“Look Here:  Views From the Invisible Community,” Sisters’ multimedia PhotoVoice exhibit, is traveling to the Zimmerman Community Center in August!  The Center is hosting Look Here! on First Thursday, August 4, from 10 am to 9 pm, at 816 NW Hoyt.  After August fourth, pieces of the exhibit will remain at the Zimmerman Center for the entire month.  This exhibit is free.

 

The Photovoice Project has provided our customers, people with experience with homelessness and poverty in Portland, Oregon, with cameras to photograph their day-to-day existence, including seeking shelter, food, healthcare and community.  Look Here! includes six-foot-tall free-standing photo panels featuring the work of 9 photographers, several smaller easel panels on themes like “Sleep and Rest” and “Pets,” and MP3 players with interviews with the photographers about the pictures they took. 

To see photos and more, click here

Earth Day Celebration

Saturday, April 23rd, 2005
Sunnyside Environmental Middle School (34th & SE Yamhill) Portland, Oregon
10:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Village Building Convergence

Human-Scale Community Action at the Urban Crossroads

May 20-29, 2005 - Portland, Oregon

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Monday, January 17th, 2005
12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Jefferson High School
5210 N. Kerby Avenue
Portland, Oregon
(click title to view schedule)

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"The Gift of Change"

Marianne Williamson will be at Powells Book Store
Thursday, January 13th at 7:30 PM
About Marianne: http://marianne.iamplify.com/about.jsp
New book, "The Gift of Change"
Website: http://marianne.iamplify.com/books-intro.jsp
FREE

Powell's City of Books
1005 West Burnside
Portland, Oregon 97212
Bus #20, Streetcar, and walkable from other bus routes. On-steet free parking. Public transportation preferred. Bicycle? Tie-up posts available.

"PSU Celebrates the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With Two Events"

Author: Erin Malecha Arias, Office of Marketing and Communications, (503-725-8794)

Portland State University has two activities slated in January to highlight the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Monday, January 17, 2005.

Schedule of Events
Wednesday, January 12, 2005

7 p.m. An Evening with Juan Williams
Smith Memorial Student Union, 3rd Floor Ballroom, 1825 S.W. Broadway

Juan Williams, senior correspondent for National Public Radio, will speak at a community-wide event celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The event also features the Woodlawn Elementary School dancers. Juan Williams will offer insights into the lessons learned from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A book signing will follow the talk; books can be purchased at the event. Tickets are $20 for the general public and $5 for students who present a valid student ID at the time of sale and can be purchased at Ticketmaster outlets or at the PSU Ticket Office (1825 S.W. Broadway, room 102). Seating is limited.

Monday, January 17, 2005, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In recognition of the 2005 anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Portland State University faculty, staff, students and several of the university's long-term community partners will make it a day on instead of a day off by engaging in a variety of service projects. These projects are made possible through a generous grant from Best Buy and the Corporation for National and Community Service. Participants will volunteer for one of the following projects from 9 a.m. to noon.:

* Lewis Elementary School is developing an environmental education program. Volunteers will assist the School in breaking ground on a new organic farm, repairing a greenhouse and compost area, and creating an environmental art display.

* Cleveland High School seeks to connect with surrounding community residents. Participants will assist high school students in building community by distributing care packages to needy residents and creating a community garden.

* Volunteers will help SOLV restore the Johnson's Creek watershed by removing invasive plant species, planting native trees and shrubs, and creating fish habitats.

Project volunteers will meet for light refreshments at the Campus Ministry building (633 S.W. Montgomery) at 8 a.m. Volunteers are still needed. Contact Kyle Bray in the Center for Academic Excellence at 503-725-8132 or kbray@pdx.edu to sign-up for a project. Visit www.cae.pdx.edu for more information.

Source:Kyle Bray (503-725-8132) PSU Center for Academic Excellence

"A magical working (fowarded by T.Drakes)"

Hi all--

Come to the Peace Gathering and drum up some energy to send to the White House on Inauguration Day! At 9am PST George Bush will be raising his hand to take the oath of office. We can join other groups across the country in flooding the White House with positive energy at that time. Our intention: PEACE

The Peace Gathering is at Terry Schrunk Plaza, SW Third and Madison St., Thursday January 20, 2005. People will be dropping in at the Plaza all day. Speakers are scheduled from 11am to 1pm and 4:30pm to 6:30pm. There will be a petition available to sign asking Governor Kulongoski to recall Oregon's National Guard troops. If you can't drum at 9am, come anyway. If you don't have a drum, clap your hands. Let's drum some sense into the American government.

The Peace Gathering has a city permit, is non-partisan, and
NON-VIOLENT.

Oregon State Fair

"A City is Born -FUN, Oregon"
August 26th - September 6th, 2004

GuitarZilla 2004 Sunday, July 25th!
Come join us and 1,000 other guitarists for a great time and for a great cause- breaking the Guinness World Record for the most guitarists playing together at the same time for Sisters Of The Road!
Location: Pioneer Square (SW 6th & Morrison)
Time: Registration & Circus Side Show activities 11-1:30pm Record setting Guitar play Jam "This Land is Your Land" in the Key of D 2-3pm

For more information or to register go to
http://www.sistersoftheroad.org and click on the GuitarZilla button. Debbie Fox at 503-222-5694 ext 15 or debbie@sistersoftheroad.org:

Rose Festival June 2004 http://www.rosefestival.org/

LABYRINTH WALK FOR PEACE
September 11, 2003
10 am to 2 pm

First Congregational UCC Church
1220 NE 68th Street
Vancouver, WA
Donations appreciated

Directions:  Take I-5 north thru Vancouver to the
Hazel Dell (#3) exit, which puts you northbound on Hiway 99.
Go to the third light (68th) and turn right (uphill)
to the church at the top of the hill on your left.
Labyrinth will be on the lower level

For more information: 503-233-2026 ext. 4
SacredJourneyMin@aol.com

Sponsored by Sacred Journey Ministries

Mars Opposition of August 2003
Saturday, August 23, 2003 - OMSI East Parking Lot
NOTE: If the weather is overcast on Saturday night, the Mars Opposition Star Party may be rescheduled. For the latest info, please call our Planetarium hotline at 503.797.4610 (option 2) on the day of the Star Party.
OMSI, Rose City Astronomers Club and Vancouver Sidewalk Astronomers will host a special "Mars Party" from 8:30 P.M. - 12 A.M. on Saturday evening, August 23 at the OMSI East Parking (weather permitting). People of all ages are invited to this free event.

Mars will put on a special show in late summer 2003. During the last week of August and the first week of September, Mars will be closer to the Earth and appear larger and brighter than at any time in the past 60,000 years. At the Mars Party, volunteers will set up several telescopes for viewing and OMSI's Murdock Planetarium Manager Jim Todd will present informal talks and presentations on the recent spacecraft images of Mars, their spectacular and puzzling results, and NASA's plans to search for water and life when two Mars rovers explore the Martian terrain in January 2004. In addition, the museum will provide a large-screen, live image of Mars by connecting a projector to a telescope.

MARS VIEWING

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