Cultural Event Calendar

RACC Public Art:
“Handmade Bicycle Exhibit at PDX”

Portland International Airport
Concourse E - for ticketed passengers only
Portland
503.823.5111
www.racc.org
From April to December, 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

Museum of Contemporary Craft:
“The Ceramics of Gertrud and Otto Natzler“

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



Focusing on work from a local collection and several museums, this exhibition provides a sampling of ceramics by the late Gertrud and Otto Natzler. The Natzlers – who became internationally known for their distinct lava and crater glazes and elegant yet simple pots, bowls, vases and other hand-thrown vessels – produced over 25,000 works together out of their Los Angeles-based studio between 1935 and 1971. This exhibition celebrates the Natzlers’ richly textured, colorful work and pays tribute to the lives of two important leaders in the history of modern ceramics. The exhibition also explores their influence on contemporary ceramics and includes work by Adam Silverman and Jeremy Briddell. Selected audio recordings, archival photographs and films will be available in the exhibition gallery.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Art Museum:
Eternal Celadon: Ceramics and Jades from East Asia

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

For thousands of years, the Chinese have treasured jade above gold or silver. Associated with magical healing powers and immortality, jade is extremely difficult to carve. Among ceramics, the celadons–green-glazed, high-fired wares nuanced with overtones of olive, gray, or blue–were prized not only for their resemblance to jade but because of the high level of technical sophistication they represent. This presentation brings together jades and ceramics from the Museum’s holdings and private collections to illustrate the resonance between stone and stoneware.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

RACC Public Art:
“Portland Grid Project Exhibit at PDX”

Portland International Airport
Concourse A - for ticketed passengers only
Portland
503.823.5111
www.racc.org/publicart/_PDXExhibitons.php
Portland Grid Project, a distinctive collective of local photographers who have been photographing Portland for over 10 years, has now been installed in Concourse A.

The photographers of the Portland Grid Project spent nine years (1996-2005) systematically documenting Portland. Now, with some new faces and perspectives, they continue looking at our ever-changing city in Round Two. They use a AAA map of Portland divided into grid squares a mile and a half on a side. Each month they all photograph the same randomly picked square, using a variety of films and formats and meet monthly to share their photos. They estimate that they have created a complex, detailed urban portrait, consisting of about 20,000 images of Portland, its land forms, architecture, people, residential neighborhoods, industrial sites, waterways, parks, and sometimes just a shadow or the look of a fallen leaf on a newly mowed lawn. (www.portlandgridproject.com)

RACC Program: RACC Public Art Program

Museum of Contemporary Craft:
“Manuf®actured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects “

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 “Manuf®actured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects,” an exhibition exploring how artists are taking mass manufactured objects and transforming them by hand to create art. Featuring works in a wide variety of disciplines, the exhibition focuses on pieces which operate simultaneously as art, craft and design. In development since early 2006 by guest co-curators and internationally-recognized design leader Steven Skov Holt and art historian Mara Holt Skov, the exhibition is the first of its kind to present a definitive look at this new, distinct object class.

Drawing on Marcel Duchamp's concept of the "readymade" - art objects created from found objects - the Skov Holts push boundaries of traditional craft, attempting to provide a fuller understanding of materiality and making. With work as diverse as Cat Chow's Bonded, a dress made entirely of one continuous zipper, and Jason Rogenes' towers crafted from polystyrene, Manuf®actured provokes as many questions as it answers, illuminating issues such as over-abundance, re-appropriation, the relationship between creator and creation and environmental awareness through thought-provoking reuse. The exhibition includes work by 17 artists from the U.S., England, France and the Netherlands, including: Hrafnhildur Arnardottir, Boris Bally, Harriete Estel Berman, Jerry Bleem, Constantin & Laurene Boym, Cat Chow, Sonya Clark, Mitra Fabian, Hella Jongerius, Livia Marin, Régis Mayot, Devorah Sperber, Jason Rogenes, Laura Splan, Marcel Wanders and Dominic Wilcox.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Art Museum:
Gifts of Honor: Beaded Bags from the Columbia River Plateau

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

For centuries, Native American artists have embraced and incorporated new materials into their work, creating cultural expressions in innovative ways. In the 19th century, extensive intertribal trade networks and Euro-american traders supplied Native people of the Columbia River Plateau with a variety of highly prized new materials, including glass beads and cloth from Europe. Artists quickly appreciated the possibilities for artistic and cultural expression and adapted these materials in inventive ways.

