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ENTERTAINMENT
Homowo Receives $8,000 Grant
From Portland General Electric
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The Homowo Founda
tion for African Arts and
Cultures has received an
$8,000 sponsorship from
Portland General Electric
to support the ninth an
nual Homowo Festival of
African Arts and the A fri
can Arts Day Camp.
PG E ’s contribution is
the largest corporate grant
ever received by Homowo
F o u n d a tio n . T he PGE
grant helps the popular
festival expand to two days
this year and will also un
derwrite scholarships for
c h ild ren to atten d the
camp.
PGE is com m itted to
supporting the concept and
developm ent o f healthy
fam ilies, prom oting ac
Obo Addy Artistic Director of Homowo pouring libations to begin the
tivities that highlight and festival.
celebrate cultural diversity
and support for minority tiv a l an d d ay c a m p , June 19. The African Arts
initiatives. PG E’s collabo H om ow o’s artistic direc Day Camp begins on July
13 and will be offered
ration with Homowo has to r O bo A ddy and his
throughout the city at the
grown to a level o f sup group, Okropong, will join
port that includes finan PGE in the St. Johns Pa East Portland Com munity
cial, in-kind and employee rade on May 9 and will C enter, Peninsula Park
p e rfo rm
at
P G E ’s Com m unity C enter and
volunteer contributions.
To help promote the fes- Juneteenth celebration on Friendly House.
/FCC C f a / F t y tlrea Portland’A rffefc (Jew 4-27
Mixed m edia w orks by Beverly
Bizzell, paintings by R eneeZ angara,
and photographs by Dick Bogle will
b e e x h ib ite d a t th e I n te r s ta te
Firehouse C ultural C enter, 5340 N.
Interstate A ve., June 4-27.
A free public opening reception
will be hosted by the IFCC T hurs
day, June 4, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
IFCC G allery hours are M onday-
Friday, noon to 5:30 pm and Satur
days, noon to 4 pm. For m ore infor
mation, call 503-823-2000.
The im ages can be divided into
three groups. T he first deals with the
m igration o f A frican A m ericans to
Portland during W orld W ar II, their
initial settlem ent in Van port, and their
relocation to A lbina after the Vanport
Flood o f 1948.
The second group concerns the
displacem ent that resulted from the
construction o f the M em orial C oli
seum and the Interstate 5 freeway: an
exam ple o f the d evastating effect the
nation’s U rban Renew al Act o f 1954
had on p o o r m inority com m unities.
The third g ro u p o f w orks con
cerns the d isplacem ent o f families
due to the ex p an sio n o f Em anuel
Hospital: sig n ifican t in that it also
destroyed w hat w as once a vibrant
business and cultural center.
The individual m em ories, stories
and experiences Bizzell draw s from
lend her w ork an intim acy and im m e
diacy that strengthens her plea for
cultural preservation. “ D is/Place” is
an outgrow th o f B izzell's thesis work
for the B.F.A. in painting she earned
from M arylhurst C ollege in 1997.
Dick B ogle
Dick Bogle, former City com mis
sioner in charge o f the IFCC, is wel
comed with an exhibition o fh is black
an d w h ite p h o to g ra p h y .
L ero y
V innegar, Paulette Davis, Lionel Hamp
ton and Russell M alonearejustsom eof
the jazz and blues legends Dick Bogle
has captured with his camera as they
perform. “Jazz photography is more
about em otion than motion," says
Bogle. “ I try in my photos to tap into
that emotional moment when the artist
lets m e peer into his or her soul.”
A fifth -g e n eratio n O re g o n ia n ,
Dick Bogle served on the Portland
Police Bureau from 1959-68. In
1968, he becam e the first A frican
A m erican television reporter in the
N orthw est w hen he w as hired by
K A TU -TV. A fter 15 yearsat K.ATU,
and alm ost tw o years as an assistant
to a C ity C om m issioner, D ick w as
elected to the Portland C ity C ouncil.
Dick Bogle
He served tw o four year term s before
retiring in 1992.
O I ul D a r a
O lu Dara circles the floor o f the
dow ntow n N ew Y ork jazz club, glid
ing betw een tightly arranged tables
and navigating the pinbal I m ovem ents
o f harried w ait staff. W arm sm ells
from the ven u e’s kitchen m ixed with
cigarettesm oke while thein-the-packet
rhythm s o f O lu ’s band are com ple
m ented by laugh ter and the cadence o f
tum bling ice cubes. T he round New
O rleans hom play from his com et, its
brass w orn like an old penny, rises and
falls as the bell ducks in and around
the people, plants, and other obstacles
in the room.
T here is m otion everyw here as one
person after another feets com pelled
to squeeze into the aisle and dance.
Olu know s w hat h e’s doing. This is a
scene o fh is making... he and the band.
As an artist w ho thrives on his
ability to create m oods and m om ents,
success is in the perform ance. New
O rleans jazz runs headlong into M is
Olu Dara
sissippi Delta blues, as Olu relates any
num ber o f autobiographical tales over out party. “ I never had the desire to
make a record before. I was ju st in show
a gum bo o f Caribbean and African
business. T hat’s basically a city cul-
rhythms. C om poser, musical director,
band leader, and actor - the
N atchez, M ississippi native
and longtim e N ew Y orker
w eaves together childhood
m em ories w ith concise char
acter sketches and slices from
the natural world.
A fter m ore than 35 years
o f perform ing and recording
ex p erience--includingastint
as one o f Art B lakey’s famed
M essengers and credits on
For ch ild re n and teens
more than 50 album s (from
Ages 4 -1 /2 to 18
artists including Brian Eno,
Jam es “ B lood” Ulm er, and
Two W eek and
C assandra W ilson) — O lu
One W eek Workshops
m akes his recorded debut as a
b a n d le a d e r w ith “ In The
W orld: From N atchez To
Playlabs
Skill Classes
New Y ork." Rolling Stone has
Peter Rabbit Playhouse
Scene Study
already declared the album to
Pinocchio
Comedy A La Carte
be, “the kind o f unpretentious
Tarzan
Makeup
cross-cultural hybrid that feels
Cinderella
Music Video
like real life. It’s m usic pow
The Three Musketeers
Voice
ered by beating hearts and
energized by radical colli
Classes begin June 15
sions.”
Child Care Available
“You could say it’s just the
right time,” says the 57-year-
old Dara, o fh is 1998 com ing-
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