Cultural Event Calendar

Friends of Tryon Creek & RACC:
“Natural Cycles”

Tryon Creek State Park
11321 SW Terwilliger Blvd
Portland
503.636.4398
www.tryonfriends.org Opening reception 9/29 5pm $100
Regular hours 7am-9pm every day

Natural Cycles is a collaborative project between Friends of Tryon Creek State Park, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD), and the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) that aims to generate a new awareness of the park as a natural masterpiece.

The following five temporary artworks (07-08) will be on display for a year during regular park hours:
J.D. Perkin & Anne Thompson “Ghost Trailer”
Matthew Tucker Cartwright “Archus Branches”
Jonathan Beaver “Optical Red”
Gloria Lamson “One”
Bonnie Paisley “Reflecting the Forest”

9/30/07 1-4pm Open-air Exhibit Family Day: Join in a community celebration of the new art exhibit featuring local examples of natural art. Enjoy special hands-on art activities for adults and children along the Trillium Trail. Family Day participants can also create their own Natural Cycles journal.

Free Lectures by the participating artists the following Sundays from 2-3pm:
Gloria Lamson 11/18/07
Jonathan Beaver 3/16/08
Matthew Cartwright 5/2008
Anne Thompson & J.D. Perkin 5/18/08
Bonnie Paisley 6/8/08

RACC Program: RACC Public Art Advisory Service

South Waterfront Artist in Residence Program:
“Corpus Botanicus: A Temporary Herbal Apothecary Project”

South Waterfront Neighborhood
SWF park (green space) between SW Moody and Bond
Portland
artistinresidence@southwaterfront.com
971.998.4810

www.southwaterfront.com
This project has been created by Linda K. Johnson, SWF Artist in Residence. The informal park in the new SWF neighborhood is slated to become a formal Portland park in 2009. Until that time, it is an expansive grassy plinth used for soccer and dog walking. At its most northern edge is the new OHSU Center for Health and Healing, and just across Macadam, with a view of the park, sits the National College of Naturopathic Medicine.

With this clear intent to foster health and healing situated around the South Waterfront district, Johnson has created a 10-month project that intends to give form to this energy. With the permission of PDC, Johnson was able to break ground last week on Corpus Botanicus - a project that explores the history of herbal medicine and healing from a body systems point-of-view.

Working in consultation with herbalist Missy Roh, the Corpus Botanicus installation involves over 150 plants - many native to the region, and groups them in nine beds that each address a major system in the body: Respiratory, Skin and Muscles, Immunity and Lymph, Heart and Circulatory, Kidney and Urinary, Reproductive, Nervous System, Liver and Digestive and Spirit. About 2/3 of the plants will be planted this fall, with the remainder added in early spring. Each plant will be marked with its common and Latin name, and beds will be marked by system. Because many of the plants known to be efficacious to healing could not be planted due to their Noxious and/or Nuisance status, they will be represented in the their relevant beds with markers that note their reason for absence. Missy will be giving several walks of the beds in the spring with several tincture-making class opportunities. For more information or to attend a walk or workshop, please contact: artistinresidence@southwaterfront.com.

All events are free and open to the public. RACC served as advisor on this Residency project.

RACC Program: RACC Public Art Advisory Service

Museum of Contemporary Craft:
“Framing • The Art of Jewelry ”

Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 NW Davis Street
Portland , OR, 97209
503-223-2654
www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/ Tuesday-Sunday 11 AM to 6 PM, Thursday 11 AM to 8 PM



Art jewelry is made in relation to the body – yet is often presented in formats that do not have a physical relationship to the viewer. With this exhibition, the Museum questions how art jewelry is presented for the public to experience. How is the distance from the viewer negotiated between objects appearing on a printed page versus those installed in a Museum setting? The genesis of this exhibition comes from Metalsmith’s Exhibition in Print 2007, which was curated by the internationally known design curator Ellen Lupton and published by the Society of North American Goldsmiths.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Art Museum:
Richard Deacon

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park
Portland, OR
503-226-2811
www.portlandartmuseum.org Tues, Wed, and Sat, 10am-5pm
Thurs & Fri, 10am- 8pm
Sun 12-5pm.

A new monumental sculpture by internationally celebrated British artist Richard Deacon is the focus of the latest installment of the Museum’s contemporary art series. Constructed from twisted, square strips of oak joined end-to-end with stainless steel, Dead Leg is a complex, linear structure that winds and stretches across the gallery. Both playful and serious in spirit, Dead Leg redefines sculpture not as weighty mass, but as a silhouette that explores space as a flowing line.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Art Museum:
“The Dancer: Degas, Forain, and Toulouse-Lautrec”

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park
Portland, OR
503-226-2811
www.portlandartmuseum.org Tues, Wed, and Sat, 10am-5pm
Thurs & Fri, 10am- 8pm
Sun 12-5pm.

“The Dancer,” appearing exclusively at the Portland Art Museum, explores the complex image of the dancer in the work of three artists: Edgar Degas, Jean-Louis Forain, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The exhibition presents more than 110 works of art, including rarely seen paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and sculptures from collections in Europe and the United States.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Art Museum:
APEX: Jenene Nagy

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park
Portland, OR
503-226-2811
www.portlandartmuseum.org Tues, Wed, and Sat, 10am-5pm
Thurs & Fri, 10am- 8pm
Sun 12-5pm.

The fifth installation in the Museum’s APEX series features a site-specific installation by emerging Portland artist Jenene Nagy.

For the last year, Nagy has questioned the need to invent idealized spaces with site-specific installations that blur the boundaries between built and natural environments. Composed with standard construction materials such as drywall, candy-colored latex house paint, wood two-by-fours, and shelf paper, Nagy’s work references manufactured and organic worlds. Residing somewhere between painting and sculpture, her imaginative landscapes flow from gallery walls and fracture into space.

Nagy’s influences include the idealized natural world of Japanese Gardens, ubiquitous pre-fab American subdivision architecture, advertising billboards, and the design and role of stage props in theatrical productions. This is her first solo museum exhibition.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Art Museum:
Every Picture Tells a Story: Persian Narrative Painting

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park
Portland, OR
503-226-2811
www.portlandartmuseum.org Tues, Wed, and Sat, 10am-5pm
Thurs & Fri, 10am- 8pm
Sun 12-5pm.

The permanent collection dossier presentation draws from the Museum’s Asian art holdings to explore the ways painters translated the classical tales from Persian literature into visual form. The presentation highlights the Shāhnameh or Book of Kings, the Iranian national epic and a world literature masterpiece often unknown to English readers and features 26 works, including a magnificently preserved complete manuscript of the Yusuf and Zulaikha of Jami (a tale of the Biblical Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, as retold by 15th-century poet Jami). The majority of the brilliantly colored and exquisitely detailed paintings in the exhibition are from Shāhnameh manuscripts, allowing visitors to trace historical changes in illustration from the 14th to the 19th centuries. Other works offer visual interpretations of Khalila wa Dimna, a collection of animal fables, the Khamsa (Five Tales) of the poet Nizami, and other literary classics.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Art Museum:
New on the Wall: Recent Photography Acquisitions

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park
Portland, OR
503-226-2811
www.portlandartmuseum.org Tues, Wed, and Sat, 10am-5pm
Thurs & Fri, 10am- 8pm
Sun 12-5pm.

Explore the latest photography acquisitions in a thought-provoking exhibition that illustrates the diverse photographic concerns and activities of more than 50 artists. From the conceptual photography of Jungjin Lee to the process-based visual manipulations of Todd Walker, “New on the Wall” reflects the Museum’s commitment to chronicling the ever-evolving fine art of photography.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Project Quest:
“A Healing Tapestry” created by Breast Cancer Survivors

Dougy Center
3909 SE 52nd Avenue
Portland, OR, 97214
503.238.5203
www.quest-center.org
Participants in Quest Center for Integrative Health’s Healing and Empowerment Program for survivors of breast cancer and women in treatment recently completed a three-month fiber weaving and ceramic workshop (funded in part by a RACC Project Grant) designed to foster the emotional processing of healing that is required after treatment for the disease. The result is a richly textured “Healing Tapestry” that will hang for two months at a time in the lobby of three Portland-area agencies (Cancer Care, Doug Center, and Our House) that serve clients who are dealing with illness or grief before being permanently installed at Quest Center.

