2011 Archive - Lane Community College - Reading Together

Fall Term '05 | Winter Term '06 | Spring Term '06

Fall Term '05

Rites of Passage: the Movie Version
Tuesday Nov 22, 12-2pm
CML (Building 19) Rm 104

ENERGY TO CHANGE
THURSDAY, NOV 3, 10AM-12PM, CML (BUILDING 19) RM 104

Women's Center Video Series
Fed Up!: Genetic engineering, industrial agriculture, and sustainable alternatives
Women’s Center, Building 1, Room 202
Friday, November 18, Noon

ENERGY TO CHANGE
THURSDAY, NOV 3, 10AM-12PM, CML (BUILDING 19) RM 104

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What kinds of stories have we been telling ourselves, as a culture, that keep directing us to deplete finite energy resources? Why do we keep repeating these stories in the face of increasingly disastrous consequences? We can change those stories and hence change our communities. What ways is Lane changing these stories? What else is possible? What can we, as individuals, do?

Please join a panel of campus and community experts in a discussion which explores options for change. Panelists will include: Roger Ebbage: Director of Lane's Energy Management Program; Anna Scott: Lane's newly hired Energy Analyst; Jennifer Hayward: Sustainability Coordinator; Tammie Stark, MA: Rainwater Utilization and Water Education specialist and owner of Eugene Rainwater, and Jim Maloney: EWEB Energy Resource Project Manager.

People are welcome to come late or leave early as schedule permits.

Women's Center Video Series
Fed up!
Genetic engineering, industrial agriculture, and sustainable alternatives
Women’s Center, Building 1, Room 202
Friday, November 18, Noon

Using archival footage interspersed with interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, this video presents an overview of our food production system and explores the unintentional effects of pesticides, the resistance of biotechnology companies to food labeling and the links between government officials and major biotechnology and chemical companies. It answers many questions regarding genetic engineering, the Green Revolution, genetic pollution and modern pesticides.

Rites of Passage: the Movie Version
Tuesday Nov 22, 12-2pm
CML (Building 19) Rm 104

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Every summer, Lane offers a culturally specific Rites of Passage Program to local high school students. For the last two years, many of these students have gone out into their local communities, crossing generations, to film the stories that comprise their heritage. In doing so, students not only created rich documents, but more importantly, forged connections that help empower them in determining their future lives.

Please join us in viewing the newest films produced by the Pan-Asian and the African-American students. Then join in a discussion with Jason Mak, and Jordan and Michael Klindt, the filmmakers who supported the students in making these films.

People are welcome to come late or leave early as schedule permits.

Winter Term '06

Elizabeth Woody
Thursday Jan. 19
Events in CML (Building 19) room 104
10-11:15: Reading and talk
1-2: Q&A

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Elizabeth Woody is a poet, artist, essayist, member of the Warm Springs Tribe, and Director of Indigenous Leadership Program at Ecotrust in Portland

Elizabeth Woody will be reading from her work and speaking to this year's Reading Together theme, Circling Home: Stories and Sustainable Communities. bringing the values of her cultural context to bear on the theme . She'll share her sense of what constitutes a sustainable community, conceptualizing sustainable community in a very large and whole sense--social (incl. spiritual, political, cultural, historical)) and ecological --esp. the interconnected relationships between them. She'll consider the role that story plays in this process.

Jim Garcia’s Corridos from the Chicano Movement
Thursday Feb 9 in CML 104 (Building 19)
10-11:30 am

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Jim's wildly popular, multi-media Corridos presentation returns. Jim Garcia, Lane's newly appointed Interim Chicano/Latino Student Program Coordinator and recipient of the 2005 Martin Luther King Leadership Award, uses video, lecture, and song to present the central importance of story in sustaining the history and culture of the Chicano community.

These songs, performed bilingually while Jim accompanies himself on guitar, honor those who have struggled in behalf of the community, while highlighting significant events and issues impacting the Mexican-American people. Jim weaves these songs into a presentation which considers the history of the Mexican-American experience in this country.

