Events - Southeast Center
Located at 2305 SE 82nd and Division, the Southeast Center is a modern, new facility that was built with bonds approved by district residents in 2000.
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Monday, May 12
The Last Regiment - Music Performance
12 noon-12:30pm, Mt. Tabor Great Hall
PCC President Preston Pulliams Receives Harry Widman's Featured Art
Join us at Southeast Center for a rockin' opening ceremony with the Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers. Fresh, dynamic and impossible to ignore, this high-energy group puts the beatback in ArtBeat. Following this, join us as PCC President Preston Pulliams accepts the painting "Mother and Daughter" from featured artist Harry Widman. Refreshments served.
Featured Artist Harry Widman - Artist Talk
12:30pm-1:30pm, Mt. Tabor Hall Room 109
Harry Widman's creative influence as an artist and art educator has been widely felt by a generation in the Pacific Northwest. In an illustrated lecture, Widman talks about his creations-forms initially derived from nature, including the human figure, which are transformed through formal art processes into visionary images.
Jim Krusoe-Literary Reading
7pm-8pm, Mt. Tabor Hall Room 143/144
Notable author, essayist and poet Jim Krusoe reads from his new novel Girl Factory. Combining a compelling mystery, a touch of magical realism and a wickedly dark sense of humor, this work turns the tables on all you thought you knew about the basements of ordinary yogurt shops. Krusoe's stories and poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, Bomb, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Reviewand many other publications.
Tuesday, May 13
DIY Lounge-Hands-On Art Experience
12 noon-2pm, Mt. Tabor Great Hall
Traditional craft, diy-politic and craft-activist kitsch! Join DIY Lounge's founder and lead-craftista Jenn Neitzel in a veritable bacchanalia of craft in a hands-on workshop. Welcome to the wide, wide world of Do-It-Yourself.
Melia Donovan - Artist Talk
7pm-8pm, Mt. Tabor Hall 143/144 Unfortunatly canceled due to illness.
Using photographs, pinholes, paint, wood and other media, Melia Donovan is a highly experimental photographer who takes "the mechanical information of an existing image to arrive at something that is fundamentally still a photograph… without its conventional forms." She received her MFA from Hunter College, CUNY, and has exhibited her work in New York, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco and Portland.
Wednesday, May 14
Doug Smith - Music Performance
12 noon-1pm, Mt. Tabor Great Hall
Grammy Award Winning acoustic guitarist Doug Smith also won the prestigious Winfield International Fingerstyle Competition in 2006, and Billboard Magazinewrites, "Inviting melodies...stunning fingerpicking." Fingerstyle Guitar Magazineraves, "Smith's fretboard brilliance continues to dazzle." His original music has been heard on radio and TV shows throughout the world, including True Hollywood Storyand Martha Stewart Living, and his playing has been heard in movies such as Twister, Moll Flandersand the upcoming August Rush.
Stephen Slappe - Film Presentation
7pm-8pm, Mt. Tabor Hall 143/144
Portland multimedia artist Stephen Slappe presents five 16mm films from his extensive archives that examine the early years of television as a technological and cultural phenomenon. This program of short films from the 1930s to the 1960s includes cartoons, behind-the-scene glimpses at television studios and other rare footage.
Thursday, May 15
Portland Cello Project - Music Performance
12 noon-1pm, Mt. Tabor Great Hall
If you think you know cello, you haven't heard the Portland Cello Project. Described as "Highly talented, highly collaborative and highly experimental… a dream team of instrumentalists." in the Willamette Week, this group will have you on your feet.
Garth Johnson-Extreme Craft
7pm-8pm, Mt. Tabor Hall 143/144
Garth Johnson presents his Extreme Craft Roadshow, a lecture on craft masquerading as art, art masquerading as craft, and craft extending its middle finger. Extreme Craft explores the blurred line between art, craft and obsession. Garth will expand-perhaps explode!-your concept of art and craft along the way. You'll see cross-stitching football players, the Leonardo of macaroni art, a gigantic stuffed bunny on a mountaintop, sock monkey couture and much, much more.