Portland, OR. The sneak peek party for the Portland International Auto Show raised funds for seven local charities: Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland, Brian Grant Foundation, The Dougy Center, JDRF, Meals on Wheels People, the Victory Academy and Self Enhancement, Inc. (SEI). Revenue from the $100 tickets benefited the preferred charity of the ticket purchaser. Organizers say last year, the auto show at the convention center raised over $500,000 for the charities. Guests at the January 25th event had a “VIP Sneak Peek” of 600 of the best production, exotic and concept vehicles and technologies including the Acura NSX, one of only a few in the country.
Here’s a video about the event:
The Charity Preview Party is the official kickoff of the Portland International Auto Show and includes opening ceremonies, food and beverage, entertainment, all while strolling over 400,000 square feet of showroom floor.
Volunteers from the Dougy Center were selling 2017 Porsche Boxster raffle tickets.
The new Rolls-Royce drew fans, the car starts at around $305,000.
Victory students enjoyed the Sneak Peek thanks to Metro Portland New Car Dealers Association.
Victory Academy’s Mission is to provide children affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder with an integrated academic and therapeutic program, carefully designed to address an individual’s strengths and challenges.
Local business owner, Gayland Looney said, “It was my favorite social event of the year. I invited some key clients and we all had a memorable evening. We have already marked our calendars for 2018.”
The benefit, now in its fourth year, has become more popular each year. The charities do important work in the Portland community and the auto show is proud to support their efforts, says Greg Remensperger, executive director, of the show. “You can’t ask for a better neighbor in your community than an auto show or auto dealership,” says Remensperger. “The auto industry has always been generous, and we are pleased to help build awareness for these important service organizations, and provide necessary financial support.”
Show Dates: Thurs., Jan. 26 – Sun., Jan. 29, 2017
Hours:
Thurs., Jan. 26 10 am – 10 pm
Fri., Jan. 27 10 am – 10 pm
Sat., Jan. 28 10 am – 10 pm
Sun., Jan. 29 10 am – 7 pm
Ticket prices:
Adults (13 and older) $12
Seniors $10
Military (with ID) $10
Children (7 – 12) $7*
Children 6 and under Free
*On Family Day, Sun., Jan. 29, children 12 and under are free when accompanied by a paid adult.
Portland, Or. Dozens of Portland-generated new works like Men Run Amok (or It Takes Balls) are captivating local audiences. (Photo credit David Sanford) Fertile Ground, the 11-day arts festival that runs through January 29th, features world premiere projects, staged readings, developing works and a myriad of other arts events from Portland’s creative community. Here’s a look at some of the innovative works, which are sparking imagination this winter.
Diaspora Dance Theater performed at Groovin’ Greenhouse produced by Polaris Dance Theatre.
Uncommon Sense, presented by Echo Theater Company, is a collection of works combining elements of circus arts, dance, narrative and physical theatre to illuminate themes related to social justice. Photo credit Arnista Photography.
Last Dance featured Jaime Lee Christiana & Kat Macmillan. Photo credit Holly Wilmeth.
HOMEBREW 2017 was A PDX Animation Showcase at Artful Raven Studios. Photo credit Yamil Lopez.
Groovin’ Greenhouse featured the Vitality Dance Collective. Photo credit Will Mahoney-Watson.
El Payaso was a world premiere staged at Milagro Theatre and featured Ajai Terrazas Tripathi, Marlon Jimenez Oviedo, Danielle Pecoff & Emile Dultra. Photo credit, Russell J Young.
Do You Believe in Magic is a new solo performance-in-progress from veteran performer, Faith Helma.
Portland’s narrative circus is at it again with its new show, Bunny. Photo credit, Danny Boulet.
The Broken Planetarium presented Atlantis By Laura Christina Dunn. It’s a new folk opera based on the myth of Atlantis. The premise is that after Manhattan is completely under water, New Yorkers grow gills and continue on as usual. At the top of one skyscraper surrounded by ocean, a group of East Village folk singers meet every week to share songs they’ve just written and opinions about the state of the world. Photo credit Laura Hadden.
