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Discovering Oregon Originals—Spring 2008
11th Season of programs from Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission

March: “Sometimes a Great Notion” and the Kesey Legacy
Friday, March 21—7 pm Free at First Unitarian Church, SW 12th & Salmon Street

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1963) and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964), Ken Kesey’s initial books, made his reputation. A University of Oregon graduate, he studied with Wallace Stegner at Stanford, with a stellar cast of fellow students including Wendell Berry, Ed McClanahan, Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and long-time collaborator Ken Babbs.
Anticipating the April 4 world premiere of Aaron Posner’s stage adaptation of Sometimes a Great Notion at Portland Center Stage, speakers who knew him personally for decades will focus on Kesey’s creative career.
Presenters: Gretchen Douglas, Boyd Harris, Walt Curtis, Mark Christensen & Aaron Posner

Special Addition: Betty MacDonald—Of Eggs and Cures on her100th Birthday
Wed, March 26—4 pm Free at Hollywood Branch Library, NE 41st & Tillamook

Let us never forget the incomparable author of The Egg and I, The Plague and I, and the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books, a NW original whose centennial is upon us. Rare guest appearance: Rhonda Kennedy as Mrs. P.W. Presenter: David Milholland

April: Return of The Impossibilists
First Thursday, April 3—6 pm on Rake Gallery, 325 NW 6th
Monthly Art Opening features massive Impossibilist stable alongside Rake regulars

Friday, April 4—7 pm Free at First Unitarian Church, SW 12th & Salmon Street
Semi Tilt Exposure with Tom Cassidy [aka Spaceangel], Mark Sargent & troops
To wit…a visual and poetic feast for imaginative minds

Saturday, April 5—8 pm Rake Gallery, 325 NW 6th
Full Tilt Exposure with Mark Sargent, Tom Cassidy, Ijme vanSloten et al
Jazz, Poetry & much more…

Tuesday, April 15 [Tax Day]—8 pm Rake Gallery, 325 NW 6th
Premier Portland Poets—In the Spirit of The Impossibilists
Featuring: Mark Sargent, Leanne Grabel, Dan Raphael, Barbara LaMorticella,
Walt Curtis, James Honzik & Casey Bush

In the early 1970s, Portland became home to The Impossibilists. This ofttimes madcap movement is rooted in poetic expression and riveted to a world of creative possibilities, including music, theater and art. Their traces are legion and their energy has little flagged. This set of events will capture them at full throttle, here from Sparta, Greece, the Twin Cities, all over the West and quite likely nebulae beyond our known universe.
Please join us in welcoming them back. Prepare to meet your many makers.

May: “Welcome to the Scriptorium”—Calligrapher & Teacher Lloyd Reynolds
Sunday, May 18—3 pm Free at First Unitarian Church, SW 12th & Salmon Street
Presenters: Jaki Svaren, Bill Gunderson, Lois Leonard & others TBA

Few creative figures have had the local and global impact of Lloyd Reynolds, Oregon’s only Calligrapher Laureate, whose holistic view of design has influenced generations of local calligraphers and image makers, poet Gary Snyder, Apple’s Steve Jobs, and local politics and economy in ways this program will reveal.

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