Coaster Theatre Special Events

In addition to our regular season of plays, Coaster Theatre hosts many events and workshops throughout the year, including:

Talkback Thursdays

Readers Theatre

Concerts

Educational Programming, including the Performing Arts Day Camp

Guest Lecturers

And More!

Contact: Carol Knutson, CCC English Instructor,

Re: Announcing Wednesday, May 14, 2008: Symposium On War and Conscience, 1968-2008 at Clatsop Community College's Performing Arts Center at 11am and at the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach at 7pm.

Join us for our War and Conscience, 1968-2008, Symposium:
11am Wed. May 14, 2008 at CCC's Performing Arts Center, 16th and Franklin, Astoria, Oregon and at 7pm that evening at the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach, Oregon.

Long time Clatsop County Residents, Vietnam Veterans and Authors Peter Lindsey, Michael McCusker, Will Schuester and Robert Wilson will read from their works. In 1968, a group of young CCC students, a Seaside High School English Teacher, and long time Clatsop County Residents met up on their way to Vietnam. The symposium marks the 40th year (1968-2008) since these youth were drafted or enlisted for the war. The Panel and Question and Answer Session will be followed by Julie Taymor's new film: Across the Universe highlighting the spring of 1968. These events are sponsored by Clatsop Community College's Arts and Letters Department and the Clatsop County Cultural Coalition, Brown Bag Lecture Award. All events are free and open to the public.

Bring your lunch and join us for three "brown bag" poetry readings in April and May:

Wednesday, April 30th, 11:00 a.m. in the CCC Art Center Gallery—
“Poems and Stories”

A reading by Anne Splane Phillips, author.

Wednesday, May 7th, 11:00 a.m. in the CCC Art Center Gallery—
“Feminine Abstractions: Peruvian Avant Garde Poets”

CCC writer, Christine McGuane, will introduce CCC Spanish Professor, Nancy de Honores lecture on "Time Displacement in Ibero American Poetry, Cesar A. Vallejo El Poeta a su Amada."

Wednesday, May 14th, 11:00 a.m. at CCC’s Performing Arts Center, 16th and Franklin, Astoria, Oregon and at 7pm at the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach:

“War and Conscience, 1968-2008, Symposium”

Writers, veterans, and long-time Clatsop County residents will read from their works, followed by a panel discussion and question and answer session. Participants include Authors Peter Lindsey, Michael McCusker, Will Schuester and Robert Wilson. Additionally, War and Conscience, 1968-2008 Symposium, will occur at the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach, OR at 7:00 p.m.

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