Lightbox Kulturhaus.

 

On-going classes:

Personal Dance Technique:

Monday morning 9:30-11 a.m., Thursday night 5-6:45p.m.

Physical theater and Butoh dance training to cultivate authentic, spontaneous responses to set and scene. The Personal Dance is a practice of awakening the primitive body. Through exercises of expansion and contraction and in observance of the freedom of the breath and our bodies in 3-dimensional space, we gain greater movement choices and vocabulary. We come together to squeeze our individual stories from deep within ourselves. Play and dance inhabit the spaces in between.

teacher: jacob mooney

 

 

CLARMY: The New Cascadia Clown Army

a branch of the Cascadia Clown Clans and autonomous arm of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (c.i.r.c.a.)

Tuesday nights 7:30-11p.m.

A weekly gathering of clowns, buffoons, and tricksters who meet to practice physical theater games, samurai warrior training and devise absurdist responses to the collective consumer culture of insanity.

Facilitator: jacob mooney

 

Movement Research Lab: Embodied partner lifts and acrobatics

Thursdays 7-9p.m.

Teacher: Kraig Meade

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I dunno whether that calendar of classes is current, but that’s what the website shows me. Email them for more info, of course.

 

 

Joyce Campbell at Goldrush.

Stop by Goldrush Coffee Bar, check out the photos of MLK Boulevard in earlier years (there are photographs from the 1930s, and one from considerably earlier than that, on the walls), have some snacks…

and check out Joyce Campbell’s work. Actually, you can’t do that, this exhibition is over, and these pieces hung on the wall earlier this summer. Nevertheless, I like her ability to take used bicycle chains and from them, make something simple and sweet. Here’s the show:

 

 

 

 

 

 

McCoy Village, summer 2012.

The outside of some of the McCoy Village buildings, recently rehabbed low-income housing on the boulevard.

Prayer Project Portland

This is a little after the fact, but I thought it was interesting – certainly a bit of proof that MLK draws an amazing range of people pursuing so many disparate interests.

 

“Our thoughts and persistent prayers can send out powerful vibrations, that can create positive change,  in our economic, social, political, environmental, and individual quality of life.  Please join me in a consciousness raising experiment, to improve the quality of life in Portland, Oregon.  It will only cost you 10 minutes of your time a day.”

Macceo Pettis, Founder

Twerk: a Queer Dance Party, with DJ Slutshine, at Local – 9/28.

Summer Digital Festival, at PCM this Saturday.

 

Breaking Down Hip Hop’s Odyssey: a presentation at McCoy Village on 9/20

On Thursday, September 20^th, at 6:30 p.m. Walidah Imarisha is presenting the Oregon Humanities Conversation Project program Break It Down: Exploring Hip Hop’s Musical and Cultural Odyssey. This will be an interactive multimedia exploration of the various political, economic, and social forces that have shaped the world’s top-selling musical genre.

 

Write Around Portland workshop for seniors, and people with disabilities, at McCoy Village.

Write Around Portland is hosting a 10 week writing workshop for seniors and people with disabilities starting on Wednesday, September 19^th. This is an opportunity to explore the power of writing and community in a safe, respectful and creative environment. Writing journals, pens and light snacks are provided, and bus tickets are available for those who qualify.  To register, please contact me, Faith Buchanan, at 503-281-6109.