Events - Sylvania Campus
Located at 12000 SW 49th Ave., the Sylvania Campus is PCC's largest campus, on a beautiful wooded hillside, between Tigard and Lake Oswego.
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Weeklong ArtBeat Events
PCC-Sylvania Art Students' Annual Exhibition
8am-4pm daily *North View Gallery CT 214
Stop by the North View Gallery to see the exciting new work of 2006-2007 PCC-Sylvania art students. PCC President Preston Pulliams will speak at the Gallery Reception on Thursday, May 15.
PCC Sylvania Art Students' Mural Project
Outside the CC Building, Facing the Plaza
Sylvania's student Art Club creates a large-scale mural portraying students' journey through PCC. If you're interested, you might even pick up a brush and help paint. The finished work is slated for long-term display on campus.
To view the creation process and the mural from last year, please click here.
International Food Fair
11am-2pm Daily *Performing Arts Center Courtyard
International food vendors provide a delicious accompaniment to the festivities. Enjoy your meal as you listen to live music, pause between classes or simply relax.
- Frybread Man Artbeat Menu (Tuesday - Thursday)
- Kathmandu Café Menu (Monday - Friday)
Monday, May 12
Sylvania Campus ArtBeat Reception
10am-11:30am, Performing Arts Center Foyer
Hosted by the Sylvania Traditions, Ritual, and Fun Committee, the ArtBeat Reception includes a musical performance with PCC faculty Julianne Johnson , John Mery and David Stout. PCC Vice-President Chris Chairsell and Sylvania President Linda Gerber open the reception, and PCC students receive awards.
Ramsey Y Los Montunos - Music Performance
12 noon-1pm, Performing Arts Center Foyer
Enjoy the lively music of this 8-piece Afro-Cuban Salsa band. Led by Ramsey Embick, this group will spice up your lunch hour with its authentic and original tunes.
Hand2Mouth Theater - Project X
1pm-3:30(?)pm, Starting in the Little Theatre
Project X: A journey through space, time and immortality-across the PCC campus. Explore the universe with Hand2Mouth Theatre as we strive to end aging, define humanity and create a personal time capsule for each audience participant.
- Thanks in part to a Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant for funding.
- www.hand2mouththeatre.org
Sign Language Performance
3pm-4pm, Performing Arts Center
Discover wonderful adventures via stories, poems, and songs through the beauty of American Sign Language (ASL). Please join faculty, staff, students and professional actors as they share a rich history of deaf culture through stories and poems. There will be a question and answer segment following the performances. See you there! A voice interpreter will be provided for hearing accessibility.
Tuesday, May 13
Doug Smith - Music Performance
10am-11am, Performing Arts Center Foyer
Grammy Award Winning acoustic guitarist Doug Smith also won the prestigious Winfield International Fingerstyle Competition in 2006. 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 Twisterand Moll Flanders and the upcoming August Rush.
Kathleen Halme - Poetry Reading and Discussion
10am-11am, Little Theatre
Join for a reading by and discussion with poet Kathleen Halme, whose most recent book, Drift and Pulse, was nominated for an Oregon Book Award. As she states, "The persistent 'longing for shapes as elegant as instinct,' the rituals and fictions we invent to meet the needs of a ceaselessly revised universe animate the poems."
Kathleen Halme - Poetry Workshop
11am-12pm, CC Cafeteria Spruce Room
Creative writers, or simply creative people, come and explore the possibilities of writing and poetry with Kathleen Halme in this interactive workshop.
Featured Artist Harry Widman - Artist Talk
11am-12pm, Little Theatre
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.
Orquestra Tipica - Music Performance
12 noon-1pm, Performing Arts Center Foyer
Join us for this historic and beautiful performance. The Orquestra Tipica Krebs is one of only two Argentinean Tango Orquestra Tipicas in the U.S. Led by Alex Krebs, Bandoneon player, this group will perform historically accurate arrangements from the Golden Age of Buenos Aires Tango (1936-1954). The string section of this group is made up of Oregon Symphony and Columbia Symphony musicians. Tango dancers are welcome and encouraged to participate.
- Co-Sponsored by the Multi-Cultural Center
- www.tangoberretin.com/otk.html
ESHTA Student Performance Group with Maia-Belly Dancing Performance
1:15pm-1:45pm, Performing Arts Center Foyer
Performing Egyptian-style belly dance choreographies to both classical and modern Egyptian music, ESHTA (meaning "crème de la crème") is a group of Maia's students who dance to grow as dancers and performers as well as to have fun. Today's montage includes a variety of dances, from folkloric to fantasy.
Maggie Evart - Belly Dancing Workshop
2pm-3pm, HT 101
Join Maggie Evart in a workshop sharing with students some basic Egyptian Arabic Raqs Sharki dance concepts and movement vocabulary along with some Arabic music and rhythm theory.
Student Reading
2pm-3pm, Performing Arts Center Foyer
This always popular ArtBeat event showcases PCC Sylvania creative writers reading from their poetry, fiction, and essays.
Brian Oaster - Artist Talk
3pm-4pm, Little Theater
Portland cartoonist Brian Oaster discusses how he got his start in alternative comics and self-publishing, and how he has become part of a renaissance of creativity and possibility that is happening on the Internet and in print.
Wednesday, May 14
Kowkie Durst-Ceramics Lecture and Demonstration
9am-11am, CT 119
Portland-based potter Kowkie Durst demonstrates her wheelthrown and altered pottery. Durst discusses and explains her sgraffito drawing techniques on her salt fired surfaces.