The design and process of the tapestry was envisioned from beginning to end by the participants with the help of two teaching artists, weaver Peggy Ross and ceramicist Kaaren Pixton. The tapestry was made using colorful strands of wool and other fibers and handmade ceramic beads that are woven into the tapestry. During the weaving process, the participants discovered many metaphors connecting the making of the tapestry to their own healing journeys. Deep bonds were formed among the women and a feeling of collaboration and mutual responsibility for the project was evident. These installations will provide a visible testimony to the healing power of art, not only through the making but in the viewing, and will soothe those visiting these agencies for treatment and service.

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

Northwest Children’s Theater & School:
Second Stage

Northwest Children's Theater and School
1819 NW Everett Street
Portland, OR, 97209
503-222-4480
Email: info@nwcts.org
www.nwcts.org
NWCT’s Second Stage offers up four family friendly performance groups this spring on the NWCT mainstage.

Mystery Fairytale?
3/21-23, 7 pm
Teens NW presents a workshop version of an original musical adaptation by Sarah Jane Hardy and Rodolfo Ortega. This mystery fairytale will be featured next season.

This is a Test
3/26-29, 7 pm
by Stephen Gregg
KidsProNW show
You have only 60 minutes to complete this test. But you didn’t get the review sheets, the teacher doesn’t seem to like you, and your classmates are blatantly cheating. And the voices in your head remind you that your personal life is far worse! Then comes the essay question—in Chinese! This is scholar-anxiety at its best, and a sure-fire hit!

Serendipitous Siblings & Talk to the Animals
4/8-9, 7 pm
Kid’s Company NW presents a musical look at two aspects of family, those zany siblings and our close relatives—the animals! For laughs, songs and dance don’t miss the Kid’s Co. NW spring shows!

Hamlet and The Taming of the Shrew
5/13-14, 7 pm
NWCT presents the Interns NW showcase production! Our most advanced students select, design, produce and perform abridged versions the Bard’s most popular titles!

A Joni Mitchell Celebration
5/30-31, 7 pm
The last Second Stage show this season is presented by Teens NW, directed by award-winning composer and arranger, Ez Weiss and offered for your musical pleasure.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Ethos:
SpringTerm Group Classes for Kids

Ethos
10 N. Killingsworth
Portland
503-at-ethos
www.ethos.org
Ethos Music Center focuses on making sure that underserved youth throughout Oregon have access to valuable music education. Groups classes are for 10 weeks at a cost of $100 per student, with scholarships available. Classes in drum, keyboard, violin, flute, guitar, piano, horn, woodwinds, vocal ensemble, jazz, and rock.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Literary Arts:
Delve: Readers' Seminars ~ William Faulkner & Toni Morrison: Absalom, Absalom! & Beloved

John Wilson Special Collections Room at Multnomah County Central Library
801 SW 10th Ave
Portland, OR
503.227.2583

www.literary-arts.org Tuesdays 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Morrison’s Beloved both present compelling, complicated characters who seek to escape the past yet remain mired in the telling and re-telling of that past. In this seminar, we will explore the ways these two novels, published half a century apart, provide a striking complement with their insights into the darkest secrets of American history.

Guide: Lois Leveen is a writer who holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Los Angeles with a specialty in multicultural American literature. She has taught literature and humanities at Reed College and UCLA.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

RACC Public Art:
“Handmade Bicycle Exhibit at PDX”

Portland International Airport
Concourse E - for ticketed passengers only
503.823.5111
www.racc.org
From April to October, ten custom bicycles will be on display at Portland International Airport’s artOBJECTS showcase in Concourse E. The bikes, all created by Oregon builders, demonstrate a combination of engineering skills, precision metal craftsmanship, cutting edge design, and a passion for cycling shared by the represented bike builders. The ten examples on display represent only a few of the builders working in Oregon, but they share the common goal of providing a one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted machine that is both a unique ride and a functional work of art.

Organized by the Port of Portland, Sweetpea Bicycles, Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) and the Portland Development Commission (PDC), the exhibit features frames selected by a committee of RACC representatives and Oregon framebuilders. Included in the display are Stites Design (Portland); Bike Friday (Eugene); Jeff Jones Custom Bicycles (Medford); Renovo Cycles (Portland); Keith Anderson (Ashland); Ahearne (Portland); Drop-out Bicycle Club (Portland); Vanilla (Portland); Chris King (Portland); and Vandetta (Corvallis).

The artOBJECTS case at Portland International Airport, located on Concourse E (beyond security), is a beautifully designed exhibition space that mirrors the narrow nature of the concourse itself, and is fronted by a 40-foot-long, floor-to-ceiling wall of glass. Established in 2001, the artOBJECTS program serves as a showcase for the region's visual arts and is managed by the Regional Arts & Culture Council. The program's intent is to present comprehensive and diverse exhibitions every six months that pique the curiosity of visitors and residents, and promote further exploration Oregon's dynamic and evolving creative scenes and spaces.

RACC Program: RACC Public Art Program

Portland Center Stage:
“Sometimes A Great Notion”

Gerding Theater - Main Stage
128 NW 11th Ave.
Portland, OR, 97209
503.445.3700
www.pcs.org *Please see website for details


Named the “all-time great Oregon novel” by Portland Monthly magazine, Ken Kesey’s epic tale is set amidst the conflict between the Stamper clan – a family of hard-nosed, self-centered lumberjacks – and the out-of-work union loggers in town. But the heart of the story is the struggle between two brothers: one who represents the land, the body and the spirit the pioneers brought with them over the Oregon Trail; the other an introspective, Yale-educated gentleman whose long-awaited return home provides the play’s catalyst. The fury of the brothers’ long-held grudge rises to the surface as their love for the same woman becomes increasingly impossible to ignore. Writer/director Aaron Posner has telescoped this monumental work into two jam-packed hours on the stage, while managing to encompass the scope, passion and power of the original story as well as the eloquence of Kesey’s unique literary voice.

Special Note: During March and April 2008, paintings of Michael Brophy, a 2003 RACC Visual Arts Fellowship recipient, will be on view at the Gerding Theater at the Armory, in conjunction with “Sometimes a Great Notion.” Like Kesey’s bold, epic novel, considered by many to be one of the greatest pieces of Oregon literature, Brophy’s work continues an Oregon tradition that looks at landscape, place, and regional character—while posing tough questions about our role as stewards, pioneers, and antagonists of the Northwest horizon.

April 13: Ken Kesey-On the Page/On the Stage

April 16: Lens of Regional Identity

Find out more about these free events at www.pcs.org

PLAY HAS BEEN EXTENDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Artists Repertory Theatre :
“A Streetcar Named Desire”

Artists Repertory Theatre
1516 SW Alder
Portland
503-241-1278
www.artistsrep.org please see website for showtimes.

Continuing a tradition of radically redefined classics, Associate Artistic Director Jon Kretzu re-imagines this classic tale of love, brute strength and madness through the memories of a much older Blanche DuBois. Changing not a word of Williams’ powerful text, Kretzu will have you questioning everything you think you know about Stella, Stanley and Blanche, while keeping you in touch with the tender, ever-beating heart of the play’s emotional core. Experience this American masterpiece again for the first time and find yourself talking about it long after the lights go down.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Write Around Portland:
Prompt Workshop

Powell’s City of Books
1005 W. Burnside
Portland
503.796.9224
www.writearound.org Tuesday 7-9pm

Write Around Portland presents a new workshop, “Prompt,” designed for writers and aspiring writers in the greater Portland area who want to participate in a Write Around workshop and support the communities we serve.

