November 18, 1992...The Portland Observer...Page 9
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Harmonia At IFCC For
The Holiday Season
CLASSIFIEDS
Portland Civic Theater
Unwraps “The Best
Christmas Pageant Ever”
The Portland Civic Theater opens
its second annual yuletide production
of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
with may new faces and a bright new
look. Barbara Robinson’s beloved holi­
day classic brightens up the PCT
Mainstage December 11 through Christ­
mas Eve.
This years cast stars local favorites
Marilyn Stacey and Mark Vincent, them­
selves a happily marped couple, as the
harried and hapless mom and dad re­
sponsible for directing the annual church
pageant. Forced into casting the
Herdman’s, the most inventively awful
children ever to plague a parent, the
poor couple must endure a gaggle of
meddlesome church ladies, colliding
angels, mismatched shepherds and a
host of trouble in the hilarious back-
stage antics that follow.
Ms. Stacey joins the cast after star­
ring in such recent Oregon Stage Com­
pany production as Uncle Vanya and
Caton a HotTin Roof. The leader of the
form idable church ladies is Sarah Giles,
Notice of Intent
last seen as Mother Superior in the SRO
his, Nunsensc. The play also stars Shelbi
Wescott and Dana Young as the couple’s
sympathetic children. The Herdman’s
are played by Daniel Elliott, Jennifer
Mafgid, Peter McKay, Ryan Gaughan,
Tim Placencia and, reprising her 1991
role, Anthea Tjuanakis as Gladys.
Director and co-star of last years
sell out production, Caren Graham, has
compiled an impressive design team
for her remount. Ms. Graham s hus­
band, scenic designer Lawrence Larsen
is joined by costumer James Crino and
lighting designer Tad Shannon.
Performances run Friday at 7:00\
Saturday at 2:00and 7:00 and Sunday at
2:00, December 11 through December
20 with additional performances at 2:00
and 7:00 December 22 and 23 and a
special 2:00 matinee Christmas Eve.
The December 18 performance will be
signed for the hearing impaired. Tick
ets are available through the Portland
Civic Theater box office by calling
226-4026. Group rates are available.
Broadway Style Musicals To
Play For Local School Children
the dynamic and inspired African
American dancer/chorcographerRuby
Bums. For nearly 20 years, But has
been a leader in the movement to
expand the audience for African forms
of dance. She shares her delight in
dance through classes at Dancers’
Workshop and through hercontmuing
explorations as a performer/creator.
She will be premiering a new work
inspired by her experiences as an Af­
rican-American visiting Africa.
Harmonia can be enjoyed De­
cember 4, 5 and 12 at 8:00 PM, with
2:00 matinees on December 5,6 and
13. Tickets are S 10.00 General Ad­
mission; S8.00 for Students and Se­
niors. The three matinees offer half-
price family discounts. The IFCC is
located at 5340 N. Interstate. Sealing
is limited and reservations are recom­
mended; call the IFCC at 823-2000.
Beginning December 4, Oregon
Dance Consort salutes the Interstate
Firehouse Cultural Center’s 10th an­
niversary season with two weekends
of diverse, one-world programs.
Harmonia, the company ’ s annual
holiday showcase of music, dance and
storytelling with a global perspective,
will feature eight of the Northwest’s
finest artists: distinguish Native
American author and storyteller Ed
Edmo; popular African-American
dancer/choreographer Ruby Burns;
contemporary choreographers Ray
Terrill, Mary Oslund Van Licw and
Melissa St. Clair; Flamenco artist
Diana Lo Verso of Amor España; multi­
disciplinary performer Susan Banyas;
and dancer Diana Hinatsu of the tradi­
tional Japanese company, Fujinami
Kai.
ODC is pleased to again present
“Watching Theatreworks/USA is
like watching a Broadway production
just for kids,” writes James Hulse of
The Los Angeles Times. The nation’s
leading theatre company for young
audiences, Theatreworks/U SA, is
bringing musical theatre in the Broad­
way tradition to school children in
Portland, as well as to other cities in
Arizona, O regon, C alifornia and
Texas, for the first time. Thousands of
area school children will have the
opportunity to enjoy musical theatre
during school hours at Center for the
Performing Arts in Portland at 9:45
a.m. and 11:45 a.m. (Apr 2 and May
11).
The shows that will be offered
this season are: Play To Win which
depicts Jackie Robinson’s courageous
battle to break the color line in major
league baseball (Apr 1,2); The Velve­
teen Rabbit about a stuffed animal
v.ho is brought to life through a little
boy’s love (May 11).
For the series, seats are $5.00
each for groups of 15 or more, and lor
every 15 children, a chaperone is ad­
mitted free of charge. For groups of
fewer than 15, seats are $7.00. A 20
percent discount is offered for a three-
show package (where available). For a
free brochure with complete inlorma-
tion, call (800) 497-5007, or write to:
Box Office, Theatreworks/USA, 890
Broadway, New York, NY 1(KX)3.
Theatreworks is an award-win­
ning company that commissions, de­
velops and tours original musicals. It
began its School Field Trip program
twenty years ago in a single theatre,
the historic Town Hall in New York
The Oregon Department of Transportation, is seeking qualifica­
tions from consulting firms to assist the Department in develop
ing the Rex Hill-Dayton Junction (Newberg Bypass) project. The
selected consultant team will enter into a personal services
contract to provide project development services which w ill
include, but not be limited to: conducting field surveys, prepar­
ing preliminary alternatives, preparing the environment impact
statement, and developing and carrying out a public/agency
involvement process.
