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EDUCATIONCAREERS Special Edition
August 24, 2016
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Miss Sharon Jones!
Documentary
premiers in
Portland
(AP) -- Preparing to go on stage
for the first time in months after
intensive rounds of chemothera-
py, an atypically nervous Sharon
Jones sat backstage at New York’s
Beacon Theatre, clutching a cup
and shaking.
“Then they announce her —
‘Miss Sharon Jones!’ — and she
goes like a prizefighter onto the
stage,” recalls Barbara Kopple,
the Oscar winning filmmaker.
“And she just kills it.”
It’s one of the many moments
in Kopple’s documentary “Miss
Sharon Jones!” which has opened
in theaters nationwide and debuts
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Singer Sharon Jones performs in a scene from the documentary
Miss Sharon Jones!
in Portland on Friday, Aug. 26 at
Living Room Theaters, down-
town, and Friday, Sept. 2 at the
Hollywood Theater in northeast
Portland.
The film captures the stark dif-
ference between life on and off
stage for the dynamic soul sing-
er most often compared to James
Brown. In 2013, Jones was diag-
nosed with stage-two pancreatic
cancer. The film documents her
transformation into cancer pa-
tient and, ultimately, back into a
full-throated force as she struggles
to keep her band “Sharon Jones
and The Dap-Kings” together.
The documentary has, the
60-year-old singer says, turned
into a kind of motivation for her
second round with cancer: visu-
al proof that she got through this
once before, and can do it again.
“You got to be brave,” says
Jones. “I want to use the time that
I have. I don’t want to spend it all
laid up, wishing I had done that
gig.”
Good in the Hood History
The Oregon Historical Soci-
ety has partnered with the Holy
Names Heritage Center to give an
archival look at one of Portland’s
most enjoyed festivals with keep-
ing unity in the community: The
Origins of Portland’s Good in the
Hood Festival.
The annual celebration was
formed in 1992 out of the backlash
against heightened gang activity
in north and northeast Portland.
Musicians, community leaders
and staff members of the Holy
Redeemer Catholic School started
the festival to bring neighborhood
residents, organizations and busi-
nesses of all cultural backgrounds
to advocate peace throughout the
neighborhood and the city.
You’re invited to hear from a
panel of the festival’s founding
members and supporters who will
discuss Good in the Hood’s past,
present and future on Monday,
Aug. 29 at McMenamins Kennedy
School Theater, 5736 N.E. 33rd
Ave. Doors open for the all ages
and free event at 6 p.m.with ev-
erything actually starting at 7 p.m.
Sister and principal Jane Hub-
bard of Holy Redeemer, Oregon
Music Hall of Fame blues artist
Norman “The Boogie Cat” Syl-
vester and key Good in the Hood
contributors Sister Roswitha
Frawley and Paul Knauls will
discuss the fest’s historical contri-
butions, while Good in the Hood
President Shawn Penney and pa-
rade organizer Paul Knauls Jr. will
tease plans for next year’s 25th
celebration/
Following the discussions,
musical performances from the
Norman Sylvester Band joined
by LaRhonda Steele and the Obo
Addy Legacy Project (members of
Okropong) will be begin just be-
fore 9 p.m.