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Shamrock Run
The Shamrock Run takesoff from
W aterfront Park, Sunday, March
12. Sign up at w w w .o n th e
r u n e v e n t s .c o m / s h a m r o c k
G roup rates are available. Regis
ter with four or more and save $4
o f entry fee.
Business Networking
O regon A ssociation of M inor­
ity Entrepreneurs (OAM E) Busi­
ness A fter H ours Q uarterly N et­
w o rk in g e v e n t is sch ed u le d
T hursday, M arch 1 6from 5p.m .
to 7:30 p.m. at the O A M E C as­
cade Plaza, 4134 N. V ancouver
Ave. Cost is $5 members, $10
nonm em bers, $10 display table
and $20display booth. For more
inform ation, call Patricia G arcia
at 503-249-7744.
Kells St. Patrick’s Day
C elebrate at the city ' s largest St.
P atrick’s Day festival at Kells
Irish Restaurant and Pub. Three
ja m -p a c k e d d a y s o f D u b lin
bands, prizes, and authentic Irish
dishes. Festival kicks off at 1|»:30
a.m. on Friday, March 17 through
Sunday M arch 19 at Kells, 112
S .W. 2nd Ave. For updated infor­
m ation and cover charges, call
K ells at 503-227-4057 or visit
www.kellsirish.com.
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Women
Making
Mo vies
Cascade Festival
celebrates with five films
The Cascade Festival of African Films presents
five short films by African-American women as part
of Women’s History Month on Thursday March 10 at
7:30 p.m. at Portland Community College, Cascade
Campus. Room 122, 705 N. Killingsworth St.
“Chronicles of a Lying Spirit" by Cauleen Smith is
an exploration of the implications of the mediation of
Black history by film, television, magazines and news­
papers. Using her alter ego Kelly Gabron, Smith
Anti-War Peace Rally
M obilize against the war to mark
three years since the Içaq inva­
sion. A netw ork o f over 125 or­
ganizations issues call to action
for a march and rally on Sunday,
M arch 19 at W aterfront Park.
G ather at 1:30p.m . Event begins
at 2 p. m. For more inform ation or
to cosponsor or endorse, call
503-236-3065 oriraq@ pjw.info.
Packy's Birthday at the Zoo
C e leb rate E lephantastic! It’s
P acky’s 44"' birthday party, S at­
urday, April 8 and Sunday, April
9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the
O regon Zoo. Birthday cake for
e v e ry o n e , P ack y too! C ak e
served at 2 p.m ., free with zoo
admission. For more information,
ca!1503-226-l561.
Get Wet Indoors at Parks
All March, spring break extended
hours are scheduled at Colum ­
bia, M att D ishm an, Mt. Scott
and Southwest Com m unity C en­
ter pools. O pen from 6 a.m. to 9
p.m. w ith open sw im times start­
ing at I p.m. Register for spring
classes by calling Portland Parks
and Recreation at 503-823-5130.
Animal Secrets at OMSI
W here does a chipm unk sleep?
O regon M useum o f Science and
Industry (O M SI) provides an­
sw ers in a new exhibit opening
M arch 14. Features text panelsin
English and Spanish. OMSI, 1945
SE W ater Ave. For more infor­
mation call 503-797-OMSI (6674).
Al-Anon Meeting
“ S olutions and S erenity” for
an y o n e affe c te d by an o th er
person’s drinking. Every T ues­
day at 7 p.m.. Trinity Episcopal
C a th e d ra l, 147 N.W . I9 ,h at
E v erett. F ree, en te r through
courtyard. For more information,
call JuliannaTassone at 503-367-
6115.
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"Picking Tribes" is a short film about a girl trying to
chose between her African and Native American
heritages.
fabricates a personal history of her emergence as an
artist from white-male-dominated American history
and American film history. The 1992 film runs 13
minutes.
The documentary "Cycles" explores the psycho-spiritualjourneyofayoung woman.
’ “Cycles” by Zeinabu irene Davis tells the story of at University of California, San Diego, is passionately
Rasheeda Allen as she waits for her period, a state of
anticipation familiar to all women. Davis, an indepen-
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concerned with the depiction of women of African
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Revolutionary Voices to Sing in Portland
‘In Other Words’
hosts free concert
Charming Hostess is a band of three
women in a whirl of eerie harmony, hot
rhythm and radical braininess.
Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes and
Cynthia Taylor will sing from and discuss
their new CD, Sarajevo Blues on Thursday
at 7 p.m. in a free performance at In Other
Words, the feminist bookstore and commu­
nity resource center that moved to 3 N.E.
Killingsworth St. from the Hawthorne Dis­
trict last month.
Eisemberg's boldly original voice brings
the sexy, soulful sound of 1960’s girl groups
to the 2 1 st century avant-garde, rocking out
along the way. Her group takes off where
Jewish and African Diasporas collide, in­
corporating Pygmy counterpoint, Balkan
harmonies, Klezmer riffs and Sufi melody.
The music is rooted in the body— voices and
vocal percussion, handclaps and heartbeats.
Their voices
radiate female
energy and their
singing trans­
forms the spirit.
- San Francisco Chronicle
Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes and Cynthia Taylor form the band
Charming Hostess. The trio will perform Thursday at the new In Other
Words bookstore at 3 N.E. Killingsworth St.
sex-breath and silence.
In Sarajevo Blues, some songs explicitly
speak of war, and others of cafe culture
underground sexuality and fre> Join undei
extreme constraint. It sounds ' cavy, but the
group swears it’s mostly about the triumph
of the human spirit.
The Portland performance promises tc
be informal with both song and conversa­
tion.
Radical Women
D efen d L ovejoy S urgicenter,
p ro tec tin g a w o m a n ’s right to
ch o o se. Show support for c li­
en ts and sta ff o f the w o m en 's
h e a lth c e n te r on S atu rd ay ”,
M arch 18, 8:3 0 a m. M eet at
n o rth w e st c o rn e r o f N o rth ­
w est L ovejoy and 25"’ Ave.
C ontact Radical W om en at 503-
240-4462.
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Toxic Riverfront Restored
Volunteers plant
native trees, shrubs
Over 250 community members took
time from their busy weekends this
winter to be down on the Willamette
River in north Portland to plant native
trees and shrubs at a former polluted
industrial site.
The groundbreaking work represents
the latest step in restoring the McCormick
& Baxter Superfund Site, a federal
government designation earned from
years of creosotes and other chemicals
left behind in the manufacture of treated
lumber. The chemicals were removed
from the site in earlier work, removing a
serious health threat to people and the
environment.
Community members planted over
3,000 native trees and shrubs on the 4 1 -
acre site last month, with kids and adults,
scout troops and school groups, family
and friends all pitching in. Another 17,000
trees and shrubs were then planted
around other areas of the property.
Over the coming decades, a diverse
riparian forest of Ponderosa pine. Or­
egon oak. Pacific madrone, cascara,
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Volunteers plant trees along the Willamette River in north Portland near the
University of Portland and a former polluted industrial site.
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