Based on the acclaimed Write Around Portland model, this dynamic workshop incorporates many of our favorite writing exercises designed to inspire the writing life, including freewriting; work with writing elements; strength-building feedback and early-draft revision. The workshop will cap off with a community reading. Workshop Facilitator: Natalie Serber, who holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She has been short-listed for Best American Stories, and is the recipient of the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction and the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction. Natalie is a seasoned Write Around Portland facilitator and board-member, and also teaches through Writers in the Schools and Community of Writers.

“Prompt” meets Tuesdays for 10 weeks. $285 (includes free parking, snacks and access to the “bowels of Powells”)

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Museum of Contemporary Craft:
Generations: Ken Shores

Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 NW Davis Street
Portland , OR, 97209
503-223-2654
www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/ Tuesday-Sunday 11 AM to 6 PM, Thursday 11 AM to 8 PM



This exhibition places Ken Shores' work within the context of his home, travels, and experiences. Juxtaposing wall-sized images of Shores' object-laden home with his own artwork, the exhibition provides connections between ancient objects and archetypal forms and Shores' personal vocabulary. Long-recognized for his global perspective, the exhibition seeks a new understanding of Shores' work in the context of his role as a student, teacher, leader, artist and foundational figure in the American Craft Movement. A publication with archival and object photographs and essays will be available for purchase from the Museum.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Literary Arts:
Delve: Readers' Seminars ~ Thomas Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow

University Club
1225 SW Sixth Avenue
Portland, OR
503.227.2583

www.literary-arts.org Thursdays 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Published in 1973, Gravity’s Rainbow has been hailed as a postmodern epic—a profound, at times bewildering, and often sublime meditation on the second half of “the American century.” Set in Europe during the last days of World War II, Pynchon’s sprawling narrative has attracted legions of intrepid readers and commentators, while his insights about the legacy of technology and militarism seem ever more relevant to our contemporary world. In this seminar, we will undertake a comprehensive reading of one of the most challenging and important novels of our time.

Guide: Christopher Zinn received his Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University. He has taught at Reed College, directed the college’s American Studies program and served as Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Turkey. He was executive director of the Oregon Council for the Humanities from 1997 to 2006.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Third Rail Repertory Theater:
"Nobody Here But Us Chickens" By Peter Barnes

Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center
5340 N. Interstate Avenue
Portland
503-235-1101 or

Cost:

www.thirdrailrep.org Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 2pm


What a joy to be producing this work by one of the great unsung masters of British theatre. These three short plays look at disabilities, and our perceptions of them, with stunning language, delirious physicality, and raucous humor.

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

defunkt theatre:
“The Garden Party” by Vaclav Havel

Back Door theater
4319 SE Hawthorne
Portland
503.481.2960
www.defunktheatre.com 8:00 PM

Hugo Pludek spends his days playing chess against himself. when his parents arrange an interview with an executive from the Liquidation Office, Hugo assimilates himself into a world that has no place or time for the individual. “The Garden Party” is a fast-paced farce where cliché is a valued tool and language a weapon for making it to the top of a bureaucratic nightmare. Vaclav Havel is world renowned, not just for his plays, but also for his human rights activism, his essays and of course, his presidencies of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. though “The Garden Party” was his first produced play, it remains frighteningly relevant today. Frances Binder directs.

defunkt theatre will present open rehearsals on March 19 and April 9, from 7:30 – 8.30, for the community to see what goes into making a defunkt production defunktional. The cost is free, thanks to a generous grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council. In addition, our on-line journal, which includes text and video entries, offers our audiences a unique inside look at what makes our work tick and how a production grows from rehearsal to performance.

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

Artists Repertory Theatre :
“The History Boys”

Artists Repertory Theatre Mainstage
1516 SW Alder
Portland
503-241-1278
www.artistsrep.org please see website for showtimes.

The History Boys, winner of an astonishing (and record breaking) six Tony awards, uses staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence to provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it. In it you see two dueling professors at an English prep school fighting for the hearts, minds, and examination results of a group of boisterous and whip smart high school boys.

This comic school drama uses musical numbers, scholarly debates, and the acting-out of vintage movie scenes to counterpoint moments of shocking emotional nakedness. Along the way Bennett creates a compelling debate about the nature of history and the purpose of education that will radically redefine the way you look at the world…and everything that ever happened in it

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Center Stage:
“The Little Dog Laughed”

Gerding Theater - Studio
128 NW 11th Ave.
Portland, OR, 97209
503.445.3700
www.pcs.org *Please see website for details


The Off-Broadway hit of 2006 follows the adventures of Mitchell Green, a handsome, young movie actor who is about to hit it big. Always photographed on the arms of beautiful women, he nevertheless has a little secret that could end his career once and for all – his clandestine affairs with men (sound familiar?). And as if that’s not enough, he’s fallen in love with his most recent “rent boy” and wants to announce it to the world. Helping him navigate Hollywood’s choppy waters is his devilish agent Diane (a modern-day Lady Macbeth in stilettos), who’s doing everything she can to keep him away from the rent boy and the rent boy’s girlfriend (wait, the rent boy has a girlfriend?). The Little Dog Laughed is one of the most keenly observed social satires in recent memory. And it’s not just the dog who’ll end up laughing by the time it’s over.

By Douglas Carter Beane
Directed by Chris Coleman

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Peripheral Produce:
The Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival

The Hollywood Theatre
4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd
Portland
503.282.6082
www.peripheralproduce.com
The Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival (PDX Film Fest for short) is gearing up for yet another go around, this year at the historic Hollywood Theatre (and other locations. See website.) Founded and organized by local filmmakers, the festival will showcase provocative, artistic, and firmly uncompromising films from around the globe. The festival is an offshoot of Peripheral Produce, a video distribution label and screening series started by Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick. Since it’s inception in
1996, Peripheral Produce has grown from a small, DIY project into an internationally respected venue and outlet for contemporary experimental cinema.

See schedule at website.

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

City Hall’s First Thursday:
Art in our Future: City Hall Youth Art Show

City Hall
1221 SW 4th
Portland
www.commissionersam.com/youthart 5/1 First Thursday reception 5-7pm

From painting and drawing to sculpture and performance, the night’s spotlight will be firmly focused on the rich talent of Portland’s young artists. City Hall is excited to open its gallery space for the next generation of creative thinkers to exhibit their amazing work!

Featuring work from:
-Buckman Arts Focus School
-The Children’s Healing Art Project
-Young, Gifted, and Black Art Competition in collaboration with the African American Visual Arts Scholarship project.

Performances by:
-Buckman Chorus
-Buckman Marimba Ensemble
-Boys Dance Group, led by dancer and instructor Keith Goodman

Free refreshments, delicious food, youth produced art and great performance—be sure not to miss this event!

FREE and Open to the Public

RACC Program:

Bodyvox:
Horizontal Leanings

Newmark Theater
1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR
503-229-0627
www.bodyvox.com Fri 7:30 pm
Sat 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm
Sun 7:30 pm

Purveying the stark contrast of a fragmented world rife with friction and alienation, and the very same world acheiving synergy and a collective balance, BodyVox enlists the musicians of Third Angle to present its latest creation, Horizontal Leanings. Diverse themes such as community survival, cultural identity, the unique and the shared are explored in this cycle of dance, song, and theatrical imagery.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Museum of Contemporary Craft:
In the Gallery: Gifts from the Garden

Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 NW Davis Street
Portland , OR, 97209
503-223-2654
www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/ Tuesday-Sunday 11 AM to 6 PM, Thursday 11 AM to 8 PM



Celebrate spring with a new twist on an annual tradition. Just in time for Mother’s Day, The Gallery features botanically-inspired work in a wide range of media, styles and price points. Fresh, garden-themed work by our regular gallery artists compliments a selection of work from invited artists.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Blue Sky Gallery:
“Predicting the Past” by Stephen Berkman

Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland
503.225.0210
www.blueskygallery.org noon to 5 pm Tuesday
First Thursday 5/1 6pm

In somewhat of a departure for Blue Sky, Stephen Berkman’s Predicting the Past will primarily feature sculptural objects and installations, with his photographs and illustrations occupying a supporting role on the gallery’s walls.

