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Harvest Moon Master Storyteller

Prepare to be captivated when Harvest Moon, an honored Quinault storyteller and Master Basket Weaver, comes to the KALA stage November 17th. A seasoned performer with decades of experience, Moon uses her voice, facial expressions, and body gestures to bring archetypal characters to life, transporting audiences through a veil of time into ancient realms.

Whether it be a campfire, library space, stage or movie set, Moon seamlessly adapts to her surroundings. She began TV and film work in the 90s, starting as a stand in for actress Elaine Miles on Northern Exposure. Shes appeared in 13 films since, including First Cow, Showing Up, and The Dark Divide. Moon was harvesting cedar bark in the woods she when got an audition call for The Dark Divide. The audition was in Portland. I missed a day of getting cedar bark, but I got the part.

One of the legends shell share onstage at KALA comes from her great-great-grandfather Charles Cultee.
Cultee, a Clatsop, born about 1830, lived on Willapa Bay. One of the last speakers of Chinookan languages, Cultee was the primary informant for German American anthropologist Franz Boas, who spent two summers at Willapa Bay in the late 1800s recording native languages and legends.

Harvest Moon has served two terms for The Washington Commission for the Humanities as an Inquiry Mind speaker. She is the recipient of Grants from the Seattle Arts Commission, Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities, Heritage Art Council as Artist in Residency and Young Audience speaker for Portland Oregon and Southern Washington State. She is recipient of the Peace and Friendship Award presented by the Washington State Historical Society in recognition of signficant contributions to the understand of N.W. Indian Heritage.

Moons upcoming KALA performance is sponsored in part by the Astoria Visual Arts, and a grant by the Oregon Humanities, as part of the AVAs exhibit (opening 11/11), Portrait of Eugene Landry, An Artist, A Time and a Tribe. Moon has a familial connection to Eugene Landry. He was my uncle.

Doors open at 7pm. Show at 7:30pm. Tickets $20. Ages 16+ welcome. General seating. Full Bar. KALA is located at 1017 Marine Dr. in Astoria. 503.338.4878