FOS hold music, poetry benefit performance

Fisher Poet Dave Densmore and songwriter Alexa Wiley will perform music and poetry together April 3 in Skamokawa at the Redmen Hall River Life Interpretive Center. Their performance is called "For the Love of Fish" and will be from 7-9 p.m., with doors opening at 6:30 p.m.

Densmore was born and raised in Alaska on Kodiak and various Aleutian Island villages. He has pursued a lifetime career of commercial fishing and diving and started working seriously with his poetry and storytelling because he felt that the commercial fishing industry was being publicly demoralized. Through his writing, Densmore works to capture the spirit of a way of life and to show the general public that fishermen are harvesters of this resource and not "greedy marauders" as he feels some are portraying them.

Wiley is committed to making connections with her song writing with communities that depend on fish. She developed and produced "Salmon Nation Artists Project" (SNAP), a two-year long production in support of Ecotrust's Salmon Nation philosophy. This project was released in January 2008 and can be found at http://www.cdbaby.com/salmonnation.

Following Densmore and Wiley's performance will be a showing of the 25 minute professionally produced film "Crossroads on the Columbia: Oregon Faces America's Energy Future." Crossroads is an official selection of the 2009 Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival and chronicles the grassroots efforts in Oregon and Washington to block proposed LNG projects in the Lower Columbia region.

Admission donation is $8 per person, or $15 per family with children using floor seating. Refreshments will be provided and the Friends Of Skamokawa gift and bookstore will be open after the performance.