Rachel Foxman
Laura “Piece” Kelley began
competing for the Seattle Poetry Slam Team
in 2000, earned her way to the Nationals two
years in a row and helped bring her team to
3rd place. A poet, vocalist, and activist, Kelly
performs weekly with the Seattle-based
ensemble, Jumbalaya and is the featured host
and lead vocalist in their Experience Music
Project.
Merran Smith , Director of the BC
Coastal Program, ForestEthics was involved
in the historic Phase 1 decision to start what
could be the largest conservation agreement
in North America, protecting the largest area
of intact rainforest on British Columbia’s
coast. She has also produced award-winning
documentary videos on environmental, social
justice and human rights issues in Central
America and was instrumental in starting the
GAIA Project, a partnership between the
Salvadoran Centre for Appropriate
Technology and the Sierra Club, as well as
Project Accompaniment, a human rights
observer project with the returning
Guatemalan refugees.
Rachel Foxman began telling sto-
ries professionally in 1979 and joined the
OCF in 1983, where she was a storyteller on
the Vaudeville stage for 17 years. This year
she performs “In Your Dreams,” a collection
of world folktales.
Ronnie Gilbert was a member of
the 1950s “Weavers,” a group that sold mil-
lions of records until it was cut short by the
infamous blacklisting within the entertain-
ment industry during the McCarthy Era. She
has worked on and off Broadway and is a
musical playwright, teacher, activist, and
author. For 13 years, Gilbert has participated
in the international Women In Black organi-
Stephen Gaskin
zation in challenging destructive US foreign
policy.
Sarah Ruth van Gelder is
co-founder of the Positives Futures Network
and Executive Editor of YES! Magazine.
Serigo Lub
is the designer of
Friendly Favors network, an online exchange
directory active in 38 countries.
Skye Rios ,12, and Maya Rios ,15,
are members of Corazon a Corazon, a group
of 20 young violinists who raised $20,000 for
a Bolivian orphanage while traveling the
U.S. and Bolivia playing classical and Latin
music.
Stephen Gaskin is the founder of
The Farm, one of the largest counterculture
communities in the world, and Plenty
International, which has helped to rebuild
1,200 homes and 27 kilometers of water pipe
in Guatemala, clinics in Lesotho and south-
ern Mexico and other projects across four
continents.
Venerable Geshe Kalsang
Damdul escaped from Tibet and contin-
Joules Graves
Jim Page
SPOKEN WORD SCHEDULE
Spirit Tower
Front Porch
Friday
Friday
Noon
1:00
2:00
3:00
4:00
5:00
6:00
Noon
1:00
2:00
3:00
4:00
5:00
6:00
Stephen Gaskin
Kipchoge Spencer
Chris Chandler and Anne Feeney
Ina May Gaskin
Laura"Piece" Kelley
Hilary Goldberg
Eugene Slam Team
Joules Graves
Laura"Piece" Kelley
Dan Merkle
Sarah Ruth van Gelder
Karen Mahon and Merran Smith
Kevin Danaher
Rachel Foxman
Saturday
Saturday
Noon
1:00
2:00
3:00
4:00
5:00
6:00
Noon
1:00
2:00
3:00
4:00
5:00
6:00
Holly Near
Joules Graves
Kevin Danaher
Hilary Goldberg
Eugene Slam Team
Laura"Piece" Kelley
Hilary Goldberg
Karen Mahon and Merran Smith
Ronnie Gilbert
Ina May Gaskin
Holly Near
Chris Chandler and Anne Feeney
Stephen Gaskin
Sarah Ruth van Gelder
Sunday
Sunday
Noon
1:00
2:00
3:00
4:00
Noon
1:00
2:00
3:00
4:00
Chris Chandler and Anne Feeney
Jim Page
Kevin Danaher
Joules Graves
Hilary Goldberg
Alan Siporin
Eugene Slam Team
Hilary Goldberg
Karen Mahon and Merran Smith
Rachel Foxman
ued his formal studies in India. He has
received the highest degree in Gelukpa tradi-
tion and many other empowerments includ-
ing his Bhikhkhu ordination from His
Holiness the Dalai Lama. Geshe la has been
the Spiritual Advisor to the Northwest
Tibetan Cultural Association.
The Loophole
Ray’s Speak Kesey
Friday
Friday
Noon
2:00
4:00
5:30
1:00
2:00
3:00
4:00
The Eugene Slam Team ,
Saturday
Saturday
Noon Tom Noddy The Bubble Guy
2:00 Skye and Maya Rios / Kipchoge
Spencer
3:00 Steve Barsotti
4:00 Tom Noddy The Bubble Guy
5:30 Gina Sala
1:00
2:00
3:00
4:00
headed to Chicago in August to compete in
the National Poetry Slam, consists of four
Eugene poets: Treysi, Jahan Khalighi,
Martha Grover and Nathan Langston.
These guys are hot!
Tom Noddy The Bubble Guy
Alan Siporin
Tom Noddy The Bubble Guy
Venerable Geshe Kalsang Damdul
Sunday
Noon Tom Noddy The Bubble Guy
2:00 Tom Noddy The Bubble Guy
4:30 Dr. Joel and Michelle Levey
Sarah Ruth van Gelder
Eugene Slam Team
Dr. Joel and Michelle Levey
Sky Rios
Chris Chandler and Anne Feeney
Faith Petric
Stephen Gaskin
Alan Siporin
Sunday
1:00 Ina May Gaskin
2:00 Rachel Foxman
3:00 Sky Rios
For full entertainment schedule, see
www.oregoncountryfair.org
Waste Free
Hilary Goldberg
The OCF has always been ecologically centered, and this
year is no exception. It was recently awarded first place in
recycling by the Association of Oregon Recyclers and this
year’s theme is “Waste Free by 2003!”
Last year, the fair reduced the amount of waste brought to
the landfill by 6.7 tons. This year, that trend continues. Food
vendors have been encouraged to provide compostable plates and
utensils, in addition to using recyclable materials.
Also, in collaboration with Eugene BioSource, the OCF has arranged to power all of its
diesel equipment with 100 percent Biodiesel, a renewable fuel derived from vegetable oil
that burns cleaner than petroleum diesel. In addition, the fair urges all participants to
hop on the bus out to Veneta. The bus is free; your OCF ticket is your pass. —AS
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