Experience Magazine

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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