Category Archives: Arts & Culture

Crescent City’s Tsunami Resiliency Festival

Co-hosted by the Crescent City Harbor District, City of Crescent City, Del Norte Historical Society, and Community System Solutions, March 23rd was our town’s first Tsunami Resiliency Festival. In this video, Redwood Voice’s Ethan Caudill-DeRego is on the scene to cover the event, and the subsequent candle-lit vigil on the 28th.

Klamath Promise Neighborhood: Culture Sharing & Salmon Hatching

On Monday, March 18, as part of the Klamath Promise Neighborhood Week Of Celebration & to commemorate the new Salmon Hatching Program at Crescent Elk Middle School, True North held a Family Resource and Cultural Sharing event with guest speakers from the Yurok and Tolowa Tribes. Redwood Voice’s Monique Camarena and Ethan Caudill-DeRego covered the event.

Pollinator Palooza – 2024

Join Redwood Voice’s Rory McCain and Ethan Caudill-DeRego as they travel to Crescent Elk Middle School to cover the “Pollinator Palooza” event, which was an event held on April 20th, 2024 featuring poetry, song, and interpretive dance all inspired by “pollinators.”

DiRT & GLiTTER Present: “In Our Veins,” Performance & Kayak Adventure Tour

The Redwood Voice crew was pleased to cover a spectacularly unique performance from a local art adventure group, “DiRT & GLiTTER.” Directors, Producers, and Performers Lauren Godla & Madeline Lawder invited artists from all over—as near as the Bay and as far as Vancouver, Canada—for a comedy, dance, and music show… to be attended by kayak!

We were pleased to receive an invitation out of the office and into a pleasant sunny day by the beautiful Smith River, in which an armada of kayaking spectators made their way between classical musical echoed from the rocks, a ukulele-ing comedian, a dance on an isle in the river, a comedian sitting communally with a squad of squeaking rafts, and, to top it off, Lauren and Madeline with their “Two Suns” suspended dance performance! (We originally covered the Behind the Scenes of this dance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwF7asannr4)

—Credits—

• A Redwood Voice Youth Media Production
• Produced by Persephone Rose
• Cinematographers: Ethan Caudill-DeRego, Grant Meriwether, Monique Camarena, & Sebastian Monroe
• Drone Operator: Persephone Rose
• Interviewers: Monique Camarena & Grant Meriwether
• Interviewees: Lauren Godla & Madeline Lawder; Tatjana Luce & Elena Patterson
• Music: Courtesy of DiRT & GLiTTER & Performers

—Performer Information—

• Tatjana Luce (Clarinetist)
• Elena Patterson (Cellist)
• Megan Phillips (Comedian, Ukulele Player) (https://maestramusic.org/)
• Nicole Casado (Dancer)
• Hannah Levy (Jazz Vocalist) (https://www.facebook.com/hannahlevyvox)
• Iris Benson (Comedian) (https://irisbenson.com/)

—DiRT & GLiTTER—

• Website: https://www.dirtandglitter.org/
• Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/dirtandglitterco/
• Lauren Godla (https://www.instagram.com/laurengodla/)
• Madeline Lawder (https://www.instagram.com/madelinelawder/)