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Scene at the Library: A Sampling of Portland Theatre
Sunday, October 1, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Central Library (801 S.W. 10th Ave), U.S. Bank Room
Phone Contact: (503) 988-5234
Sponsor Multnomah County Library
Multnomah County Library presents 'Scene at the Library'! Local theatre troupes present free sneak previews of upcoming plays, tell you more about their season, and answer your questions! Come enjoy the show and support local theatre!!
--- NOW SHOWING!! ---
Sunday, October 1 at 2 p.m. at the Central Library (801 S.W. 10th Ave), U.S. Bank Room
* Second-Hand Smoke *
defunkt theatre (www.defunktheatre.com)
Written by Mac Wellman, directed by James Moore
A nightmarish office meeting, a rooftop standoff between two sisters, and a big creepy mound with vents and standpipes are all stops on this playfully witty search for sincerity and dreams amidst plain old American orneriness.
**FREE**
Find information on all the 'Scene at the Library' events at http://www.multcolib.org/events/scene.html or call (503) 988.5234
SHAC 7 Movie Showing and Benefit $5
Sunday, October 1, 7:00pm
12 NE 10th Ave. Laughing Horse Books
Support Political Prisoners! Benefit for the SHAC 7
$5 suggested donation
The SHAC7 are 6 activists and a corporation, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA Inc., that have been found guilty of multiple federal felonies for their alleged role in simply campaigning to close down the notorious animal testing lab, Huntingdon Life Sciences. They are not accused of actually smashing windows, liberating animals or even attending demonstrations, rather reporting on and ecouraging others to engage in legal demonstrations and supporting the ideology of direct action.
Movie showing of Animal Liberation: History In The Making
This DVD documents the actions of the Animal Liberation Movement worldwide. From the classic scenes of the first A.L.F. raids on British laboratories and factory farms, to the legendary voyages of the sea shepherd fleet, ramming ships on the high sea to shut down illegal whaling and sealing operations, to the E.L.F., dedicated to taking the profit motive out of environmental destruction by causing economic damage to businesses, to activists of the A.L.F. using non-violent direct action in the defence of non-human life.
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Chris Marker's "Grin Without a Cat"
Sunday-Monday, October 1-2, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
1219 S.W. Park Ave [NWFC'S Whitsell Theater]
Sponsor: Cinema Project (503) 232-8269
Le Fond de l'air est rouge -- Directed by Chris Marker
Cinema Project and the Northwest Film Center are proud to present the Northwest premiere of Chris Marker's A Grin Without a Cat .Marker, who has been making and collaborating on work for over fifty years, is a cinematic essayist and audio-visual poet. He has directed such classics as Letters from Siberia, Cuba Si!, La Jetée, and Sans Soleil.. In the 1960's and 1970's he was actively involved with SLON, a filmmaking collective dedicated to activist production. Marker reemerged to make films under his own name again in 1977 with Le Fond de l'air est rouge [A Grin Without A Cat].
In 1968, "revolution was in the air" in Paris, Peking, Prague, and Peoria. This enormously compelling look at the international Left in the decade following 1967 is far reaching, idiosyncratic, satiric, committed. In the sixties, the "universal standard of civilization" assumed from the fifties began to collapse. The war in Vietnam was the watershed, and Marker hauntingly depicts its effect. He goes on to show the many civilian-police battles throughout Europe; the revolution within the revolution in Asia, South America, Czechoslovakia; the space between the police lines and the union stewards into which the French Left rushed in May '68; the assassination of princes (Che Guevara) and the deposing of kings (Richard Nixon); and those Cheshire cats known as politicians, who cannot explain why what was in the air never quite materialized on the ground. ----Pacific Film Archive
Le Fond de l'air est rouge [A Grin without a Cat] Parts I & II [1968-78. 35mm, b&w/color, sound, 180 min.]
Bolivia Documentary Night
Thursday, October 5, 7:00pm
Liberty Hall 311 N. Ivy Street
Sponsors: PCASC/Venezuela Media Exchange (503) 236-7916
Venezuela Media Exchange's Cine Club night will present two short documentaries about social movements and privatization in Bolivia. The first documentary, "El gas no se vende" is an indymedia produced film that provides an overview of the social conflicts in Bolivia up until 2003. The second, "Fuera," is specifically about the disastrous effects of water privatization in El Alto, Bolivia. There will also be food and discussion.
Third Friday Live Irish
Ceili Music and Dance
Friday, October 20, 8:00pm - 12:30am
P.P.A.A, 618 SE Alder (SE 6th Street)
Portland Ceili Society has been in the community for many years.
12 years and older enjoy these great monthly events
Contact: Sam Keator (503) 691-2078 sam.keator@verizon.net
http://www.ceili.wizardisland.org/
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