Berkman’s installation work explores the era of pre-chemical photography both literally and philosophically. While his constructions encompass optical projections and sculptural reinterpretations of the camera obscura, his body of work as a whole examines the intrinsic nature of photography during this nascent period when it was possible to create fleeting images, but impossible to fix them into permanent photographs. This search to rediscover the ephemeral nature of pre-photographic history, the scientific interplay of light and optics, and the quest for optical amusements, also known as philosophical instruments are uniquely considered throughout Berkman’s work. A few of the installation projects that employ the camera obscura principle include Surveillance Obscura, The Obscura Object, A Child’s Obscura, A Wandering Eye, Hair Obscura, and Looking Glass, which is perhaps the worlds first transparent camera obscura. Considering the implications of this camera obscura in her 2006 review in the L.A. Times, Leah Ollman stated: “In a dark, curtained-off space in the center of the gallery stands one of the show’s most captivating works and one that reveals, with literal transparency, how the medium of photography itself blurs the boundaries between science, art and magic.”

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

RACC Public Art:
“Second Chance”

503.823.5111
http://racc.org/publicart/_intersection_SecondChancefilm.php
A film made by teenagers called “Second Chance” will be part of a show called “In Their Own Words” on Portland Community Media in May.

In the spring and summer of 2007, the Northwest Film Center's Young Filmmakers Program partnered with the Multnomah County Department of Community Justice, Juvenile Services Division, Worksystems, Inc., and the Regional Arts & Culture Council to enable teenagers involved in the juvenile justice system to make a film about a career exposure program for Portland area at-risk youth created and operated in partnership with local employers.

Working with filmmakers Brian Lindstrom and Brian Yazzie, the youth focused their cameras on the positive experiences of peers learning about career pathways in healthcare, hospitality, public service, manufacturing and construction. As the story unfolds, through the interweaving of their own personal testimonials into the narrative, the youth filmmakers begin to imagine and experience positive change in their own lives and futures.

The project is part of RACC’s intersections: YouthARTS program which is an ongoing series of artist led projects that serve as intervention strategies for youth involved with Community Justice.

SCHEDULE FOR PORTLAND COMMUNITY MEDIA (PCM):

“In Their Own Words” (60 mins total, “Second Chance” appears at 36:00 in)

5/1/08 8:00 pm Thu Channel 23
5/7/08 9:00 pm Wed Channel 22
5/15/08 8:00 pm Thu Channel 23
5/17/08 8:00 pm Sat Channel 11
5/21/08 9:00 pm Wed Channel 22
5/29/08 8:00 pm Thu Channel 23

RACC Program: RACC Public Art: Intersections-Second Chance

Chamber Music Northwest:
Zukerman Chamber Players

Kaul Auditorium, Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR
503-294-6400
boxoffice@cmnw.org
www.cmnw.org 8:00 PM

The distinguished violinist Pinchas Zukerman, recognized as a musical phenomenon for four decades, has teamed up with four younger protégés to form the Zukerman Chamber Players. The ensemble has since garnered great critical acclaim in North America and across Europe for concerts inspiring in their artistry and thrilling in the virtuosity

Zoltán Kodály - Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7
W. A. Mozart - String Quintet in D Major, K. 593
Felix Mendelssohn - String Quintet in B-Flat Major, Op. 87

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

NW Film Center:
A Quest for the Sublime: The Films of Werner Herzog

Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Ave.
Portland
503 221-1156
www.nwfilm.org times vary

Werner Herzog rose to prominence in the 1970s as a central figure in the New German Cinema movement along with Rainer Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorf, Margarethe von Trotta, Wim Wenders and others looking for a more personal cinema. Beginning with such heralded films as AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD and WOYZECK, Herzog's career in the decades since has been distinguished by a continuing fascination with characters possessed by a unique vision, their escapades set against hauntingly powerful landscapes—from the Amazon jungle to the Sahara Desert to the Antarctic tundra. Herzog has said, "It is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films." He has also characteristically disregarded the distinction between narrative film and documentary in pursuit of a more profound truth: "Through invention, through imagination, through fabrication, I become more truthful than the little bureaucrats." Herzog has transcended the New German Cinema movement to become—as Milos Forman, Francois Truffaut and many other fellow filmmakers have asserted—one of the great cinema artists of our era.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Kukatonon :
Growing Up and Growing Together

503.709.7540

Kukatonon will perform original choreography about African rites of initiation into adulthood, reflecting their chosen 2008 theme, “Growing Up and Growing Together.” The dance is inspired by the Mendiani ritual of the Malinke people (girls are chosen to be part of a special community of women), the Sole dance of the SouSou people (initiation dance) and the Sorsornet dance of the Baga people (girls thank their mothers for the knowledge they passed down). Performances include chanting, story-telling and African drumming and dance.

The talented dance performance troupe is made up of 25 schoolchildren, ages 7-12. The mission is to broaden awareness of African and African American culture and inspire confidence, commitment and vitality in our youth.

5/2 10am: MLC, 2033 NW Glisan
6/6 7pm” SEI Center, 3920 N. Kerby
6/28 3-4pm: World Beat Festival (Contact: Marissa Newman, 503.362.0222)

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

Portland Gay Men’s Chorus:
“Legacy”

First Congregational Church
1126 SW Park Avenue
Portland
503.226.2588
www.pdxgmc.org 5/2 at 8pm
5/3 at 2pm

Thirty years of the best new music for gay choruses will reverberate in the historic First Congregational Church at our annual pride concert in May. Highlighting critically acclaimed works by David Conte, Robert Seeley, Roger Bourland, Eric Lane Barnes and David York, Legacy will surely embrace all these great choral works in a moving and affirming concert. Also featured will be a new composition by Seeley in his role as PGMC's Composer in Residence.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Northwest Children’s Theater & School:
“Sleeping Beauty“

Northwest Children's Theater and School
1819 NW Everett Street
Portland, OR, 97209
Tickets: 503-222-4480
Email: info@nwcts.org
www.nwcts.org Fridays at 7:00 pm
Saturdays at 2:00 pm
Sundays 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm

Everyone knows that when a princess pricks her finger and falls into an enchanted sleep, it's up to a handsome prince to save her with a kiss, right? Well is he in for a surprise in this musical retelling of the classic fairy tale filled with song, dance, and a spirited princess with a will of her own!

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Lakewood Theatre Company:
“The Mystery of Edwin Drood”

Lakewood Center for the Arts
368 S. State Street
Lake Oswego, OR, 97034
503.635.3901
www.lakewood-center.org See website for details

Ever seen a play where the wrong two characters fell in love? Ever wished that you could change the ending? Now you can with this murder mystery musical based on Charles Dickens' unfinished novel. After a Christmas dinner party, Edwin Drood walks off into the night and disappears. Although murder is suspected, no body can be found. There are many suspects, but it will be up to the audience to decide whodunit! Winner of the Drama Desk Award and six Tony Awards including Best Musical.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

South Waterfront Artist in Residence Program (AiR):
"China-on-Willamette” with Horatio Hung-Yan Law

South Waterfront Neighborhood
AiR Storefront Studio, 3623 SW River Parkway at Gaines off the John Ross Plaza
Portland
artistinresidence@southwaterfront.com
971.998.4810

www.southwaterfront.com/art_and_design/artist
Law’s three-component piece is based on the imaginary potential of how different Portland’s development could have been shaped, had early Chinese immigrants not left Portland due to the anti-Chinese immigration and labor legislations passed by the United States Congress in the early twentieth century.

