Portland, February 18th. Guests were dressed to the nines to enjoy a festive evening benefiting the Q Center. The organization builds public awareness and celebrates LGBTQ diversity through art, cultures and collaborative community programing. Movers and shakers at the event included: Barbara McCullough-Jones, Jim Taff, Judge Kemp, Beth Allen, Tim Bias, Ryan Wayman, Aaron Hall, Anne Viola, Mary Wheat, Laura Calvo (Photo Credit, Anna M Campbell)
The event was held at the YU Building in Southeast Portland (Photo Credit, Xilia Faye)
Logan Lynn, Mayor Sam Adams (Photo Credit, Byron Beck )
The Theme was "Never Out of Style"
LGBTQ stands for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer, or Questioning”.
From the Q Center:
The mission of the Q Center is to increase the visibility of and foster connection wtih metro Portland’s LGBTQ community. The center builds public awareness and support, and celebrates LGBTQ diversity through art, culture, and programming. Q Center is a community resource and reaches out to youth, seniors, families, people of color, and gender queer populations.
Information and referral services, prevention and wellness activities, and materials on Oregon’s LGBTQ history.
Programming addressing community concerns such as health and wellness, safe space for youth and older people, and the needs of today”s families including Kids Korner, a creative, flexible, family-friendly space for kids to play and parents to connect.
Monthly art installations and related events are generated by the art collective QuArt PDX.
Recurring events and activities, including monthly Family Play dates, bingo, Daddies and papas Potluck, and a weekly wrtiers group.
Rentable conference rooms, community event space, as well as office/creative space for Q Center programming.
Portland, February 27th. Here’s a horse racing update, just for fun… A 4-year-old Quarter Horse named, Danner, broke a 16-year-old racetrack record at Portland Meadows by clocking 300 yards in just 15.51 seconds. Jockey, Jose Zunino, rode Danner into the record books. Danner has now won 7 of 17 starts and made over $43,000. (Photo credit, Erin Palmer.)
Posing for a photo afterwards are Danner's owner Yaqueline Ibarra, trainer Hector Magallanes and jockey Jose Zunino
Danner had struggled a bit making the transition to running against older horses, but he got back on track on Monday at Portland Meadows as he set a new track record for 300 yards when he completed the course in 15.51 seconds. The old record was set by Thinkin Strawfly who ran 300 yards on April 30, 1995 in 15.55.
Danner was bred in the state of Oregon by Hayden Brothers Ranch.
Ashland, February 24th. The Tony Award–winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival is off and running; watch out for flying pies because Animal Crackers is one of the eleven productions this season. It’s the 1930s vaudevillian musical farce made famous by the Marx Brothers. (Photo credit, Jenny Graham)
John Parker (Eddie Lopez) and Mary Stewart (Laura Griffith) sing and dance their love for each other as Captain Spaulding (Mark Bedard) and Ravelli (John Tufts) prepare to join in. Photo: Jenny Graham.
Captain Spaulding (Mark Bedard), Ravelli (John Tufts), Jamison (Eddie Lopez) and The Professor (Brent Hinkley) serenade themselves and Mrs. Rittenhouse (K.T. Vogt). Photo: Jenny Graham.
“This season celebrates the adventurous spirit of our company and our audience,” explained Artistic Director Bill Rauch. “I can’t wait to share these productions. They are a delicious blend of old and new, tragedy and comedy, and the vastly divergent settings will transport audiences around the globe.”
The timeless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet comes once again to OSF’s stage, this time in the Angus Bowmer Theatre.
Romeo's (Daniel José Molina) heartache for Rosaline is forgotten as soon as he sees Juliet (Alejandra Escalante) at the Capulet party. Photo: Jenny Graham.
Director Laird Williamson has set the star-crossed lovers and their feuding families in the late 1840s Alta California—a period of California history rich with the culture of the Spanish-speaking Californios.
Romeo (Daniel José Molina) and Tybalt (Fajer Al-Kaisi) fight for the honor of their families as Benvolio (Kevin Fugaro) watches over the fallen Mercutio (Jason Rojas).
Doña Capulet (Vilma Silva) explains to Juliet (Alejandra Escalante) that Don Capulet hopes to marry her to Captain Paris. Photo: Jenny Graham.
The White Snake, a new work adapted from a Chinese fable, will have its world premier in Ashland. In this beloved Chinese legend, a snake spirit disguised as a beautiful woman falls in love with a young scholar. The production is staged by Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman
Green Snake captures the attention of White Snake (Amy Kim Waschke) and the customers in the pharmacy. Photo: Jenny Graham.
White Snake (Amy Kim Waschke) reveals her fears about Xu Xian (Christopher Livingston) to Green Snake (Tanya McBride). Photo: Jenny Graham.
