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. Jury-based awards will be presented at the Gallery Reception on Tuesday, May 10, at 3:00. Refreshments served.

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.

10am - 11:15 a.m., Performing Arts Center Foyer

Join us to bring in this year's Art Beat! PCC Sylvania President Linda Gerber presides, and music is provided by PCC's own quartet featuring Dan Hays, John Mery, Dave Stout and Jane Zunkel. Exceptional PCC students will receive awards in a variety of genres. Refreshments provided by Traditions, Rituals and Fun Committee.

12 noon - 1pm, Performing Arts Center Courtyard

An award winning harmonica virtuoso, Joe Powers is known throughout the world as a premier Tango artist, yet his musical interests also include Jazz-Fusion, Classical, Blues, Pop-Rock, Hip-Hop, Latin, New Age, World Traditions, and more.

• www.joepowers.com

12 noon - 1pm, Performing Arts Center

Dr. Bunzli specializes in autobiographical solo performance for the theatre, and will lead a two part workshop (audience can attend either or both) leading students in writing and performing one-person pieces for theatre performance based on their own stories. The first part of the workshop introduces students to a variety of techniques used in creating autobiographical solo work. The second session focuses on getting each participant to begin work on a solo piece of their own. The second session will take place on Wednesday, May 11, at 11:00 in the Little Theatre.

1pm - 2pm, Little Theatre

Art Beat's 2011 Featured Artist presents and discusses her works. A former faculty member at PCC Sylvania campus, Marie Watt has received much critical attention for her work, including recent exhibitions in the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Portland Art Museum, and the Aldrich Museum in New York. Working with carved cedar, cast bronze and collected wool blankets, Watt draws from indigenous design principles, oral traditions and personal experience to explore human stories and rituals implicit in the everyday things around us.

2pm - 4pm, CT 230

Trained by masters in Commedia dell' Arte, Stone discusses this art form and demonstrates the techniques of creating lightweight character masks, including Life Cast, Positive Cast, Sculpting, Painting and Design and more!

3pm - 5pm, Performing Arts Center Foyer

You've seen the environmentally motivated sculptures at PCC Sylvania. Now, hear from one of the directors of Washed Ashore, a project dedicated to turning litter into art while raising awareness of the devastation occurring in the ocean. After the discussion, Angela Haseltine Pozzi leads a hands-on workshop with the audience.

• www.washedashore.org
• ‘Washed Ashore’ exhibit exposes ocean plastics pollution

10am - 11am, Performing Arts Center Foyer

This always-popular Art Beat event showcases PCC Sylvania creative writers reading from their poetry, fiction and essays.

12 noon - 1pm, Performing Arts Center Courtyard (Note: the time has been updated)

All elements Hip Hop jam! DJs, Graffiti artists, MCs, Bboys and Bgirls make up the four main elements of Hip Hop culture. Come share the experience with the Oregon Universal Zulu Nation as they bring it all together with the fifth element: Knowledge.

The Universal Zulu Nation (UZN) is a pioneering force that has been in effect since the inception of Hip Hop itself in 1974, and UZN continues to represent and innovate the genre while striving for worldwide peace, equality and empowerment. UZN will be performing at all three PCC campuses and at Southeast Center.

• www.oregonuniversal.org
• Myspace.com/uzn_oregon
• Oregon UZN on Facebook

1pm - 2pm, Little Theatre

Join for a reading by local author Scott Nadelson. Nadelson is the author of three story collections: Aftermath (to be released September 2011); The Cantor's Daughter, winner of the Samuel Goldberg & Sons Fiction Prize for Emerging Jewish Writers and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize; and Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories, winner of the Oregon Book Award for short fiction and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. He teaches creative writing at Willamette University.

www.scottnadelson.com

2pm - 3pm, Performing Arts Center

Dragon Arts performs their work Images of China. Their studio blends puppetry and music with elegance, humor and special effects to create a beautiful theatrical event. Chinese rod puppetry, seldom seen in America, is an ancient art form revered throughout China. This show will delight and enthrall you as well as give you special insight into Chinese folklore and culture.

• www.dragonartstudio.com/imagesof_china.php
• www.dragonartstudio.com/

3pm - 5pm, Northview Gallery, CT Building

Come and see what PCC Sylvania students have created! This annual event highlights and rewards the remarkable work of PCC students. Refreshments served.

