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Diversity of Artists at PCC’s Art Beat
From A fric a n -A m e ric a n
dancers to A sian-A m erican
drumming and Latin-American
dance, Portland Com m unity
College’s Art Beat 2001 will
showcase a diversity o f events
and artists May 7-11. Each PCC
campus will feature a variety of
performances everyday o f the
weeklong art festival. The best
part is that Art Beat 2001 is free
to the public! This is the 15th
consecutive year of Art Beat,
which features local, regional
and national artists and a pot­
pourri o f visual art, dance, mu­
sic, theater and literary arts to
help expose the community to
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artistic visions.
The diversity this year will
include the high-spirited North­
west Afrikan Ballet which will
feature dance from the Senegal,
Guinea and Mali regions ofWest
A frica. Portland Taiko will
showcase drum performances
in the Japanese tradition with a
c o n tem p o rary tw ist. Sabor
Latino, a Portland Salsa group
that uses Cuban rhythms along
with hip-hop and jazz dance,
also headlines at the three cam­
puses.
The featured artist for this
year’s Art Beat will be local
textile artist and painter Adriene
Cruz. She will present a slide
lecture, “Creativity, Art, and
Survival,’’ where she will dis­
cuss the differences between
studio and public art, and her
commissioned quilt, “Spiral of
C o n sc io u sn e ss/T e m p le o f
Light,” will be on display at the
Cascade Campus. Cruz will
present her lecture on May 8 at
the Sylvania (9 to 10 a.m.) and
Rock Creek (noon to 1 p.m.)
campuses and May 9 at the
Cascade Campus (11 a.m. to
noon).
The events will be held at the
C a sc a d e C am pus (705 N.
K illingsw orth), Rock Creek
Campus (17705 N. W. Springville
Road), and the Sylvania Cam­
pus (12000 S.W. 49th Avenue).
Y ou can view the Art Beat 2001
schedule on the Internet at:
ww w.artbeat.pcc.edu.
Gain Cultural Awareness
Through Films at PSU
The American Museum o f Natu­
ral History’s famed Margaret Mead
Traveling Film and Video Festival
will play at Portland State University
on May 2, 9 and 16. The series of
three programs will be presented
Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. in
Room 53 o f Cramer Hall (located at
Broadway and Mill).
The festival each year showcases
new independent cultural documen­
tary fi 1ms from around the world. The
three programs to be shown at Port­
land State University include works
from Brazil, Cape Verde, Iran. India.
Denmark, and the U.S. A. and deal teaches in PSU’s Anthropology De­
with issues of religious practice, tra­ partment, urges people to take ad­
ditional dance, women's authority in vantage o f this rare opportunity to
Islamic societies, surrogate mother­ learn more about the issues and con­
hood, U.S. Mexico relations, Nazi in­ cerns that affect us all in our ever-
tolerance and Native Arne rican iden­ shrinking and increasingly intercon­
tity.
nected world. The Margaret Mead
Portland writer, Martha Gies, will Traveling Film and Video Festival'
introduce the first program, which offers unique glimpses into the lives 1
explores how religious and cultural o f other peoples and cultures.
practices in Brazil and the Cape Verde
Doors open at 6:45 p.m. and pro­
Islands have responded to Christian­ grams begin at 7 p.m. W ednesday'
ity, and moderate discussion follow­ evenings. May 2,9, and 16. The pro- ’
ing the films.
grams are free and open to the public.
Dr. M ichelle Gamburd, who Call 5O3Z725-4938.