Throughout his May residency, Law will activate key cultural symbols as entry points to the discovery of this hidden history in Portland. Visitors can watch the evolution of Law’s two installations - Chopsticks Terrace Rice Field and Bamboo Great Wall - and participate in a cumulative community t’ai chi workshop or performance – T’ai Chi for 1,000. His residency will provoke questions that inspire thoughtful investigation about the elements that create a sense of place. How does one feed a community? How does one defend a community? How does one keep a community healthy?

5/3 The Opening Reception and initial t’ai chi workshop is Saturday, May 3, 11am-2pm, in the AiR Studio.

Additional t’ai chi workshops in the AiR Studio; all are free and open to the public:
5/14, 10am - noon; 5/21, 6 – 8pm; 5/28, 6 – 8pm

5/31 The Closing Event and community performance – T’ai Chi for 1,000 - takes place Saturday, from 10 - 11:30am (rain or shine). Participants can arrive at the AiR Studio first and proceed to South Waterfront Park on SW Moody @ Curry, or go directly to the park. All ages and experience levels are welcome at this special closing event and community performance; one does not need any prior t’ai chi experience.

RACC Program: RACC Public Art Advisory Service

Oregon Repertory Singers:
Come Ye Makers of Song

Rose City Park United Methodist
5830 NE Alameda St.
Portland, OR
503-230-0652
www.oregonrepsingers.org 2:00 PM

The ORS youth choirs traveled the world to bring a concert filled with songs from countries far and near.

5/3 performance at Rose City Park United Methodist, 5830 NE Alameda St
5/4 performance at St. Mary's Cathedral, 1716 NW Davis St.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Youth Philharmonic:
Spring Concert

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway
Portland, OR
503-223-5939
www.portlandyouthphil.org 7:30 PM

BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4 • ELGAR Pomp and Circumstance, March No. 4 • BRITTEN Sinfonia a Requiem

Huw Edwards, Conductor

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Oregon Symphony:
Beethoven's Seventh Symphony

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
SW Broadway at Main
Portland, OR
503-228-1353

www.orsymphony.org 2:00 PM

Music by a madman? That’s what many people thought when this symphony was new. But now we’re swept away by its rhythms and its melodies, and most of all by its excitement, which starts at the beginning and doesn’t let up until the end.

Gregory Vajda, conductor

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Oregon Children’s Theatre:
“Einstein Is A Dummy”

Winningstad Theater
1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR, 97201
503-228-9571
www.octc.org Saturdays 2 PM & 7 PM
Sundays 2 PM & 5 PM

Bet nobody thought much about Albert Einstein when he was only 12. Bet he was always late, forgot his stuff (all the time) and got lost (a lot). And then there’s Elsa, the prettiest girl in Herr Schloppnoppdinderdonn’s music class, not to mention Albert’s talking cat. An exhilarating, hilarious, inspiring musical romp through one day in the young life of the greatest scientific mind of the 20th century.

Sign-interpreted: May 10, 7 p.m.
Written by Karen Zacarias (who adapted Ferdinand the Bull). Music composed by Deborah Wicks La Puma. Directed by Stan Foote.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

PICA:
Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series: Rebecca Ripple

5th Avenue Cinema
510 SW Hall Street
Portland
503.242.1419
www.pica.org 7:30 PM

Rebecca Ripple received her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 1995. Her work has been exhibited at the Brewery Project in Los Angles, Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Santa Monica, and Ludwig Drum Factory in Chicago, among others. Her work has been reviewed in the LA Weekly, ArtScence, the Chicago Tribune, and American Craft. Ripple attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where she received a full scholarship, and was awarded a Fellowship and Artist Residency at the Bemis Foundation in Omaha. She is currently a faculty member at California State University, Northridge.

Tilt Gallery and Project Space will present new work by Los Angeles artist Rebecca Ripple. language/habit/rubber/God negotiates the artist's experience of her suburban Long Island childhood and her strict Catholic upbringing. The work examines the forces of these two opposing value systems and the desires constructed within them.

language/habit/rubber/God will be on exhibit from May 1-24, 2008 at Tilt Gallery and Project Space, 625 NW Everett #106, Portland, Oregon. Regular gallery hours are Thursdays and Saturdays noon-5pm, and by appointment.

Portland State University's Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. This is the eighteenth lecture in the PMMNLS for this season. The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, and PSU's Department of International Studies and Ben Rosenberg Studio. If you or your organization are interested in becoming a supporter of the lecture series please let us know.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

PICA:
Lecture by Roger Ballen

Wieden-Kennedy Atrium
224 NW 13th
Portland
503.242.1419
www.pica.org 7:00 PM

Roger Ballen, a New York native, has been living Johannesburg, South Africa since 1974. Trained as a geologist, Ballen has been photographing for over 25 years, mostly in remote areas outside of Johannesburg. Working among a population so clearly overlooked and invisible, they face Ballen's camera with both the freshness of children and the faces of hard experience.

Ballen's photographs convey sitters whose unique disposition in life seems to have sculpted their bodies. However, they also rely upon an exquisitely rigorous formal approach, mixing a draftsman's eye for line and detail with the documentary photographer's obsession for veracity with universal appeal. Included will be portraits, interiors and still-lifes executed between the mid-1980s and today, many of which have never before been exhibited or published.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

White Bird Dance Series:
4x4 The Ballet Project

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway at Main
Portland, OR
503-245-1600
info@whitebird.org
www.whitebird.org 7:30 PM

4X4 The Ballet Project is an exclusive collaboration created for White Bird’s 10th Anniversary season. Oregon’s two outstanding companies, Oregon Ballet Theatre and Eugene Ballet Company, along with Seattle’s Pacific Northwest Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, have become vital incubators of contemporary ballet in the United States. White Bird has invited the four West Coast companies to share the stage together for the first time, and each will perform a Portland premiere of a strong contemporary work. This will be a dazzling evening you will remember for years to come.

Eugene Ballet Company
Artistic Director Toni Pimble

Oregon Ballet Theatre
Artistic Director Christopher Stowell

Pacific Northwest Ballet
Artistic Director Peter Boal

San Francisco Ballet
Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Dignity Village:
“Thinking Outside the Cardboard Box”

Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd.
Portland
1-800-494-8497
www.dignityvillage.org 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

An evening of Art, Film & Performance on housing and community for those who have neither:

Theatre: “The road to Dignity” playlet by Dignity Village
Film: Tent Cities Toolkkit interactive movie
Exhibits: Photos & artwork from Street Roots, PhotoVoice, & More
Plus: Open-mic session for local musicians and poets.

$10 to reserve seats or free at the door.
In partnership with Kwamba Productions

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

Portland Opera:
“Aida”

Keller Auditorium
SW Clay & 3rd Avenue
Portland
503-241-1407
www.portlandopera.org All performances at 7:30 PM, except Sunday, 5/11 at 2:00 PM.

She's passionate. She's trapped. And she's torn. But with everything on the line, she’s a woman who follows her heart. No one should be put in her position! With war raging between their two countries, the Ethiopian slave, Aida, and the Egyptian princess, Amneris, both fall in love with the same Egyptian war hero. A slip of the heart and a slip of the tongue seal the fates of the beautiful Aida and her heroic Radames in this, opera’s most explosive tale. When he’s condemned to death, she slips into the dark crypt where they will be entombed together. Forever.

A huge orchestra and chorus bring Verdi’s score thundering to life, delivering punch and pageantry to Opera’s most spectacular work!

Sung in Italian with projected English translations.

NOTE: 5/9 Portland Opera featured on NPR's Morning Edition between 7:00 & 9:00am for a 7-minute story featuring the Portland Opera Chorus. The piece is a unique insight to life in the Portland Opera Chorus as they prepared for Verdi's spectacular AIDA.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Opera:
“Albert Herring”

The Hampton Opera Center
211 SE Caruthers Street
Portland
503-241-1407
www.portlandopera.org All performances at 7:30 PM, except Sundays at 2:00 PM.

