January 24, 2024
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Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
The Screening of Foxy Brown!
The Hollywood
Theatre brings
the legendary
Pam Grier to
Portland
Actress and icon Pam Grier’s
career exploded with her titular
role in 1974’s FOXY BROWN,
and the Hollywood Theatre is
honored to host two screenings
of the film for its 50th anniversa-
ry, each followed by a Q&A with
Grier, on Saturday, February 10.
Pam Grier originally became
known in the early 1970s for star-
ring in a string of blaxploitation
films, including COFFY, FOXY
BROWN, and SHEBA BABY.
Described by Quentin Tarantino
as cinema’s first female action
star, she returned to prominence
in 1997, starring in Tarantino's
JACKIE BROWN, for which she
received a Golden Globe nomi-
nation for Best Actress. Ms. Grier
is also known for her role of Kate
MVHS Band
Actress Pam Grier (AP photo)
"Kit" Porter on six seasons of the
television series The L Word and
for her powerful autobiography
"Foxy: My Life in Three Acts."
Help us celebrate Pam Grier’s
contributions to cinema with the
legend herself at these two
action-packed 50th anniversa-
ry screenings! The screenings are
Saturday, February 10, 3:00pm &
7:00pm at 4122 NE Sandy Blvd.,
Portland, OR 97212.Tickets
available at hollywoodtheatre.
org to the general public.
60th Annual Clark
College Jazz Festival Boys & Girls Aid Appoints
Adding new
attractions
to this year's
festival
Clark College will host the 60th
Annual Clark College Jazz Festi-
val in three full days of exhila-
rating big band jazz on Thursday
through Saturday, January 25-27
in the Gaiser Student Center at
1933 Fort Vancouver Way.
Middle and high school jazz
ensembles from Washington and
Oregon are scheduled to perform
in addition to a new attraction,
a ticketed fundraising concert
by the Grammy-nominated The
One O’Clock Lab Band from
the University of North Texas
on Wednesday, January 24. The
Clark College Jazz Band will
kick off the fundraiser event at
7:30 p.m. Tickets are $22 if pur-
chased online through Jan 22 and
$25 (cash only) at the door. All
proceeds from the festival will go
directly to student scholarships.
View ticket info.
"We are so excited to present
this year's Clark College Jazz Fes-
tival, now celebrating our 60th
anniversary. We are adding new
attractions to this year's festival,”
said Clark’s Director of Bands
and Festival Director Dr. Doug
Harris.“We are thrilled to present
the University of North Texas One
O'Clock Lab Band directed by
Alan Baylock. This band is recog-
nized as the preeminent collegiate
big band in the world—and has
held that distinction for decades.
It will be a performance no jazz
lover will want to miss.”
Special festival performances
by the Clark College Jazz Band
under the direction of Dr. Harris:
• 8:15 p.m. on Thursday,
January 25
• 7:45 p.m. on Friday, January
26 with guest soloist Yamaha
trumpet artist Allen Vizzutti
• 12:15 p.m. on Saturday,
January 27
Another new event is that leg-
endary trumpet player Allen Viz-
zutti will appear with the Clark
College Jazz Band on Friday
night. Harris said, “I first heard
Allen when I was a freshman at
the University of Florida and was
amazed, as I'm sure our audience
will be.”
The three-day event will cul-
minate with last year’s Beacock
Award-winning band, Mountain
View High School Jazz I, direct-
ed by Sam Ormson performing on
Saturday night.
New President & CEO
A Passion for
Advocating for
Young People
The Boys & Girls Aid Board
of Directors has voted to ap-
point Andrea Logan Sanders
as its 14th President & CEO
beginning Jan. 22, 2024.
Logan Sanders has been
with Boys & Girls Aid for 18
years, during which she has
taken on progressively crucial
leadership roles. Acting as the
organization’s Chief Operat-
ing Officer since 2022, she has
been instrumental in leading,
shaping and acquiring funding
for agency programming, par-
ticularly in the areas of shel-
ter, foster care and permanent
housing. Logan Sanders ap-
proaches her work with a pas-
sion for advocating for young
people and their families to es-
tablish permanent, healthy re-
lationships and stable housing.
“It is with deep appreciation
and heart-felt excitement that I
take on the opportunity to lead
Boys & Girls Aid in its mission
to support Oregon’s most vul-
Andrea Logan Sanders
nerable young people in finding
forever families, relational per-
manency, and stable housing,”
said Logan Sanders. “Our staff,
foster families, board mem-
bers, volunteers, donors and
stakeholders are compassionate
champions of youth, and I am
eager to partner with them in
creating a successful future for
the agency and its clients.”
Logan Sanders earned an un-
dergraduate degree in Sociolo-
gy and Anthropology at Lewis
& Clark College and a Master
of Science in Communication
from Portland State Universi-
ty. As part of her community
involvement and advocacy for
youth, Logan Sanders has been
a long-time member of several
Washington County advocacy
and implementation committees,
including the Washington Coun-
ty Continuum of Care Board.
Logan Sanders succeeds Dr.
Suzan Huntington, who was
the first adoptee President &
CEO, as well as the first female
President & CEO in the agen-
cy’s 139-year history.
“With Andrea’s dedication
to the children and youth we
serve and continuous desire to
provide services that meet the
ever-changing needs of Ore-
gon’s young people, she will
be an outstanding President &
CEO for Boys & Girls Aid,”
said Huntington.