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Festival Of African Films
Borders Books and Music, at 708
French with English subtitles.
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SW Third Avenue in Downtown
Thursday, February 1 1 ,1:30PM,
min.), directed by Adama Drabo,
Portland is pleased to present two
and
Saturday, February 13,7:30 PM,
Taafe Fanga (“Skirt Power”) is a
very special events in honor o f Black
in
Terrell
Hall, Room 122, PCC Cas­
comic but insightful look at sexual
History Month. These event are
cade
Campus.
politics in A frica today, though it is
free and open to the public. Call
Black T h e a tre P roduction
set among the Dogon o f the 18'h
503/220-5911.
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performance o f “ O u r Voung
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Sunday, February 14 at 2 PM.
Sylvania Campus (12000SW . 49Ih
gender roles w ith the wotn$n o fjh e
Borders is pleased to h o st a
town. W hile t(je m e n gairf^u new
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staged reading o f this one act play
Ballwom at 6 ¡N. Killirffewo
understanding o f gender roles with
w ritten and directed by African
les Cha_
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the women o f the town. W hile
A m erican p lay w rig ht R aym ond
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hope and' despair,
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life.
and
Friday,
February
it.
Vessels W edding P lanning
in Terrell Hall, Room 122, PCC
Habib Koite & Eric Bibb In-
W orkshop
C a sc a d e C a m p u s,
705 N.
S to re Perfo rm an ce
V E SSE L S, “T ablew are W ith
K illingsworth.
Sunday, February 14 at 6 PM
M eaning,” has scheduled its series
TABLEAU FERRAILLE ( 1997,
Borders is thrilled to host an in­
ofpopular wedding planning work­
Senegal, 85 m in.), directed by
store performance with Africanmu-
shops for prospective brides- and
M oussa Sene Absa. Set in a
sician Habib K oite and American
g ro o m s -to -b e . T itle d “ B e fo re
fictional present day Senegal. It is
acoustic blues guitarist Eric B lbb in
J u m p in ’ the B room ” W edding
fictional, but in m any w ays a very
celebration o f both K o ite’s new cd
W orkshops, couples can select
realistic
portrayal
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f
the
realities
Ma Ya and the new collection Mali
from one o f two convenient dates,
o
f
post-colonialist
exploitation
to M emphis: An African-Am erican
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and
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central
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and will be held at VESSELS, at
music superstar Ismael Lo), a
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26Q5
NE Martin Lather King Jr. Bou-
young
goyqrnment
official,
who
where black m usic came into its
l e ^ r d , com er o f R ustell. The cost j
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and^
own in America, from the sandy I t .
is $5 per person. Seating is limited
litically naïve; he is no match
banks o f theN iger River to the levees
reservations are required, by call­
for
the
conniving
entrepreneur,
o f the M ississippi.
ing 503/249-1952. The grooms-to-
Président. W hen Daam decides to
IFCC Gallery
be
are adm itted free!
take a second wife to join his
The Interstate Firehouse Cultural
The
workshop will feature de-
beautiful and infertile first wife,
C enter kicks o ff Black H istory
M onth with exhibitions o f paint­
ings and pen & inks by V ancouver,
W ashington artist Philemon T. Reid
that will continue through Febru­
ary 27. R eid’s oil paintings o f jazz
and blues musicians reveal a keen
ability to adapt m aterials into a per­
sonal vehicle for expression. The
IFCC G allery is located at 5340 N.
Interstate Ave. Call 823-2000.
Race And Diversity
Floyd Cruse presents a com m u­
nity dialogue on “Race and D iver­
sity, An Assim ilation Model”. This
will be a frank and open discussion
o f race and diversity including a
viewing o f the controversial movie
Color o f Fear. A panel discussion
will follow. This event will be held at
Reflections Bookstore (446 NE.
Killingsworth St.) on February 131*1,
from 6 to 9:30 PM. Call 503/284-
0985.
from 1925 to 1967.
Borders Books And Music
Voices Of Color
C d e b ra te Black
Hyrtory Month at a
la u n c h fo r
o f Color, a
lought-provoking
lew anthology fea­
ring political, fem inist and cul­
tural perspectives o f African Ameri­
can, C hicacana/o, A sian Pacific
A m erican and N ative activists.
Northwest contributors and civil
rights fighters will read and sign
books. Saturday, February 20, at 1
PM. Hosted by Reflections Coffee
and Bookstore and Freedom Social-
ist Party. Reflections Coffee and
Bookstore, 446 NE. Killingsworth,
Portland. Everyone is welcome. For
ridesorchildcare,call 503/228-3090.
