2020 CENTRUM VIRTUAL GALA & AUCTION FEATURING DIANA KRALL AND JOHN CLAYTON

The Northern Lights beckon! Please join us on Saturday, October 17, for Centrum’s 2020 Gala and Auction. Listen to Centrum Alumna, Jazz Pianist, and singer Diana Krall in conversation with friend and mentor John Clayton, Centrum’s Artistic Director for Jazz. Bid in the live auction and raise your paddle to support Centrum’s Fund for the Future under the guidance of Auctioneer Gabriel Butu. You can register for free here to enjoy the online silent auction already in progress AND the livestreamed Gala and Auction on the 17th. Check back every few days for new auction offerings!

A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR OF NORTHERN LIGHTS, JASON PAGEAU

“On behalf of the Northern Lights Planning Group, I offer my most sincere thanks to the 10 Fundraisers and 41 generous donors (listed below) who contributed to the Northern Lights crowdfunding campaign. Your early donations—totaling $20,885—jump start our Gala’s Fund for the Future paddle-raise on October 17, and help ensure Centrum offers programs and scholarships for many more workshop participants in 2021. Ironically, funds such as these are the hardest to come by precisely when the world is making it clear how much they are really needed. The arts are worthwhile in themselves; however, it is the bond we build in sharing the arts with others that is so important. It is the bond that builds community.”

Jazz Voicings: The Ray Brown Trio: Life Lessons From The Bass Master

Jazz Voicings from Centrum brings you its third online session!

You won’t want to miss this special Jazz Voicings! Host John Clayton talks to Benny Green, Geoffrey Keezer, and Jeff Hamilton about life lessons from The Bass Master. You’ll hear touching and humorous accounts from jazz legends about their varied musical careers, in a relaxed, fun online discussion. Bring your questions to ask these jazz greats!

October 8 (Thursday) 5 pm – 6:30 pm (Pacific)

Online via Zoom

About Jazz Voicings: Conversations With Jazz Leaders About Their Musical Journeys

The 35 musicians who comprise the Jazz Port Townsend faculty each summer are a priceless resource. Artistic Director John Clayton hosts informal 90-minute sessions with some of them, talking about experiences, colleagues, mentors and musical heroes that have shaped them. Expect inspiring stories (and doubtless a few laughs) as they look at life through the open window that is Jazz.

2020 marked the launch of Centrum’s new arts and lectures series in partnership with Crosscut—Communiversity. The series was designed to inspire thought-provoking conversations highlighting a wide range of topics affecting our world. We have two fascinating events to finish the year, and you are warmly invited to participate in these discussions, which will be held exclusively online. Admission is $15 per household. Advance registration is required.

Monday, October 26, 2020 | 5:30 p.m.
Marian Maxwell in conversation with Ted Alvarez

Puget Sound Mycological Society Past President Marian Maxwell will explain the basics of mushroom collecting, including seasons for mushroom hunting, permits required, types of mushrooms to look for, cooking, dangers, and where to hunt. Marian studied mycology under the renowned Dr. Daniel Stuntz and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Washington. She is a Past President of the Puget Sound Mycological Society (2010-2015), is currently the Outreach Chairperson, and has served as one of their lead identifiers, educators, and scientific display chairpersons for over 20 years. Ted Alvarez, editor at Crosscut, will moderate a dialog with Marian and our audience as we learn how to explore the outdoors by foraging for a vast Northwest resource—mushrooms!

Monday, November 16, 2020 | 5:30 p.m.
Eric Dorfman in conversation with Knute Berger

Director of The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS), Eric Dorfman joins Knute Berger to unveil the science, planning and the process of acquisitions for Dorfman’s former Museum’s (Carnegie Natural History Museum) upcoming 2021 exhibition, “Nature’s Rainbow,” illuminating diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates. In this talk, Eric will share how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior.

Centrum warmly welcomes the 2020 Emerging Artist Residents!

As of October 1, these six residents are on campus until October 31, during which they will be enjoying 24 hour access to private studios, lodging, and studio visits with artists and curators from around the region. This year, instead of open studios, the artists will be sitting down to hold conversations for the On A.i.R. podcast. Stay tuned, and learn more about the artists here: https://centrum.org/2020/07/announcing-the-2020-emerging-artist-residency-finalists/

Special thanks this year to the Port Townsend School of the Arts, Madrona Mindbody Institute, and Peninsula College for providing additional studio space for the artists.

This program is supported with grants from Sally Warren and Jeff Jackson, Lucy and Charlie Hanson and Caryl and Ron Gentry, and the Maurer Family Foundation.

Centrum Launches New Online Estate Planning Resources

Whether you are considering the creation of a will, a rollover of an existing IRA, an annuity or charitable trust, there are significant tax advantages available to those who are able to plan for the disbursement of their estate. Some opportunities can even provide an annual income today, coupled with tax benefits during your lifetime. Centrum now has a full repository of helpful articles, brochures, gift calculators, and sample language to help you consider what works best for you and your family. To those caring and thoughtful donors who honor Centrum by making a legacy provision, we offer a lifetime membership in The Centrum Circle. With this designation of appreciation comes recognition of your generous commitment in Centrum’s season brochure, special reports, and on our website; and invitations to special events that celebrate Centrum’s mission and purpose.

We invite you to explore our resources online!