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January 2 9 ,1992...The Portland Observer...Pa|e 9
PCC Hosts Second Annual Cascade
Festival of African Films
Portland Community College cele
brates Black History Month during
February with the Second Annual Cas
cade Festival of African Films, a popu
lar event which brings first-time show
ings of films from the sub-Saharan region
o f Africa.
A ll films are free and open to the
public.
The four-part program is held at
PCC’ s Cascade Campus, 705 N.
Killings worth, at 2:00 and 7:30 pm,
Terrell Hall Auditorium on four con
secutive Wednesdays in February, be
ginning Feb 5. Discussion led by indi
viduals native to or knowledgeable about
the culture follows the evening show
ing and on the fourth and final program
Feb 25, M ali story teller and ceramic-
artist Baba Wague Diakite, who now
lives in Portland, w ill tell a story.
“ This event was extremely well
received last year and we hope the
public w ill be just as interested in the
program we’ ve put together this year,”
said Linda Elegant, Cascade Campus
faculty member and chair of the festi
val committee.
“ Our goal is to represent different
ideas and cultures o f sub-Saharan A f
rica,” she added.
The festival opens Feb. 5 with
“ Finzan,” a film from Mali directed
by Cheick Oumar Sissoko. Described
as the first feminist film by an African
film maker, it is an impassioned cry for
the emancipation o f African women.
A t its most basic level, Finzan is the
story o f a woman who says no to the
men who try to control her life. A
parallel story focuses on one o f the
most controversial issues in Africa -
clitoredectomy, also called excision or
female circumsision. While health work
ers warn of the dangers o f fatal infec-
lion, hemorrhaging and in lertil ily .local
tradition holds that circumsision dis
courages extramarital sex.
The film was produced in 1990
and is 107 minutes long.
Feb. 12 brings “ Xala,” a film d i
rected by Ousmanc Sembene from
Senegal. Heavily censored in Senegal,
the film satirizes the Westernized rul
ers o f contemporary Africa and there
fore, scrutinizes the myth o f African
independence. Produced in 1974, the
film is 123 minutes.
“ Yaaba,” a film directed by Id
ussa Ouedraogo from Burkina Faso,
1989, is the story o f an independent
young boy who learns about the world
through his friendship with an outcast
older woman branded a witch by the
rest o f the tribe. Presented on Feb. 19,
the film is 90 minutes long.
One Feb. 26, the fourth and final
program is a film from the island of
Madagascar, “ Angano, Angano,”
produced in 1989. The film ’ s real star
is the oral tradition o f Africa. The
documentary uses raconteurs to tell the
legends o f creation and stories o f the
culture o f the Malagasy people, against
the backdrop o f a restless audience and
background beat o f pop music. Main
taining contact with the ancestors and
their stories is central to the Malagasy
society. This film depicts the ever
shifting, illusory boundary between
reality and myth and that human beings
are caught in between — between earth
and sky, between body and mind, birth
and death, nature and culture. The film
is 64 minutes long.
For more information about the
program, please contact Linda Elegant
at 244-6111, ext 5250 or 5263 or M i
chael Dembrow, ext 5213.
KOIN-TV and Smith’s Home
Furnishings Announce Sponsorship
of the CBS Reading Program
KO IN -TV and Smith’ s Home Fur
nishings w ill provide 10,000 free scripts
for “ O Pioneers” scheduled to air on
KO IN -TV February 2. 1992 at 9:00
p.m. The broadcast is part of the CBS
Television Reading Program, a nation
wide script-reading project designed to
make use o f children’s enthusiasm for
television to help improve their reading
skills and increase their motivation for
further reading, learning and creative
thinking.
“ O Pioneers” is a Hallmark Hall
o f Fame presentation based on W illa
Cather’ s classic novel first published in
1913. Jessica Lange stars as Alexandra
Bergson, the daughter o f Swedish
immigrants who is determined to make
a better life o ff the land despite the
skepticism o f family neighbors. Alex
andra gains personal fulfillm ent as she
recognizes that the history o f the prai
rie begins in the heart o f a man or a
woman. David Strathairn co-stars as
Carl Lindstrum, Alexandra’s childhood
friend who forsakes the Nebraska farm
life to try his luck in the American
West. Heather Graham and Josh Ha
milton portray the young Alexandra
and Carl.
