23. Buy online at: www.portlandplayhouse.org Call the box office: (503) 205-0715. All shows are at the Old Church, 602 NE Prescott Street in Portland.

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In the latter part of the show, we hear about Brian Tierneywho was shot on March 28th on his way home on I-205 from his job as a choir director. Dmae talks with singer Liz Bacon of The Julians who fills us in on Tierney's progress and details about the benefit concert to help his family with mounting medical expenses.

The benefit concert for Brian Tierney with some of portland’s best classical singers is Sunday, April 22nd at 7:00 pm. The concert is at All Saints Catholic Church
located at 3847 NE Glisan street in Portland. For more info visit a a site dedicated to the concert.

 

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Hearing Voices Storytelling Fest & Camille Claudel Opera

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Tue, 04/03/2012

 Dmae Roberts features the 8th Annual Hearing Voices Storytelling Festival  in Hillsboro and talks with organizer Heather Waisanen and Oregon storyteller Leslie Slape. In the second part of the show, she features an opera based on the tragic life of French sculptor Camille Claudel and her love affair with Rodin.

The Washington County Cooperative Library Services (WCCLS) hosts the 8th Annual Hearing Voices Storytelling Festival April 7 – 14. The festival features four professional storytellers: Tim Tingle (Canyon Lake, TX), Kirk Waller (Oakland, CA), Habiba Addo(Portland, OR and Ghana, West Africa) and Leslie Slape (Rainier, OR).

The week-long storytelling extravaganza features thirteen storytelling performances at the WCCLS member libraries, the Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro and the Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains.

Leslie Slape has been storytelling since she was a little girl. When she had children of her own, she began telling tales professionally. She is equally at home in large and small venues, from festivals to the fireside. Her storytelling inspirations are far-ranging, from folktales to history and biography. She especially loves tales from Russia, where her grandfather was born.

See a schedule of events: http://www.wccls.org/voices

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Later in show, Dmae talks with Theresa Koon, creator of Promise, a new opera. She started working on it 16  years ago, and she found a childhood connection to the Claudels and met with the family for additional research.  Promise for four shows only – two at the historic Ainsworth House and Gardens in Oregon City; two at the Scottish Rite Center in Portland. The Libretto and Music are written by Theresa Koon, the work is directed by Kevin Yell and conducted by David Hattner.
 
Camille Claudel was a risk-taking artist in France who studied with the famous Rodin in Paris during the late 1800s. This operatic drama and movement hybrid travels through her life as a sculptor, lover, sister, daughter and the artist she became. Although most known for her progressive, sensual and autobiographic works, Claudel haunts history for destroying many of her own sculptures. Her life, and eventual unraveling, is threaded through her close relationship with her brother, the famous writer and diplomat, Paul Claudel. Theresa Koon’s passionate portrait paints Claudel’s tumultuous struggle with her family, her affair with Rodin and her burning inner conflict of whether or not to allow her creativity out in the world.
Promise Libretto and Music was written by Theresa Koon, directed by  Kevin Yell and conducted by David Hattner
 
Featured Artists include Eleanor Stallcop-Horrox, Jon Kolbet, Doug Webster, Stephen Guntli, Erika Little, Shannon Jones, Katie Krueger, Catherine Olson, Carrie Rambo and Musicians Erica Melton, Greg Ewer, Justin Kagan, Jerry Simas.
 
Performance Dates: April 13 & 14 @ 7:30pm – Ainsworth House & Gardens, Oregon City. April 20 @ 7:30pm & April 22 @ 2pm –Scottish Rite Center Theater, Portland
Tickets: $20 adults/$15 Students/Seniors atwww.boxofficetickets.com
 

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OSF's 'The White Snake' & representAsian

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Tue, 03/27/2012

 Tune in 11am Tues 3/27 on KBOO 90.7FM Host Dmae Roberts presents a Making Change special with six Asian American actors at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival currently performing in The White Snake, an original adaption of a beloved Chinese legend.

Dmae Roberts offers this backstage insight into the progress OSF has made in bringing more communties of color onto their stages. We'll hear the thoughts of  Amy Kim Waschke (White Snake), Tanya McBride (Green Snake) and ensemble cast members Cristofer Jean, Lisa Tejero, Ako, and Vin Kridakorn. They talked about what it was like to work on this original show as well as the challenges of being a working actor and finding good roles.

Hear  about the struggle for  'representAsian' on professional stages and the current decline of roles for Asian actors on Broadway. A recent report, Ethnic Representation on New York Stages: 2006/07 to 2010/11 Seasons,led to a series of roundtables with Asian American actors and NY theatres.

