Arts & Culture
For several years, Portland State’s Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program has hosted a spring colloquium to showcase student work and provide an opportunity for WGSS students to build community.
Attorney and Native American rights advocate Walter Echo-Hawk to speak at PSU
Walter Echo-Hawk views himself as a foot soldier in the advocacy movement for the indigenous rights of Native Americans. His weapon of choice: the law.
In 1969, President Richard Nixon ordered the clandestine bombing of suspected Viet Cong supply routes in Cambodia. That campaign of U.S. aggression continued until 1973, killing an estimated 100,000 Cambodians, and fostered the overthrow of Lon Nol’s pro-American government by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
Never mind the Affordable Healthcare Act of 2009: There are still many people out there advocating for a universal, single-payer healthcare system.
This Friday, Portland State’s 5th Avenue Cinema is holding its 10th annual Visuals Film Festival, in which university and community filmmakers showcase their work for the public.
Portland film geeks of all ages are in for a rare treat this month. Beginning Friday, the Northwest Film Center is celebrating Studio Ghibli by screening 13 films from Japan’s most famous and critically acclaimed animation studio.
Every first Saturday since September 2011, students, staff, volunteers and Portland residents have gathered to learn about East Asian culture.
“There are people in another country who are turning their ideas into practical actions,” said Annabelle Dolidon, a professor of French at Portland State.
Imagine a U.S. agribusiness that promotes environmental sustainability while providing nutritious, locally grown food to schoolchildren. Sound too good to be true?
Not to sustainability activist and FoodCorps co-founder Curt Ellis, whose 2007 documentary King Corn will screen at Portland State Thursday, followed by a lecture by Ellis himself, titled “Growing Forward: A New Vision for Food and Farming in America.”
Gods and goblins and fireball-hurlin’ wizards…need I say more?
Jeon Woo Chi: The Taoist Wizard (2009) features all of this good stuff, and Portland State students will have an opportunity to enjoy it on the big screen.
Wild Flag, The Thermals, Ema
Yeah yeah, The Thermals. They’re all right and everything, but the real star of this show at the Crystal Ballroom are white-hot newcomers Wild Flag.