Chemeketa Community College

The Chemeketa Chorus, with special guest Bethany Evans, a local professional harpist, will perform a peace-themed concert 7 p.m. In the Bldg. 6 Auditorium. Admission is free.

The theme of the performance is “Peace,” and musical selections include:

     Peace Round/Peace Bells
Here We Come A-Wassailing
O Come, O Come, Immanuel
A Ceremony of Carols (Middle English)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Bashanah Haba’ah (Hebrew)
Carol of the Bells
Let There Be Peace on Earth

Evans will accompany the chorus for five pieces from “A Ceremony of Carols,” composed in Middle English by Benjamin in 1942.

Chemeketa is hosting two holiday sales to raise money for it’s athletic and art programs.

The Athletic Department is sponsoring a craft fair in the lobby of Bldg. 2 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Dec. 5.

The Art Gallery is hosting an art sale Dec. 5 and 6, from 10 a.m. til 6 p.m. Student, faculty and staff-produced art will be on sale.

Portland author Monica Drake will be on campus Friday for a free reading and discussion of the writing process.

Drake be in the Chemeketa Multicultural Center, Building 2 on the Salem campus, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Drake will also be reading at the Blue Pepper in downtown Salem at 7:30 p.m.

On Nov. 8, Drake will provide insight into the act of writing and her own process in a workshop, titled “Stolen Truth: Bringing Life to your Fiction,” at Chemeketa Community College. All you’ll need is your memories and a pen, no prior writing experience required. The workshop will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Cost is $125 and includes lunch. Participants in the workshop will also be encouraged to submit a short fiction piece for inclusion in Chemeketa’s online literary journal, “Building 45.”

For more information, or to register, call 503-365-4728.

If you missed poet Lawson Inada’s visit to campus last spring,  click here for a taste of what you missed.

Join Chemeketa instructor Jill Rupert Monday, Oct. 27, to find out. Rupert will be reading and discussing poetry in the skybridge between buildings 1 and 9 as part of the Soapbox Poetry Series.

Teatro Milagro will be performing Zapatista twice on the Chemeketa Community College Salem campus Wednesday, Oct. 29.

Show times are 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. in the Auditorium, Bldg. 6. Admission is free.  The play is sponsored by the Chemeketa Multicultural Center.

From the playbill:

 From the moutains of Mexico’s southeast, a small band of Zapatistas made their first strike at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve 1994. With the help of the Internet, news media and hundreds of international NGOs, their struggle still continues for indigenous rights, territorial rights, women’s rights, everything for every oppressed group that is willing to stand up for their beliefs. “I am Mayan in San Cristobal, gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa - any human being in this world who is exploited, marginalized, oppressed, resisting and saying enough! Ya basta!”

The Chemeketa Art Gallery’s new exhibit, “The Exquisite Still Life” opens Monday, Oct. 6.

Featuring the work of Lisa Caballero, Dan P. Carr, Bobbie Jansen and John Van Dreal, the last thing any of the paintings will make you feel is “still.”

A reception will be held Wednesday, Oct. 8, from noon to 2 p.m. The art gallery is free and open to the public Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, visit the Chemeketa art program site at art.chemeketa.edu.

 Artwork: John Van Dreal, Woman in Blue With Pearl (detail), oil on canvas, 2007.

Chemeketa Community College will be hosting open auditions for its production Brighton Beach Memoirs at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1. Call backs are slated for 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 2.

Interested players should report to the Chemeketa Auditorium, Building 6 on the Salem campus, 4000 Lancaster Drive N.E.Auditions will focus on cold readings and theatre games, but prepared monologues are welcome.

Brighton Beach Memoirs, by Neil Simon, is a family coming-of-age comedy about Eugene Jerome, a 15 year old boy who is just coming to terms with girls, his family, and life in general.

The play takes place in Brooklyn in 1937, and concerns a Jewish family trying to make ends meet in the shadow of the Great Depression under the looming threat of World War II.For additional information, contact Gabrielle Brewer-Wallin at 503-365-4727.

Chemeketa’s art program just launched their newly redesigned website. It can be found at art.chemeketa.edu. Also, make sure to visit the new art gallery website at artgallery.chemeketa.edu.

Also, a huge “Thank You” to Erasmo Giron, a recent grad of the Chemeketa visual communications program, who put it all together for us.

Don’t ask, just click the link:

And congrats to all involved.

Chemeketa’s 11 graduating visual communications student are holding a portfolio show Thursday, June 5, from 4 to 7 p.m. The show is open to the public and we especially welcome members of the local business community to drop in and see the fine work on display.

The show will be held in Building 4, Room 279, on the Salem campus.