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2 0 ▼ f * b ru « ry 4 , 1 9 0 4 ▼ Ju»t ou t Í y VH y "PRÍVE" 30WÑTOW~ n 71 IN C E L E B R A T I O N February marks Black History Month , Lectures performances and other events mark contributions o f African American people in the United States and worldwide ▼ by Pamela Lyons Waddell & Reed FINANCIAL SERVICES • • • • • Ask us about... Savings and Investing Life Insurance Retirement Planning Financial Planning Disability Insurance To the Lesbian and G ay communities Thanks for your support! Call today for information: ( 503 ) Eric Brown Floreid Walker Karen Curry 238-6036 500 NE Multnomah, Suite 278 Portland, Oregon 97232 ART MEDIA Strathmore Paper Pad Sale! Recycled Sketch Pads 30% Off during A rt Media regular price February SM457 / SM443 Look what's going on at Art Media in February 5 - Saturday Reception for Oregon W om en's Caucus for A rt D O a rt Gallery {Beaverton location} I-3pm 6 - Sunday Deadline for Valentine C o n te st Entries 9 - Wednesday Free D e m o B eaverton 2-5pm F IM O Pins with Valentine theme 12 , 13 , 14 - Free D e m o D o w n to w n & B eaverton 12-5pm Hands-on Valentine Card Making 26 -Saturday Free D e m o D o w n to w n I-4pm Origami Boxes Downtown Portland: 902 SW Yamhill 223.3724 Beaverton: 2710 Cedar Hills Blvd. 646.9347 S t o r e H o u r s : Monday-Saturday 9:00-6:30. Sunday 12:00-5:00 "...We have been forced to a point where we're going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, fo r years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world, it's nonviolence or nonexistence.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” speech, delivered April 3, 1968 and community activist, Feb. 11, 11 am, at the Multicultural Center. Phillips is co-director of the Multicultural Collaborative, a coalition seeking solutions to inter-racial conflicts in Los Angeles. His firstnovel, Violent Spring, takesplace in post riot Los Angeles. *> Showing of Another Girl on the IRT and lecture by filmmaker Leslie Harris, Feb. 17, film at 4 and 8:30 pm, at the 5th Avenue Cinema, 510 SW Hall, lecture at 7 pm, at the Smith Center, $6.50 for all or part of the event. Harris won a jury prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival for achievement as a first-time filmmaker for A n other Girl. The movie has been described as presenting “a feminine slice of African American urban life that cannot be ignored.” Lecture by Ralph Lemon, dance choreogra pher, Feb. 28, noon, at the Multicultural Center. Lemon’s company will perform March 4-6 as part of the PSU Contemporary Dance Season. He has been described as a “modem-dance mythmaker and storyteller.” In a 1991 interview with the New YorkTimes, he said “I ’m black... [but] I make my work communicate on as universal a level as possible. I want to talk to the world with my work.” For more information on these events or for a schedule of other PSU events during Black His tory Month, call the Black Cul tural A ffairs B oard at 725- 5660. ore than 25 years later, the words that Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke the day before his death still ring true. February marks Black History Month, a time to honor King and other African American people who have contributed to art, literature and politics in the United States and the world. Several lectures, performances and art exhib its are planned in February to celebrate Black History Month. Julie Dash, award-winning film director, will speak on Friday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 pm at Lewis and Clark College’s Templeton College Center, 615 SW Palatine Hill Road. Dash’s movie Daughters o f the Dust was released in 1992. It was the first fu ll-len g th T h e In te r film directed by an state Firehouse African American Cultural Center woman to gain a is also holding national theater re events to mark lease. The movie B lack H istory depicts the Gull ah M onth. Events people, who live on include: the South Carolina They Worked Sea Islands and are So Hard, an art descended from exhibit by Joseph West Africans, at Conroy, Feb. 3- the beginning of 26, main gallery. the 20th century. Conroy’s exhibit D aughters o f o f airbrushed the Dust won first paintings depict prize in cinematog African Ameri raphy for dramatic can role models, film at the 1991 such as Martin Sundance Film Luther King, Jr., Festival. Dash won Maya Angelou, the 1993 M aya Joseph Conroy’s painting o f Desmond Tutu Malcom X and Deren Award for Shirley Chisolm. Independent Film and Video Artists and the 1993 ® Recent Works by Travis Bonneau, Feb. 3-26, Sojourner Truth Award for Visual Arts/Cinema entry gallery. In his first solo exhibition, Bonneau for her work on the film. draws on his own multicultural heritage to present Tickets for Dash’s lecture are $7. Call 768- images of hope, peace and unity between people 7491 for more tickets or information. of different ethnic backgrounds. C The Meeting, a play that depicts a hypothetical Portland State University will celebrate Black meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther History Month with a series of lectures and per King, Feb. 12 at 8 pm. Playwright Jeff Stetson formances. Highlights include: constructs a conversation between these two civil f> African American Literature Read-In Day, rights leaders to showcase their ideas and philoso Feb. 7, 10 am-4 pm, at the Multicultural Center. phies. Celebrated nationally, this day celebrates the words The Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center is of African American authors with day-long out located at 5340 N. Interstate Ave. It is open noon- loud readings. PSU professor and poet Primus St. 5 pm Tuesdays-Fridays and noon-4pm Satur John will read from noon to 1 pm. days. For more information, call 823-2000. f> Lecture by Gary Phillips, an author, teacher M