Community Events
Sunday, March 9, 2009
Portland International Women's Day 2007
We will be participating in International Women's Day at Portland State University. This event features female entertainers, women owened and/or operated businesses, and organizations that focus on women within our community and globally. It also showcases poetry and writing, health issues and educational workships designed by women for women. Join us!
Portland State University's Smith Center Ballroom (Map), 2-8 p.m.
Portland Community Cinema
We are delighted to partner with ITVS, Independent Lens, and Oregon Public Broadcasting to bring an exciting new film series to our hometown: Portland Community Cinema. On the last Wednesday of each month from September-May, we will be screening a social issue documentary at St. John's Theater (map). Each film will be followed by a panel discussion, and will be FREE TO THE PUBLIC. We are proud to facilitate an informed discussion about pressing social issues. The following is the schedule of films. Times and dates are subject to change.
Special thanks to Ethos Music Center for providing the sound equipment for Portland Community Cinema. Ethos is a not-for-profit organization that supports music programs in Portland schools. Please visit their storefront cafe and enjoy some "Coffee for a Cause." (Map)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Portland Community Cinema Screening: King Corn
Have you been wondering why Americans are so overweight? Or why certain foods are so cheap? Have you heard our average life expectancy is headed down, not up? Two college friends set out with director Aaron Woolf in search of answers to these questions and were surprised by what they discovered. You will be too as this film follows a crop of corn from seed to your dinner plate.
Panel discussion to follow with Curt Ellis, filmmaker; Lisa Sedlar, President of New Seasons Market; Mike Moran, Food Resource Manager at the Oregon Food Bank; and a representative from Sauvie Island organics
St. John's Theatre, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Portland Community Cinema Screening: A Dream in Doubt
It was the first hate-based murder in the wake of September 11, 2001--one of thousands of reported and unreported hate crimes in the years that followed. The victim: a turbaned Sikh man in Mesa, Arizona, where his family had sought religious freedom, searching for the American Dream. Meet a family still determined to believe in that dream, even as the nightmare continues for many religious and ethnic minorities in a climate of xenophobia and fear.
St. John's Theatre, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Portland Community Cinema Screening: New Year Baby
Born in a Thai refugee camp on Cambodian New Year, filmmaker Socheata Poeuv grew up in the United States never knowing that her family had survived the Khmer Rouge genocide. In NEW YEAR BABY, she embarks on a journey to Cambodia in search of the truth and why her family's history had been buried in secrecy for so long.
St. John's Theatre, 8 p.m.