This installation presents 38 works from the late 19th through the first half of the 20th centuries. Preferences for bead colors, techniques, and designs are the markers of each individual artist and reflect and record the indigenous landscape and the radically changing place of the Plateau people. Today, as in the past, it is an honor to create beadwork. Beaded bags continue to be given as gifts to commemorate major life events and are proudly worn and displayed on special occasions.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Actors Conservatory:
Fall Adult Acting Classes

Firehouse Theatre
1436 SW Montgomery Street
Portland
503-274-1717
www.actorsconservatory.com
Fall Adult Classes in the flexible Conservatory and Studio programs are beginning September through December at the Portland Actors Conservatory. PAC’s Conservatory Program is a comprehensive and sequential professional actor-training program, and the Studio Program offers drop in classes on a class-to-class basis. Classes are open to the general public

Acting
Level 1 Acting with Beth Harper – (M) September 8 – November 17 - $350
Level 2 Acting with Connor Kerns – (M) September 15 – November 24 - $350
Meisner Technique with Barry Hunt – (F) September 19 – November 21 - $350
Acting for Film I with Buck Skelton – (Sat) September 20 – November 22 - $350
Scene Study, Classic American Playwrights with Sarah Lucht – (T) Oct. 14 – Nov. 11 - $275

Instrument
Voice with Connor Kerns – (T) September 16 – November 11 - $325
Improvisation with Maureen Porter and Philip Cuomo – (W) September 10 – Nov. 12 - $350
Breath & Energy with Sarah Lucht- (T-F) December 2 – 5 - $250

Text Analysis with Buck Skelton – (Th) September 18 – November 6 - $300
British Dialects with Connor Kerns- (W/Th) October 7 & 8 - $150
Irish Dialects with Connor Kerns- (W/Th) October 14 & 15 - $150

For a complete listing of classes with class descriptions and prerequisites, please view our website at www.actorsconservatory.com.

More classes offered, Winter & Spring 2008

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Lewis & Clark College Hoffman Gallery:
“Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art”

Lewis and Clark College Hoffman Gallery
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road
Portland
503-768-7687
www.lclark.edu/dept/gallery Tues-Sun 11am-4pm
Opening Reception 9/11, 5pm
Curator’s Talk 11/17, 7:30pm


“Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art” brings together 13 artists and artists groups from North America and Europe, all of whom incorporate sustainable thinking in their art and social change in their message.

Artists
Allora & Calzadilla
Free Soil (Amy Franceschini, Myriel Milicevic, and Nis Rømer)
JAM (Marianne Fairbanks and Jane Palmer)
Learning Group
(Brett Bloom, Julio Castro, Rikke Luther, and Cecilia Wendt)
Brennan McGaffey in collaboration with Temporary Services
(Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, Marc Fischer)
Nils Norman
People Powered (Kevin Kaempf)
Dan Peterman
Marjetica Potrc
Michael Rakowitz
Frances Whitehead
WochenKlausur
Andrea Zittel

This is a traveling exhibition co-organized by the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, and by iCI (Independent Curators International),
New York, and circulated by iCI. The exhibition is curated by
Stephanie Smith.

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

Write Around Portland:
Prompt: A New Community Writing Workshop

Powell’s City of Books
1005 W. Burnside
Portland
503.796.9224
www.writearound.org 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Write Around Portland Co-Founder Ben Moorad is facilitating a workshop 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. Prompt is your chance to write in community with others following the Write Around model while also providing support to writers who might not otherwise have access to writing and community. Registration is limited to 12 adults (18 and over), so sign up early. Cost: $285.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Ethos:
2008 Fall Classes

Ethos Music Center
10 N. Killingsworth Street
Portland
503-241-8824
www.ethos.org See website for dates and times

Ethos' Group Music classes give students the chance to take affordable music lessons in small groups (4 to 6 students). Classes are offered three times a year on most instruments. All of Ethos' classes are on a sliding scale and free instrument rental is available for students on scholarship.

Group classes have ten-week terms. Cost for Group Classes is $100 per term per student. We have Financial Aid available for students who qualify - Financial Aid applications are not available on-line - please contact the office to find out more.

Due date for registration: September 17th, 2008.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Lena McGrath Welker:
“Navigation [chart]”

Helzer Art Gallery PCC-Rock Creek Campus
17705 NW Springville Rd
Portland
503.614.7362
spot.pcc.edu/helzerartgallery
“Navigation [chart]” is an installation consisting of 130 folios placed in lighted vitrines, drawings ranging in size from three feet square to three feet by ten feet, small waxed abaca and gampi drawing clusters, and large pierced indigo gampi drawings of the night sky. The folios are usuyo gampi, a delicate, skin-like handmade paper from Japan. The paper is drawn, stitched, and folded into accordion folios, and re-worked until the compositions are set. Approximately half of the folios are then indigo dyed. Opened out, they resemble old maps, stained and watermarked. Partially folded, the imagery is somewhat obscured, but the translucency of the paper hints at what lies behind the surface. The only illumination in the gallery will come from the seven wall-mounted vitrines. The pierced drawings will be suspended above the vitrines to allow light to pass through the holes. On the floor are stacks of 130 etched and incised glass tablets, also referring to constellations.