There were free reading at Artists Repertory Theatre like a reading of Zay Amsbury’s new play, The Thing in Jesse’s Room.
You can still take in several works including Word.Voice. which features new works by PlayWright. Inc. on January 29th 6PM at Portland Center Stage at The Armory
Unlike a typical fringe festival, Fertile Ground features the finest new work of our LOCAL artists, performers and resident theater companies, ensuring that the artistic and financial benefits of the festival stay in Portland. Where other New Works Festivals are curated by one theater company and typically feature a string of staged readings, this festival is collaboratively shaped by variety of aesthetic voices.
Fertile Ground features a full range of artistic experience, giving audiences a greater depth and breadth of work from which to choose in a concentrated time frame. From Portland’s oldest and largest producing institutions to its newest, smallest or self-produced companies, the Fertile Ground Festival offers the breadth of creation. For this reason we feel this festival is nationally unique, providing a new model for creating and sharing new work that will be of substantive value to the national theater and arts.
Fertile Ground was launched by the Portland Area Theatre Alliance (the service organization for Portland theater artists and organizations) in 2009 to provide a platform for Portland theater companies to showcase their commitment to new work; and to invite regional and national artists, artistic leaders and arts aficionados to discover for themselves that Portland truly is fertile ground for creativity, innovation, and daring acts of performance. Fertile Ground has grown its scope of offerings to encompass the open field of arts creation to include dance, comedy and visual arts. Fertile Ground aspires to provide a forum where art lovers near and far will come to appreciate that Portland truly is fertile ground for creativity, innovation, and daring acts of performance.
Portland, OR. Nonprofit social media platforms were flooded with photos of the Portland Women’s March. Organizations like the YWCA, Young Nonprofit Professionals, American Federation of Teachers and American Jewish World Service promoted the walk to their members. An estimated 100,000 people showed up. Portland police said the march was “100% peaceful.” Now organizers are interested to find out what happens next in the movement. Some marchers are pledging to become more active defending their beliefs; others plan to run for office. Many nonprofits have seen a surge in donations, including those focused on women’s health and the environment.
The Portland March took place simultaneously with more than 600 marches across the world. The largest happened in Washington, D.C. with 500,000 people. USA Today reported 2.6 million people marched, worldwide.
Many church organizations joined in the historic event in Portland, which started with a rally at 11 a.m. at Waterfront Park.
Marchers carried homemade signs; the crowd was diverse, with families, children, people with disabilities, and dogs.
Portland Police helped manage traffic. The Women’s March Portland was one of 20 sister events in Oregon.
Large crowds also gathered in Bend and Eugene’s march closed streets, according to news reports. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown joined marchers in Salem.
Portland, OR. It was standing room only at the opening night for the world premiere of PCS artistic director Chris Coleman’s Astoria: Part One. Based on Peter Stark’s book Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire, A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival, the play follows Jefferson and Astor’s quest to set up trade routes in the Pacific in the early 1800s. (Photo credit, Jennie Baker) It runs throughFeb. 12th. Click here for a link to tickets:
Part One is about the journey to Astoria and Part Two (premiering January, 2018) is about the establishment of Astoria, the first permanent United States settlement on the West Coast.
Broadway star Rodney Hicks, “Astoria” director/adaptor Chris Coleman, and OPB Oregon Art Beat producer Katrina Sarson.
Members of the “Astoria” creative team: Cutter/Draper Paula Buchert, Costume Shop Manager Alex Wren Meadows and Production Assistant Will Bailey.
Members of the cast of “Astoria”: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Ben Rosenblatt and Christopher Salazar
Tyler Burnet, Peter Stark, Peter’s wife, the dancer, choreographer and writer Amy Ragsdale, Leif Norby and Christopher Hirsh.
