The Creative Way

Bold young artists share their stories through art in a new documentary from KEET PBS. Vanessa Finney speaks with the film's producer, Jack Lucido, on The Creative Way.

A free screening of the film followed by a talk will be at the Instructional Media Center, 400 W. Harding Avenue in Crescent City, CA, on Saturday, May 10.
Doors open at 5pm. Film starts at 6pm.

REGISTER: KEET.ORG

The 2025 Ashland Independent Film Festival (AIFF) presents 16 features, shorts, and programs that include the Oregon premiere of the documentary "I Know Catherine, The Log Lady."

Vanessa Finney, host of The Creative Way, visits with Gary Lundgren and Richard Herskowitz from AIFF. Richard Herskowitz is Co-Director of Programming for AIFF. Gary Lundgren of Ashland is personally connected to Catherine Coulson, the featured star of the documentary film, "I Know Catherine, The Log Lady." Richard Green, the filmmaker, also joins the conversation.

The Wild and Scenic Film Festival (WSFF) is celebrating more than two decades of inspiring activism through film and art.

Every year since 2005, after the flagship Wild & Scenic Film Festival ends in Nevada City, CA, the film festival hits the road and the On Tour program begins! With 110+ Wild & Scenic events a year WSFF programming reaches more than 30,000 people annually through partnerships with land trusts, waterkeepers, schools, and other NGOs. In 2024 WSFF helped host organizations raise over $1,000,000 for their organizations and communities.

This year's WSFF hosts in Oregon are Rogue Riverkeeper and KS Wild. The Creative Way host, Vanessa Finney, visits with Allee Gustafson of KS Wild, along with Jeremy Monroe (Judy's Creek) and Jessica Plumb (Managed to Extinction).

The Oregon Cabaret Theatre is the first theater in Oregon to present the musical, "Waitress." Director Lauren Blair describes this as a story of “chosen” family, based on caring actions rather than blood ties and marriage.

Bloomsbury Book's new co-owner, Megan Isser, gives a glimpse into this season's new books from authors Suzanne Collins, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Charlotte McConaghy and more.

"Jitney" is part of a 10-part dramatic cycle written by Wilson between 1982 and 2005. The cycle also includes titles like "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "The Piano Lesson," and "Fences."

The annual Banff festival is a key fundraiser for the Redding Trails Alliance. Camille Knudsen, RTA's Operations Director, talks about the work they do year-round and the seven films that audiences will see. After the February 22 event in Redding, the festival continues winding its way through the region, including stops in Arcata, Eugene, and Bend.

Starting in the 1960s, hundreds of lesbians from around the country began migrating to Eugene, Oregon. The Eugene Lesbian History Project is a digital humanities project by the University of Oregon that preserves and shares this unique history.

The project includes filmed oral histories with 83 narrators, a digital exhibit, a museum exhibit, and a documentary film. TCW will focus on the documentary, with Director Courtney Hermann and G. Chesler, Producer of Marketing, Distribution and Outreach.

Three booksellers dish about new work from Ina Garten, Patti Smith, Maria Popova, and Robin Wall Kimmerer - as well as perennial bestsellers, and children's books set in winter.