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

Portland Center Stage:
“Guys & Dolls”

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


A Musical Fable of Broadway, Based on a Story and Characters of Damon Runyan, Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser, Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows; Directed by Chris Coleman

How could a bunch of rough and tumble gangsters end up singing about “the boat to heaven” in a Times Square mission? Anything’s possible when love is on the line, and never more so than in Guys and Dolls, one of the greatest American musicals of all time. Based on Damon Runyon’s gritty tales of the 1930s NYC underworld, bursting with colorful characters, and with a score that features iconic hits like “Luck Be a Lady” and “I’ve Never Been in Love Before,” Guys and Dolls promises to light up the night.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

RACC Public Art:
“Natural Cycles: A Celebration of Art in the Forest”

Tryon Creek State Park
11321 SW Terwilliger Blvd
Portland
503-636-4398
www.TryonFriends.org 9/27 Preview tour/Dinner 5-8pm
9/28 Family Day 2-4pm

On September 27th, Northwest artists will unveil five temporary forest art installations on the Trillium Trail at Tryon Creek State Park. In its fourth year, “Natural Cycles: A Celebration of Art in the Forest” aims to generate an awareness of how nature and art are intertwined. The five temporary artworks will be on display for a year during regular park hours. Natural Cycles is a collaborative project between Friends of Tryon Creek State Park, the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) and Oregon State Parks.

“The Natural Cycles” September 2008 events include a Preview Tour and Opening Dinner with the Artists fundraiser on Saturday, September 27th from 5 to 8 pm. A free Natural Cycles Family Day will be held on September 28th from 2 to 4 pm and will feature special hands-on art activities for adults and children along the Trillium Trail.

A RACC public art committee picked the five temporary artworks to be installed this September in Tryon Creek State Park. The 2008 artists/art installations selected were: Brennan Conaway, Portland, Oregon (Invader); Lee Imonen, Dexter, Oregon (The Source Series); Julie Lindell, Seattle, Washington (Nontrivial Pursuit); Jen Pack, Warrenton, Oregon (Forevergreen Tuffet) and Vicki Lynn Wilson, Portland, Oregon (Fung-US).

RACC Program: RACC Public Art Advisory Service

Portland Art Museum:
APEX: Jonathan Lasker

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 exhibition features five recent large-scale oil paints by this New York based artist, which illuminate complex modernist art historical references and superb formal technique. Manifestly precise in execution and explicitly physical, the works are focused on the interrelationships between image, surface and prevailing theories of abstraction.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Art Museum:
Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957

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 dramatic scenic beauty of the Columbia River Gorge and its historic significance as a transportation corridor have led to the richest photographic legacy of any landform in the Pacific Northwest. Approximately 300 images in “Wild Beauty” - organized by Terry Toedtemeier—the Museum's Curator of Photography since 1986 and an accomplished photographer—chronicle an ever changing range of styles in landscape photography.chronicle the evolving character of the Gorge, from its subtly changing landscape prior to the arrival of Anglo-European settlers to the completion of The Dalles hydroelectric dam. In these distinctive 90 miles between the river’s confluence with the Sandy River and where it meets the Deschutes River, human and natural history, and the diversity of geography, climate, and ecosystems have been interwoven. These themes are abundantly evident in the photographs that comprise “Wild Beauty.”

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Art Museum:
Making Merry: The Circus and Carnival in Graphic Art

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.

Evolving from the itinerant “commedia dell’arte” theater of the late Italian Renaissance, carnivals and circuses have entranced artists for centuries. Often viewed as a metaphor for the human condition and the absurdity of life, these spectacles were a dominant motif in the works of such artists as Georges Rouault, Pablo Picasso, and Max Beckman. This exhibition traces the theme of the circus and carnival from the 17th to the 21st centuries in prints and drawings.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Literary Arts:
Delve: Readers' Seminars Charles Dickens: Bleak House

John Wilson Special Collections room at Multnomah County Central Library
801 S.W. 10th Avenue
Portland, OR
503.227.2583
www.literary-arts.org Tuesdays 6:30 - 8:30 PM

How can one novel do as much as Bleak House does? Simultaneously leveling a scathing critique on the British legal system, protesting the evils of urban pollution and poverty, parodying the efforts of nineteenth-century philanthropists, and inventing the genre of the detective novel, Dickens’ masterpiece offers participants rich material for exploring the world of Victorian literature.

Guide: Lois Leveen, a former faculty member at UCLA, is a writer whose work has appeared most recently in the Oregon Literary Review and on the radio program Live Wire.
Tuition: $150

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Center Stage:
R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY [and Mystery] OF THE UNIVERSE

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


“Everything you’ve learned in school as ‘obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.” - Buckminster Fuller

Does humanity have the chance to endure successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how? This is the question framed by Buckminster Fuller, the engineer, designer, poet, and philosopher who, among other things, was Mensa’s second president and invented the geodesic dome. Join us for an unforgettable journey inside one of the most remarkable minds of the 20th century in a one-man show that blends videos, lectures, poetry and a healthy dash of humanist humor. A hero of the sustainability movement, Bucky framed many of the great ideas of his time and ours. This is your chance to get to know the man behind the world-saving mission.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Profile Theatre:
“Fools”

Theater! Theatre! Building
3430 SE Belmont Street
Portland, OR
503.242.0080
www.profiletheatre.org *Please see website for details

The Ukrainian village of Kulyenchikov is full of idiots, a parade of comic characters cursed with stupidity for over 200 years. An ambitious teacher, Leon Tolchinsky, is determined to break the curse by teaching something, anything, to young Sophia, and is falling in love with her in the process. Simon's comic fable, a nod to Yiddish folk tales, challenges us all to answer this timely question: "What does it take to wake a village of sleepy idiots?"

