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From fire, a new play takes shape • Oregon ArtsWatch
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (1455+ words) Nearly six years after the Almeda and South Obenchain fires tore through Southern Oregon, the stories of the people who lived through them are being gathered for a new kind of telling — on stage. The $54,000 grant is part of $1 million…...
In ‘The Country for Me,’ William L. Lang tells the story of Oregon politician Joel Palmer • Oregon ArtsWatch
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (451+ words) In The Country for Me: Joel Palmer and the Shaping of Oregon, recently released by the University of Nebraska Press, author William L. Lang has produced a premier book of Oregon history, opening a valuable window into the territory’s and state’s…...
You Must Remember This: Swan Songs Brings Musical Comfort to People at the End of Life • Oregon ArtsWatch
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (851+ words) CULTURAL HUBS: An Occasional Series At the foot of his bed, Ari Harris and Peter LeClair, a husband-and-wife musical duo known as Moongate, set up for their concert, arranged by Swan Songs, an organization that provides private concerts to people…...
In ‘Another Eve,’ Elissa Minor writes of leaving the Mormon church to find happiness as a queer woman • Oregon ArtsWatch
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (691+ words) In 2005, as Elissa Minor sat with her father following his surgery for brain cancer, her thoughts turned to her own life — one built on the foundation of generations of family dedicated to the Mormon Church. She was baptized in the…...
J.P. Phillips: A grand life onstage and off • Oregon ArtsWatch
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (1111+ words) J.P. Phillips, the longtime Oregon actor who spent 22 years performing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and many more around the nation, died on the morning of August 10, 2026, just shy of his 87th birthday. Cause of death was kidney failure and congestive heart…...
Creating the book of love (Wasp Love) • Oregon ArtsWatch
3+ week, 2+ day ago (816+ words) You who stood under the window of your beloved, who saw your happiness in a shop window – do you know how to take away the sting of this death? Imagine entering a small garden, overgrown paths lined with lungwort. A…...