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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.