Green Snake (Tanya McBride) and White Snake (Amy Kim Waschke) ride the clouds to the earth below. Photo: Jenny Graham.
OSF’s 2012 season runs through November 4th, offering 790 performances of 11 productions. The season is sponsored by U.S. Bank.
From Oregon Shakespeare Festival:
Founded in 1935, the Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is among the oldest and largest professional non-profit theatres in the nation. Each year OSF presents an eight-and-a-half-month season of eleven plays in three theatres plus numerous ancillary activities, and undertakes an extensive theatre education program. Operating on a budget exceeding $26 million, OSF presents more than 780 performances annually with attendance of approximately 400,000.
Portland, February 9th. Opening Night of the Portland International Film Festival drew 849 people The crowd at PCPA’s Newmark Theater enjoyed a screening of CBS Films’ Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Bridget Smith, Dan Heine, Roberta Heine, Dave Nutter, and Shanelle Pridemore attended as event supporters from Bank of Oswego. The Northwest Film Center, is the parent organization of the Portland International Film Festival.
Jessica Lyness, Abigail Press, and Annika Wagner
The Portland International Film Festival is the major film event in Oregon. This year the 18-day festival presented more than 93 feature films and 46 shorts from more than three dozen countries in all four quadrants of Portland and even branched out to Lake Oswego. Theater venues included the Portland Center for the Performing Arts, the Regal Cinemas at Pioneer Place and Lloyd Center Mall, the World Trade Center Theater, Cinemagic, Cinema 21, the Lake Twin Cinemas in Lake Oswego, and the Portland Art Museum’s Whitsell Auditorium.
John Yu, Kathy Zhany, Lauren McNerney, and Alexei Bein
Attendance over the course of the festival is expected to be over 35,000 people.
Opening night was sold out
Now in its 35th year, the Festival is sustained through the encouragement, leadership, and generosity of sponsors.
Shirley Carlson, Marina Stites, Jane Kennedy
This year’s Festival features the Portland premieres of 20 films submitted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, including: Breathing (Austria); Bullhead (Belgium); Monsieur Lazhar (Canada); Habanastation (Cuba); Declaration of War (France); Patagonia (Great Britain); Attenberg (Greece); The Turin Horse (Hungary); Volcano (Iceland); Abu, Son of Adam (India); Footnote (Israel); Postcard (Japan); Where Do We Go Now? (Lebanon); The Orator (New Zealand); Woman in the Septic Tank (Philippines); José y Pilar (Portugal); Morgen (Romania); The Front Line (South Korea); and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Turkey).
The Portland International Film Festival is sponsored by The Oregonian, Regal Cinemas, LAIKA, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Alaska Airlines, Wieden+Kennedy, Delta Airlines, James F. Marion Miller Foundation, and many more. Presentation of the Festival in Lake Oswego is made possible by the Bank of Lake Oswego and the City of Lake Oswego.
The Festival is produced by the Northwest Film Center, a regional media arts resource and service organization founded to encourage the study, appreciation, and utilization of the moving image arts, foster their artistic and professional excellence, and to help create a climate in which they flourish. In addition to the Portland International Film Festival, the Center produces the annual Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival, Portland Jewish Film Festival and a variety of year-round of film and video exhibition, educational and information programs serving Oregon and residents of the Northwest.
Portland, February 14th. It was a sweetheart of a fundraising drive. The Valentine’s Day for CCA appeal on 105.1 The Buzz and Fox 12 raised more than $466,000. Fox 12 Oregon’s Andy Carson and Pete Ferryman had a chance to visit with CCA fan Maile Heen and her sister Malia. The money raised will provide programs that deliver joy to critically ill children, teens and their family members. (Photo credit, Mercy McNab) Andy Lytle chaired the event for CCA.
The Buzz KRSK afternoon personalities Ted, Mitch and Daria helped with the annual event. CCA Founder and CEO Regina Ellis was also joined by Fox 12 Oregon personalities Kimberly Maus, Andy Carson, and Tony Martinez.
Community volunteers cheered on the 105.1 The Buzz and Fox 12 Oregon personalities, while answering phones and taking donations throughout the two-day annual fundraising event.
Portland’s own 105.1 The Buzz KRSK afternoon personalities Ted, Daria and Mitch encouraged radio listeners to get involved with the Children’s Cancer Association and make a difference in the lives of seriously ill children and teens in our community.
From CCA:
The Children’s Cancer Association (CCA) was established in loving memory of five-year-old Alexandra Ellis who courageously fought cancer for two and half years before she died on May 7, 1995. In the year of Alexandra’s death, CCA was born. Since then, CCA has worked to offer award-winning programs, along with information, advocacy and support that help enrich the quality of life for seriously ill children and their families. Our mission is to bring the joy of music, the magic of wishes, the power of information, and compassion to seriously ill children and their families.
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