Benjamin Britten’s rollicking comic chamber opera is all about the search for a great woman—the perfect May Queen. Alas and alack however, in this rural English village, there’s no fittingly chaste young woman to be found . . . at least according to Lady Billows, who lords it over the entire town with an eye that is . . . how should we say? . . . myopically moralistic? For her, the town is awash in immorality with nary a virgin to be found. Tsk. Tsk.

The town throws off tradition and opts instead for a King of May. Amid giggles, catcalls and jibes of all kinds, our unlikely hero is crowned ... and gets the chance at long last to escape from behind his mother’s apron.

Featuring singers from the Portland Opera Studio Artists program.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Baroque Orchestra:
BRANDENBURGS AND TELEMANN with Monica Huggett

503-222-6000

www.pbo.org 7:30 PM 5/9 - 10 at First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th
3PM 5/11 at Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.

Completing the performance cycle of Brandenburg Concertos begun in October 2006, Monica Huggett and PBO soloists present the three concertos of the collection thought to be the first composed by J.S. Bach: The first
featuring horns, oboes and strings in a rollicking interplay of rhythms; the
third, for strings alone with its symmetrical structure of three groups of
three soloists each; and the sixth, perhaps the earliest of the set,
composed for low strings only: viola, violoncello, viola da gamba and basso
continuo. The concert will bring the horns and oboes back to the stage for
a unique orchestral suite by Bach’s contemporary Telemann that highlights
the newfound pleasure of bringing these “outdoor” instruments into the
concert hall.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Miracle Theatre Group:
“The Labyrinth Of Desire”

Miracle Theatre
525 SE Stark St
Portland
503.236.7253
www.milagro.org Thursdays 7:30 PM
Fridays and Saturdays 8:00 PM
Sunday 2:00 PM

When Florela’s fiancé decides to leave her and compete with other suitors for the hand of the rich and beautiful Laura, Florela goes undercover to keep her man. Filled with clever deceptions and hilarious disguises, this who’s-who comedy of romantic intrigue explores the delightful and essential mystery of love. This stylish and contemporary adaptation proves that long before Sex and the City, intuition and infatuation have challenged the boundaries and fluidity of human desire.

An English language production by Caridad Svich adapted from Lope de Vega’s La prueba de los ingenios, directed by Devon Allen.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland French School:
Exhibition” “Treasure”

The Portland French School
6318 SW Corbett Avenue
Portland
503.452.4160

www.portlandfrenchschool.org
“Treasure” is a showcase of art made of reused and recycled materials by the students of the Portland French School and will open on the day of their community outreach festival, “The Outdoor French Market” (Marché en Plein Air). The public art exhibit will run May 10-13th on the school campus.

Three artists-in-residence worked with three different groups of children to create art works made of reused and recycled materials. Artist and Puppeteer, Bruce Orr, worked with the preschool and pre-k children to create puppets; Mosaic Artist, Denny Nkemontoh, worked with Kindergarten – 2 graders to create four public mosaic benches; and SCRAP (the School & Community Reuse Action Project worked with the 3rd through 6th grader students to create sculptures. Each artist and artists group will perform demonstrations and/ or exhibitions at the Market on opening day.

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

PICA:
Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series: Edgar Heap of Birds

5th Avenue Cinema
510 SW Hall Street
Portland
503.242.1419
www.pica.org 7:30 PM

Portland State University's Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. This is the eighteenth lecture in the PMMNLS for this season. The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, and PSU's Department of International Studies and Ben Rosenberg Studio. If you or your organization are interested in becoming a supporter of the lecture series please let us know.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

PlayWrite:
Performances by Students

503.249.5800
www.playwriteinc.org See times and locations below

PlayWrite empowers youth with tools to make themselves stronger through a carefully structured process of creating art. The heart of our work is a playwriting workshop. A three-week residency brings young people together with coaches from the Portland performing arts community who are trained by PlayWrite. Each play in its entirety springs solely from the mind, feelings and heart of the young writer. At the end of the workshop, professional actors perform a staged reading of the plays before a live audience. This performance – the culmination of three weeks’ work – is a collaborative event involving author, actors and audience.

Upcoming PlayWrite performances:

5/14 "Signature Sound," an audio workshop originated by Alyson Osborn. The work, by students at Portland Night High School, will be presented in the auditorium of Benson High School, 546 NE 12th Ave, at 7:00 PM. Benson is

5/16 Performance of plays written by students at the Rosemont School and Treatment Center, 9911 SE Mount Scott Blvd. at 1:15 PM (call 503-249-5800 for directions).

5/28 Performance of plays by students at New Avenues for Youth. Presented at the Living Room Theater, on SW 10th Ave. and Burnside, at 1:00 PM.

5/29 Performance of songs written by students at Mt. Scott Learning Center. The show will be at the Day Music Co. Theater, 5516 SE Foster Rd., at 1:00 PM.

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

Profile Theatre:
“The House of Blue Leaves”

Theater! Theatre!
3430 SE Belmont St.
Portland, OR, 97214
503.242.0080
www.profiletheatre.org Thurs - Sat 8 PM
Sun 2 PM

Set in Queens, New York in 1965 during Pope Paul VI's visit, Guare's antic farce and the author's initial major success brings to life a collection of eccentric characters: a middle-aged zookeeper who aspires to be a Hollywood songwriter, his manic depressive wife, and a lover who shares his dreams of stardom. Full of family humiliations and resentments, Guare posits that the family home and the mental institution are more alike than we may think.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

NW Film Center:
Northwest Tracking: “Mr. Big”

Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Ave.
Portland
503 221-1156
www.nwfilm.org 7:00 PM

Broadcast news reporter Tiffany Burns' directorial debut is a gripping and insightful documentary that takes a critical look at criminal confessions resulting from an Royal Canadian Mounted Police undercover sting strategy known as 'Mr. Big.' Burns' personal investigation into RCMP actions begins after her brother Sebastian and his friend Atif Rafay confess to the Bellevue, WA murders of Atif's parents and sister. Their confessions to these crimes were made to a 'Mr. Big'--an undercover officer who builds a relationship with suspects while presenting himself as a man with connections in the criminal underworld. Burns questions the ethics of using the 'Mr. Big' sting technique and its use as evidence in court, examining why it is considered entrapment in the US and England. As she works toward her broader goal of clearing her brother's name, she provides an impressive array of eye-opening and memorable interviews with a journalist, legal experts and former suspects from additional cases whose confessions were later dismissed as false."-Vancouver Film Festival. (Canada- 2007, 89 mins.)

The Northwest Film Center created Northwest Tracking to showcase noteworthy films made by artists in Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Montana and Idaho.

Admission Prices: $7.00 General, $6.00 Members, Students, Seniors

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Write Around Portland:
Third Thursday Writing Workshops at HOTLIPS Pizza

HOTLIPS Pizza
2211 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland
503.796.9224
www.writearound.org 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Join Write Around Portland and HOTLIPS Pizza this summer to experience the transformative power of writing in community. These workshops are perfect for the new and seasoned writer. Start your day with breakfast pastries, coffee, tea and the written word. Attend one, attend them all.

Cost: $25 suggested donation to Write Around Portland per workshop

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Oregon Cultural Access:
3rd Disability Pride Art and Culture Festival

503-358-9085
www.dacphome.org Locations and time vary

The Disability Art and Culture Project brings to Portland its own taste of an international disability art and culture scene. DACP merges some of the best disability studies scholars and performers in a simultaneously appealing and edgy mélange of art, theory, and celebration for its third annual festival. There will be three days of film screenings, live performance and encounters to celebrate the work of regional and national artists and to provide the general public with a lens that sheds new light on the lived experience of people with disabilities.

