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Experience: Fall 2007

Do you have your Fall Experience yet?

The Fall 2007 issue Experience: Centrum's Magazine for the Creative Life serves as our performance program for events happening in August, September and October. It also showcases:

• A feature story on how composer Paul Moravec followed Shakespeare's inspiration to the Pultizer Prize
• Ted Rynearson's quest to help people--and nations--find healing
• The Secret Musical Life of Cisterns--an article detailing the musical history of the Dan Harpole Cistern at Fort Worden.
• The Early Blues of Henry Gray: How a deacon's son finds 'the devil's music'
• The Story Behind the Story: Pam Houston discusses the  art of creating through revising

...and much more!

Download the Fall 2007 issue.

Experience: Summer 2007

We've just completed work on the latest issue of Experience: Centrum's Magazine for the Creative Life. The Summer 2007 issue serves as our performance program for events happening in May, June, and July. It also includes:

• A feature on Hannes Coetzee, a South African teaspoon slide guitar player who has become a YouTube sensation
• A stimulating dialog on Imagination and Dissent between Centrum's Artistic Director for Literature Rebecca Brown, and the writer Thomas Glave
• The story of cowboy musician and Yahoo! Yodeler Wylie Gustafson
• An examination of the metaphorical language of the visual artist Susie J. Lee
• A group interview with "The Women of Blues" (the female faculty of the Port Townsend Country Blues Festival)
• A moment of conversation with National Heritage Award fellow, and Irish fiddling star Liz Carroll
• Jazz musician Houston Person's recipe for having a good time

Download the Summer 2007 issue.

The Sunlight of Odessa: Poet Ilya Kaminsky

Beneath the jump is one of the first articles we published in Experience magazine: a feature on Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky. Kaminsky, who taught at the Port Townsend Writers' Conference in both 2005 and 2006, was born in Odessa, in the former Soviet Union. His family received asylum from the US government and came to the United States in 1993. His book-length collection Dancing in Odessa was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.   

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Experience May 1st!

Our next issue, available May 1, will feature South African teaspoon guitar player Hannes Coetzee; visual artist Susie J. Lee; an interview with Jamaican writer Thomas Glave; the Yahoo! yodeler, Wylie Gustafson; an interview with eight different blueswomen; an article on the legendary tenor saxophonist Houston Person; National Heritage Fellow Liz Carroll; and Centrum donors Carole and Jim Franklin. Other features include full performance information for the Centrum summer season, listings of what Centrum community members are up to all over the world, and a special interview with poet Kim Addonizio. In addition, this issue will have the complete performance information for the Seattle Men's Chorus, Voiceworks: A Week of Singing, the Port Townsend Slide and Steel Festival, the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, the Port Townsend Writers' Conference, Jazz Port Townsend, and the Port Townsend Country Blues Festival.

Volume 2, Issue 1

Our current issue offers the full scoop on our summer festival workshops, as well as showcasing the work of the string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops. We've also got a great interview with Centrum's Artistic Director for Classical Music, Helen Callus, and an interview with fantastic-realism writer Rikki Ducornet, who will be teaching at the 2007 Port Townsend Writers' Conference. Rounding out the issue, Ben Moorad talks about how he was inspired to start writing workshops for prisoners in Oregon, emerging composer Pin Hsin Lin talks about the creative process, and Elijah Wald discusses the cultural and historical significance of the Mexican narcocorridos. Download the Spring 2007 issue.

Volume 1, Issue 2

Vol. 1. Issue 2. Our second issue, released in September, 2007, featured stories about our Youth Creativity Workshops: Waterworld (for elementary students), Whatever (for middle school students), and our High School Master Classes in the Arts. In addition, the magazine featured extended pieces on Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali, Grammy Award-winning bassist Edgar Meyer, maverick fiction writer Dorothy Allison, and the immigration work of legal scholars Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. Download Volume 1, Issue 2.

Volume 1, Issue 1

Our premiere issue! This was the magazine that guided us through 2006 summer festival season featuring extended program information for the Northwest Big Band workshop, the Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival, the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, the Port Townsend Writers' Conference, Jazz Port Townsend, the Port Townsend Country Blues Festival, and the Bill Evans Dance Intensives. In addition, the magazine showcased an extended feature on Klan-busting rock pioneer Daryl Davis, an interview with Fiddle Tunes Artistic Director Dirk Powell, an extended feature on Ukranian poet Ilya Kaminsky, a real-time instant-messaging interview with jazz phenom Sara Gazarek, and an article on the First Lady of Gospel, Ethel Caffie-Austin. Profiles on Centrum community member Ed Littlefield Jr., and disabilities advocate Annod Bickley rounded out our premiere issue. Download the first issue.

Experience Magazine

Each quarter, Centrum puts you in touch with the people, ideas and art that make Centrum and Fort Worden hum.

Each issue of Centrum’s free magazine Experience is sent to tens of thousands of passionate music, literature, dance and arts lovers.

Experience connects readers with Centrum workshops, performances, and residencies, as well as the artists, thinkers, donors, and activists who comprise the Centrum community.

In addition to serving as the feature editorial voice for Centrum activities, Experience also serves as the program for every Centrum performance throughout the year, including the immensely popular Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Jazz Port Townsend, and the Port Townsend Country Blues Festival.

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• Download the latest issue, February 2007 (4MB pdf)