While the report states the percentage of Asian Americans on Broadway was 2% in 2011, OSF has hit an historic milestone in the 2012 season. According to OSF, 16% of the acting company are East Asian, Southeast, South and West Asian.

 

Don't miss this look behind the scenes of The White Snake and hear how OSF has been a leader of cultural change in theatre through non-traditional casting. 
 
'Making Change' is a series of specials and features on the intersection of creativity and social change. It's made possible by the Regional Arts and Culture Council and individual donors,

 

More about the play:

Created through collaborative rehearsals led by award-winning adapter/director Mary Zimmerman, and with a mostly Asian American cast, this production honors a story even multigenerational Asian Americans might not know. Many versions have been told and retold through several centuries including books, Chinese operas, even an American opera, as well as countless films and television shows.

White Snake falls in love and decides to stay in human form so she can wed Xu Xian. She then sets up a pharmacy business that becomes quite successful. So much so that a jealous monk, Fa Hai, (played by Jack Willis) decides to split up the couple. After all, it’s unnatural for a spirit and human to marry. In OSF’s version, White Snake (played by Amy Kim Waschke) travels down from her a mountain and befriends another spirit named Green Snake (played by Tanya McBride). They both decide to take human form to learn more about what it means to be human. They meet a young pharmacist’s assistant, Xu Xian (played by Christopher Livingston).

Death, resurrection and a tremendous water battle ensue and play out beautifully onstage.

The world premiere of The White Snake  adapted from the Chinese legend by Mary Zimmerman runs through July 8 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon.

Also running in the Spring are the uproariously funny Animal Crackers, a gritty pre-Alamo Western version of Romeo & Juliet and a new adaption of The Seagull.

To see a schedule of shows, visit OSFAshland.org.

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LindaAustin & Portland Taiko

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Tue, 03/20/2012

Dmaew Roberts talks with premiere choreographer/dancer Linda Austin of Performance Works Northwest about her upcoming show A head of time. We’ll also hear from Portland Taiko about their upcoming concert.

Linda Austin’s A head of time brings together an accomplished ensemble of eight dancers  for a performance and installation (before the show) to sift together an unpredictable array of methodical, agile, detailed, and playfully awkward dance movement.  The set is comprised of 300 stacked blankets; video imagery; original and stolen text, and has a sound score by Seth Nehil.

More about Linda Austin:

Linda Austin, co-founder & director of Performance Works NorthWest in Portland, OR, has been making dance and performance since 1983. Her poetic, unconventionally witty, and rigorously conceived works arise from an ongoing fascination with the puzzle of the body’s awkward, lyrical and often accidental beauty. The resultant works have been performed in New York, Mexico City, Seattle and Portland, at venues such as the Danspace Project, PS 122, Movement Research at Judson Church, the Kitchen, On the Boards and PICA’s TBA Festival.

She’s received fellowships and grants from New York Foundation for the Arts and the Oregon Arts Commission,  the Regional Arts & Culture Council, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, and Movement Research, as well as through residencies at Djerassi and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center. Her writing has appeared in The Movement Research Performance Journal, Tierra Adentro(Mexico), the literary journal FO A RM and a 2003 collection from MIT Press, Women, Art & Technology. Recent projects include the 2010 Paired Spectacular, an homage to dance pioneers Yvonne Rainer and Deborah Hay; the 2009 Bandage a Knife, a collaboration with Seth Nehil inspired by a Japanese cult noir film; and a 2008 site-specific dance at Portland’s Lovejoy Fountain as part of The City Dance of Anna & Lawrence Halprin, performed in the 2008 TBA Festival. An in-progress version of A head of time and a 6-week installation of this project was featured at The Art Gym in April 2011 as part of an exhibit devoted to the choreographic process titled Dance: before, after, during.

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Performance Works NorthWest || Linda Austin Dance presents

A head of time
a new ensemble work by Choreographer Linda Austin, collaborating with sound artist Seth Nehil, and dancers Philippe Bronchtein, Jin Camou, Catherine Egan, Keyon Gaskin, Esther LaPointe, Danielle Ross & Lucy Yim, with Lighting by Jeff Forbes. Performances are Friday and Saturday March 23 & 24 at 8pm, Sunday March 25 at 2pm and 7pm.  Doors open 30 min. before curtain for a walk-through of installation. All shows are located at Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., Portland.

TICKETS: $12 before March 15 General admission $15-$20 sliding scale. For more info call: 503-777-1907 or visit online.

