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AIDS quilt returns to PCC Cascade, Rock Creek campuses
Photos and story by James Hill
The AIDS Memorial Quilt will come to Portland Community College campuses. The intricate series of quilts will be on display at the Rock Creek Campus hangar (located at 17705 N.W. Springville Road) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 15. There will be an opening ceremony with a reading of names and music by Fritz and Julie Webber (pianist and flute duo). In the Cascade Campus gymnasium (located at 705 N. Killingsworth), the quilt will be displayed to the public from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, April 28 and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 29. The quilt, brought to PCC in honor of former student and Cascade student body president Robert E. Wright, who died of AIDS on June of 1999, consists of 12-by-12-foot panels of smaller quilts memorializing local individuals who lost their battle with AIDS.
The quilt tour, sponsored by the Associated Students of PCC (ASPCC), will feature Cascade AIDS Project members and Multnomah County Health Department personnel answering questions. On sale during the tour will be symbolic red ribbons, calendars, posters and T-shirts related to the quilt. For more information, contact Kendi Esary, student leadership coordinator at the Cascade Campus, at 503-978-5781, or Mandy Ellertson, student activities coordinator at the Rock Creek Campus, at 503-614-7261.
Other ASPCC-sponsored events that headline the month of April include English as a Second Language (ESL) Awareness Week, starting Monday, April 24. The featured event of the week will be on April 24 when PCC students in the college’s ESL class will unveil a mural project they have been working on with Angelina Marino, a local mural artist. The unveiling is open to the public and will begin at 10 a.m. at the college’s Southeast Center, located at 2850 S.E. 82nd Ave. For more information, contact Sharon Hennessy, ESL instructor, at 503-788-6210.
On Wednesday, April 19, the African-American Drama Company will present "Can I speak for Your Brother?" It is a one-man show depicting nine different historical African-American characters. The performances, free to the public, will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in room 122 of Terrell Hall at the Cascade Campus, from 2 to 3 p.m. at Jefferson High School’s auditorium (located at 5210 N. Kerby), and from 9:20 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Ockly Green Middle School (located at 6031 N. Montana). For more information, contact Kendi Esary at 503-978-5781.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »