Page 4, Portland Observer, August 21, 1906
METROPOLITAN
IFCC Ethnic dance festival
by Hob L o t bum
Il was a hot day in Patton Park
Saturday and the sparks were Dying.
They were sparks o f cultural variety,
fanned by the old firehouse next
door.
The occasion was the third annual
Neighborhood Ethnic Dance Festival
sponsored by the Interstate Firehouse
Cultural Center (IFC C ).
Several hundred culture-minded
Portlanders took refuge from the heat
under the park’s shady trees and were
treated to one o f Portland’s premier
inter-cultural experiences.
IFCC director Sue Busby said the
annual festival is a way to promote
and share Portland's ethnic heritage
Six dance troupes from different parts
o f Portland each took a half-hour,
showing o ff their unique dance steps
and traditional costumes. Members o f
the audience were often pulled up to
help.
The dancers, accompanied by tra
ditional music, included the South
Pacific Samoan Folk Dancers, the
Bow and A rro w Club, a group o f
Native American drummers and
dancers. Ballet Fiesta, the Japanese
Bon O don, O bo Addy and African
dancers, and the Korinor Middle
Eastern Troupe.
Children enjoyed face painting, the
crowd sat on blankets and picnicked.
Some sought relief from the heat by
slurping up large pieces o f melon sold
to benefit the IFCC. The IFCC stu
dent production company in red T-
shirts served as everyone's enthusias
tic fan club.
As usual, O bo Addy had the crowd
swaying to his infectious drumming.
In a mellow voice, he explained the
background o f his drum ming and
singing with roots in Liberia and
Ghana, in West A frica. His first song,
over two thousand yeais old, was
about a hunter possessed by a giant
diamond he found while lost in the
forest A shaman dances to bring the
hunter and the diamond home.
A t one point, drummers Addy and
Anno rose and circled on their feet,
Anno playing a bass-sounding drum
and Addy holding a higher-pitched
adjustable drum under his arm. They
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Yolanda Penn, 6 year» old, dances w ith belly dancer during Interstate
Firehouse C ultural C enter's Third Annual Ethnic Dance festival The
festival was held Saturday at Patton Park
(Photo Richard J Brown)
hit the drums with curved sticks,
crealing a rare and beautiful sound,
la te r, Addy had a good part o f the
audience on their feet swinging and
chanting his trademark, "A n y a i'o ”
(thank you), and "> < /« ■ " (you're
welcome), call a.,d response
The
Middle
Eastern
dancers
finished the day's entertainment with
a nourish o f silk scarves and scum
tars. They weren't embarrassed about
exposing then belly buttons as they
gyrated to Middle I astern music One
turbaned fellow made eves at the
women in the audience as he danced
with Dowers clutched in his teeth He
drew one o f the IFCC students into
his dance She matched him move for
move to the delight ol her friends
I he student production company
announced performances this week
end o f their jazzed-up version o f
"Snow White and the Seven Dwar
ves.”
Black grads
Garden plots
available
Life Flight
adds back-up
helicopter
Life Flight has added a back-up
helicopter for its busiest service times
from 10 a m. to 10 p.m. Thursday
through Sunday.
The emergency helicopter service
has 24 hours a day one blue and white
Bolkow helicopter. Beginning July
25, a second red-and-while Bolkow
helicopter has been chartered and
waits for a call on the hospital's sec
ond helicoptor pad.
Life Flight already chartered the
second helicoptor for holiday week
ends Because o f the new state trauma
guidelines coupled with more calls
during the summer months, a second
helicoptor was needed, says David
Long, Life Flight director.
Life Flight is available 24 hours a
day for critically ill patients. Il is also
used to transfer patients between
hospital facilities or pick up a patient
at the scene o f an accident or illness.
It has fuel capacity to Dy 260 air miles
round trip from Portland. Fixed wing
service is available for longer Rights.
Because Life Flight delivers ap
proximatcly .15 percent o f its patients
to hospitals other than Emanuel,
area hospitals have agreed to help
pick up costs for the helicoptor serv
ice. Those hospitals are Meridian
Park, Mount Hood Medical Center,
Providence,
Portland
Adventist,
Willamette Falls, Oregon Health
Sciences University, St. Joseph, St.
Vincent, and G ixxl Samaritan
Death from traumatic injuries is the
third leading cause o f death behind
heart disease and cancer. It is the
leading cause o f death for people
under age 44 And while heart disease
and cancer deaths are decreasing,
death from trauma is on the increase.
(C o m . from Page J, Co/uznzi I)
Coninbutions for the fund raising
project should be made payable to
the respective institution, earmarked
Payback '85, and mailed to the
school’s Office o f A lum ni Affairs.
Non-alumni gifts are acceptable and
may be mailed to the historically
Black institution o f the donor’s
choice.
C'NAA will have a national tele
phone hook-up on September X) to
keep tabs on funds reported to each
campus, and w ill announce the indi
vidual totals and grand total at the
annual Black College Day Rally in
Washington, D.C.
The Park Bureau's Co nmunity
Garden Program has plots icallable
for $5.00 — half the annu.il fee o f
$10.00 for a year-round plot. Plots
are available at comm cnity gardens
throughout the city, and fall garden
ers who want to keep their root crops
in the ground during the winter
months w ill have use o f the plots
through February. At that time the
annual fee o f $10.00 w ill be due for
the following year. For more in fo r
mation call Leslie Pohl-Kosbau,
Community Garden Coordinator,
248-4777.
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fo r R e n t
Urban League
of Portland
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