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IN C E L E B R A T I O N
February marks
Black History Month
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Lectures performances and other events
mark contributions o f African American people
in the United States and worldwide
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by Pamela Lyons
Waddell & Reed
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12 , 13 , 14 -
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"...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