Astoria Sound Designer Matthew M. Nielson, Stage Manager Mark Tynan and Actor Christopher Hirsh.
Here are some photos from the produciton (photo credit, Jennie Baker)
Ben Newman as Simon Reznor, Leif Norby as Edward Robinson, Gavin Hoffman as Hoback, Shawn Fagan as Wilson Price Hunt and Jeremy Aggers as Donald Mackenzie. Photo by Jennie Baker.
Shaun Taylor-Corbett as a Shoshone guide and Leif Norby as John Jacob Astor in “Astoria: Part One.” Jennie Baker
Members of the Overland Party meeting with Arikara Chiefs. Michael Morrow Hammack as John Reed, Shawn Fagan as Wilson Price Hunt, Brandon Contreras as Pierre Dorion, Christopher Salazar as Le Gauche, Shaun Taylor-Corbett as Les Yeux Gris, Jeremy Aggers as Donald Mackenzie and Benjamin Tissell as Ramsay Crooks in “Astoria: Part One.” Jennie Baker
Members of the cast in “Astoria: Part One.” Photo by Kate Szrom. Jennie Baker
From PCS:
Adapted from the best-selling true story by Peter Stark, this harrowing dual journey — one over land, one by sea — will be told with a cast of sixteen actors. At a time when the edge of American settlement barely reached beyond the Appalachian Mountains, two visionaries — President Thomas Jefferson and millionaire John Jacob Astor — foresaw that one day the Pacific would dominate world trade as much as the Atlantic did in their day. Just two years after the Lewis and Clark expedition concluded in 1806, Jefferson and Astor turned their sights westward once again. Thus began one of history’s dramatic but largely forgotten turning points in the conquest of the North American continent. This monumental piece of American history will be told in two parts over the course of two seasons at Portland Center Stage. Part One is the journey to Astoria and Part Two is about the establishment of Astoria, the first permanent United States settlement on the West Coast.
Portland, OR. Bank of America employees and their families spent the day repackaging food at the Oregon Food Bank. Volunteers from Pacific Power and local community members also joined in the efforts. Corporate volunteers at the Portland and Beaverton locations packed more than 100,000 pounds of food – the equivalent of 83,000 meals.
Chris Swindell, Senior Vice President at Bank of America, hands Susannah Morgan, CEO of Oregon Food Bank, a big donation.
Bank of America employees, and their families, joined in the bank’s sixth annual MLK Day of Service.
The Sexual & Gender Minority Youth Resource Center offered special thanks to “Human Rights Campaign Portland” and Nike for helping out on the MLK Day of Service.
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette helped organize volunteer projects like this event at “p:ear” where volunteers were helping sort through art supplies.
Community members helped assemble STEM kits for local classrooms with help from Portland General Electric volunteers.
These kids came out to create greeting cards for seniors that will be delivered with hot meals by “Meals on Wheels People”.
Volunteers braved the cold at the ReBuilding Center, a nonprofit which provides salvaged and reclaimed materials to make home repairs affordable to everyone.
Americans across the country served in food banks, in schools, in hospitals and outdoors.
This is a photo of Martin Luther King Jr., from January of 1965, when he was a guest preacher at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.
About the national holiday:
“Dr. King’s life is a shining example that one person can make a difference and change the course of history,” said Wendy Spencer, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). “By volunteering in communities across the nation on the MLK Day of Service, we honor his legacy through the spirit of service. I am honored to serve alongside the hundreds of thousands of Americans who are turning their passion into action and giving back, and I am convinced that the day will inspire many to make volunteering part of their lives all year long.”
In 1994, Congress designated MLK Day as the first and only federal holiday observed as a national day of service, and charged CNCS with leading this effort. Participants in the agency’s AmeriCorps and Senior Corps programs are leading and joining in projects across the country. Americans may visit MLKDay.gov to find a service project for MLK Day or a year-round volunteer opportunity in their own community.
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