March 9, 2016
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Jackie Sibblies Drury is the playwright for a powerful play, ‘We Are Proud to Present a Presentation
about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika,
Between the Years 1884-1915,’ opening Saturday, March 12 at Artists Repertory Theater, downtown.
Prejudice, Power and Perspective
Portland director tackles play on African genocide
A conversation around race and
equity and its relation to true his-
tory past and present takes center
stage as Artists Repertory Theater
performs a Portland premier for an
off-Broadway hit.
The professional theater group
has produced an incendiary and
challenging production about the
first colonial genocide of the 20th
Century in Africa, called “We
Are Proud to Present a Presenta-
tion about the Herero of Namibia,
Formerly Known as South West
Africa, from the German Sudwe-
stafrika, Between the Years 1884-
1915.”
At the helm of the production
opening this week is Director Kev-
in Jones of Portland, a member of
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Portland’s Kevin Jones directs
an incendiary and challeng-
ing production about the first
colonial genocide of the 20th
Century in Africa.
Portland’s African American com-
munity who leads a multicultural
cast on a play that sets out to im-
provise a story about the horrors
of the lives lost in the genocide,
but gets lost in the reality of their
undertaking.
This unusual presentation with
its humor and inevitable discom-
fort gripped theater hubs like New
York, Chicago, London, Wash-
ington, D.C. and Seattle with its
unique theatrical investigation of
prejudice, power and perspective.
The playwright, Jackie Sibblies
Drury is a young African-Ameri-
can woman who speaks and writes
from her perspective and vantage
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School Boundaries Plan Coming
Portland Public Schools Su-
perintendent Carole Smith an-
nounced Monday that she’s pre-
pared to present a draft proposal
for changes to current enrollment
balancing recommendations by
next week.
Plans to move boundaries to
feed more students into Wilson
High School at the expense of
Lincoln High School have gen-
erated controversy in southwest
Portland. There’s also plans to
reconfigure a few K-8 schools in
north and northeast Portland to
K-5s and middle schools.
Smith will discuss some of
the options she is considering
with the district’s Boundary Re-
view Advisory Committee which
meets on Wednesday, March 9
at 4 p.m. at the district’s admin-
istration building, 501 N. Dixon
St. The public is invited but there
will be no public comment.
The superintendent will hold
two more listening sessions to
hear community concerns on
Tuesday, March 15, at 6:30 p.m.
at Robert Gray Middle School,
5505 S.W. 23rd Ave., and
Wednesday, March 16 at 6:30
p.m. at Lane Middle School,
7200 S.E. 60th Ave.
The additional feedback will
be taken into consideration before
Smith makes her final recommen-
dations to the school board the
week of March 28, officials said.