LEON: Doctor, I don't believe in curses. Curses are old wives' tales.

DOCTOR: You're thinking of Noychka. In Noychka all the old wives have tails. That was their curse. Our is altogether different.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Artists Repertory Theatre:
“Speech & Debate”

Artists Repertory Theatre, Morrison Street Studio
1515 SW Morrison
Portland, OR
503-241-1278
www.artistsrep.org See website for details

This added attraction to the 2008-2009 season follows three young misfits in a Salem, Oregon classroom as they discover that they are linked by a sex scandal that has rocked their town. It’s an IM and text messaging world, where grown-up ideas mix with childish will, high school ambitions and teenaged bravado. With a nod to musical comedy – including a musical version of “The Crucible” – Karam takes a peek at what, if anything, it means to be an adult.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Art Museum:
APEX: MK Guth

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.

Multidisciplinary artist MK Guth explores the concepts of personal and collective identity as understood through myth, fairytales, and heroic figures. Referencing the fairytale Rapunzel and its epic braid, Guth’s Ties of Protection and Safe Keeping is an interactive sculpture composed of more than a quarter mile of synthetic golden hair. Guth asked community members across the country, “What is worth protecting?” Answers ranging from the profound to the profane were handwritten on red flannel ribbons and gradually incorporated into one continuous braid. The finished braid poignantly embodies the diverse voices of America in today’s complex times.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Oregon Children’s Theatre:
Roald Dahl's “James and the Giant Peach”

Newmark Theatre
1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR
503-228-9571
www.octc.org Friday: 7:00 p.m., Saturdays: 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., Sundays: 2:00 p.m.


When James drops magic crystals by his aunts’ peach tree, a peach starts growing…and growing and growing! Before long, it’s as big as a house, with a secret entranceway. Upon entering the peach, James finds himself the leader of a group of child-size insects living inside the pit. After the peach rolls into the sea, James and his friends must use their individual skills and work together to save the peach from marauding sharks, dangerous Cloud-Men, and tricky landing in New York City.

Best For: The whole family

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Museum of Contemporary Craft:
“New work by Hilary Pfeifer“

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 PMFirst Thursday opening November 6, 5-8 PM

Hilary Pfeifer (aka “Bunny with a Toolbelt”) turns The Gallery’s front window into a fantasyland, constructing an entire scene of wooden figures. Inspired by Henri Rousseau and Grimm’s fairy tales, Bunnywood depicts a train bringing Thanksgiving dinner to a hungry crowd, an animal companion petting zoo and woodland scene.

Hilary Pfeifer received a RACC Project Grant for this installation.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Blue Sky Gallery:
Photographs by Bobby Neel Adams, Marrigje de Maar and Jennifer Cheek Pantaléon

Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland
503.225.0210
www.blueskygallery.org 12 -5 pm Tuesday - Sunday
First Thursday 11/6 6pm
Artist Talk with Jennifer Cheek Pantaléon, 11/8 at 3pm


In November, Blue Sky Gallery exhibits Family Tree by Bobby Neel Adams, Dutch Light in China by Marrigje de Maar and The Legacy of Lefanmi Selavi: Street Children in Haiti by Jennifer Cheek Pantaléon.

Family Tree is a series of portraits by Bobby Neel Adams that combine two separate photographs of immediate family members into one image. A Family Tree portrait visually maps the genetic characteristics we inherit and demonstrates how we are genetically coded from the moment of conception.

Marrigje de Mar shoots interiors all over the world. For Dutch Light in China, de Mar traveled to China without knowing a word of Chinese. De Mar believes that within their own walls, people feel safe enough to be themselves.

In The Legacy of Lefanmi Selavi: Street Children in Haiti, Jennifer Cheek Pantaléon has documented the lives of Haitian street children in sometimes quiet, sometimes unruly, always beautiful and touching black and white photographs. Pantaléon uses photography as a way to make visual memories.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant and RACC Opportunity Grant for “Library of Dust”

NW Film Center:
35th Northwest Film & Video Festival

Whitsell Auditorium Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park
Portland
503 221-1156
www.nwfilm.org See website for complete schedule

With the vast variety of new film festivals (a great thing) cropping up each year, the Northwest Film & Video Festival remains unique as both the region’s oldest and most comprehensive showcase of new regional work, and as the only one—for three decades now—that has a touring program. While many of the films the festival showcases also find national and international audiences with their regionalism uncelebrated, here, that recognition and the camaraderie of bringing makers and audience together to recognize and inspire each other is in fact the goal.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Opera:
“Fidelio” by Ludwig Van Beethoven

Keller Auditorium
SW 3rd & Clay
Portland
503.241.1802
www.portlandopera.org Nov 7, 2008
Friday 7:30 pm
Nov 9, 2008
Sunday 2:00 pm
Nov 13, 2008
Thursday 7:30 pm
Nov 15, 2008
Saturday 7:30 pm


“The triumph of fidelity, freedom, and the human spirit.”

