Celebrate Black Heritage Month 2013 - Feb 18 to March 2

February 13, 2013

Black Heritage Month at Lewis & Clark | February 18-March 2nd
Frames of the Black Experience: A Retrospective Through Film, Photography and the Arts

Carrie Mae Weems Art Exhibit  |  February 2nd-28th
Portland Art Museum: Three Decades of Photography & Video (free tickets available to LC students*)

Keynote Lecture: Leigh Raiford, Ph.D.  |  Monday, February 18th at 4:00pm
Watzek Library Classroom : Civil Rights Movement Photography and Its Legacies

Film Series: Classic Cinema on the Black Struggle | Wednesday, February 20th
Council Chamber: Three iconic films explore contemporary & controversial racial  issues that defined generations.

4:00 pm A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
6:00 pm  Killer of Sheep (1971)
7:30 pm  Do The Right Thing (1989)

Keynote Lecture: Allyson Nadia Field, Ph.D.  |  Tuesday, February 26th at 4:00pm
Smith Hall : Black Cinema, Filming Uplift and Projecting Possibility

“From Spirituals to Hip Hop” with Hasan Salaam  |  Wednesday, February 27th at 7:00pm
Council Chamber : The History of Black Music & Black Resistance

2nd Annual Student Performance of Ntozake Shange  |  Thursday, February 28th at 8:00pm
Agnes Flanagan Chapel : For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Diversity Dialogues in Community Spaces: Black United Fund  |  Saturday, March 2nd at 10:30 am
Templeton Bus Stop (at 10:00 am): Community based discussion on the needs and priorities for African Americans in Portland

For Portland Art Museum tickets or more information, contact multicultural@lclark.edu