February 2020 • vol 22 • issue 253 2020 FISHER POETS HIPFiSH GATHERING MONTHLY alternative press serving the lower columbia pacific region Boatload o f Workshops KI LOVE EI R practitioners talk healing energy PSI-2020 Attend the Next FlashCuts Psilocybin Black History Coastal Tourism OSCAR Picks! Initiative Month Events Forum THEATRE KALA Imogen at Nadia’s Exclusive Salon 1 12th St. Ste. 3 Astoria 503.325.8667 Cell:791.7285 Gallery contemporary works 240 11th street, astoria, or • 5 0 3 . 4 6 8 . 0 6 2 0 mon – sat 11 to 5:30, sun 11 to 4 • www.imogengallery.com Celestine Durham Panache Salon Full Set A Peaceful hair designer Lash Extensions Christmas Hair Cutting to All ! Color Services $99 oExtensions Brazilian Brow Waxing & Wax Coloring $29 503.739.5181 salon STELLAR 2921 MARINE DR. ASTORIA Cell: 503.791.7285 261 W. Marine Dr. Astoria Kelley Shannon—Cosmetologist follow us on facebook Belly Dance A We offer weekly classes with finn by local artists, Jessamyn Gypsy’s ware workshops by nationally Whimsy crystal & pottery known artists, studios and HERBAL dinnerware meeting space, APOTHECARY cooking products textiles home decor 2 classrooms and a large sweet treats gallery showing fine jewelry sweaters t-shirts art and crafts. discover scandinavian design books & souvenirs Christmas year AstoriaArtLoft.com round sauna supplies cookware [email protected] finnware.com • 503.325.5720 Since 1987 106 Third Street, Astoria Or. 97103 503.325.4442 1116 Commercial St., Astoria OR • Open Daily Hrs: M-Th 10-5pm/ F 10-5:30pm/Sat 10-5pm Enter into the Gypsy's Caravan Visit Downtown Astoria • exotic teas and herbs on the 2nd Saturday of every month for art, music, • unique fair-trade imports and general merriment! • nutritional remedies 5:00 pm Wednesdays, 7pm to 8:15pm Downtown Presented by the at the AAMC, $10 drop-in • natural body care Astoria Downtown 342 10th St (2nd Floor). & aromatherapy Every month, Historic District Association Your first class is free! year round! 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Be the first on your block to send north coast grown edible KALA welcomes the solo Valentines! Kala falls in love all over again with a very special artist frequently referred to Art Walk Valentine’s Tea Pop up! Join Nehalem grown North as “The Whirling Dervish of Fork 53 Tea farm for free tea, cookies and hot chocolate the Cello,” Helen Gillet, on samples. Pick up ready to send local tea art cards featuring Friday, March 13, at 7:30pm. North Fork 53’s creative coast tea blends on a hand drawn Belgian-born Helen Gillet Valentine created by artist Debbie Harmon. More local love is a both a singer-songwriter includes Valentine’s Day tea and mug in a gift box featuring and surrealist-archeologist gluten free focused on the worlds of syn- biscotti from thesized sound and acoustic Manzanita’s cello. Though Gillet had Rising Tide already begun to experiment Bakery. The with improvisational music world needs more love! Send it out there with creative flair while prior to her arrival in New Or- supporting a north coast tea farm, artist and bakery too! leans, she’s since flourished into one of the most unique, PLUS Origami Hearts Installation by Cathy Nist. Take home a box talented, and beloved artists of hearts! New Collage by Sid Deluca, Abstract Fluid Art by Jen- in the Crescent City. She’s essa Manion and Oil paintings by Paul Soriano. known for her eclectic palette – which includes avant-garde jazz, French chansons, funk, alternative rock, and the bohemian flair of the Velvet Storyteller Underground. Gillet’s solo performance is known for William Kennedy Hornyak it’s enigmatic quality as she presents A Storytelling Show fabricates each song with a and Workshop true mastery of live looping technology. at Kala Gillet has a Bachelor’s March 20 and March 21 Degree in both Music & Show: Erin’s Daughters Anthropology and a Master’s Degree in Music (Beloit College ’00, Loyola University Tales of Ireland’s Warrior Queens, Saints, Hags New Orleans ’04). Her training as an improviser began with North Indian Hindustani and Heroines cellist Nancy Lesh in 1998, launching her into the worlds of free improvisation, jazz, From pirate queen Grace O’Malley and mighty The New Q! funk, rock and song writing. She has a deep love for French Chansons and the work Maeve to saintly Brigit and the