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Staring Back" -- a Unique
Play About Disabled
People at IFCC
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by Bob Lothian
"Staring Back," playing through
July 20 at the Interstate Firehouse
Cultural Center, is a comedy revue
dedicated to those who work to
dispel widely held myths about dis
abilities
The play features two actors who
are confined to wheelchairs, two
who are blind, and one who is
deaf and who has difficulty speak
mg
Two of the actors are able
bodied
In 17 short skits, the revue some
times pokes tun at able bodied
people Perhaps the more difficult
thing done in "Staring Back' is
to attack stereotypes in a way that
allows disabled people to laugh a
little at themselves
The play is not patronizing, but
rather a performance statement that
is part of the culture of diabled
people Several of the skits could
be cartoons by disabled artist John
Callahan brought to the stage.
In "Mr. Secretary," a new em
ployee is hired into an office of
disabled people They are amused
at how awkward he is in an en
vironment they can cope with
"W hen you see someone like
that, it makes you feel how fo r
tunate you are," says a woman
in a wheelchair.
In "Handicapped Parking." an
able bodied man in a hurry parks
in a spot reserved for the disabled.
When the parking attendant con
fronts him for not having a permit,
the man shoots himself in the foot
"O .K.. here’s your perm it," says
the attendant.
In a disabled version of "Jack
and the Beanstalk," Jack is con
fined to a wheelchair and wears
a T-shirt that says, "Medicate M e."
Other skits feature Romanian
wheelchair acrobats, a "disability
store" where customers haggle over
disabled workers as if they were
used cars, and a restaurant with
"waitresses on wheals."
The entire cast finished the per
formance with a musical number
where they sing "S top Staring
Back."
The final play in the IFCC m ulti
cultural season, "Staring Back"
was written by Susan Nussbaum,
an actress who was disabled as a
result of a car accident, and Law
rence Perkins The play is directed
by Terry J Nelson and features
Jim Ballantine Patrick Bloedorn,
Janine DeLauney. Jen Dunham.
Michael Foster Ross Huffman Kerr
and Drucie Kelly
"Staring Back is another mile
stone play staged at IFCC. an ar
tistic gen that both entertains and
sensitizes
The Portland Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation Inc will hold its
Second Annual Banquet on Septembei 20th, 1986. at 6 00 p m
at the Executive Lodge, 6221 N.E 82nd
A no host bar begins
at 5 30
The tickets will be on sale beginning July 15th, at the
Foundation, located at 3802 N.E Union
This year the banquet will
be combined with an auction headed by Mr Curt Cammack, Auctioneer,
and assisted by M is Mary Donald.
Auction items are needed We are requesting new items and items
can be such as simple wills, certificate tor perms, hair cut, manicure,
sewing machine repair, alterations baby sitting, tree lube |obs. etc
Those wishing to contribute may call the Foundation at 249 1366
Contributors should send a statement of appioximate value for your
tax deductable receipt
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W 5th, 4th floor.
Contact:
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Cheryl Kolander, author of the imw A Silk W u ikai's Notebook
(Interweave Press), will speak briefly about her work and autograph
her book at Hoffman Gallery Bookstore at the Oregon School of
Arts and Crafts, 8245 S.W. Barnes Road, Portland, on Monday.
July 7 at 10 30 a m
Kolander. a local weaver dyer and silk merchant, learned weaving
by studying old books and manuals
Her love of fine fabrics, damask
weaving and brilliant colors led to a 15 year study of silk and natural
dyeing
This study has crystallized uilu A Silk W uikm 'a Notebook,
which gives a history of silk and an overview of working with silk.
Cheryl Kolander is currently studying at the National College of
Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, investigating the medicinal properties
of silk
Hoffman Sales Gallery and Bookstore is open Monday
Thursday,
,0 a.m - 5 p.m , and Friday
Sunday, 10 a m.
4 p m.
The
gallery will be open over the holiday weekend, July 5 6. and on
Sunday, July 6. homemade cinnamon rolls, fruit and |uices will be
offered by the Hands On Cafe
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A summer term class in driver's
aining for students with limited
nglish speaking skills will begin
hursday, June 26, at the Portland
ommunity College Ross Island Cen
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The 10 week course is intended to
elp students of English As a Second
anguage to pass the Oregon driver's
sst and obtain operator s licences.
John Denecke will instruct the
ourse. which will include six hours
if behind the wheel training and 30
lours of classroom instruction.
The class will meet from 6 to
Ipm in the third floor library at
loss Island Center
Tuition will
ie $30
Students must possess
Jregon driving permits.
Further information is available
rom Cascade Community Services,
>40 5303
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