Schedule & Locations:
May 15-27
Visual Art Exhibit
YWCA Conference Room
1111 SW 10th Ave Portland OR 97205

May 16
A wide variety of performances including “Body Thought Nature”, a youth performance and poetry by the author of Sam and His Cart, Arthur Honeyman.
Jefferson High school
5210 N Kerby Portland OR 97217

May 17
6-9 pm
Art reception for the opening of the visual art exhibit featuring photographers Carol Zoom and Lisa Steichman and other local artists.
Participatory lecture: “The Body, Thought, and Nature of Disability Art”
Guest speaker Dr. Petra Kuppers: Associate Professor, University of Michigan
YWCA Conference Room
1111 SW 10th Ave Portland OR 97205

May 18
1-3:30 pm
Short films, featuring “Shameless” and “Nectar”.

The cost of all evening events is S10.

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

RACC 2008 Artists Workshops Series:
Grant Writing for Success—102

Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 NW Davis
Portland
Register at website below
www.racc.org/workshops 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

This advanced workshop is for individual artists who have some experience grant writing and want to improve their chances of success in winning grants. Presenter Gigi Rosenberg will share strategies for finding fresh and compelling language to describe an artistic project, and participants will learn techniques for creating budgets with ease. Fee: $25. Register

RACC Program: RACC Workshops

Oregon Symphony:
Carmina Burana

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
SW Broadway at Main
Portland, OR
503-228-1353

www.orsymphony.org 5/17 Sat 7:30 PM SOLD OUT
5/18 Sun 7:30 PM
5/19 Mon 8:00 PM

Messiaen: The Ascension (L’Ascension)
Orff: Carmina burana

What could link these two pieces, one a meditation on God, the other wild and lusty? Carmina burana blazes with intoxicating heat, and Messiaen’s meditations have a blazing color of their own.

Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Portland Symphonic Choir, performing artists
Pacific Youth Choir, performing artists

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Do Jump!:
“Entusiasmo!”

Newmark Theater
1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR
503-231-1232
www.dojump.org May 17, 23, 24, 30, 31 at 7:30 pm
May 18, 25 at 3pm
May 31 at 2 pm

¡Entusiasmo! uses a provocative blend of sensuous aerial dance, breathtaking acrobatics, humor, live music, along with a traditional dramatic narrative, to tell the incredible and inspiring true story of Gaviotas, Colombia.

Founded in 1971 by visionary Paolo Lugari, Gaviotas is a village in Colombia that is an exemplar of sustainable culture. Through invention, ingenuity, imagination, and "entusiasmo", Gaviotans have invented remarkable windmills, solar kettles, and diverse human-powered devices. On the barren savannahs of eastern Colombia, they have regenerated a native rainforest. They live in peace in the middle of a war torn country and have become a beacon of hope to the world.

¡Entusiasmo! features live traditional Colombian music by Los Llaneros and live original music by Portland composer Joan Szymko.

Written and Choreo-directed by Robin Lane, adapted from Gaviotas, A Village To Re-invent The World by Alan Weisman

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Metropolitan Youth Symphony:
Season Finale

Bauman Auditorium George Fox University
1009 North Street
Newberg, OR, 97132
503.239.4566
www.playmys.org 3:00 PM

Jazz II, Jazz I, Overture Strings, Mysfits, Vivaldi
Strings, Sousa Band, Concert Band, Flute Choir and Interlude Orchestra

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

PICA:
Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series: Karen Yasinsky

5th Avenue Cinema
510 SW Hall Street
Portland
503.242.1419
www.pica.org 7:30 PM

Portland State University's Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. This is the eighteenth lecture in the PMMNLS for this season. The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, and PSU's Department of International Studies and Ben Rosenberg Studio. If you or your organization are interested in becoming a supporter of the lecture series please let us know.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Center Stage:
“Doubt”

Gerding Theater - Mainstage
128 NW 11th Ave.
Portland, OR, 97209
503.445.3700
www.pcs.org *Please see website for details


Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2005, Doubt, A Parable, takes place in the Bronx in 1964. This sensitive yet provocative play centers around the conflict between Sister Aloysius, a traditional, by-the-book nun who presides over the school, and the more laid-back parish priest, Father Flynn, over what Sister Aloysius considers to be inappropriate behavior toward one of the school’s new students. Described by TheaterMania as “a modern mystery or thriller that ends with no certain answers… [Doubt] is a supreme contest of wills, an unflinching search for the truth and a measure of justice dealt to the audience for 90 minutes without an intermission.” The real issue of the play is not what is right and what is wrong, or who did what to whom and why, but the role that doubt plays in the hearts and minds of all of us, believer and non-believer alike.

By John Patrick Shanley; Directed by Rose Riordan

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Miracle Theatre Group:
Pluma Nueva

Miracle Theatre
525 SE Stark St
Portland
503.236.7253
www.milagro.org 7:00 PM

Miracle Theatre’s youth program Pluma Nueva, will conclude the program with two final presentations of work from seven students who are excited about and deeply committed to the program. They took part in workshops with author Emma Oliver for eight weeks, during which they wrote their own stories. Since March, they’ve been participating in acting workshops in order to stage the work they wrote. Join us for one of the special presentations of work from Pluma Nueva.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

NW Film Center:
Visiting Artists: Jesse Lerner: Excavations of Mexico

Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Ave.
Portland
503 221-1156
www.queerdocfest.org 7:30 PM

The NW Film Center and Cinema Project welcome to the Whitsell Auditorium, Jesse Lerner, an activist and filmmaker, for a two night program that includes a collection of his experimental documentaries.

About the artist
Filmmaker Jesse Lerner is a Los Angeles archivist and teacher whose interests encompass Mexico, its image abroad, its troubled relationship with the United States, and the pre-Columbian civilizations that thrived there before the Spanish Conquest. His own experimental documentaries mix original material with found imagery and sounds, and are complemented by collected rarities from the archives of The American Egypt, his production company.

About the films

Included in this two-night survey of personal films and archival finds is Lerner's newest work, MAGNAVOZ, an experimental adaptation of Xavier Icaza's speculative rant on the future of post-revolutionary Mexico. Bringing together noisy broadcasts from atop the volcanoes, raucous bacchanalia at popular watering holes and a series of apocalyptic, hyper-nationalistic pronouncements, the story is both prescient and timely, though it was written more than eighty years ago. Tuesday's program includes SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN THE VALLEY OF MEXICO, a film made by Garrison Films in the 1940s; NATIVES (1991), directed by Lerner and Scott Sterling; MAGUEYES (1962), by Rueben Gamez; and Lerner's MAGNAVOZ (2007). (80 mins.) Wednesday's program includes INDIANS OF MEXICO (1930's) and Lerner's RUINS (1999), a hybrid film that melds culturally skewed anthropological films, staged scenes, and documentation about a Mexican antiquities forger to question not only the traditional reception and understanding of pre-Columbian culture, but also our deepest assumptions about historical truth. (90 mins.)

Cinema Projects also helps to sponsor this event.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Project Quest:
“A Healing Tapestry” created by Breast Cancer Survivors

Our House
2727 SE Alder
Portland, OR, 97214
503.238.5203
www.quest-center.org
Participants in Quest Center for Integrative Health’s Healing and Empowerment Program for survivors of breast cancer and women in treatment recently completed a three-month fiber weaving and ceramic workshop (funded in part by a RACC Project Grant) designed to foster the emotional processing of healing that is required after treatment for the disease. The result is a richly textured “Healing Tapestry” that will hang for two months at a time in the lobby of three Portland-area agencies (Cancer Care, Doug Center, and Our House) that serve clients who are dealing with illness or grief before being permanently installed at Quest Center.

The design and process of the tapestry was envisioned from beginning to end by the participants with the help of two teaching artists, weaver Peggy Ross and ceramicist Kaaren Pixton. The tapestry was made using colorful strands of wool and other fibers and handmade ceramic beads that are woven into the tapestry. During the weaving process, the participants discovered many metaphors connecting the making of the tapestry to their own healing journeys. Deep bonds were formed among the women and a feeling of collaboration and mutual responsibility for the project was evident. These installations will provide a visible testimony to the healing power of art, not only through the making but in the viewing, and will soothe those visiting these agencies for treatment and service.

