Living Paintings, Art, Music, Environment Come Together at New Oregon Coast Festival
Published 07/27/21 at 1:55 AM PDT
By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff
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(Cannon Beach, Oregon) - A first of its kind on the north Oregon coast, a new festival in Cannon Beach combines the environment with the art world in this former artist colony. On September 16 through 19 the town celebrates that unique mix with the Earth & Ocean Arts Festival.
Here, one of the main events is a live art project that will create the world s largest sea star entirely made up of people. After all, Cannon Beach is a burgh where art and the natural surroundings come together in especially conspicuous ways.
A BLIND teenager who is a Doctor Who fanatic has launched a mission to bring the Time Lord’s adventures to others who cannot see. Louis Moorhouse has been blind since he was 18-months-old because of Neuroblastoma – a type of children’s cancer. However, his parents were keen for him to have the same opportunities as his sighted peers and they discovered Kingsclere based charity Living Paintings, which creates Touch to See books for blind and partially sighted people. Louis has been using Living Paintings’ books since he was two-years-old. Now, aged 19 and about to finish his first year at university, the student was inspired to create his own version and has teamed up with the charity to bring the iconic imagery of Doctor Who to life for people living with sight loss.