Discovering Oregon Originals   2008-2009

Upcoming programs free to the public at the

First Unitarian Church – SW 12th & Salmon in Downtown Portland

Programs produced by Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission

Please forward this schedule to anyone you believe will be interested.

Visit www.ochcom.org for in-depth information on past and current programs.

 

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 – 7 pm

Mississippi Mud’s Designer-Editor Joel Weinstein

His inspiring roles in NW and international creative culture

with Lynn Darroch, Susan Gustafson, John Laursen, et al  

 

 

Sunday, February 1 - 2:30 pm (rescheduled from an earlier date)

Artist-Designer Doug Lynch – Bridging Graphic and Fine Art –

 Oregon’s oldest living WPA artist’s rich career

  with Sarah Munro, Spence Gill, Don Condit,  et al

 

 

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 – 7 pm   Sesquicentennial Special

Artist-Basketmaker Pat Courtney Gold

A career built on a platform of Wasco fishing culture on the Columbia River  

Saturday, February 14, 2009, St. Valentine’s Day –

Celebrate Oregon’s 150th birthday, our Sesquicentennial, in your own special way  

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 – 7 pm   Sesquicentennial Special

Authors Shannon Applegate, Molly Gloss and Jane Kirkpatrick

Three brilliant authors trialogue on women’s role in

      forging an Oregon consciousness on the land 

Wednesday, March 11, 2009  

Historian E. Kimbark MacColl – His Civic Vision Shapes Portland Today

       with Harry Stein, Jewell Lansing, David Bragdon, et al

Produced in conjunction with Portland State University’s Friends of History

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 – 7 pm  

Master Artist-Educator George Johanson

A 6-decade career retrospective across wide-ranging art disciplines  

Thursday – Saturday, May 14 - 16, 2009 – Schedule in development

Another World Instead: Symposium on Oregon Poet Laureate William Stafford

 with Dorothy Stafford, Tim Barnes, Kim Stafford, Fred Marchant, Paul Merchant, and several TBA

Produced in conjunction with Friends of William Stafford, Lewis and Clark College and the NW Film Center

Some Stafford program elements will have an admission fee.

 

OCHCOM now has a Flickr Account! In a preview of our upcoming Dorothy Lange show, we are bringing you some of her WPA photos of Oregon. Click on the photo for a description.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recent Events

 

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Kesey fellow Ed McClanahan is in town Wed. November 5 at 7:30 pm to read from his new book O Clear the Moment at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 West Burnside. Please join OCHC at a post-reading reception /no-host bar for Ed at Cassidy’s, 1331 SW Washington, just 5 blocks walk from Powell’s. It begins around 8:30 pm and will continue until we all crumble in post-election frazzle. Of O Clear the Moment, the Oregonian’s Jeff Baker says: “…the yarns McClanahan spins start as truth and get stretched into something wilder and funnier.” Allison Hallett in the Portland Mercury writes: “McClanahan’s skills as a humorist are predicated on a deep respect for the language, and the book’s best moments come when McClanahan indulges in the rhetorical flourishes that make his lowbrow subject matter all the funnier.” Ed McClanahan was last with us for our November 2003 Ken Kesey events. He served as editor of the 7th and final edition of the Kesey-founded magazine Spit in the Ocean. Please welcome Ed to our fair city once again.

 

Sunday, November 23, 2008 – 2 pm

He Gave Us His Heart: Portland Opera’s Maestro Herbert Weiskopf

 with Christopher Mattaliano, Doug & Marta Weiskopf, Dory Hylton, David Hedges et al

In his brief but historically significant years as the second director of Portland Opera, Maestro Herbert Weiskopf [1903-1970] married a rare mix of professionalism and passion. A native of Austria, and long-time musical figure in St. Louis and Los Angeles, between 1966 and 1970 Weiskopf transformed the Portland Opera into a professional community organization that attracted international stars while grooming local and regional talent. He worked hard to bring local singers up to the standards of talented performers from California, the East Coast, and Europe, establishing what the Oregon Journal called, “a first-rate opera company.”

At the conclusion of Lucia de Lammermoor in his 4th season,  Weiskopf took an unprecedented solo curtain call and retired to his dressing room. Within a few hours his heart stopped beating. This program will examine Maestro Weiskopf’s contributions to Portland musical culture and link those early years with the state of Portland Opera today. Wanda Weiskopf, his widow, biographer, and a talented poet will also be invoked.

Produced in conjunction with Portland Opera

 

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 – 7:30 pm                                

Metaphors of Dissent – Mr. Cogito Brings Us Voices from Beyond our Borders

with John M. Gogol, Charles Seluzicki and Walt Curtis

All too few know of the remarkable links between dissident poets of Eastern Europe and nations worldwide and several enlightened publishers here in Oregon. For some two decades Mr. Cogito, a press based at Pacific University in Forest Grove, co-edited by John M. Gogol and Robert A. Davies, published exceptional poets in translation whose voices were being stifled in their own lands. These writers’ delight at being read beyond their borders stiffened their resolve to speak boldly about their own situations and perceptions. Charles Seluzicki, in several publications, including his Trace Press edition of Zbigniew Herbert of then East Germany, joined Mr. Cogito in this effort.

Poems they printed from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, and the U.S will be read. The publishers will discuss their motives and enthusiasm, the value of translating and presenting authors from other lands, and how such efforts can go forward.

&& 6:00 pm Presidential Debate – Join us before the program for the final debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, live with a lively audience. Metaphors of Dissent will follow immediately.

 

OCHC is pleased to receive a Community Cultural Participation Grant for 2008-’09 from the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, powerful assistance in staging this season’s Discovering Oregon Originals series.

 

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