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

Imago Theatre:
“The Dinner “

Imago Theatre
17 SE 8th
Portland
503.224.8499 for tickets
www.imagotheatre.com Thurs 7:30pm
Fri & Sat 8pm

Carol Triffle’s new theatrical comedy. Dodo is her nickname. She just met an unnamed "famous writer" whom she has invited for dinner. Her highly impetuous sister Lucy, her cynical mother, and an unexpected guest, Suzy, invade the house to meet the "famous writer." Her husband John supports and humiliates his wife while they read from Amy Vanderbilt's book The Complete Book of Etiquette while setting the table. Dodo is both affectionate and hostile. She betrays her husband, wants to lock up her mentally challenged brother, and attempts to shuttle her mother away to a nursing home, all while preparing for the meal of her life.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra:
“Avast, Ye Mateys” with Director Sharon Northe

Century High School Auditorium
2000 SE Century Blvd.
Hillsboro
HSOsymphony@aol.com
www.hillsborosymphony.org 8:00 PM

Program selections for this pirate-themed concert:

Pirates of the Caribbean ................................. Badelt, arr. Ricketts
Pirate’s Dance ............................................................ Khachaturian
Thunder & Lightening Polka ............................................ Strauss
The Pirates of Penzance Overture ..................... Gilbert & Sullivan
Windswept ......................................................................... Ewazen
Pirate Dance .................................................................... Anderson

Reception following the performance. Adults $8.00 / Children & Seniors $5.00 / Ages 12 and under free.

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

Portland Chamber Orchestra:
Beethoven Underground

Kaul Auditorium Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd
Portland, OR
503-771-3250
www.portlandchamberorchestra.org 7:30 PM

The Creatures of Prometheus. a newmultmedia rendering of the ballet score. Live Storyteller David Robinson & art by Liz Gill Neilson. Maestro Yaacov Bergman conducts.

Free dress rehearsal at 10am, 5/24
Pre-concert lecture with conductor and artists begins at 6:30pm

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Write Around Portland:
Spring Anthology Release Party & Community Reading

First United Methodist Church Collins Hall
1838 SW Jefferson
Portland
503.796.9224
www.writearound.org 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Be the first to hear the extraordinary writing of the Write Around Portland spring workshop participants at a community reading, celebrating the release of the new anthology, “A Rare and Necessary Time.” Readers include participants from our workshops for veterans, women with metastatic cancers, adults living with disabilities, at-risk youth, transgender adults and many others.

The reading is free, ADA-accessible and everyone is welcome. Light snacks and drinks provided, and anthologies will be available for purchase. Financial donations and donations of new writing journals welcome and appreciated.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Rachel Siegel:
Cycle Seen: Picturing Portland’s Bike Culture

503 231-5494
cycleseen.info@gmail.com
www.cycleseen.org exact dates & hours for each location will vary

“Cycle Seen” is an exhibition of photographs and documentation representing the bicycle culture in the Portland Metro area. This project is a celebration of the bike community through pictures. Portland has an astonishingly diverse and unique community of cyclists ranging from daily commuters to bike performance groups. Various sub-cultures such as bike builders, road bike enthusiasts, bike messengers, safety and bike advocates all thrive in Portland to make up the dynamic mix of Portland's Bike Culture. The exhibition showcases photographs and illustrations that represent cycling in PDX over the last two years, including a combination of materials from invited photographers/artists and images selected from a juried call for submissions.

Where: Portland, Oregon, in 9 locations all around town.

1. The Little Red Bike Cafe (4823 N. Lombard)
2. Guardino Gallery (2939 NE Alberta)
3. The Tea Zone (510 NW 11th Ave)
4. Seven Corners New Seasons (1954 SE Division St)
5. The Cup and Saucer Cafe (3000 NE Killingsworth)
6. A Better Cycle (2324 SE Division St)
7. Stumptown Roasters (4525 SE Division St)
8. Independent Publishing Resource Center (917 SW Oak Street #218)
9. Good Neighbor Pizza (800 NE Dekum)

Rides: June 14th, 10 am: Bike to all the locations (approximately 30 miles, all-day ride), free and open to the public (bring money for snacks): starting point meeting at Stumptown Roasters (1954 SE Division St)
Check the Shift2bikes Peddle Palooza Calendar for other Cycle Seen rides - http://www.shift2bikes.org/cal/viewpp2008.php

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

Museum of Contemporary Craft:
Glass: A site-specific installation by Melissa Dyne

Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 NW Davis Street
Portland , OR, 97209
503-223-2654
www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/ Tuesday-Sunday 11 AM to 6 PM, Thursday 11 AM to 8 PM



Museum of Contemporary Craft will present Glass: A site-specific installation by Melissa Dyne. Composed of only a few physical elements, the installation will explore the increasingly blurred lines between craft and trade, industry and art. Focusing on experimentation and process, Dyne promises to bend, and even shatter, her glass panes during the course of the installation - as well as viewers' conceptions of the craft museum experience. The exhibition will also draw attention to the raw materiality of glass and its role in the public's everyday lives.

The installation explores the physical and material properties of glass in one of its most common forms: the window pane. The exhibition will display one large sheet of industrially-produced skyscraper glass and two wall-sized photographs of the warehouse in which the panes are produced. The pane, mounted on a wall, will slowly bend under its own weight, changing the light's reflection over time. The panes are typically installed in major office buildings around the world. The Museum will provide a complimentary brochure for the exhibition featuring essays by Kathy High, Robert Slifkin and Namita Gupta Wiggers.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

NW Film Center:
Second Annual QDoc: The Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival

Clinton Street Theatre
2522 SE Clinton Street
Portland
503 221-1156
www.queerdocfest.org times vary

QDoc aims to engage the public on core issues of LGBT identity in politics, history, culture, family, aging and coming out issues, queer diversity, gender and sexuality. QDoc is the only festival in the United States, and only the second in the world, devoted exclusively to documentaries with queer content.

The Festival opens with visiting directors Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi to introduce and screen the film "Suddenly, Last Winter", an award winning film that portrays the heated debate around domestic partnerships in Italy. After the screening, the audience is invited to the Opening Night Party, hosted by Clinton neighborhood favorites, Broder and The Savoy Tavern & Bistro.

Closing up the four day festival is a special 35mm screening of the 1984 Academy Award winning, "The Times of Harvey Milk". One of the greatest of all American documentaries, "The Times of Harvey Milk" recounts the life and eventual assassination of the first openly gay person elected to public office in the US. Scheduled to attend are co-director Rob Epstein and Portland director Gus Van Sant, who is currently completing work on his new film, "Milk".

NW Film helps to sponsor this festival.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Chamber Music Northwest:
From the Top

Kaul Auditorium, Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR
503-294-6400
boxoffice@cmnw.org
www.cmnw.org 7:30 PM

Don’t miss this live-audience taping of the hit public radio program “From the Top.” Pianist Christopher O’Riley hosts the highly entertaining and inspiring program with special guest David Shifrin (clarinetist and CMNW artistic director), showcasing the country’s most talented teenage classical musicians, including some from Portland. Distributed by NPR to 250 stations nationwide, “From the Top” reaches 750,000 loyal listeners each week. Heard in Portland every Friday from 6-7 pm on KBPS-FM, All-Classical 89.9.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Art Museum:
Klaus Moje

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park
Portland, OR
503-226-2811
www.portlandartmuseum.org Tues, Wed, and Sat, 10am-5pm
Thurs & Fri, 10am- 8pm
Sun 12-5pm.

Klaus Moje, founder of the world-renowned glass workshop at Australian National University’s Canberra School of Art, has influenced glass artists the world over. His many awards include recognition as one of Australia’s Living Treasures, and his work has been acquired by over 40 public collections. More than five decades of his work in glass will be celebrated in this exhibition.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant