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Plans Set
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Festival
Return
Kennedy School Mardl Gras
Guests 21 and older can celebrate
Mardi Gras with masks and beads,
live jazz, beverage specials and a
New Orleans-sty le fare on Thurs
day, Feb. 27 at M cM enamins |
Kennedy School, 5736 N.E, 33rd.
The Black Swan Classical Jazz
Band, an eight-piece ensemble
with a piano, trumpet, trombone,
tuba, drums, banjo and saxophone
will play in the historic gym na
sium beginning at 7 p.m. and last
ing until 10 p.m. Admission is $7 |
per guest. For more information,
call 503-249-3983.
Benefit will
honor women
in the blues
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Privilege and Power
In celebration of Black History I
Month, Lewis and Clark College
will host a workshop on Privilege
• and Power, that explores the defi
nition of white privilege and how
it manifests through male domi-
' nance, gender, race and sexuality.
The workshop will be held in
Stamm West in the Templeton
Student Center on Thursday, Feb.
27 at 7 p.m. For more information,
caU503-768-8166.
Alvin Ailey dancers combine blues, spiritual and gospel music to impress audiences around the world.
Annual International Fair
Area residents are invited to cel-1
ebrate diversity during an Inter
national Fair on the Lewis and I
Clark College campus on Satur
day, March 1 from 11 a.m. to 1:30
p.m. An international food bazaar
will feature sample cuisine from [
more than 50 countries and stu
dents will demonstrate cultural I
activities like origami and calligra
phy. At 2 p.m. in the Agnes |
&ASS
Celebrated dance
troupe returns to
Portland
Flanagan Chapel, a cultural per
formance and fashion show will I
be presented by many o f the col
They’re back. If you missed the
leges international and American
two sold out performances of the
students. For more information, |
Alvin Ailey American Dance The
call503-768-7307.
ater in February o f 2001, don' t let it
happen again.
World Market Gala
The world-class dancers will
On March 1, the Oregon Conven-1
perform at the Arlene Schnitzer
tion Center will be transformed
Concert Hall on Tuesday, March 4
into a world market as the Boys
and
Wednesday, March 5.
and Girls Clubs o f Portland hold
Alvin
Ailey dancers are mostly
theirannual Kids Auction to raise
A
frican
A m erican perform ers
money for their youth guidance
whose
choreographic
interpreta
and development programs. Over
tions of the blues, spiritual and
500 people will be able to experi
gospel music date back to a 1958
ence the cultures of the Far East,
performance in New York.
Europe, Latin American and the
They have performed more than
South Pacific in one night during |
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dances by more than 70 chore
this event that features entertain
ographers for 19 million people in
48 states and 68 countries on six
continents.
When they perform in Portland,
attendees will have the chance to
see a different program on each
night.
On Tuesday, the
30-m em ber A iley
troupe will perform
four pieces.
The acts are “Fol
low ing the Subtle
C u rren t U p
stream ,” an ex
hilarating non
stop w ork ch o
re o g ra p h e d by
A lonzo K ing that show
cases the d an cers’ ag il
ity an d p h e n o m e n a l
s tr e n g th ;
“ Love
S ongs," a th ree-p art
technical tour de force by one o f
the co m p an y ’s b rillian t m ale
dancers; “S helter,” a tribute to
the hom eless by Jaw ole W illa Jo
Z ollar, the founder and artistic
director o f Urban Bush W omen;
and A iley’s unforgettable signa
ture work, “Revelations,” which
captures the exuberant en
ergy o f African A m eri
can spirituals.
On Wednes-
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JliX day. the per
formance will
include Billy
W ils o n ’ s
“The W inter
in L isbon,” a
sizzling, sensuous
ballet celebrating
the genius of jazz
g re a t
D izzy
Gillespie. The evening
also features choreographer Ronald
K. B ro w n , w h o stu n n e d the
Schnitzer audience two years ago
with his work “Grace.” This year.
Brown has a new work called “Serv
ing Nia.” The performance will in
clude Elisa M onte’s “Treading,” a
sculptural, mesmerizing duet set to
music by Steve Reich and conclude
with “Revelations.”
Both shows begin at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are available at the Port
land Center for the Performing Arts
Box Office at Southwest Broadway
and Main, Ticket Central at Pioneer
C o u rth o u se
S q u are,
all
Ticketmaster locations or by call
ing 503-224-4400. Prices for admis
sion range between $18 and $60
with discounts for students, se
niors and groups.
For more information, call 503-
224-441X).
Mark it on your calendar and
plan to be there. Plans are cur
rently being finalized for the 16th
annual Safeway Waterfront Blues
Festival 2003.
The festival will celebrate the
Year o f the Blues and pay h om
age to women in blues, T h u rs
day, July 3, through Sunday,
July 6. Expanded w orkshops,
blues cruises, film s and other
special program m ing will au g
m ent a stellar lineup that in
c lu d e s T aj M a h a l, S u sa n
T edeschi, legendary R&B diva
Etta Jam es and many more.
The festival will take place at
Tom McCall Waterfront Park on
the west bank of the Willamette
River in downtown Portland.
As it did last year, the festival
will feature spectacular fireworks
on July 4. Then on Saturday, July
5, blues-based music from the
bayous o f the G ulf Coast will be
spotlighted with a zydeco dance
on the A&E Front Porch stage
and a number o f major blues and
rhythm and blues pioneers from
Louisiana and Texas.
The A&E Front Porch stage
will again host the Reel Music
blues film series. The festival will
conclude on Sunday, July 6, by
paying homage to w om en in
blues. The lineup includes the
y o u n g , G ra m m y -n o m in a te d ,
blues-belter Susan Tedeschi and
several other major female blues
artists yet to be announced.
The festival is the major annual
fund-raiser for Oregon Food Bank,
a nonprofit, hunger-relief organi
zation serving Oregon and Clark
County. One-hundred percent of
admission— adaily donation of $5
and two cans of food— goes to the
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ment, food, cocktails and shop-1
ping. Doors open at 5 p.m. To
donate an item, volunteer or at
tend the World Market Gala, con- I
Spring Planting Begins
tact Kristen at 503-232-0077.
Crisis Line Needs Help
Those interested in helping oth-1
ers, gaining social service skills
and w orking tow ards social
change can volunteer to provide
legal and sexual assault advocacy
for the Portland W om en’s Crisis |
Line. The 24-hour domestic vio-1
lence hotline is seeking bi-lingual
and bi-cultural volunteers who
are 18 and older. No experience is
necessary. The next training ses
sion is scheduled to begin on
Tuesday, April 1 and will take
place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on
Tuesdays and Thursdays with
two Saturday sessions from 9 a.m.
to3p.m.Formoreinformation,call |
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A graphic a rtist's rendition shows part o f a 27-unit housing
complex proposed by the Housing Authority of Portland for North Fenwick Avenue
between Argyle Street and Willis Boulevard. The complex would house mentally ill
and low-income renters.
Housing Planned for Kenton
by L ee P erlman
T he P ortland O bserver
The Housing Authority of Portland plans
to build a 27-unit housing project on vacant
503-232-4176
property on North Fenwick Avenue between
Argyle Street and Willis Boulevard.
Ladybug Nature Walks
The proposed complex will have a series
Parents can discover the natural I
of buildings in an L-shape around a 24-space
world with their pre-schoolers
parking lot and achildren's play area, repre
every Friday morning. A natural
sentatives of the Housing Authority of Port
ist will hand out magnifying
land told the Kenton Neighborhood Asso
glasses, bug boxes and other tools
ciation last week.
to explore the soil, water, bark,
The property would include eight one-
flowers and animals in Portland's
bedroom units for “functioning mentally ill
parks. Join the group each Friday
people," with the balance being two to three
at 10 a m. in Hoyt Arboretum. |
bedroom units for low-income families.
There is a $2 charge for each child,
A ccording to project d esig n er Dan
but adults are free.
Purgiel, of LRS Architects, by early March
HAP intends to apply for a type-II historic
design review and a zoning modification to
allow a wall more than 100 feet long.
The design was the result of long nego
tiations between representatives of HAP
and a Kenton Association task force. Doretta
Schrock of Kenton called the end result “a
really positive experience.”
Some Kenton residents raised other con
cerns, including the issue of whether park
ing for the units would be adequate.
Arsino Speliotopolis of HAP said that none
of the mentally ill tenants would drive, that on
street parking is available on both Willis and
Fenwick, and that the future North Interstate
light rail line will have a station a block away.
Task Force member Larry Mills said he
was concerned that the project would not
have an on-site manager to deal with chronic
problems.
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photo by
M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
The Friends o f Trees group kicked o ff the spring planting season Saturday in the
Sabin, Vernon and King neighborhoods o f northeast Portland. The group brings
local residents together as they better their neighborhoods through the planting
o f trees, providing shade in the summer, relief from wind in the winter and
reduction in stormwater costs by capturing water with their leaves. For informa
tion on tree plantings in the weeks ahead, call 503-282-8846.
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