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In the latter part of show, we’ll check in with Michelle Fujii, artistic director of Portland Taikoabout their new concert Three: 3 Conversations With Taiko.

Fujii explores the taiko art form’s ability to speak to us individually and collectively. THREE weaves distinct forms of classical Japanese art Nihon Buyo, Koto and Shakuhachi into contemporary conversations with the drum.

This collaboration celebrates Michelle’s exploration of taiko as an active force that continues to evolve and inspire curiosity.

Nihon Buyo is the art form of traditional Japanese dance, vibrant today with a history of nearly four centuries.  The Koto (13 string plucked zither) and Shakuhachi (flute held vertically like a recorder) are instruments seemingly unchanged over the ages that continue to reveal new possibilities.

Tickets on sale through the PCPA Box Office & all Ticketmaster outlets. $20.25- $11.25 Students and Seniors save 10% off regular adult prices. Members save 10%, order direct from Portland Taiko, and pay no handling charges! Tickets available through the PCPA Box Office and all Ticketmaster locations for non-members.

Join more conversations! 
Pre-performance discussion Sunday March 25 @ 1 pm
Moderated by: Larry Kominz, Professor of Japanese at PSU and member of the Japan Society of New York’s performing arts advisory committee.

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Phame: H is for Honored

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Tue, 03/13/2012

 Dmae Roberts presents a documentary special on Stephen Marc Beaudoin and PHAME. Dmae went to a rehearsal at PHAME as they got ready for a four-county tour and performance at Aladdin Theatre.  This is part of  ’Making Change’ – a series about the intersection of creativity and social/cultural change.

Beaudoin is also a successful community activist who has been able to produce disaster relief benefits that have raised an amazing amount of donations. His benefit ‘Songs For Haiti’ brought more than $150,000 for Mercy Corps, International. The benefit ‘From Oregon, With Love’ brought in more than $250, 000 for disaster relief after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.Stephen Marc Beaudoin is a talented and respected singer and actor who has performed throughout the country. In Portland, he’s worked with Opera Theater Oregon and Hand2Mouth Theatre to name a few.


We’ll also meet students like Aaron Hobson, Nikki Lane, Pat Hansen and Katie Carlson, artistic director Jessica Dart and music director Matthew Gailey.Beaudoin first saw the PHAME choir perform at the Haiti benefit concert. He joined the board of the directors and is now the executive director bringing PHAME to a new level of growth.

Hear members of the PHAME choir and staff rehearse for the upcoming four-county tour and performance at the Aladdin Theatre in this ‘Making Change’ documentary special on location at PHAME.

‘Making Change’ is  year-long series about the how artists, performers, writers, innovators and community organizations use creativity for social and cultural change.

It’s made possible with funding by the Regional Arts and Culture Council and individual donors including June Arima & John Schumann Fund of the Equity Foundation. These features and specials will air throughout the year.

Find out how you can support ‘Making Change.’


Tickets for this performance will be $15 and go on sale February 1, 2012. More information and show dates available by calling 503-764-9718, or visiting phameontour.tumblr.com“PHAME: the H is for Honored Tour” is scheduled for 14 performances throughout the four-county area. All performances are free with the exception of the final performance at the Aladdin Theater March 22, 2012.

Performance Schedule:
St. Johns Community Center Auditorium, 8427 N Central Street (FREE)Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 7 p.m.

Thursday, March 15, 2012, 7 p.m.,
East Portland Community Center, 740 SE 106th Avenue (FREE)

Friday, March 16, 2012, 7 p.m.,
Estacada Junior High Auditorium, 500 NE Main St.(FREE)

Saturday, March 17, 2012, 7 p.m.,
Clark College, Foster Auditorium,1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, WA (FREE)

Sunday, March 18th, 2012, 10 a.m.,
Monday, March 19, 2012, 6:30 p.m.,Grace Memorial Episcopal Church, 1535 NE 17th Avenue (FREE)

Elsie Stuhr Center, 5550 SW Hall Blvd. (FREE)

Thursday, March 22, 2012, 7 p.m.,
The Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie ($15 all tickets, available at ticketmaster.com

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Sue Arbuthnot & Richard Wilhelm 'Amber Waves & Checkered Flags'

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Tue, 03/06/2012

 Dmae Roberts talks with Sue Arbuthnot and Richard Wilhelm of Hare In The Gate Productions about their film Amber Waves & Checkered Flags.