10am - 12 noon, Library "Living Room," Main Floor

This workshop will introduce students to the history of zines, a counter-culture small press medium that's as old as printing itself. Students will read a diverse collection of zines, discuss DIY publishing, and make their own group zine all within 90 minutes. Sarah Mirk, local zine-creator and journalist, leads the workshop.

• www.iprc.org

11am - 12 noon, Little Theatre

Dr. Bunzli specializes in autobiographical solo performance for the theatre, and will lead a two part workshop (audience can attend either or both) leading students in writing and performing one-person pieces for theatre performance based on their own stories. The first part of the workshop (Monday, May 9, at noon in the PAC) introduces students to a variety of techniques used in creating autobiographical solo work. This second session focuses on getting participants to begin work on a solo piece of their own.

12 noon - 1pm, Performing Arts Center Courtyard

Grammy-nominated Bohemian Country Songstress Amanda Richards is a local treasure. Her original, playful music gets toes tapping, and her tremendous vocals enthrall audiences. Richards states, "I think that my influences started with commercial Country music of the 1980's. Those people really knew how to write a hook and put a commercial song together. Later on, my writing was influenced by the descriptive verses of Leonard Cohen. He can paint an amazing picture while at the same time being so vague that you have almost no idea what the song is about. I love that."

12 noon - 1pm, CT 125

Yuji Hiratsuka demonstrates his unique style of printmaking. The prints are labor intensive works that start as etchings with drypoint, aquatint and softground printed on thin Kurotani paper. Hiratsuka makes continuous alterations to the plate, adding a series of colors. He then applies delicate hand tints to the back of each print and finishes with "chine colle" in which glue is applied to the Kurotani.

Born in Osaka in 1954, Yuji Hiratsuka graduated from Tokyo Art Teacher's University in 1978. He received his B.S. in Art Education from Tokyo Gakugei University, his M.A. in Printmaking from New Mexico State University, and his M.F.A. in Printmaking from Indiana University. Presently Yuji Hiratsuka is a professor at Oregon State University. Yuji Hiratsuka's work is represented in numerous collections including: Tokyo Central Museum, New York Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Library of Congress, The British Museum and the Achenback Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco.

1pm - 2pm, Little Theatre

Enjoy as PCC Faculty members Kathy O'Shaughnessy, Ron Ross and Megan Savage read from their works. Including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, these readings are sure to intrigue and inspire.

2pm - 3pm, Little Theatre

3pm - 4pm, CT 230

Eric Stotik's minutely scaled and exquisitely rendered paintings touch simultaneously on arcane and contemporary realms of experience. With stylistic influences as diverse as Goya, Raphael, Hieronymus Bosch, Indian miniature painting, M.C. Escher, and the surrealists, Stotik crafts a singular and highly eccentric personal vision in his psychologically tinged, figurative work. Following a discussion and presentation of his works, Stotik will demonstrate his techniques.

• www.laurarusso.com/artists/stotik_e.html

3pm - 4pm, Little Theatre

Kelly presents a video that the Museum produced for his recent retrospective and talks with the audience about his creations and process.

• www.leekellysculpture.net

4pm - 5pm, Little Theatre (Note: the time has been updated)

"The Best of the 37th Northwest Film & Video Festival" is a touring showcase of outstanding short films by Northwest filmmakers-all of which were selected for the Festival this past November by guest judge, Gill Dennis, a Master Filmmaker In Residence at the American Film Institute. The collection contains animation, narrative, experimental and documentary work and will be presented by Festival Coordinator, Thomas Phillipson of the Northwest Film Center. The Festival and Tour are sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Oregon Cultural Trust, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.

• www.nwfilm.org

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.

10am - 11am, Performing Arts Center Foyer

Join us for a listening session featuring an assortment of new musical works submitted to the 2010 PCC Art Beat Student Composition Competition.

11am - 1pm, Performing Arts Center

PCC Theatre presents David Mamet's early and controversial play Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Set in the mid 1970s, four characters try to navigate the murky waters of dating during the post-sexual revolution. During the course of the play, two of them fall in love and face the wrath of their friends, who are determined to draw the battle lines in the new war of the sexes and dig in. The sparks fly, and the funny, biting wit and wisdom of David Mamet emerges over 75 minutes of raw language and bare-knuckle honesty. Starring Jordan Wilgus, Kate Wyatt, Keisha Campbell and Alex Lenarsky. Designed by Dan Hays, Clare Parker and Peter West. Directed by Patrick Tangredi

This play contains extremely graphic adult language. No one under 18 will be admitted.

