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Page 8 September 19, 2018 Obituary Arts & ENTERTAINMENT ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ Acclaimed author selected for Everybody Reads George Kelley In Love and Memory Sunrise: May 4, 1923 Sunset: Sept. 5, 2018 A memorial ceremony with full military honors will be held for George Kelley on Thursday, Sept. 27 at 12:30 p.m. at Willamette National Cemetery, 11800 S.E. Mt. Scott Blvd. A repass celebration will follow at 3 p.m. on the same day at Project Truth Community Church, 4905 N.E. St. John Road, in Vancouver. Viewing will take place earlier on Friday, Sept. 21 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Terry’s Family Funeral Home, 2337 N. Williams Ave. “You will be truly missed. Love, from your family.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian-born artist whose influ- ence spans continents and genres has been selected for the Multnomah County Library’s next Everybody Reads community reading project. Starting in January, all neighborhood libraries will have copies of Adichie’s book “Americahan” for adults, and her essay “We Should All Be Feminists” for high school students. The library encourages readers to share extra copies with friends, coworkers and neighbors. With the selection of two titles, Everybody Reads 2019 offers an opportunity to explore a multitude of issues, including the experience of Africans in America and feminism in the 21st century. “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s writing is simply beautiful, but it also plumbs deep truths within and around us,” said Multnomah Coun- ty Director of Libraries Vailey Oehlke. “With these two works, she offers us vehicles for important and constructive conversations about our culture and ourselves.” Adichie has received acclaim as an author, poet, playwright and speaker. She was a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and her work has been recognized with the O. Henry Prize, the Nation- al Book Critics Circle Award (fiction) and the PEN Pinter Prize, among many other distinctions. She is the author of three novels, Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013). She also wrote a short story collection, The Thing around Your Neck (2009), the essay We Should All Be Feminists (2014) and Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Man- ifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017). Adichie will speak in Portland on Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 pm at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Tickets are available from the Portland organization Literary Arts. A recreation of a live radio production of ‘Dracula’ at the Kiggins Theater in down- town Vancouver will put you in the spirit for Halloween. Dracula at the Kiggins A special live production of “Dracula” will bring the spirit of a Transylvanian Halloween to Vancouver’s Kiggins The- ater, on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. “It’s time to shine up your fangs and get your silver crosses ready,” said John Barber, professor of creative media and digital culture at WSU Vancouver and the show’s producer and director. Costumes by audience members are encouraged. “Dracula” is based on the 1938 perfor- mance by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air. The original radio dra- ma was adapted from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel of the same name, considered one of the greatest horror novels ever written. The story examines society’s fears of the unnatural during late 19th- and 20th-cen- tury Victorian society. Doors will open at 6 p.m. Admission is $12 at the door, $8 online through the Kig- gins website. Concessions, beer and wine will be available for purchase.