A consultant orientation meeting will be held at 2:00 p.m._on
November 30, 1992 at the Region 2 Conference room, 2960
State Street, Salem, OR ODOT would like all consultant ques­
tions to be raised at the meeting to enable all attending firms
which are responding to the RFQ to hear the questions and
receive the same information.
If you are interested in being considered, a Request for Q uali­
fications can be obtained by calling or writing the Program
Section, 307 Transportation Building, 355 Capitol Street N t,
Salem, OR 97310; telephone (503) 378-6563.
Statement of Qualifications are due December 14, 1992.
Northwest Environmental
Advocates
On Tuesday, November 17th at
2:00 p.m , Northwest Environmental
Advocates (NWF.A) and Black United
Front (BUF) representatives met with
officials from die City of Portland, Or­
egon Health Division, and Department
of Environmental Quality in an attempt
to resolve a dispute over the removal of
3 warning signson the Columbia Slough
by the Portland Parks Department. The
meeting was held in City Commis­
sioner Mike Lindberg’s office at city
hall, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue, Room
414.
On October 29th, NWF.A mem­
bers posted 18 warning signs along the
banks of the lower-Columbia Slough,
the signs warn of polluted waters and
tell people not to swim, drink water, or
eat fish caught from the Columbia
Slough. In conjunction with the signs,
NWEA and BUF have distributed 400
multi-lingual pamphlets containing
detailed warnings and instructions on
cleaning contaminated fish.
After a November 6th meeting w ith
NWEA representatives, Portland City
Commissioner Mike Lindberg canceled
his earlier order to remove the warning
signs at Kelley Point Park until after the
November 17th inter-agency meeting
with BUF and NWEA. However, Port­
land Parks Department workers removed
the signs at Kelley Point Park before
Commissioner Lindberg’s latest order
could be dispatched.77
Creed Of The Black Press
The Black Press believes that America can best lead the world away from racial
and national antagonisms when it accords to every person, regardless of race,
color or creed, full human and legal rights. Hating no person, fearing no person,
the Black Press strives to help every person in the firm belief that all are hurt
as long as anyone is held back.
Visibly Committed
National Urban League, Inc. On
Clinton Electoral Victory
GovernorBillClinton was elected
president for many reasons, but two
big ones stand out:
One - Americans voted for change;
for new economic policies that create
jobs and growth.
Two - The Clinton campaign built
a voter co a litio n that m irrored
America’s diversity. African Ameri­
cans were a key part of that coalition
and provided the victory margin in
several key states.
The electoral mandate for eco­
nomic change can be met by adopting
the National Urban League’s Marshall
Plan for America - a targeted program
of job-creating investments in the
nation's physical infrastructure and in
the education and training to develop
our neglected human resources. We
are gratified that the Economic Plan
released by the Clinton campaign shares
several key features ol our Marshall
Plan for America.
We are pleased at the large Afri­
can American voter turnout. The new
Congress will include the largest num-
berof black Representatives in history,
and we believe that will have a positive
effect on forthcoming legislation. We
especially welcome the history-mak­
ing election of Carol Moseley Braun as
Senator from Illinois. She will become
the first African-American woman to
serve in the U.S. Senate, and we be­
lieve her victory signals a greater, more
visible role for black female elected
officials.
We look forward to working with
the new Congress and the new Admin­
istration. We urge them to make their
top priority passage of targeted pro­
grams that enable the disadvantaged to
become productive contributors to our
nation’s success in a competitive glo­
bal economy.
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Tuesday: Clothes • Friday: Food
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Where?
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We also seek to assist the presi­
dent-elect in efforts to aggressively
address the conditions that contribute
to the deterioration of our inner cities
- discrimination, poverty, lackof hous­
ing and health care, inadequate credit
and scarce resources, among others.
African Americans have high ex­
pectations of a Clinton presidency, es­
pecially after years of government hos­
tility or, at best, indifference to our
concerns. But we are also aware that
our electoral support has too often
been betrayed in the past. So the Afri­
can-American community will be care­
fully looking for signals from the new
Administration that our trust and hopes
are vindicated.
We urge the president-elect to
reach out to the African-American com­
munity and to the nation with the words
and policies that signal a new era of
racial peace and progress.
Meeting Notice
The Women’s Caucus for Art O r­
egon chapter, will meet at 5 p.m. No­
vember 22, 1992 at the downtown
YWCA, 111 SW 10th, in conference
Room 2. The WCA, which meets the
4th Sunday of each month, isa network­
ing organization which promotes fi­
nancial and political parity for women
artists.
The November program, The Chap­
ter Box Project, will serve to continue
solidarity among chapters as well as
showcase each chapter at the National
conference in Seattle 1993. WCA mem­
bers will decide on the theme and con­
tents of their box as well as its installa­
tion at the conference. Please bring
ideas and materials.
For details on the December meet­
ing, please refer to the last WC A news­
letter or call 233-9644. Artists working
in all media and at all levels of accom­
plishment arc welcome and encour­
aged to attend.
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