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crocodile captures the imagination.
Help Support The Youth
Forestry Center
hosts rare
collection
Portland's World Forestry Cen
ter will host a rare collection of
Makonde ebony sculptures from
Saturday, May 6 to Sept. 17 in the
second floor gallery of the center’s
Discovery Museum.
One of five majortribes in T anza-
nia, the Makonde originally mi
grated north from Mozambique to
the southern Tanzanian highlands.
They are known as master carvers
throughout East Africa and have
been carving ebony for centuries
for their own enjoyment and use.
Today, the carvings maintain the
traditional elements of the human
story in a tribal setting, along with
carvings that have been influenced
by Western culture and a modern
response to urban life.
Ebony (D a lb e rg ia m elan-
oxylon) is the one of the hardest
and most valuable woods in the
world. Most of us are familiar with
its use on piano keys, but its versa
tility goes far beyond that one ap
plication.
B esides being used by the
Makonde to carve intricate sculp-
A stunning collection of fascinating ebony carvings from Africa
wm draw visitors to Portland's World Forestry Center.
tures, ebony is also used to make
woodwind instruments, bagpipes,
violin pegs, chessmen, buttons, and
handles forcutlery. Ebony trees are
relatively small, and are found in
the seasonally dry forests of East
Africa, and South and Southeast
Asia.
The bark of ebony is tan and
generally light in color, while the
sapwood is a soft white. It is the
inner portion o f the tree that is
fine-grained, dense, nearly black
(hence blackwood is one of its
com m on nam es), strong and
heavy, and has been prized for
centuries.
This rare collection of approxi
mately 60 pieces, on loan from Mr.
Chaim Sil, includes the world' s larg
est Makonde carving - a 19-foot
crocodile. The exhibit is sponsored
by Eagle’s View Management Co.
and West Coast Bank.
The World Forestry Center Dis
covery Museum is a non profit or
ganization located five minutes from
downtown Portland in Washing
ton Park, just off Highway 26. The
Center is conveniently accessible
by MAX light rail line.
General admission is $7 for adults
( 19-61). $6 for seniors (62+), $5 for
children (3-18), and infants 2 and
under and members are free.
Theater Moves into Neighborhoods
PCC production
to tour three
main campuses
Brian Culp (left), Libby Ander
son (seated) and Kambiz
Kolkoo perform in “ The Man
Who Had All the Luck. “
Portland Community College's
The Man Who Had All the Luck"
will be enjoyed by audiences on
three separate stages in three parts
of the city thanks to an effort by the
PCC Theater Arts department.
The spring production will open
at each of PCC’s three comprehen
sive campuses: Sylvania at 12(MX)
S.W.49th Ave.. Rock Creek at 17705
N.W. Springville Rd., andCascade,
705 N. Killingsworth St.
Michael Najjar, theater arts in
structor and the p lay 's director,
said he hopes the tour will “cre
ate more interest from the great
com m unities living and working lines! in education and cultural
around these cam puses that look events.
to PCC to provide them with the
"Nature hates a vacuum, and a
vacant theatre is such a vacuum. A
theatrical space is meant to be uti
lized, to be filled with performers
50 Cent Raps to Kids on Health
(AP)— 50Cent has sold mil
lions of records serving kids
from the hood to the 'burbs a
steady diet of gangsta rap.
Now, he’s part of a new cam
paign to make his young fans
healthier.
50 is a spokes-rapper and
judge for a nationwide cooking
competition aimed at prevent
ing childhood obesity by im
proving high school students'
eating habits. It is sponsored by
Glaceau, the company partly
owned by the rapper and that
sells his grape-flavored Vitamin
Waterdrink, Formula 50.
Student chefs in cities includ
ing New York. Chicago. Los
Angeles and Seattle will com
pete to create the most "nutri
ent-rich "cafeteria lunch recipe,
Glaceau has announced. The
winner will receive a $ I OO.(XX)
college scholarship.
50, who has bared his wash
board abs on album covers, said
he wasn’t always so physically
fit.
“I had all of the unhealthy
habits," the 29-year-old rapper
said. "S o d a... a lot of fast food,
all those things.”
Today, heexercises regularly
and - thanks to a personal chef
- eats nutritious meals.
I have someone that I can
actually have prepare the food ■
for me. so it's a huge difference
than just getting McDonald’s
or Burger King," he said.
Rapper 50 Cent is a
spokes -rapper and judge
for a nationwide cooking
competition aimed at
preventing childhood
obesity by improving high
school students'
eating habits.
and audiences. PCC has many great
performance spaces ... wonderful
things can happen in these venues,
and we are touring this show to
prove that point.”
The production will premiere at
Sylvania’s Little Theatre at 7:30p.m.
from May 11-13. There will be a
special matinee at 2 p.m. on Sun
day, May 14. The play will move to
the Rock Creek Forum at 7:30 p.tn.
from May 18-20 with a matinee at 2
p.m. on Sunday, May 2 1.
The show will wrap upitstourat
Cascade’s Daniel F. Moriarty Arts
& Humanities Building at 7:30p.m.
from June 1-3. The play will con
clude its run with a 2 p.m. show on
Sunday, June 4.
Tickets are $ 10 for general ad
mission and $8 for seniors, stu
dents and college staff. For more
information call the PCC Box Office
at 503-977-4949 or visit the website
pcc.edu/theatre.
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