Events for February 18, 2010
Performance
Facets of Africa Matinee Series
IFCCTuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 a.m. and Saturday Feb. 20, 1:00pm
$10 adults, $8 children, $5 groups of 10 or more
Tickets available Online
By Phone, 503–205-0715
In Person, 4122 NE Sandy, Daily 1pm-9pm
IFCC Passport Holders click here to reserve this show.
IFCC presents Facets of Africa Matinee Series. Storytellers and performing artists share legends and personal tales representing the many facets of African based culture. Join the performers for a discussion exploring this contribution to the tapestry of American culture after the show. February 20th special FACETS FAMILY DAY Ticket price includes facets performance and artists lecture by Andries Fourie. 1:00pm artists lecture, 2:00pm story tellers Also, ...
Rocket Man
Base Roots Theatre8:00pm, 2:00pm Sundays
General Admission $15
Groups of 10 or more $12
Tickets available Online
By Phone, 503–205-0715 until 3:00pm
In Person, PDX Box Office, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd
Daily 1pm-9pm
Tickets available 1 hour before curtain at the IFCC.
IFCC Passport Holders click here to reserve this show.
World premiere Rocket Man produced by Base Roots Theatre Company is about the intimate romance of true love and the heroic romance of the spirit. A young family from the Space Age of our imagination engages in a furious internal struggle to define the nature and meaning of love. Dad is a dreamer, a seeker, a visionary. As an astronaut, a Rocket Man, he searches through the Cosmos for the heart of the Ultimate. While…
Gallery
Facets of Africa: South Africa; Examining the Hybrid-Self
Andries FourieTuesday through Friday 11:00-6:00pm and Saturdays noon-4:00pm
Gallery opening and exhibit are free
South Africa; Examining the Hybrid-Self investigates issues of memory, identity, cultural hybridity and the legacy of colonialism in post-Apartheid South Africa. As an Afrikaner (a white South African of Dutch descent) Fourie views the present through the lens of a complicated past. Even after three hundred years in Africa, Afrikaners are still torn between seeing themselves as European colonists or indigenous Africans. Opening Celebration January 28, 2010 5:00–7:30 Facets of Africa Family Day February 20, ...