Nothing Day - a bonus Collage Lab
Feb
22
12:00 PM12:00

Nothing Day - a bonus Collage Lab

The way the days this month fall on the calendar means that we have a Saturday this month to do anything we want!

Greg Bee is hosting a free paper collage day every 2nd Saturday from 12-5pm

Bring some supplies or don’t - all are welcome

This is a stress free, social and creative opportunity. Minors must be accompanied by adults. Please no glitter or paint. This event is free and open to the public.

Contact Greg at greggybee@gmail for more information

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Collage Laboratory
Mar
8
12:00 PM12:00

Collage Laboratory

Greg Bee is hosting a free paper collage day every 2nd Saturday from 12-5pm

Bring some supplies or don’t all are welcome

This is a stress free, social and creative opportunity. Minors must be accompanied by adults. Please no glitter or paint. This event is free and open to the public.

Contact Greg at greggybee@gmail for more information

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Mar
19
5:00 PM17:00

Presentation: Critical Thinking on Media, Information, and Power

Presented by Laurie Mercier and Sam Lohmann

Are the media watchdogs or lapdogs? WSU Vancouver professors Sam Lohmann and Laurie Mercier discuss how we can become more informed and critical media/information consumers, users, and creators. They look at how the media covered the Holocaust, the persecution of the Roma people, and Israel’s war on Gaza to understand the process of selection, emphasis, and bias that lead to misunderstanding of current and past events. They will lead an interactive discussion on shared practices of source evaluation, media literacy, and intentional media usage in the current climate.

At WSU since 1995, Dr. Laurie Mercier teaches courses about the history of the United States and the Pacific Northwest, and is the author of many books and articles about the intersections of class, race, gender, and region in the 20th century United States.

Sam Lohmann (MLS) is a library faculty member at WSU Vancouver and teaches courses on information literacy and research skills. His published work includes articles on accessibility and copyright in higher education and on information literacy assessment practices, as well as several books of poetry.

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Mar
22
11:00 AM11:00

Film: Under the Green Green Grass Beneath

PLEASE NOTE: TIME AND DATE NOT YET CONFIRMED

This documentary on Ceija Stojka by Karin Berger presents 52 minutes of unfiltered commentary by Ceija Stojka on her experience at Bergen-Belson, and her struggle to return to daily life after liberation. Prior to her time at Bergen-Belson, she was interned at Auschwitz and Ravensbrück.

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Mar
27
6:30 PM18:30

Film: From Ground Zero

PLEASE NOTE: TIME AND DATE NOT YET CONFIRMED

Composed of 22 short films, this anthology features documentaries, fiction, animation and experimental films by 22 Palestinian directors. The anthology film was conceived by Rashid Masharawi in October 2023, with the interest of supporting Palestinian creatives.

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Mar
29
5:00 PM17:00

Presentation: Romani Holocaust

Presented by Carol Silverman

The Nazi genocide resulted in the death of over a half a million Roma, representing 50 to 90% of some communities. Why is this aspect of the Holocaust relatively unknown, and who are Roma? This illustrated presentation explores historic discrimination against Roma as well as their many contributions to European culture.  Today, Roma, Europe’s largest minority, continue to face persecution.


Carol Silverman is Professor Emerita of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore/Public Culture at the University of Oregon. She has done research with Roma for over 40 years in the US, the Balkans, and Western Europe on cultural politics, music, human rights, gender, and migration, with a focus on representation. Her 2012 book Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora (Oxford), won the book prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology. She works with the US NGO Voice of Roma and the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture on activist projects and is curator for Balkan music for international digital RomArchive.eu.

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Collage Laboratory
Apr
12
12:00 PM12:00

Collage Laboratory

Greg Bee is hosting a free paper collage day every 2nd Saturday from 12-5pm

Bring some supplies or don’t all are welcome

This is a stress free, social and creative opportunity. Minors must be accompanied by adults. Please no glitter or paint. This event is free and open to the public.

Contact Greg at greggybee@gmail for more information

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Collage Laboratory
May
10
12:00 PM12:00

Collage Laboratory

Greg Bee is hosting a free paper collage day every 2nd Saturday from 12-5pm

Bring some supplies or don’t all are welcome

This is a stress free, social and creative opportunity. Minors must be accompanied by adults. Please no glitter or paint. This event is free and open to the public.

Contact Greg at greggybee@gmail for more information

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Collage Laboratory
Feb
8
12:00 PM12:00

Collage Laboratory

Greg Bee is hosting a free paper collage day every 2nd Saturday from 12-5pm

Bring some supplies or don’t all are welcome

This is a stress free, social and creative opportunity. Minors must be accompanied by adults. Please no glitter or paint. This event is free and open to the public.

Contact Greg at greggybee@gmail for more information

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First Friday Reception for Love is Love
Feb
7
5:00 PM17:00

First Friday Reception for Love is Love

Sam Yamauchi

The River Is Coming (detail)

$1200

Acrylic, pencil and oil pastel on canvas

I experienced LOVE as the tremendous flow of a powerful river that poured over me and through me, washing away everything that was attached to my identity. It left me filled with only LOVE. I then saw it pouring back out of me into everything around me. Now I know that when I paint, LOVE is painting LOVE.  