ancient Hag of Beara, Announcing the Grand Opening of the of Belgian poet Julos Beaucarne. Gillet has performed at a wide array of venues all a toast in story, song, poetry and lore to the multi- New Q, Friday Feb 21, over the world including New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Festival Internation- faceted Celtic feminine. Mature audiences only. 5-9 pm at 171 W Bond St in Astoria al (Lafayette, LA), Voodoo Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival and Hindsgavl Festival Friday, March 20 at 7:30pm. Light refreshments and snacks will be served. in Denmark, Nikodemuskirche Festival in Berlin, Mirano Oltre Festival in Italy, the KALA. $15 Tickets: libertyastoria.org A Word From Q Center Chair Tessa Scheller: Come on Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and MONA Mofo festival in Hobart, Tasmania out and see what this community of dedicated volunteers and Darwin Music Festival in Australia. Storytelling Workshop has nailed together. With the strength of our volunteers Over the years — working in New Orleans with musicians of all stripes, from avant- Well Told: Crafting Personal Narratives and donors we’ve renovated our new office and meeting garde jazz and classical to pop and funk — Gillet has developed a singular polyglot We all have stories to tell and a unique voice and spaces and are ready to open our doors to this community style. The core of her work is solo performance with live looping, layering cello parts style with which to tell them. Truly memorable we love so dearly. This a street side, storefront office and and vocal lines. Rhythmic figures emerge with bowed or plucked ostinatos or a vari- personal stories have a mythic quality to them. They we are delighted by the warm, light filled spaces. Like any ety of rubbing and slapping on the body of the cello, then enhanced with melodies provide a window to a larger world through the “coming out” event we know our truth will shine brightly. played or sung in her haunting alto. ordinary moments of our lives. The work of telling We still have much more to do and recognize that this Helen Gillet has also recorded several film soundtracks and for musicians such as personal narratives is often to distill the universal from work is ongoing with your help. We have some new and Wardell Querzergue, Arcade Fire, Kid Koala, Fermin, Cassandra Wilson, Dr. John, the personal, to find the common veins of meaning continuing programs and support groups to serve our Marianne Faithful, Harold Brown, Danny Brilliant, Bill Summers… Her original score that connect to us all. LGBTQIA+ family, friends and allies. Come on in, check work to Katrina & Beyond and Living with Water plays above Fats Domino’s wrecked During this workshop share stories from our lives it out, relax and find out what’s next. We continue our piano as part of a permanent exhibit at the Louisiana State Museum. Helen Gillet is and explore the varied threads of meaning that run mission to create a safe welcoming resource center for this currently featured in the Jazz exhibit at the Old US Mint in New Orleans. She has through them using traditional folktales and myths very special region. recorded and composed music for feature length and short documentary films. as a backdrop for our own stories and create a sup- Gillet recorded a duo album with multi instrumentalist Jeff Coffin (Dave Matthews portive environment to develop our own storytelling Show The Love Q Night Dance Band, Bela Fleck), scheduled to come out summer 2020 on Ear Up Records. She is voices and styles of telling. founder of Tephra Sound Records and has several upcoming releases scheduled for At KALA in Celebration of the New Q! Consider the basics of a well-told tale and the Saturday February 15 2020 including Shaking Souls; her Duo project with Swiss drummer Simon Berz. FMI: tools required for all storytellers, be it for rendering Doors Open 8pm. Meet n’ Greet the Q Board. Compli- hellengillet.com personal narratives or traditional tales. mentary Chocolate Treats. Raffle. Dance from 9pm – Mid- Catch this unique performer Friday, March 13. Doors open at 7pm. Show at 7:30. Saturday, March 21, 10-2:30 at KALA. $35.00 night. 21+ Please $15. Available in advance at libertyastoria.org. Will call tickets at venue time of Reservations: [email protected] or 503 697- $10 cover.