Beethoven’s only opera is a towering tour de force. When her husband is thrown into prison for his passionate stand against tyranny, Leonore faces her life’s pivotal moment. Does she wait and risk his death or do whatever it takes to save his life? For her, the edge is a place to jump heroically into action. Her courage and fidelity drive a harrowing rescue that will have you cheering in one of opera’s most uplifting endings.

Beethoven’s triumphant score—as symphonic as it is vocal—is a magnificent tribute to fidelity, freedom, and the indomitable human spirit.
Sung in German with projected English translations.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Lakewood Theatre Company:
“YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU”

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

At the zany Sycamore household, presided over by Grandpa Vanderhof, everyone does just what he or she pleases. The one "normal" family member is granddaughter Alice, who is in love with her boss, Tony Kirby. When Tony's stuffy parents come to visit, you can expect a few fireworks and even a police raid! Winner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Best Play.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Dan Gilsdorf:
“Interiotrope”

Disjecta Interdisciplinary Arts Center
8371 N. Interstate Avenue
Portland
503-282-5675
www.dangilsdorf.com Gallery hours: Fri-Sun, 12-6 pm and by appointment
Opening Reception: 11/8, 6-10 pm

Dan Gilsdorf’s “Interiotrope” is a theater of light and machines in the hidden space of hollow walls, the virtual space of digital video, and the inverted space of reflections. It breaks the rules of traditional exhibition architecture by infiltrating the gallery and breaches surfaces which normally delineate interior space. Interiotrope mixes computer-controlled lights, sound, and kinetic elements to create a multimedia exhibition full of wings, motors, chandeliers, and ink-elements that converge to create a unique, energetic and introspective show.

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

PICA:
PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series (PMMNLS): Courtney Fink

PSU: Shattuck Hall Room 212
1914 SW Park Avenue,
Portland , OR
503.242.1419
www.pica.org 7:30 PM

An arts administrator, writer, curator, artist, sometimes publisher, Fink is the executive director of Southern Exposure, a long-running arts non-profit dedicated to "presenting diverse, innovative, contemporary art, arts education, and related programs and events in an accessible environment." Located in San Francisco's Mission district, Southern Exposure's programming has been providing local, regional, and international visual artists' work, education programs, and lectures, panel discussions, and performances since 1974.

Portland State University's Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. The Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series (PMMNLS) is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, and PSU's Department of International Studies. FREE

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

White Bird:
Uncaged Series: Kidd Pivot

Kaul Auditorium, Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock BLVD
Portland, OR
503.245.1600
www.whitebird.org 8:00 PM

Kidd Pivot, brainchild of Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, hailed as one of the most brilliant dance artists working today. In Lost Action, Pite has assembled a dynamic group of seven dancers who sculpt space in real-time, working inside a form - dance - that is constantly in a state of vanishing. Set to an original score by composer Owen Belton, Lost Action celebrates the intricacy and freedom of the articulated body and unfolds to reveal the pulsating heart at its innermost core.

White Bird also received a RACC Opportunity Grant for the Uncaged Series.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Angelle Hebert:
“Grub” a full evening of contemporary dance

IFCC
5340 N. Interstate
Portland
971-221-2518
www.rubberteeth.com 7pm & 9pm

“Grub” explores the complexities, oddities, and layers of group dynamics, human relationships, and the relationship to self. In a world where human contact is no longer a necessity for survival, disconnection and isolation thrive, causing individual existence to drift and obscure from reality and manufactured experiences become dominant. Identities are warped and fabricated, and interaction becomes a series of misfires, a foreign and precarious playing field. Performed as a sextet, this new work will investigate emotional extremes, associated intimacies, and awkward encounters related to social interaction and the exploration of individuality. Equipped with cameras, the performers cinematically reveal through projected images a new, filtered perspective, isolating or intensifying moments on stage. Expressed through tense, contorted, idiosyncratic movement, distinct characters emerge and dissolve in a series of duets, trios and solos. An original sound score of arresting melodies, waves of raw dissonance and live vocalization and singing complete this exploration of identity and complex relationships, navigating a clumsy path toward human reconnection and truth.

Conceived and Directed by: Angelle Hebert and Phillip Kraft
Choreography: Angelle Hebert
Original Music: Phillip Kraft
Performers: Gina Frabotta, Lee Kyle, Melissa Murray, Elizabeth Nalley, Celeste Olivares and Noel Plemmons

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

Tears of Joy Theatre:
“The Jungle Book”

Winningstad Theatre
1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR
503-248-0557 or
360-695-3050

www.tojt.org *Please see website for details

By Reg Bradley, based on the book by Rudyard Kipling

What is a family? Explore the Indian jungle with Mowgli as he tries to discover to which family he belongs. Monkey? Wolf? Man? The audience participates as members of the wolf pack as this powerful play unfolds.
Ages 4 and up.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Oregon Symphony:
Lauderdale Plays Gershwin

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

www.orsymphony.org Saturday, at 7:30 PM
Sunday, at 7:30 PM
Monday, at 8:00 PM



Here's a program Portland won’t soon forget: The city's musical Favorite Son – classically trained Pink Martini founder Thomas Lauderdale – shows his keyboard chops as the piano soloist in George Gershwin's jazzy-bluesy Concerto in F.