One day the filmmakers drove by a sign for Lind, pop. 500, with a rustic sign inviting, “Welcome to Lind! Drop in—Mt. St. Helens did!” They found there the annual Lind Combine Demolition Derby.  IN June 2003, they started working on their documentary Amber Waves & Checkered Flag to film the Derby. This extreme sport’s purpose is to bolster a struggling town and a multi-generational way of life. They decided to follow two young men—Josh Knodel and Matt Miller—who aspired to win the derby and to carry on the family traditions of producing abundant wheat and supporting their community.

About the Film:

For eight years, Amber Waves & Checkered Flags follows two childhood best friends,whose quest to win an offbeat, hilarious, extreme sport parallels the struggle for existence facing family farms and rural towns.

June—Eastern Washington’s austerely beautiful farmland—Josh Knodel, 18, eagerly awaits his first chance to compete in Lind’s annual Combine Demolition Derby. Josh and Matt Miller, 17, prepare JAWS, a hulking, out-of-retirement 6602 John Deere combine, for battle. Josh doesn’t know that his biggest fight—his bid to carry on the three-generation family farm—will put him to an even tougher test.

Small farms require fewer workers than in Josh’s grandpa’s time. To survive, small farms must increase production to support the next generation. When the Knodels fail to locate new land, Josh’s dream vanishes, and he must leave the farm. Luckily, the Knodels acquire new acreage, and Josh returns.
Today, Josh and Matt work to sustain family farms and their community. With JAWS once again ready for a metal-gnashing go-round, it’s derby time.

About the Filmmakers:

Sue Arbuthnot is an independent filmmaker whose films span themes of social change through community building and sustainability, diversity, historic and cultural preservation. She has begun exploring a series of narrative non-fiction works around the relationships between neurology, illness, and behavior. She received the 1990 Pacific Pioneer Fund grant and a 2010 Oregon Arts Commission’s Media Arts Fellowship. She began teaching film and video at the Northwest Film Center’s Young Filmmaker Program in 1995. Since 2008, Sue has been teaching in the NWFC’s Adult Certificate Program. She has taught and mentored students at the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Burns Paiute Reservation, Spokane Indian Reservation, and Yakama Nation. She was recently elected to the Board of Directors of Portland’s Women in Film.

Richard Wilhelm draws from his life-long work in photography, art, design, and education to inspire and challenge his work in film. He earned his BFA in visual design and photography from the University of Oregon, and established a design studio in Seattle, which he directed for 14 years, until partnering with Sue Arbuthnot at Hare in the Gate Productions in 1999. Together they’ve produced dozens of films, from 60-second pieces to feature documentaries. Since 2006, Richard has developed and installed permanent, multimedia interpretive exhibits. Richard has taught photography and graphic design at the university level including more than 50 photography workshops exploring relationships between people and environments.

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Only Ghosts Storytelling Percussion Performance

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Tue, 02/21/2012

Dmae Roberts features a poetry/percussion performance of Only Ghosts by Carrie-Ann Tkaczyk. This is a original retelling of Tkacyk's novel set set during the democratic revolution in Nepal. Performers include the Tkacyk and poet A. Molotkov, Bruce Bartlett, Charlie Kersch, Ragon Linde, and Prasanna Dhoj Pradhan.

In the sultry jungles of Nepal, modern and ancient desires beat. When a stranger comes to Batuwaa, the mystic and the modern clash. Voices, percussion music, and story meld into the pulse of a mysterious pool, Bhoot Pool: the place the villagers of Batuwaa fear; the place the forbidden are free to love.

Carrie-Ann Tkaczyk experienced Nepal’s democratic movement while serving as a Peace Corpsvolunteer in the early 1990’s, the time period of this story. Her writing about Nepal has won Best Short Story at Third Goal, is in the magazine ECS Nepal,and is online in Peace Corps’ Digital Library. A founding member of the writers’ group, The Guttery, her latest project is a performance of Only Ghosts with Portland musicians and Guttery poets. Some of her public readings are featured at the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Whitman Project, The Oregon Literary Review, Show and Tell Gallery, and Love Outlives Us.

Kalirati Productions presents Only Ghosts for two performanes only on February 25 4:30 and 7:00 at Hipbone Studios 847 E. BURNSIDE, #104 in PORTLAND.

Tickets are $6 to $10 and available at Brownpaper tickets or the show’s website: https://sites.google.com/site/seeonlyghosts/

Masks for the production were made by students at the Nepali school, Educational Environment Boarding School. Proceeds will benefit this school.

Also a the end of the show, Dmae plays a piece from her audio vault. Listen to First Love produced in 1986. 

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