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Holiday Weekend Opens Rose Festival
Portland’s Rose Festival kicks off this Memorial
Day weekend on Friday, May 27, with the first of three
weekends of fun at Waterfront Park, downtown.
Carnival rides, special attractions, musical enter
tainment, and the new RoZone venue which features
national and local acts, and the Pacific Northwest
Barbeque Championship are all included in the
festival’s City Fair opening.
The family favorite Funtastic carnival features
gentle Kiddie Land rides and over-the-top twisters
for older, more adventurous thrill seekers.
Beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, the Curtis Salgado
Band will play, followed by the Rose Lighting Cer
emony at 9:45 p.m. and the fireworks show at 10:00
p.m.
Other fun features include happy hour specials,
the Big Sling -the thrilling human catapult, a live
animal exhibit by KOIN 6 News, festival foods at the
culinary courtyard, and a variety of performances on
the Dex Grand Wheel Stage.
Waterfront Park,
downtown, will
turn into CityFair
this weekend as
the annual Rose
Festi val opens
for carnival rides,
entertainment,
food and other
featured events.
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Walls of Pride
A self-guided tour of
African American murals
The recent handmade publica
tion, “Walls of Pride: A Tour of
African American Public Art in Port
land,” offers a slice of our city’s art
history that has often been over
looked and poorly chronicled.
Created by The Dill Pickle Club,
a local nonprofit cultural or
ganization, the tour book
let provides a self-guided
tour to twenty of Portland ’ s
African American public
artw orks through color
photos, a detailed map,
mural descriptions, and art
ist bios.
Providing context for
these vital works are inter
views with artists includ
ing Adriene Cruz, Henry
Frison, and Isaka Shamsud-
Din as well as a transcribed
conversation between his
tory professor Professor
Reiko Hillyer and Robin
Dunitz.
“If you know where to look, Port
land is an art gallery. And some
where amid this miles-wide show
room is acollection of African Ameri
can mural art. But there’s no glass
or alarms to protect what artists
have made here; no guards to tell
people not to touch. So, while bits
have survived, some have been
defaced and others have been tom
down in the name of development.”
—Ryan Kost, The Oregonian.
Since June 2009, the volunteer-
run Dill Pickle Club has led field trips
exploring public life in Oregon and
produces publications document
ing local culture and history.
After successful bus and bike
tours held in D ecem ber 2010
throughout Portland, The Walls of
Pride was published to make avail
able these stories and cultural con
tributions to a larger community in
Portland and beyond.
To order Walls of Pride, contact
Amanda Tillstrom of The Dill Pickle
C lu b at 5 0 3 -2 3 5 -2 9 0 9 or
distro@dillpickleclub.com.