Northwest Performing Arts, Inc. a non-profit organization Our mission is to promote live entertainment, to encourage local artists, to sponsor artists in the schools, and to support development of a new performing arts center in Clatsop County. Our members and sponsors support educational and cultural enrichment in our communities through dance, drama, and music.
Our focus is to develop artists and audiences who love live entertainment.
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From audiences to concerts to classroom activities. Northwest Performing Arts, Inc. helps to "foot the bill".
Check presentation to SEPRD 2005
Enthusiastic audience
John McAdams demonstrates rhythm patterns
Many of the concerts NWPA sponsors are free to the public. Others are fundraisers to provide scholarship money to promising local students interested in dance, music, and theatre arts.
Northwest Performing Arts, Inc. has presented performing arts for over ten years including seven years of the summer concert series: Seaside Where the Stars Play. NWPA presented the Oregon Symphony three times. NWPA presented Brownsmead Flats, Scott Cossu, Kari Verding, Minneapolis Girls Choir, Golden Baugh, Tears of Joy Puppet Theater, Rainy Day Film Festival, Three Leg Torso, Dave Drury Trio, Kim Angelis and Josef, Dick Wiessman/David Crabtree Duo, and more!
NWPA has partnered with the City of Seaside, the Seaside School District, Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District (SEPRD), and the community to promote performing arts.
For more information contact Kathy Gordon, President (503) 286-9854