11am - 12 noon, Little Theatre

Nicol presents information about and images of viscosity printmaking, a technique that incorporates 3 colors printed simultaneously on one plate. Students will be introduced to carving into borco board, then printing intaglio and relief, experimenting with different viscosity inks and rollers. Following the discussion, she will give a demonstration of this technique in CT 125.

11am - 1pm, CT 119

Kate MacDowell's porcelain sculptures respond to environmental threats and their consequences, revealing the rifts and frictions between man and nature. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

• www.katemacdowell.com

12 noon - 1pm, Performing Arts Center Foyer

The newest Latin band to emerge on the Portland music scene, Matices features a

wide range of Latin American instruments and rhythms. Leader and founder Freddy Vilches (Chile) provides lead vocals, guitars, Andean flutes, and composes Matices' original material, while pianist Julio Jáuregui (Mexico) arranges most of the band's compositions. Other members include Al Criado (Cuba) on bass, Adrian Baxter (USA) on wind instruments, Otto Gygax (Peru) on Latin percussion, as well as regular guest musicians. Each member brings a special contribution in a unique meeting of artistry, experiences and cultures, making Matices an original and diverse Latin ensemble. Incorporating elements of traditional Latin folk music, Cuban Son, jazz and Brazilian Bossa Nova, Matices' distinct sound is appealing to both listeners and dancers.

12 noon - 1pm, CT 125

Nicol demonstrations viscosity printmaking, a technique that incorporates 3 colors printed simultaneously on one plate. Students will be introduced to carving into borco board, then printing intaglio and relief, experimenting with different viscosity inks and rollers.

12 noon - 1pm, Little Theatre

Austin Howe, author of Designers Don't Read and Designers Don’t Have Influences, will explore ways that graphic designers can improve the quality of their work and compete in a crowded marketplace by collaborating with writers and/or becoming better writers themselves.

1pm - 2pm, Little Theatre

Join for a reading by and discussion with Dao Strom. Dao was born in Saigon, Vietnam and grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. She is both a songwriter and fiction writer, and has published two novels: The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Following her reading is a workshop (focused on creative non-fiction) in CT 223.

• www.daostrom.com

2pm - 3pm, Little Theatre

What happens after one gets an Art Degree? Four recent art majors who began their formal education at PCC participate in a panel discussion on the educational paths they have followed as well as the choices they have made in their professional careers. They show brief examples of their work and speak on a range of issues, including the pursuit of loans and scholarship money, the pros and cons of graduate school and the challenges of operating independent businesses. Panelists include Pippa Possible, Jeremy Le Grand and Benny Fountain.

2pm - 3pm, CT 223

Dao Strom works interactively with participants leading creative writing exercises exploring multicultural identity and experiences.

3pm - 4pm, Little Theatre

Drama, comedy, documentary and more: PCC student filmmakers exhibit their creations. Come and enjoy this screening of original works.

10am - 1pm, Performing Arts Center Courtyard

Don't be afraid to get a little paint on your hands! Come and join for mural creation, aluminum casting and more at today's interactive event. While letting your creativity shine, enjoy the music of James Low.

12 noon - 1pm, Performing Arts Center Courtyard

As stated in the Portland Tribune, "In a town teeming with singer/songwriters, it takes a lot to make an impact. James Low's understated eloquence marks him a standout-a genuine talent with no need for hyperbole." Enjoy Low and his band, but don't be surprised if his music haunts you for a while.

• www.jameslowmusic.com

1pm - 2pm, Little Theatre (Note: the location has been updated)

Don't miss the exciting conclusion to the PCC Dance Choreography Contest!  Selected contestants will showcase their work, and the winning choreographers will be awarded on site.

6pm (doors open at 5pm), Little Theater

Voices features the words of rebels, dissenters and visionaries from our past and present. rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from the past. We will revisit speeches from U.S. history such as ones given by Howard Zinn, Tecumseh, Malcolm X, Susan B. Anthony, and more.

6pm (doors open at 5pm), Little Theater

Voices features the words of rebels, dissenters and visionaries from our past and present. rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from the past. We will revisit speeches from U.S. history such as ones given by Howard Zinn, Tecumseh, Malcolm X, Susan B. Anthony, and more.