To welcome in the Year of the Tiger, Wong's King Seafood Restaurant at 8733 SE Division is holding its annual fundraising dinner for the Chinese American Citizens Alliance. For more info or to register, call 503.221.8773 or visit <http://www.cacaportland.org/>
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The Portland Development Commission is holding its quarterly meeting tonight for the Interstate Corridor Urban Renewal Advisory Committee. The meeting takes place at the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneuers at 4134 N Vancouver Ave. at 6.30pm. Call 503-823-3352 for more information.
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Contact: Joleen Jensen-Classen, Public Participation Manager, 503-823-3352
Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs (OAME), 4134 N. Vancouver Ave.
Bus #42 Stop # 6367, www.pdc.us/calendar
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This week and next you can still see free films in the1st Annual Beer and Movie Festival and 20th Annual Cascade African Film Festival. As part of the Brew and Movie Festival, the Southern Oregon Brewing Company is sponsoring a double feature of "Boondock Saints" and "Beerfest" Double Feature at 7pm tonight atThe Dublin Pub, 6821 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy, PDX.
See more free movies at bamfestpdx.com and africanfilmfestival.org
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If you live in Portland, you're probably familiar with the High School redesign controversy. Tonight at the Portland School Board meeting there are also plans of a rally on the Teachers' Contract Negotiations and Parents' oppositions to the contract with the Department of Defense Starbase Program. Allies are invited to attend the School Board meeting at 6.45pm tonight at 501 N Dixon, on the northeast end of the Broadway Bridge.
The Portland School Board will hold a work session on the resolution as part of its regular board meeting on Monday, Feb. 22, and will schedule further opportunities for community input before the planned vote March 8.
Also on Monday evening:
- The board will vote on recommendations to eliminate key diploma requirements for its Pathways program. This would allow PPS to create a more robust and meaningful career readiness and exploration program that dovetails with the current process of PPS High School System Design.
- The board will vote on a contract with SEER Analytics to help with detailed technical analysis of various options for optimal community comprehensive sites and boundaries. The work, which is paid for by a federal grant specifically for this type of project, will be in two stages, and linked to analysis of optimal focus school locations.
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Richard Heinberg, widely regarded as America’s foremost peak oil educator, will speak tonight on“Power, Change and Energy” as part of theIllahee Lecture Series. Doors open at 6.30pm at Portland's First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park. There is a discount for TransitionPDX members. Tomorrow night, Tuesday, February 23rd, Heinberg will lead a discussion at the TransitionPDX meeting on the role of local actions and grassroots movements in responding to the sustainability crises of the 21st century. Doors open at 6pm at theNW Neighborhood Cultural Center at NW 18th and Everett. Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post Carbon Institute and a Transition US board member. He is author of nine books, including The Party’s Over, Powerdown, Peak Everything, and the newly released Blackout.
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www.illahee.org, www.thedirt.org/tpdx/calendar
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Tomorrow morning is the 8th Annual Faith Labor Breakfast at the St. Philip Neri Parish at 2409 SE 16th Ave. This year's breakfast will focus on workers' struggle for the common good of society, defining their local and global roles and opportunities. No one will be turned away at the door for lack of funds.
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Please RSVP by contacting Brenda at 503-236-5573 or brenda@jwjpdx.org. <www.jwjpdx.org>
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Are you multiracial? Are you tired of being asked "What Are You?" Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 23rd at 2pm, join theconversation at Portland State University's Smith Center, room 236. Heidi Durrow, author and weekly commentator, will discuss her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white, and society’s ideas of race, class, and beauty.Durrow is co-host of the live weekly podcast Mixed Chicks Chat, Executive Director of the annual Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival, and author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, 2008 winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics of human relationships.
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For more information contact Patrice Hudson at (503)725-8327. visit the Events Calendar at <www.pdx.edu>
- KBOO