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Friday, Match 3
Ocean and Coastal Law Symposium:
Features panels on issues surrounding
the world's oceans. 8:30 a.m.- 7 p m.
Knight Law Center, 1515 Agate St.
Humanities Work-in-Progress Talk:
Raymond Bim, History, discusses
"How Books Were Censored in Eigh
teenth-Century France." Noon-1
p.m. Room 159 PLC. Free.
Women's Film Festival: 8 p.m. Room
177, Lawrence Hall. Free. The pro
gram will continue on Saturday and
Sunday as well.
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Tree-sit celebrity to speak
■ After ending her two
year stay in a tree, the
activist will share her
unique experience
By Sarah Thompson
for the Emerald
Julia Butterfly Hill will be one
of many keynote speakers at this
year’s Public Interest Environ
mental Law Conference, held on
March 2 to 5.
A few months ago, Hill re
turned to the ground, ending the
longest tree-sit in American histo
ry. In December of 1997, then 23
year-old Hill scaled a 1,000-year
old redwood, which she named
“Luna,” in protest of attempts to
log old-growth forests. She did
not descend from her platform,
180 feet off the ground, until two
years later, after the protection of
the trees had been negotiated.
Hill’s record-breaking tree-sit
attracted national media cover
age. Features in Time, Rolling
Stone and Jane have turned her
into an activist celebrity. Hill ad
mits that her life has been affect
ed by the media attention she has
received, but she remains dedi
cated to her cause.
“My hope and goal is to build
upon the success of the Luna tree
sit action by doing my best to con
tinue the work of informing, in
spiring, networking and
empowering individuals, organi
zations and communities to be
come consciously involved in
creating a healthy planet inter
twined with healthy people,” Hill
said.
Hill will be giving a keynote ad
dress on Saturday, March 4, from
7 to 9 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom
as part of the public interest con
ference. While her theme is sure
to be environmental, she would
not comment on the specifics of
her address.
“Before I speak, I pray, ‘Peace,
power, truth and love’ in a
mantra, open my mouth and
words flow out,” Hill said. “As of
this time, only the creator knows
exactly what I will be discussing.”
Dance
continued from page 1
The genesis of the tours oc
curred about eight years ago when
Honka and a Togolese graduate
student at the time, Kouessan
Adagio, set out to tape his native
dances. The project turned out to
be more fun than work, Honka
said, and one step led to another.
Soon the pair were performing at
fairs and women’s conferences,
among other events.
Buoyed by funding from indi
viduals within the dance depart
ment, Honka and Adagio eventu
ally took their shows to
elementary schools. Honka is
now solo in her coordinating ef
forts and receives a good portion
of necessary funding directly
from the dance department.
Through a collaboration with
dance instructor Charles Doggett’s
drumming students, the picture
has become more complete.
“This is very accessible to grade
school students,” Honka said.
“It’s very difficult to bring them
modern dance or a ballet.”
A typical presentation includes
teaching the students about differ
ent rhythms and dance move
ments used to convey certain
messages, showing the children
various hand signals used in the
dances and highlighting basic ge
ographic information about
Africa.
However, the mixture of ener
getic, colorfully adorned dancers
and mesmerizing drumming is
what captures the kids’ attention.
“I really enjoyed watching our
kids taking this in in a real serious
way,” David Babcock said after
Wednesday’s performance at Pat
terson and Family Elementary in
West Eugene. Babcock is a music
and facilitating teacher for the
combined public and alternative
schools.
“I’ve been to some schools
where you present multicultural
presentations, or anything differ
ent from the All-American way,
and [the students] think it’s fun
ny,” he said. “Africa is a country
that we really spend a lot of time
discussing anyway, and this real
ly fit into our curriculum.
“I really liked watching their
whole bodies get into the rhythm
of the presentation, so I get a lot
out of just seeing the students
learning.”
The dances — with their focus
on non-verbal messages and
rhythms — can also help mini
mize potential communication
obstacles. Honka referred to a Feb.
16 performance at Washington El
ementary, carried out in front of a
group of hearing-impaired stu
dents. She said the students could
“listen” along through the drum
ming and dancing vibrations, as
well as the hand signals.
One of the teachers “came up to
me afterwards and said how won
derful it is because the songs
speak with their hands and the
kids are used to that,” Honka said.
Both Honka and the dancers
said keeping kids focused
throughout the dancing has never
really posed a problem.
“All of their teachers are im
pressed that we can maintain
their interest for that 45 minutes
to an hour,” Tuman said.
Although none of this year’s
dancers or drummers are African
natives, several of the University
participants have visited the area.
That background certainly helps
because during the question-and
answer portion of the presenta
tion, the kids are curious about
everything.
“I don’t know if [our shows]
create the interest or if it’s already
there,” says drummer John Rior
dan, a planning, public policy
and management major, who trav
eled to Ghana three years ago. “It
definitely helps them to think
outside of their elementary
schools.”
The education process works
both ways, Honka said. In addi
tion to earning class credit, her
dance students learn the African
style, participate in all-night cos
tume designing sessions and
come away with an experience
that maybe isn’t attainable in a
University classroom setting.
“You do this and you some
times doubt what you’re doing —
I don’t doubt that I’m in the right
profession — until you see fresh
men who have never performed
before, when they walk out of an
elementary school afterwards,
and say, ‘Oh my God, that was so
exciting,”’ Honka said. “You can’t
even imagine how that makes me
feel.”
Women's Film Festival 2000
MaifCft 3flf4 44 ®ni 177 Lawrence
Friday, March 3rd
8:00 p.m.
Wilma P. Mankiller
The Orientation
Express'
The F-Word
Battle For The
Minds
Saturday. March 4th1
8:00 p.m.
Sex and the
Sandanistas
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Calling the Ghosts
Wavelengths
The Ladies Room
Sunday, March 5ttr
3:00 p.m.
Vour Name in
Cellulite
Stigmata
Hair Piece
Mirror, Mirror
The Body \
L Beautiful j
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