Christoph Campestrini, conductor
Thomas Lauderdale, piano

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Shu-Ju Wang:
Relay/Replay: Artist’s Books that Illuminate the Creative Lives of the Elderly

John Wilson Special Collections Central Library
801 S.W. 10th Avenue
Portland
503.988.6287
www.multcolib.org Tues 2:30-5:30 p.m.
Wed 3:30-7 p.m.
Fri 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Sat 2:30-6 p.m.
12/6 1pm Artist Talk

Portland artist Shu-Ju Wang spent eight months working with four seniors at various stages of memory loss. Through conversation, painting, printmaking, and collage, she engaged these delightful individuals; together they created artwork that became the foundation to this collection of artist's books. Shu-Ju has been making artist’s books using the Print Gocco for 10 years, and this collection draws heavily on her skills as a Gocco printer and book maker.

These books and two room divider screens are also showing at Rose Schnitzer Manor, 6140 SW Boundary Street, Portland, Oregon
December 1 – December 14, 2008
Public hours from 11 AM to 5 PM

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

Oregon Arts Commission:
1st Annual Oregon Arts Education Congress

The Kennedy School
5736 N.E. 33rd Ave.
Portland
503.986.0085
www.oregonartscommission.org 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

The Oregon Arts Commission will convene the 1st Annual Oregon Arts Education Congress in Portland on November 17, 2008 in Portland. The Congress will gather 100 representative leaders - teachers and administrators, artists, arts education providers, government and political leaders, leaders from higher education, business leaders, parent advocates, arts advocates, creative industries spokespeople, elected officials, and liaisons from key statewide associations - for the one day meeting, which will result in a first draft “Bill of Creative Rights” for Oregon’s K-12 students.

Broad public input will ground the Congress discussions, gathered in October via online surveys distributed statewide.

The Goal: By June, 2009, development of a multi-year long range plan for improving arts education statewide, with broadly aligned partnerships and public support.

More information will be available in early October. If you have questions, please contact Deb Vaughn, Arts Education Coordinator at the Arts Commission, at Deborah.Vaughn@state.or.us or (503) 986-0085.

RACC supports their partner, the Oregon Arts Commission, in advancing arts education in Oregon.

RACC Program:

PICA:
PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series (PMMNLS): Stephanie Smith

PSU: Shattuck Hall Room 212
1914 SW Park Avenue,
Portland , OR
503.242.1419
www.pica.org 7:30 PM

Stephanie Smith is director of collections and exhibitions and curator of contemporary art at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, where she has produced many exhibitions, including major commissions by artists such as Dawoud Bey, Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Wendy Jacob, Laurie Palmer, Dan Peterman, and Temporary Services. She has written on contemporary art and sustainability for Parkett and contributed an essay on art museums and sustainability to Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook. Among her accomplishments as a curator are the exhibitions Ecologies (2000) and Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art (2005).

Portland State University's Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. The Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series (PMMNLS) is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, and PSU's Department of International Studies. 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

Artists Repertory Theatre:
“Holidazed”

Artists Repertory Theatre, Alder Stage
1515 SW Morrison
Portland, OR
503-241-1278
www.artistsrep.org See website for details

Portland author Acito, winner of the Oregon Book Award for How I Paid for College, co-wrote his first play with screenwriter Cynthia Whitcomb. In this hilarious look at one extraordinary holiday season in suburban America, a middle-class couple takes in a homeless “goth” girl, tattoos, piercings and all. She hates the holidays – except Halloween, of course – so the merriment begins in October. Against the odds, they make their way through a disastrous Thanksgiving and an outrageous Christmas to discover what it truly means to be a family.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

RACC:
Art Spark

Living Room Theaters
341 SW 10th
Portland
503.823.5111
www.portlandartspark.com 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Every third Thursday of the month, RACC sponsors this networking event for artists. Artists of all sorts are welcome to come and discuss, blather, applaud & plot the growth of the arts in Portland. There will be a different host from the art community each time and venues will vary.

Nov 20: Host, Laika Studios, talking about their current projects and will screen some sneak peeks.

RACC Program: RACC Administration

Do Jump!:
DO JUMP! actorbats rehearse and perform

OMSI
1945 SE Water Avenue
Portland
503.231.1232
www.dojump.org 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Come see DO JUMP! secrets revealed at OMSI. Learn how they create some of their most popular illusions, like the hilarious nutcracker spoof and black light piece. Watch DO JUMP! actorbats rehearse and perform. Participate in hands-on workshops. This is also a unique opportunity to witness the beginning of a collaboration between OMSI and DO JUMP! to create a performance base science exhibit.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Piano International:
Jeffrey Siegel in a Keyboard Conversation: “The Power and Passion of Chopin”

Sherman Clay/Moe’s Pianos
131 NW 13th Ave
Portland, OR
503.228.1388
www.portlandpiano.org 7:30 PM

Jeffrey Siegel studied with Rosina Lhévinne at Juilliard and (as a Fulbright Scholar) with Ilona Kabos in London. He has performed with major orchestras in Berlin, London, Moscow, The Hague, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago, and has collaborated with Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Charles Dutoit, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, and Michael Tilson Thomas, among others. Free Admission.

ALL-CHOPIN Waltz in F Major, Op. 34, No. 3
PROGRAM:
Impromptu No. 4 in C-sharp minor, Op. 66 (Fantaisie-Impromptu)
Larghetto from Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp minor, Op. 39
Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 42
Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op 50, No. 3
Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Profile Theatre:
“Lost in Yonkers” - Staged Reading

Theater! Theatre! Building
3430 SE Belmont Street
Portland, OR
503.242.0080
www.profiletheatre.org *Please see website for details

A Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, Lost in Yonkers is a touching portrayal of acceptance, survival and family dynamics set during WWII. While their father is away earning money to pay off old debts, motherless young brothers, Arty and Jay, spend a year with their emotionally unavailable grandmother and mentally challenged Aunt Bella (punctuated with midnight visits by gangster Uncle Louie). Striking a balance between comedy and tragedy, Lost in Yonkers features a cast of dysfunctional family members dealing with grief and old wounds, while moving forward into the future with optimism and a new generation.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Literary Arts, Inc.:
Portland Arts and Lectures: Annie Leibovitz

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
SW Broadway at Main
Portland
503.227.2583

www.literary-arts.org 7:30 PM

How does a single image capture an entire era? Time and again, the answer can be found in Annie Leibovitz’s provocative photographs, which have become as famous as the celebrities who are her subjects. In iconographic images such as her Rolling Stone cover portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, taken hours before Lennon’s death, or her Vanity Fair cover portrait of a naked, pregnant Demi Moore, Leibovitz reveals the vulnerability that lies beneath celebrity.

Leibovitz’ most recent collection, “A Photographer’s Life 1990—2005,” explores the line between the private and the public in new ways, by contrasting her celebrity and political portraits with photojournalism from Sarajevo, landscape photography of the American west and intimate pictures of her family and friends. Leibovitz will publish a new book in the fall and her appearance in Portland is one of only four that she will make in 2008.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

PICA:
Reception with Guest Artistic Director Cathy Edwards

PICA Resource Room
224 NW 13th Ave
Portland , OR
503.242.1419
www.pica.org 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Join PICA staff, PICA members, and local supporters for a private reception to celebrate our new Guest Artistic Director Cathy Edwards. This is your chance to get to know Cathy over a glass of wine as she talks about her plans for TBA:09. We'll also take a look back at TBA:08 with our Final Report on hand and look forward to hearing about your favorite Festival moments!

Cathy Edwards comes to Portland having been Artistic Director of Dance Theater Workshop (DTW) in New York and, most recently, in her current role as the Director of Programming for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, CT. While at DTW, Ms. Edwards was recognized by The New York Times for supporting “provocative, experimental choreographers,” and for “daring curatorial choices [that] showed her to be as creative and imaginative as many of the artists she booked.” She was also recognized for her support of international artists and her dedication to commissioning and presenting work from a next generation of important performing artists.

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 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

Columbia Symphony Orchestra:
Orchestral Voices

503-234-4077

www.columbiasymphony.org 11/21 7:30 pm
11/23 3:00 pm

A voyage through some of opera's greatest overtures and fantasies. PYP Concertmaster Brandon Garbot solos in two works.

11/21 First United Methodist Church
1838 SW Jefferson Street
Portland, Oregon

11/23 Good Shepherd Community Church
28986 SE Haley Road
Boring, Oregon

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Portland Baroque Orchestra:
Pergolesi, Naples, and Julius Caesar

First Baptist Church - Fridays & Saturdays, Kaul Auditorium, Reed College - Sundays - See pbo website for more information
503-222-6000
www.pbo.org Fridays & Saturdays 7:30 pm
Sundays 3:00 pm

Nicholas McGegan, renowned director of San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque, makes his debut performances with Portland Baroque Orchestra. Canadian countertenor Matthew White returns with his sensitive and thrilling singing, joined by Yulia Van Doren, who enthralled audiences last December in Handel's Messiah.

Full Program
Francesco Durante Concerto No. 8 in A major “La Pazzia”
Georg Frideric Handel Selections from the opera Julius Caesar,
Yulia van Doren (Cleopatra); Matthew White (Caesar)
Leonardo Leo Concerto for 4 violins & continuo in D major
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Stabat Mater
Yulia van Doren, solo soprano; Matthew White, solo alto

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Oregon Symphony:
Brahms Violin Concerto

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

www.orsymphony.org Saturday, at 7:30 PM
Sunday, at 7:30 PM
Monday, at 8:00 PM



How will the brilliant young Korean-American virtuoso Jennifer Koh handle the Brahms concerto – one of the most important works ever written for violin? A hint: The Washington Post describes Koh as a musician with “penetrating intelligence that drives her to find new approaches to familiar works.”

Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor
Jennifer Koh, violin

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Beaverton Arts Commission:
Public Art Dedication

On Lombard at Broadway
Beaverton, OR
503.526.2288
www.beavertonarts.org/ 10:00 AM

Beaverton’s newest pulbic space was designed using environmentally friendly construction practices and materials where possible. The plaza also features two new, temporary sculpture installations: “Hillaway Ponies” by Nicholas Legeros and “R-Square”by Ryan Beard (funded in part by a RACC Project Grant). The pieces were selected based on their artistic merit and sustainability (both were created from recycled materials) and will be on display for one year.

RACC Program: RACC Project Grant

Friends of Chamber Music:
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

Monday, First United Methodist Church, 1838 SW Jefferson St
Tuesday, Kaul Auditorium, 3203 SE Woodstock
Portland, OR
503-2249842
www.focm.org 7:30 PM

Recognized for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and often daring repertory choices, the Pacifica Quartet has carved out a compelling musical path. Since the group first came together in 1994, the ensemble has swept top prizes in several leading international competitions from the Cleveland Quartet Award to the Naumburg. In 2006, the Pacifica was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant – only the second chamber music ensemble ever to be selected.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

PICA:
PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series (PMMNLS): Matthew Higgs

PSU: Shattuck Hall Room 212
1914 SW Park Avenue,
Portland , OR
503.242.1419
www.pica.org 7:30 PM

Matthew Higgs is a British artist, curator, writer and publisher, currently based in New York where he directs White Columns, New York's oldest alternative art space. Since 1992 Higgs has organized more than 100 exhibitions and projects with artists and contributed essays and interviews to more than 50 publications and art magazines including Artforum, frieze, Art Monthly and Afterall. A foremost contemporary curator, Higgs is also an avid supporter of non-profits, recently exhibiting the work of Creative Time, a bay-area non-profit for disabled adult artists.

Portland State University's Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. The Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series (PMMNLS) is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, and PSU's Department of International Studies. 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

The Portland Ballet:
“La Boutique Fantasque”

Newmark Theatre PCPA
1111 SW Broadway
Portland
503-452-8448
www.theportlandballet.org 11/28 & 29 - 2:30pm & 7:30pm


Now in its 6th year, The Portland Ballet’s beloved production of “La Boutique Fantasque” - translated in English as “the Enchanted Toyshop” - has become a tradition for families in the community. La Boutique Fantasque is based on an 1888 Viennese ballet by Joseph Bayer entitled Die Puppenfee, "translated in English as the Fairy Doll. Leonide Massine created” La Boutique Fantasque” in 1919 for impresario Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The Portland Ballet’s production has been skillfully updated specifically for the youth company’s dancers by ballet legend John Clifford, former Artistic Director of Los Angeles Ballet.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Tears of Joy Theatre:
“Puppetz vs. People”

Winningstad Theatre
1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR
503-248-0557 or
360-695-3050

www.tojt.org *Please see website for details

A collaboration with Comedy Sportz

Tears of Joy and Comedy Sportz collaborate on this hilarious improvisational competition between a team of puppets and a team of people.
Ages 10 and up.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Do Jump!:
Home for the Holidays

Echo Theater
1515 SE 37th Avenue
Portland
503.231.1232
www.dojump.org
New works, old favorites, and daily surprises. Acrobatics, aerial dance, live original music by Klezmocracy. An evening of pure Do Jump fun!

After every show, the Do Jumpers, the band, and our friends are going to be jamming together, and you're invited to join us:
- Come to an all-city tap jam or a Chanukah dance party.
- Play in a drumming and singing circle with Do Jump composer Joan Szymko or a ukelele jam with the Portland Ukelele Association.
- Dance to the electic sounds of Klezmocracy or take a company class with the Do Jumpers.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

Oregon Symphony:
Von Trapp Family Christmas

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

www.orsymphony.org Saturday, at 7:30 PM
Sunday, at 3:00 PM



The great-grandchildren of the famous von Trapp family who inspired The Sound of Music are featured in a wonderful family concert for the holiday weekend. With seamless harmonies, the occasional yodel and outfits from the Captain and Maria’s own closets, these youngsters from Montana have toured the world and charmed audiences of all ages.

Jeff Tyzik, conductor
The Von Trapp Family Children, vocals

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant

BodyVox:
Portland Guadalajara Sister City Association Benefit

Newmark Theater PCPA
1111 SW Broadway
Portland
503.229.0627
www.bodyvox.com 7 pm
*See website for more information

One of the most unique international projects of its kind, Jardin Portland brings together the people of two Sister Cities - Portland, Oregon and Guadalajara, Mexico - to create a public park that will provide a global model for landscape design, environmental sustainability and cultural and tourism exchange.

The fundraising performance by BodyVox to benefit Jardin Portland has been re-scheduled for 7 p.m. Sunday, November 30 at the Newmark Theatre (1111 SW Broadway). If you have purchased tickets for our previously-planned event, they will be honored for the updated performance date.

RACC Program: RACC General Support Grant