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February 6, 2019
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Heartfelt Black History Production
Portland’5 presents the 13th annual
“Who I Am; Celebrating Me,” a com-
munity of youth and adult artists explor-
ing black history through theater.
From soul-encompassing singing and
dancing to heartfelt poetry and prose,
the production highlights a montage of
African-American figures and move-
ments of the good, bad, great, ugly past
and present.
Written and directed by Portland
resident Shalanda Sims of World Stage
Theatre, “Who I am’ Celebrating Me,’
will be performed on Sunday, Feb.10 at
3 p.m. at the Dolores Winningstad The- A community of youth and adult artists explore
ate, 1111 S.W. Broadway. Tickets are history through artistic expression in the annual
theater production ‘Who I am; Celebrating Me.’
$10-$20.
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
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Launched, 2004
Create a Vacuum Day
Rosa Parks born,
1913
11
Thomas Edison born,
1847
Don’t Cry Over Spilled
Milk Day
National Inventors’ Day
White T-Shirt Day
18
President’s Day
5
Chinese New Year -
Year of the Boar
Weatherman’s Day
Disaster Day
12
Judy Blume born,
1938
Abraham Lincoln
born, 1809 (16th
President)
19
Former planet, Pluto,
Discovered by Clyde
Tombaugh in 1930
Phonograph Patent-
ed, 1878, Thomas
Edison
Mr. Roger’s Neighbor-
hood Debuted, 1968
25
26
Quiet Day
Artist Pierre Auguste
Renoir born, 1841
Levi Strauss born,
1829
6
Babe Ruth born, 1895
Monopoly Board
Game Goes on Sale
in Stores, 1935
13
Get a Different Name
Day
First Public School
established (1635)
20
John Glenn Orbits
Earth, 1962
Love Your Pet Day
27
Uri Shulevitz born,
1935
International Polar
Bear Day
FRIDAY
7
Charles Dickens
born, 1812
Laura Ingalls Wilder
born, 1867
14
Ferris Wheel Day
Valentine’s Day
21
Malcom X Assassinat-
ed (1965)
Washington Monument
dedicated (1885)
28
Public Sleeping Day
Gold Seekers arrived
in San Francisco
(1849)
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
9
10
8
Boy Scouts’ Day
(Founded 1910)
Author Jules Verne
born, 1828
15
National Gumdrop
Day
Susan B. Anthony
born, 1820
22
George Washington
born, 1732
Be Humble Day
World Thinking Day
National Weather
Service Established
(1870)
Toothache Day
Umbrella Day
Ratification of the
25th Amendment in
1967 (Presidential
Succession)
16
Nylon Patented By
DuPont in 1937
King Tut’s Burial
Chamber opened in
1923
17
Random Acts of
Kindness Day
National P.T.A.
Founder’s Day
(1897)
23
24
International Dog
Biscuit Appreciation
Day
U.S. Flag raised at
Iwo Jima (1945)
Steve Jobs born, 1955
Wilhelm Carl Grimm
born, 1786
C alendar 2019
February