Faculty Reading
10am-11am, Little Theatre
You know them as instructors-now discover what they create! Come and enjoy as popular PCC faculty members Gretchen Icenogle, Judd McDonald, Michael McDowell and Josh Otto read from their work.
Vanessa Renwick - Film Presentation
11am-12pm, Little Theatre
The founder and janitor of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass, Renwick is a filmmaker by nature. Her iconoclastic work reflects an interest in place, relationships between bodies and landscapes, and all sorts of borders. Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms, she produces films, videos and installations that explore the possibility of hope in contemporary society.
Portland Cello Project - Music Performance
12 noon-1pm, Performing Arts Center Foyer
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.
DIY Lounge-Hands - On Art Experience
12 noon-2pm, Performing Arts Center Courtyard
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.
Light Fingered Five - Improv Performance and Workshop
1pm-2pm, Performance - Little Theatre
2pm-3pm, Workshop - Little Theatre
The Light-Fingered Five perform theatrical game structures like those on the TV Show Whose Line Is It Anyway. The group creates comic situations, often involving audience suggestions or participation. Their motto is "No script-no problem." Join after the performance for a workshop that's sure to be a lot of laughs.
Bridgetown Morris Men - Dance Performance and Workshop
2pm-2:30pm, Performing Arts Center Foyer
3pm-4pm, HT Gymnasium
Morris dancers have celebrated the seasons for hundreds of years in England. Decked out in ribbons and bells they performed athletic dances with handkerchiefs and sticks to encourage good fortune and fertility for the coming season. The Bridgetown Morris Men keep this age-old tradition alive in Portland. After the performance, join for a hands-on workshop!
Student Films - Film Screening
3pm-4pm, Little Theatre
This year's collection of PCC video shorts includes experimental montages, cutting edge documentaries, and highlights from the Directing Actors' workshop. These project's are a showcase of the craft and art of video storytelling from Multi-media's diverse Video Production concentration.
Thursday, May 15
Graphic Design Panel - Discussion and Conversation
9am-10am, CT 109
PCC graphic design alumni visit the campus to discuss life after their graphic design education: real-world challenges and entry-level graphics.
Student Composers - Music Performance
10am-11am, Performing Arts Center Foyer
Join us for a listening session featuring an assortment of new musical works submitted to the 2008 PCC ArtBeat Student Composition Competition.
Stuart Iwasaki - Graphic Design Speaker
11am-12pm, Little Theatre
Design Director in Nike Sport Apparel Stuart Iwasaki presents apparel graphics and logotypes, from recent Olympic, Team Uniform and Event projects. He will also discuss how a graphic direction is carried through to all sports and teams.
Stolen Sweets - Music Performance
12 noon-1pm, Performing Arts Center Foyer
The Stolen Sweets formed in 2005 with the intention of reviving the songs of 1930s sister act, The Boswell Sisters. Comprised of vocalists Jen Bernard, Lara Michell and Erin Sutherland, guitarists Pete Krebs and David Langenes (both of whom sing) and double bass player, Keith Brush, The Sweets' repertoire has expanded to include material from the 1920s -1940s. Their arrangements are still inspired by the Boswells' tight 3-part harmonies, frequent tempo changes and "knowing shrugs and raised eyebrows," as noted by the Oregonian'sA&E.
Kirk Jonasson & Monica Setziol-Phillips - Sculpture & Photography Collaboration
1pm-2pm, Little Theatre
Join for a presentation on artistic discovery through the sharing of a creative common ground by two visual artists working in widely separate mediums: photographer Kirk Jonasson and weaver/wood carver Monica Setziol-Phillips.
Recto Verso - Multi-Media Literature Performance
1pm-2pm, CT 212
The Recto Verso staff offers a dramatic reading of a crafted collage of literary selections, accompanied by music and images. This multi-media experiment swirls around the central tension between the prompt words: LOVE and HATE.
Nancy Hiss - Artist Talk
2pm-3pm, Little Theatre
Nancy Hiss speaks about the Iraq Names Project, her art work that consists of drawing in chalk on Portland sidewalks the names of coalition soldiers killed in the Iraq War. An acknowledgment of and homage to loss and sacrifice, to date she has drawn over 2,450 names covering over 6 miles of pavement. Hiss is Director of the Interior Design Program and Co-Chair of the Art and Interior Design Department at Marylhurst University
Student Art Exhibit Gallery Reception
3pm-4pm, North View Gallery
Come and see what PCC Sylvania students have created! Doors open at 3:00, and at 3:30 PCC District President Preston Pulliams will present awards to the students. Refreshments will be served after the awards.
Friday, May 16
Stu Jacobson-Stone Cutting Demonstration
10am-1pm, Lower CC Mall by Fountain
Stone Sculptor Stuart Jacobson presents his work in an extensive, hands on demonstration of carving techniques in basalt and granite. A master of monumental scale sculpture, Stu's demo is a great opportunity to learn about the amazing medium of stone!
Anansi - Tears of Joy Puppet Show
11am-12pm, Performing Arts Center
Nationally acclaimed, award-winning Tears of Joy Theatre presents Anansi the Spider, a puppet show based on West African mythology. Enjoy two stories involving the adventures of Anansi, the trickster-bring the kids!
PCC Chamber and Choir - Voices of Soul
12 noon-2pm, CC Center, by Riverside Cafe
The PCC Chamber and Choir will present choral, as well as ensemble pieces spanning the 40s, 50s and 60s. Through individual and group performances our music department will pay tribute to gospel, jazz theatre and Pop, including a medley from one the most prolific songwriting teams of our time: The Beatles! Come, enjoy, and bring the kids to VOICES OF SOUL