New Oregon Arts & Letters and some of our core contributors have been popping up in local media lately. We're pleased and flattered! The subject of Portland's creative culture seems to be hot again, too. Here are some links, and do feel free to join in the blog comment conversations on these pieces, as many of them involve the arts and creative culture as a whole... which are not universally popular in these parts.
Plus: links to upcoming art/culture discussions + audio snippets from recent interviews. Keep on readin' this post for more.
07/07/2009: Our director, Tiffany Lee Brown (photo left) wrote a piece for the front page of the Opinion section of the Sunday Oregonian. Check out the online version right here.
06/29/2009: More love from The O! Barry Johnson wrote up the first live interview session of New Oregon Interview Series, initiated and hosted by Nora Robertson (photo left, seated at right). Front page of the Living section: yay! Online here.
07/01/2009: Nothing to do with us, but interesting: Oregon Public Broadcasting's Think Out Loud call-in show featured "world-class arts" and a general discussion of whether or not Oregon should bother to worry about funding arts and culture. (I say: Let them eat cake!) OPB radio download here and good online discussion about this at Artswatch.
06/2009: We got previews and props from Willamette Week and The Oregonian, among others, for our presentations Light & Shadows (at Yoga Shala of Portland) and a session of the ongoing The Easter Island Project (at Performance Works NW). Again: can we get a "yay"? Yay! and maybe a "Yea," too.)
LIVE EVENT SCHEDULE: NEW OREGON INTERVIEW SERIES
Join us for coffee and conversation at Urban Grind East, 2214 NE Oregon Street in Portland (phone 503 546 0649; map here). Discover more about Portland in a relaxed atmosphere; you don't have to be an expert to be part of New Oregon. $5 admission and $30 season pass.
June 24th, 2009: Music (Too late! Read/listen right here. Scroll down to artist bios to hear audio.) Pictured left to right: Alicia Rose, Slim Moon, Mic Crenshaw, and Nora Robertson.
July 29th: Film + video interviews with Arthur Bradford (MTV), Alissa Nicole Creamer (documentary filmmaker), and Andy Blubaugh (film as memoir + documentary).
WHAT'S A PORTLAND CONVERSATION?
This website appears to be a list of shops, galleries, and cool things of that nature. But apparently A Portland Conversation is a new print publication as well. Is it full of conversation? We here at New Oregon Central Agency Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, plan to infiltrate this new mystery magazine and report back.
LIVE NEW OREGON INTERVIEW LINEUPS TO BE ANNOUNCED IN GREATER DETAIL, WITH MORE FANFARE, AT A LATER DATE:
August 26th: Books, featuring Monica Drake, Jon Raymond, and more.
September 30th: Performance
October 26th: Food
November 11th: Visual art
January 27th, 2010: Fashion
February 24th: Urban planning
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