Free teacher’s guides are available
at KOIN-TV. The guides are designed
to give useful facts, ideas and sugges
tions for enhancing the reading and
viewing o f the broadcast.
Television scripts for students have
been available at all eight locations o f
Smith’s Home Furnishings Since Janu
ary 25. Participation in the script-read
ing project heightens students' interest
in the ideas and issues involved in the
story, making the project an excellent
opportunity for awakening a zest for
further learning.
The CBS Television Reading Pro
gram continues its nationwide growth
with more than forty-two m illion stu
dents throughout the country having
participated in the program in the past
fifteen years.
KO IN -TV is a division o f Lee
Enterprises, Inc. Lee publishes directly
or through its affiliate daily newspa
pers in 19 cities and owns six television
stations. Lee Enterprises also is in
volve din graphic arts systems through
its affiliate company Napp Systems
(USA), Inc.
On January 30th and February 6,
1992, City Commissioner Gretchen
Kafoury will host a two-part forum on
housing opportunities and issues spon
sored by the Northeast Neighborhood
Coalition’s Livability Committee and
the Portland Housing Center. Both events
will take place in the King School
Cafeteria at 4815 N.E. 7th.
The first meeting will focus on
affordable home ownership opportuni
ties for NE residents. Representatives
from non-profit corporations and the
City of Portland will be on hand to
discuss their programs. The Portland
Housing Center will also explain how it
assists potential buyers through the
complicated home-loan process. The
evening will begin with an open house
from 6:30 to 7:30, followed by a pres
entation from 7:30 to 8:30.
Approximately ten groups will each
give a short presentation on their or
ganizations, and then take questions
from the audience. In one evening, NE
residents will have the opportunity to
gather information on a variety of ex
isting programs and services that are
currently available.
The second night of the forum will
be a round table on housing policy.
Beginning at 7:00 p.m., Commissioner
Kafoury and a panel of housing policy
makers will have an open discussion on
issues and policies affecting the North
east
The evening will begin with the
policy-makers working to solve a number
of hypothetical situations that will be
presented to them by the N £ . Coali
tion’s Livability Committee. The sec
ond half of the evening will be open-
mike, with community members pick
ing the topics for discussion. Represen
tatives of Multnomah County, the State
Housing Agency, PDC and the Port
land Planning Bureau will join Com
missioner Kafoury. “ If we are to build
stable neighborhoods, it is critical that
we involve citizens in the shaping of
housing policy, said Commissioner
Kafoury. “ I am looking forward to the
chance to talk about what we have done
so far, and what we still need to do.”
S ta n to n F rie d m a n T o T a lk at
L lo y d C e n te r Red L io n Inn
Stanton Friedman, veteran UFO in
vestigator and lecturer, will speak in
Portland at the Lloyd Center Red Lion
Inn Sunday February 2. Tickets will be $8
general admission al the d<x>r for the 6:00
PM talk. Friedman is currently intensively
investigating the summer of 1947 Roswell,
NM, crash of a flying saucer. His book
on Roswell is scheduled to be published
early this year. Friedman will speak about
Roswell and related topics.
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being sung th ro u g h o u t th e South, as well as
o th e r p a rts o f the country.
Today, it still speaks so eloquently o f hope,
prom ise and perseverance. R.J. Reynolds
salutes and s u p p o rts A frican-A m ericans in
th e ir q ue st fo r a b rig h t future.
W ritten by James W eldon Johnson and set
to m usic by nis brother, Rosam ond, “ L ift Every
Voice and Sing” was know n fo r decades as th e
N egro N ational A nthem . It was firs t p e rfo rm e d
on January 12 ,1 9 0 0 by 5 0 0 school children at
a celebration fo r A b rah am Lincoln’s birthday.
In the years that followed the school children
continued to sing th e Anthem . A nd w hen som e
o f them became teachers, they ta u g h t it to th e ir
pupils. In less than tw e n ty years, th e m oving
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