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Collage Laboratory
Jan
11
12:00 PM12:00

Collage Laboratory

Greg Bee is hosting a free paper collage day every 2nd Saturday from 12-5pm

Bring some supplies or don’t all are welcome

This is a stress free, social and creative opportunity. Minors must be accompanied by adults. Please no glitter or paint. This event is free and open to the public.

Contact Greg at greggybee@gmail for more information

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Collage Laboratory
Dec
14
12:00 PM12:00

Collage Laboratory

Greg Bee is hosting a paper collage day every 2nd Saturday from 12-5pm

Bring some supplies or don’t - all are welcome

This is a stress free, social and creative opportunity. Minors must be accompanied by adults. Please no glitter or paint. This event is free and open to the public.

Contact Greg at greggybee@gmail for more information

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Collage Laboratory
Apr
13
12:00 PM12:00

Collage Laboratory

Greg Bee is hosting a paper collage day!

Bring magazines, scissors, adhesives, support (to put your art on), and other materials. There will be some supplies provided. Bring your own snack and beverages, or a mug for tea! Chat about art opportunities, ask questions or show off your projects.

This is a stress free, social and creative opportunity. Minors must be accompanied by adults. Please no glitter or paint. A.C.M.E. events are free and open to the public.

Contact Greg at greggybee@gmail for more information

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Artist Talk with Chas Martin and Don Gray
Sep
16
1:00 PM13:00

Artist Talk with Chas Martin and Don Gray

Join us every 3rd Saturday of the month for an Artist Talk!

In their upcoming discussion at the gallery, Martin and Gray will share stories of their processes and notes on their journeys. The artists have a similar palette and somewhat similar approach to applying color. Both title their works to encourage viewer interpretation. Several of the pieces exhibited even have similar titles. As the show took shape, the interplay of their thoughts and themes became very apparent.

The nearly 60 pieces exhibited range from intimate to monumental. One of Gray’s ongoing themes is his exploration of the urn, a portrait-like treatment of a simple vessel shape. It is a theme he has returned to for years. Additional works include figurative paintings in varying stages of abstraction. These pieces are an intriguing complement to the dynamic gestures of Martin’s figurative sculptures. Viewers can make their own associations or conclusions about the pairings.

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic with guest Josh Gaines
Jul
13
7:00 PM19:00

Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic with guest Josh Gaines

Open Mic Poetry Night

Josh Gaines ditched a promising military career to write books, run a profitless press, and build blanket forts with his daughter. He earned his writing MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His poetry and short fiction appears in numerous anthologies and journals, as well as in his own books of poetry and flash fiction: Cigarette Sonatas and little bones from Thoughtcrime Press (https://thoughtcrimepress.com/). His latest chapbook is Day of the New Windows.

$5 suggested donation, no one turned away
Visit the Ghost Town website for more information.

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Artist Talk with Anne Ruttan, Sarah Grew and Apricot Irving
Jun
17
1:00 PM13:00

Artist Talk with Anne Ruttan, Sarah Grew and Apricot Irving

Join us every 3rd Saturday of the month for an Artist Talk! This June, we’ll hear from three creatives with an interdisciplinary show reflecting on the wildfires of 2020. Each artist draws from personal experience with the fires in this show featuring paintings from Ann Ruttan, photography from Sarah Grew and writing from Apricot Irving.

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic with Guest A. Molotkov
Jun
8
7:00 PM19:00

Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic with Guest A. Molotkov

Open Mic Poetry Night

$5 suggested donation, no one turned away

A. Molotkov is an immigrant writer. His poetry collections are The Catalog of Broken Things, Application of Shadows, Synonyms for Silence and Future Symptoms. His novel A Slight Curve and his memoir A Broken Russia Inside Me are forthcoming; he co-edits The Inflectionist Review. His collection of ten short stories, Interventions in Blood, is part of Hawaii Review Issue 91; his prose is represented by Laura Strachan at Strachan Lit. Please visit him at AMolotkov.com


Visit the Ghost Town website for more information.

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Artists' Reception with Ann Ruttan, Sarah Grew and Apricot Irving
Jun
2
4:00 PM16:00

Artists' Reception with Ann Ruttan, Sarah Grew and Apricot Irving

Join us in celebrating the work of Ann Ruttan, Sarah Grew and Apricot Irving. This interdisciplinary exhibit will feature paintings, photographs and language as vehicles for processing the wildfires of 2020 which now visit us annually along the West coast. Meet the artists on First Friday, June 2 from 4-8pm.

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Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic with Guest Joanne Renee Boswell
May
11
7:00 PM19:00

Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic with Guest Joanne Renee Boswell

Open Mic Poetry Night

$5 suggested donation, no one turned away

Joann Renee Boswell is a poet, photographer, teacher, director, mystic, mother who lives in Camas, WA with her husband (a Quaker minister) and her three young children. Joann’s first book, Cosmic Pockets (Fernwood Press, 2020), is a full-length collection of poetry and photography. Her chapbook, breath so hungry, is a love letter. Her second full-length collection is a forthcoming coloring poetry book in collaboration with two illustrators called Meta-Verse. Joann has been a poetry editor for Untold Volumes and VoiceCatcher. She has been published in places such as CIRQUE, otoliths, VoiceCatcher, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Not a Pipe Publishing, and Soul Forte. You can read more at joannrenee.com


Visit the Ghost Town website for more information.

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