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October 26. 2011
Making Sense of the Freedom Struggle
Play tells story
of couple who
wanted to
change the world
T he sto ry o f c o u p le w ho
wanted to change the world when
they joined the civil rights m ove
ment in 1964 comes to life in a local
theater production o f Bourbon at
the Border.
Portland’s A frican-A m erican
producing theater group Passin Arts
is performing the riveting play and
moving story of love, pain, friend
ship and freedom at the Ethos Inter
state Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340
N. Interstate Ave. Shows are Thurs-
The local African-American theater group PassinArt presents
Bourbon at the Border at the Ethos Interstate Firehouse Cultural
Center.
day at 7:30 p.m. and Fridays and
Saturdays at 8 p.m. with Sunday
matinees at 3 p.m. through Nov. 5.
The prod u ctio n follow s May
and C h arlie, a co u p le jo in e d
hundreds o f o th er A m ericansjon
a jo u rn ey to M ississippi in the
sum m er o f 1964 for a m assive
vo ter reg istratio n drive. They
had no idea th e ir lives were
about to change forever.
As students at Howard U ni
versity, their campus activism had
been simply met with annoying
calls to their parents and constant
threats o f expulsion. The stakes,
however, in M ississippi were a lot
higher. W hite suprem acists, out
raged at the challenge to their
segregated way of life, responded
with violence. Three civil rights
workers were killed and many oth
ers were wounded.
Y o u ’re invited to com e take
th is jo u r n e y w ith M ay and
C harlie as they try to m ake sense
o f how th eir dream s o f changing
the w orld changed their w orlds
forever.
The production is made pos
sible by a grant from the Regional
Arts & Cultural Council, Work for
Arts, Black United Fund of O r
egon and The Collins Founda
tion, M eyers M emorial Trust, and
PGE Foundation.
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