Dancer and artist Barbara Mindell
Life is Miraculous: Healing, Creativity, and Movement
Thursday Feb 16, 1 pm
Building 11 Art Gallery
cosponsored with Art Dept. and Learning Communities

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Barbara Mindell will be traveling from Los Angeles as a resident guest artist for the new Lane learning communitiy, Investigating the Body: Movement, Image and Text. She'll be giving a Lecture/Slide Presentation: Life is Miraculous: Healing, Creativity, and Movement. Barbara Mindell has used movement, writing, and visual art as tools in her journey toward recovery from spinal cord injury which left her paralyzed from the waist down when she was 19 years old. She has worked for the past 35 years with Emilie Conrad, the founder of Continuum Movement (Dancing the Fluid Body is based on Continuum Movement) developing a protocol for spinal cord injury rehabilitation. Barbara’s artwork has developed as part of her recovery.

Award-winning Playwright and Director Lane Nishikawa
in an excerpted preview and discussion of his new film: Only the Brave
Friday Feb 17, 10-11:30 am
CML 104 (Building 19)

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Meet with award-winning playwright Lane Nishikawa, writer and director of the film, Only the Brave. The story is based on the actual experiences of Nishikawa's three Nisei uncles who served in the Japanese-American 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team– as well as other veterans who shared their memories with him over the years. The entire film will be shown Friday evening at the DisOrient Asian-American Film Festival, Bijou Art Cinema, showings at 5:45 pm and 8:25 pm.

Only the Brave is a searing portrait of war and prejudice, which takes the viewer on a haunting journey into the hearts and minds of the forgotten heroes of World War II – the all-volunteer, Japanese-American 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team. On the mainland, 120,000 innocent men, women and children were rounded up and swept into remote internment camps, where they would remain behind barbed wire for the duration of the war. Determined to prove their loyalty, the discharged Hawaiian Territorial Guardsmen of Japanese descent successfully petitioned the U.S. government to allow them to serve. Outstanding among their many exploits: two hundred and seventy-five men of the Texas' 36th Division had been trapped for more than a week on a high plateau in France's Vosges Mountains, surrounded by 7000 experienced German soldiers. When attempts by much larger regular-Army units failed to break through, the 100th/442nd was ordered to finish the job. Though their ranks were already decimated and the Nisei were unimaginably exhausted, they spent four days and nights in brutal uphill hand-to-hand combat – while suffering frostbite and trench foot so severe they could hardly walk. The Nisei saved 211 out of the 275 Texans, but suffered more than 800 casualties of their own. During two years of combat, their extraordinary valor resulted in an unparalleled 21 Medals of Honor, 9486 Purple Hearts, eight Presidential Citations, 53 Distinguished Service Crosses, 588 Silver Stars and 5200 Bronze Star Medals – making them the most decorated unit of their size and length of service in American military history.

Japanese-American Remembrance Day
Tuesday Feb 21 in CML (Building 19) rm 226
11 am to 1 pm
co-sponsors:
Lane's Multi-Cultural Center and the Interim Lane Diversity Coordinator

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This event is held in remembrance of the period in our history when Japanese-Americans were taken from their homes and communities (including here in Eugene) and relocated in concentration or internment camps. During this time, in World War II, Japanese Americans were interned without due process of law nor proof that they were a national security risk.
Speakers include:
artist Kenge Kobayashi, who was interned at Tule Lake with his family. Kobayashi has been commissioned to create a memorial outside the Hult Center, which was the site where Japanese-Americans, who lived in the Eugene area during WW11, were ordered to report for removal to the camps;
local author and novelist Bob Kono, who is creating the text for the memorial and was also interned;
Alice Aikens, chairperson for the Eugene Memorial Committee, who will speak of the plans for the Eugene Memorial and her own family's historical experience.

