WHAT’S
happening
Experience a taste of Zimbabwe while supporting the
Kutsinhira Cultural Arts Center this weekend. Sam
Bond’s Garage will host a Marimba Dance Party on
Saturday, where attendees can dance all night to
vibrant, exhilarating music. Shamwari Marimba starts
the evening with an all-ages family hour, followed by
Eugene Mbira Circle and joyful, high-energy performances by
Jenaguru Marimba and Zambuko Marimba (pictured). Proceeds
will benefit Kutsinhira Cultural Arts Center, and all bands are per-
forming arts ensembles of Kutsinhira who have performed at many
community events. See Saturday Calendar.
Jacobs
Gallery is
always filled
to the brim
with exciting
art, and this
week, work by
Susan
Lowdermilk
(pictured),
Tallmadge
Doyle and
Ken Paul will
begin a
month-long
exhibit. Hear
a gallery talk
and attend
the artists’
reception at
the Hult
Center. See
Art in the
Galleries and
Friday
Calendar.
The Drinking Gourd School and the Downtown
Library offer a unique way to celebrate Black
History Month with “Heroes, Every One: Rosa
Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thousands
of Other Heroes Just Like You and Me.” The
play, performed annually by students ages 5 to 8,
tells the story of the Montgomery bus boycott,
which sparked the civil rights movement. The play
encourages audience participation, and the stu-
dents perform in front of a packed house each year.
Written by Drinking Gourd School director Trisha
Whitney, the production aims to emphasize the
importance of working together to bring about pos-
itive changes in words young children can under-
stand. It tells about heroes we remember, such as
Rosa Parks (pictured) and Martin Luther King, Jr.,
but also about the other nameless heroes who
stood up for their cause. See Wednesday Calendar.
Jamaican reggae pioneer Norma
Fraser will grace Sweetwater’s with
her signature sound this week.
Fraser, one of the first artists to
sign with Studio One (the label
Bob Marley later signed with),
has been a musical force to be
reckoned with since the early
days of the reggae revolution.
She has worked with many other
notable artists, including Marley,
to whom she pays tribute with
two covers at each of her perform-
ances. She’s an international legend
with local appeal. See Saturday
Calendar.
Poet Joseph Millar reads from his collection, Overtime, and
new works this week in the UO Knight Library Browsing Room.
Millar, who has taught for the Oregon Writers Workshop,
Mountain Writers Workshop Series and Mt. Hood Community
College, holds an MA in poetry from Johns Hopkins University.
Overtime is a highly praised collection of poems about blue-
collar work; Millar’s poems have also been published in a wide
array of literary journals. See Thursday, Jan. 22 Calendar.
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