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May 30, 2018
Arts &
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On Her Shoulders
The Northwest Film Center presents the award-winning documentary “On Her Shoulders,” a film that
captures the vital urgency of a human rights activist from Iraq who escaped with her own life from sex
slavery and witnessing the murder of her family, and a Yazidi, a Kurdish religious minority captured by
ISIS . The screening is Sunday, June 3 at 7 p.m. at the Portland Art Museum.
Portland Parks &
Recreation recently
renovated the Whitaker
Ponds Nature Park in
Northeast Portland
with a new bus drop-off
area and increased
parking area, as well as
a beautiful hardscape
gathering area and
improved path system.
Nature Park Celebration
Portland Parks and Recreation er Ponds Nature Park in northeast
will host a community celebration Portland.
on Saturday, June 2 to mark the
The free event will take place
recent renovations to the Whitak- from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the park,
located at 7030 N.E. 47th Ave.
There will be a Native Blessing
ceremony, cupcakes, nature walks
and activities for kids and families.