Ashore

Certainly, part of the Washed Ashore vision is for others to

Diane Dulken: It's Beach Season: Meet the Giant Plastic Bottle Garbage Jellyfish Diane Dulken 2011

The Washed Ashore project gets its thousands of pounds of plastic debris from volunteers and community groups that gather the garbage from ocean beaches.

Diane Dulken: It's Beach Season: Meet the Giant Plastic Bottle Garbage Jellyfish Diane Dulken 2011

The Washed Ashore project gets its thousands of pounds of plastic debris from volunteers and community groups that gather the garbage from ocean beaches.

Diane Dulken: It's Beach Season: Meet the Giant Plastic Bottle Garbage Jellyfish Diane Dulken 2011

It's our collective problem and at Washed Ashore, the whole community is invited to be part of the process of turning ugliness into beauty.

Diane Dulken: It's Beach Season: Meet the Giant Plastic Bottle Garbage Jellyfish Diane Dulken 2011

It's our collective problem and at Washed Ashore, the whole community is invited to be part of the process of turning ugliness into beauty.

Diane Dulken: It's Beach Season: Meet the Giant Plastic Bottle Garbage Jellyfish Diane Dulken 2011

Ashore, besides traipsing through long lines of shops selling local handicrafts and trinkets, tourists pack dozens of tavernas offering traditional Cypriot "meze" dishes -- seafood or meat plates with vegetables, Halloumi cheese, pita breads and olives on the side, typically washed down with a local spirit known as Zivania.

Bob Schulman: Cyprus: Tales of Aphrodite Bob Schulman 2011

In addition to its deployment as Red Guards, the chorus is used imaginatively throughout the piece: as a crowd singing the Weisse Rose leaflets; abusive Mississippi segregationists confronting Meredith supporters singing an atonal setting of "Michael Row Your Boat Ashore"; and a shadowy choir that intones the Latin Mass as a Grand Inquisitor in a Nazi uniform interrogates an empty chair that is standing in for Christ.

Young and Committed to Their Causes Heidi Waleson 2011

She concludes with an original, hard-swinging adaptation of "Michael Row Your Boat Ashore" also a hallelujah song that sounds like something Mel Torme might have arranged for Judy Garland circa 1963.

Highlights and Dark Nights Will Friedwald 2012

Ashore, besides traipsing through long lines of shops selling local handicrafts and trinkets, tourists pack dozens of tavernas offering traditional Cypriot "meze" dishes -- seafood or meat plates with vegetables, Halloumi cheese, pita breads and olives on the side, typically washed down with a local spirit known as Zivania.

Bob Schulman: Cyprus: Tales of Aphrodite Bob Schulman 2011

The jellyfish and the many other creatures are the brainchild of Oregon artist Angela Haseltine Pozzi, who heads the Washed Ashore project.

Diane Dulken: It's Beach Season: Meet the Giant Plastic Bottle Garbage Jellyfish Diane Dulken 2011