A photo exhibit will be on display in the south-east hallway of the CML, illustrating the Oregon internment in of Japanese-Americans during WW11, as well as plans for the memorial..

An Unfinished Conversation
facilitated by Lee Mun Wah
featuring a film screening of Last Chance for Eden
Friday, February 24, 6:30-9:30 pm
Building 19 (the Center for Meeting and Learning), room 226
cosponsored with Lane's Interim Diversity Coordinator

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So often, we hesitate to begin a conversation with someone who is different from ourselves because we are afraid we might say or do something offensive or inappropriate. Lee Mun Wah, an internationally acclaimed diversity lecturer and trainer, documentary filmmaker, community therapist, poet, and educator will share with us some ways to begin that journey through what he calls An Unfinished Conversation. Last Chance for Eden is a documentary in which eight men and women discuss issues of racism and sexism. They examine the impact of society's stereotypes on their lives in the workplace, in their personal relationships, and in their families and communities.

Reader’s Theatre
Friday March 3 in CML 104 (Building 19)
1-3 pm

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Reader’s Theatre is an ideal tool for giving voice to a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and cultures. Participants may draw from their own experiences, or from others; in fact, Reader’s Theater offers an excellent opportunity for an oral family history project. With the help of this year’s Reading Together books, workshop leaders will guide us in the initial steps of creating a Reader’s Theatre script.

StoryCorp
Lane's version of NPR's one on one interview series.....Reading Together will facilitate audio or video recordings of Lane community members interviewing each other. Subjects can range from campus to community to personal histories. More on this later.

Spring Term '06

Screening of Bioneers Keynote Speaker Terry Tempest Williams
Tuesday, April 18, 4-5:30 p.m. Building 3, Room 216 (Boardroom)
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Inspirational speakers with practical solutions for restoring the earth and people spoke at the first and second annual Oregon Bioneers Conference at Lane Community College. This year's Reading Together author, Terry Tempest Williams, addressed the 2004 Bioneers Conference audience, via satellite connection, about the importance of exercising our rights and developing creative solutions for dissent. Williams' moving presentation will be shown along with that of another inspiring Bioneers speaker, Andy Lipkis.

The Works Student Dance Concert
Friday and Saturday, April 21 & 22, 8 pm, Performing Arts Main Stage
Lane dance students will be performing work based on the poetry from Lucille Clifton’s Blessing the Boats.

Esther Stutzman and Shannon Applegate
Tuesday April 25 10-11:30, CML Building 19 room 104
A collaborative presentation about the historical relationship forged between the Oregon pioneer Applegate family and the Yoncalla band of the Kalapuya peoples. This relationship consists of a continuing unfolding story, forged through generations, successfully bridging cultures. The contentious cultural context made this a very challenging proposition, and Esther and Shannon will speak to these challenges, as well as the evolving rewards of this relationship.

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Reading Together author, Lucille Clifton, will be in residence on the Lane Main Campus May 4 & 5.

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Thursday May 4 Events Open to the Public
10-11:30 Lane Performing Arts Theatre (Building 6)
In accordance with Reading Together’s 2005-06 theme, Circling Home: Stories and Sustainable Communities, Lucille Clifton will read from her work, as well as speak to her sense of story and its relationship to community. She will follow the presentation with a brief Q&A. Clifton states, “I’ve always been a person who found more interesting the stories between the stories. I’ve always wondered the hows and the whys to things. Why is this like this? What has gone into making us who we are?”
2:30-3:30 CML Building 19, room 104
Informal Discussion, Q & A

Friday May 5 Events Not Open to the Public
Lane Spring Conference for all college employee groups
Morning Keynote and Q&A

Oregon Toxics Alliance
Wed. May 17, 1-3, CML Building 19 room 226

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Executive Director Lisa Arkin and Board President David Monk will discuss the mission, goals, and current OTA campaigns that have legislative components to them. They will talk generally about toxics issues with the audience, describe specifically what OTA is doing, and how people can get involved.