August 03, 2022
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Black Resilience Fund
to Provide Basic Income
First Cohort of Metallica Scholars
Metallica Program
Elevates Trades
Trade Program at
Clackamas Community
College continues
another year
Clackamas Community College (CCC)
is back for its fourth year as part of the
Metallica Scholar program. It is funded
by the Metallica’s All Within My Hands
Foundation. The program is designed to
directly support students while elevating
the importance of technical education.
Services are provided to students looking
to enter a traditional trade or other applied
learning program.
According to the All Within My Hands
Foundation, the direct impact on job and
wage growth drives the Metallica Scholars
Initiative. On average, students who com-
plete the program see new job opportunities
and increased salary potential up to three
times higher than pre-program.
CCC President Tim Cook stated “Not
only do our students take extreme pride in
being selected as Metallica Scholars, but we
have also seen proof that this funding from
All Within My Hands makes a real differ-
ence in the success of our students.”
The college will focus its efforts on pro-
viding tools, personal protection equipment
and support for students in the “heavy met-
al” programs of industrial technology, weld-
ing and automotive. It will elevate the skill
sets by meeting industry standards and rais-
ing the level of academic programs offered.
For more information about the Metallica
Scholars program at Clackamas Community
College, contact Tom Brown at thomasb@
clackamas.edu or 503-594-3956
Many volunteers and Local resident support The Black Resilience Fund
Applications
Open to
Support Black
Community
Black Resilience Fund (BRF) is a
Portland based program of nonprof-
it Brown Hope, is providing direct
cash assistance to Black residents of
Multnomah County. The organization
announced that Oregon Community
Foundation is supporting the fund with
a matching campaign, where all dona-
tions will be matched up to $100,000
until August 26th.
Black residents of Multnomah
County can apply for Black Resilience
Fund’s village building program with
a 3-year basic income guarantee until
8pm August 15th. The program will
support up to 50 people over a three
year period. Recipients will be eligible
for up to $2,000 a month depending on
household income and size.
“Black Resilience Fund has helped
thousands of Black Portlanders since
2020, distributing over $2 million to
folks in need” said Cameron Whitten,
Chief Executive Officer of Brown Hope.
“As Black communities work to rebuild
from the shockwaves of COVID-19,
Black Resilience Fund’s new income
guarantee model is building a lasting
foundation for resilience in Portland.”
The organization recently an-
nounced that Oregon Community
Foundation is supporting the fund with
a matching campaign, where all dona-
tions will be matched up to $100,000
until August 26th.
For more information on the Black
Resilience Fund, how to donate and
access to the program application, visit
www.blackresiliencefund.com/.
New Shows take Audience on Sensational Journey
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Theater’s co-founder and co-artistic di-
rector) and various collaborators this
summer. These are works that invite au-
dience members to set aside their expec-
tations of what theater is, including how
they think about their role as an audience
member, and open their minds along with
the creators and cast.
“Voiceover” was a decidedly meta
exploration of the inner and outer work-
ings of theater and performance. The
production assembled a cast of eight and
employed voiceover to capture their in-
ner thoughts and those of “Jackie,” the
creator of the work they are bringing to
life. It was a quirky and delightful pro-
duction, impressive for the tightness of
the direction and the specificity of each
movement and beat. The cast made use
of every physical and vocal tool, which
worked to comically blur the lines be-
tween conscious, unconscious, and
self-conscious and between inner and
outer forms of expression.
Mouawad collaborated in creating
and directing that production with Drew
Pisarra, who serves as dramaturg in the
third of this summer’s new works at
Imago, “Lumen Odyssey.” Pisarra also
transformed that play into a short story
by reimagining the script (written by
Mouawad and Carol Triffle, co-founder
and co-artistic director of Imago The-
ater) as conceptual fiction. The play, a
science fiction take on a mother-daugh-
ter conflict in which Triffle will star, will
premiere on stage at Imago on August
26, around the same time the short story
will appear in Litro magazine. “Lumen
Odyssey” will offer another opportunity
to expand audience’s experience of the-
Lumen Odyssey priemeres August, 26. Tickets are on sale now.
ater, through September 17.
Darleen Ortega is a judge on the Ore-
gon Court of Appeals and the first wom-
an of color to serve in that capacity. Her
movie and theater review column Opin-
ionated Judge appears regularly in The
Portland Observer. Find her review blog
at opinionatedjudge.blogspot.com.