W heelchair accessible,
Poetry Celebration
will host a Black History Month
poetry celebration February 13 at
the N orth Portland Branch Library
(512 N K illingsw orth) from 3 to 5
PM. The celebration will also serve
T o d a y , Y ou C
ow n
as the g ro u p ’s farew ell to the li­
brary. The N orth Portland Branch
Library will be closing for a year of
rem odeling. NAAW W members
have currently had about 50 books
published. For more inform ation,
call the library at 248-5394.
Video Showing
T he d ra m a tic v id e o , “ W ild
W omen D on’t Have the Blues”
reaches back into history to profile
the legendary Black singers o f the
2 0 ’s and 30’s and depicts the lives
o f blues women who battled racial
and gender exploitation by the mu­
sic industry. “W ild W omen D on’t
H ave the B lues” recreates the
gutsy stories o f these pioneering
wom en who left an indelible mark
on the music and heart o f A merica
The Northwest African A m eri­
c a n W riters W orkshop (NAAWW)
Myo’
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A Dance Celebration in Ghana, Africa.
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Join us on T hursday, February 11,
at 7 PM at the N orthw est N eigh­
borhood Cultural Center, C om m u­
nity Room, 1819 NW Everett, Port­
land. A U.S. Southern cuisine will
be available for $6 d o n ation at
6:30 PM. For more inform ation,
call 503/228-3090. The m eeting is
free and everyone is w elcom e. To
arrange childcare, call tw o days in
advance.
B rid g e B u ild e rs
The Bridge Builders will be hold­
ing th e ir T hird B lack H istory
M onth C elebration and The P ro­
spective G ents Club “Rites o f P as­
sage” A nnouncem ent at the P ort­
land A rts M useum on Sunday,
February 28 at 7 PM. Call 503/306-
2960.
r iv e
it h o u t
Reed College
Reed College will celebrate Black
History M onth w ith a series o f lec­
tures and a perform ance o f the
L a n g sto n H u g h e s P r o je c t by
Flooney’s Theater Company. Ad­
mission to all events, which are
sponsored by R eed’s m ulticultural
resource center, is free and open to
the public. For more inform ation,
call 771-1112, ext. 7891.
“M artin Luther King's
U nfinished Agenda: Black
Workers and the Struggle f o r
Econom ic J u stice”
M ichael H oney, pro fesso r o f
A m erican studies, U niversity o f
W ashington-Tacom a
F riday, F ebruary 12, 4 PM,
Vollum lounge
Honey w ill be speaking about
the history o f civil rights and labor
organizing. He will be discussing
what we can do in the present to
carry on the legacy o f King and
others who struggled for a better
world.
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m e r ic a n s .
F r o m m e d ic a l b r e a k th r o u g h s to a d v a n c e s in t e c h n o lo g y , A fr ic a n
A m e r ic a n s h a v e
m ad e an
enorm ous
im p a c t o n
o u r s o c ie ty .
Arvie Smith, artist
Friday, February 19, 4 PM,
Vollum lounge
Arvie Smith is a Portland-based
African A merican artist. His cur­
rent work is inspired by a journey to
W est Africa in 1996; while there, he
studied the people and art o f Ghana,
Senegal and Mali. Until the age o f
11, he lived in rural Texas with his
g ra n d p a re n ts and g re a t-g ra n d ­
mother, who had been a slave.
I n d iv id u a ls lik e G a r r e tt M o r g a n , w h o h e l p e d u s h e r in t h e e r a o f t r a f f ic s a fe ty b y
i n v e n t i n g t h e e le c t r ic t r a f f ic s ig n a l, t h e p r e c u r s o r t o t h e m o d e r n t r a f f ic lig h t .
F o r a ll t h e s e a c h i e v e m e n t s a n d m o r e , T o y o t a c e le b r a t e s B la c k H is t o r y
M o n t h . W it h o u t t h e m , o u r w o r ld w o u ld b e a v e r y d i f f e r e n t p la c e .
Flooney’s Theater Company:
The Langston Hughes Project
Tuesday, February 23, 7 PM,
Eliot H all chapel
Flooney ’ s Theater Company will
p re se n t th e L a n g sto n H u g h es
Project, a dramatic performance that
includes poetry, short plays, and
biographical sketches from works
by the p ro lific and in sig h tfu l
Langston Hughes. Hughes was a
literary genius who wrote success­
fully in the genres o f peotry, fiction,
autobiography, journalism , drama,
essay, translation, and w orks for
children for more than 40 years.
G a r r e t t A. M o r g a n
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