News from IFCC
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Call to Performers and Producers
OPEN CALL to performers and Producers
Theatre/Dance/Performance Applications are now available for IFCC‘s 2010–2011 Season.
Applications are accepted beginning December 4th, 2009 through 5:00pm, January 1, 2010. Inclusion in the IFCC Season ensures priority booking dates for 1–5 week runs as well as some assistance with marketing including inclusion in our IFCC Season Catalogue. (If you are unable to meet the deadline, you may request a booking at any ...
Season Updates 12/01/09
Updates to IFCC 2009–10 season
As most arts organizations and many non profits, IFCC is feeling the squeeze of the economic down turn. While already a very lean organization we have had to re examine our capacity to present as many wonderful programs as we would like. In addition, several of our performing partners have not weathered the storm. Many of our funders were simply not able to help as they have in the ...
2009-10 Season Changes
Updates to IFCC 2009–10 season
As most arts organizations and many non profits, IFCC is feeling the squeeze of the economic down turn. While already a very lean organization we have had to re examine our capacity to present as many wonderful programs as we would like. In addition, several of our performing partners have not weathered the storm. Many of our funders were simply not able to help as they have in the ...
Executive Director Sought
The Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center is seeking an Executive Director to manage and help lead our organization. The IFCC is a community-based arts center committed to creating an environment in which people of every ethnic or cultural background can come together as artists and audience to explore, preserve and celebrate their diversity.
To Submit please download the following:
Philemon Reid passes
It is with a sad heart that I let you know of the passing of one of our dear IFCC family members. Artist Philemon Reid passed this morning.
I feel very lucky to have met him. This spring he received a long over due award for Artistic Achievement at IFCC’s Do North Celebration. His work graces many walls here at the IFCC and as I told him that night, he was an inspiration and ...
Hip Hop Cabaret Celebrates National Poetry Month
photos by Del Mulhern – focusthelens.com
IFCC Do North 2009, a community arts celebration
photos by Art Alexander, IFCC Board Member
Students Paint Their Community
painting by Ockely Green Students
Jacob Wachira Ezigbo, our visiting artist from Kenya is working with close to 150 students during IFCC‘s Culture Club Outreach this Winter and Spring: Ockley Green School, Portland Village School, Sitton Elementary, Beach and the Tubman Leadership Academy for Girls. Each class will create large canvas group pieces, about what they see in their community (see picture above) and each student will create an individual piece about the role ...
An Overview of 2009/2010 City Budget Process
Update: March 20
What’s New
- Commissioner Nick Fish and Director Zari Santner presented the bureau’s requested budget to Council on Monday, March 16. The presentation was well received and Zari is optimistic that the Council will accept the bureau’s revenue projections.
- Council is now weighing these options and others as they consider the requested budgets from all City bureaus.
Upcoming Dates
* The Mayor will announce his proposed budget on Tuesday, April 28 ...
IFCC Faces Axe from City Budget
article and photo by Brian Stimson of The Skanner
The Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center recently got word that $80,000 in city funding would be cut from their budget next year. As many other programs and departments also face cuts, the small arts organization says it is now figuring out ways to continue their programming.
“Like everybody, we were prepared to tighten our belts,” said Adrienne Flagg, creative director for the IFCC. “What we’d ...
IFCC on Think Out Loud - OPB
March 6, 2009
Is Hip Hop having a renaissance in Portland?
Since the mid-1990s, Portland has had a small but vibrant hip-hop scene. Over the years, though, it’s suffered from fragmentation and what some say is a lack of institutional support compared to other big cities.
That may be changing, according to artists who say the local movement is undergoing a renaissance. Hip-hop veterans such as Cool Nutz, who co-founded the Portland Oregon Hip-Hop ...
Update from Right Brain Initiative
Call to Artists: The application process for experienced teaching artists and arts education organizations to become arts service providers for The Right Brain Initiative opens March 16. Application materials for the 2009–10 school year will be available March 16th at www.therightbraininitiative.org. Information meetings are scheduled on March 31, April 2 and 6 at various locations. Click here for flyer with details.
Call for Presenters: The Oregon Alliance for Arts Education invites you ...
Fill Council Chambers for Art
The Creative Advocacy Network, a new non-profit working towards a regional dedicated funding solution for the arts, is working hard to make sure that the Regional Arts and Culture Budget is preserved by Portland City Council. On March 12th at 2:00 RACC will be giving their “State of the Arts” presentation to Portland City Council and describing how last year’s investments in the arts benefitted the City. It is important that City Council ...
Support the Arts
OPTION #1: BEGINNING tomorrow – Attend a Citywide Community Budget Forum!
Join City Council, Bureau Directors and your neighbors at one of Portland’s Community Budget Forums and voice your priorities for next year’s City budget. Finances are tight and your input on what programs and services are most important to keep is needed! IFCC is part of the Parks and Recreation Budget, “Pass-Through Funds to other agencies”. This pass-through line is traditionally awarded based ...
IFCC on KBOO
Perfection and Facets of Africa at IFCC +Cascade Fest of African Film | KBOO Community Radio Source: kboo.fm
Host/Producer Dmae Roberts talks with Drammy-award-winning Actor/Director Brenda Phillips about Perfection by Helen Hill at the IFCC. Joined by her actors Josh Bellville and Andrea White, we learn about the little known history of forced sterilizations in Oregon. Joining the show by phone IFCC Creative Director, Adrienne Flagg fills us in on their month long ...
IFCC Funding Update: KBOO 90.7 FM
IFCC Creative Director, Adrienne Flagg and Managing Director, Kimberly Howard were interviewed on Tuesday, March 17 on Stage and Studio with Dmae Roberts on KBOO 90.7 FM. Click here to listen.
IFCC Funding Update
Good news! Not only was IFCC added back into the budget- continuing a successful 27 year public private partnership with the City- we were added and an ongoing budget item! Hopefully this will mean less time each year rallying the troops and more time fostering diversity in the arts. It will mean IFCC will be able to plan our budget in a timely manner. Check out the Oregonian link below for a report on the ...
IFCC Rallies the Troops
Adrienne Flagg has been through this before.
Every year around this time, it’s the same circus. The city of Portland releases its draft budget. Tongues wag. Heads roll. The political jockeying for a piece of the budget pie begins. And for several years running now, the sad story’s been the same: the city threatens to cut a much-needed funding stream to the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center.
The 26 year old multicultural arts center ...
IFCC says hurrah for the Arts in the Economic Recovery Bill
February 14, 2009
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved their final version of the Economic Recovery bill by a vote of 246–183. The package includes $50 million in direct support for arts jobs through National Endowment for the Arts grants. Friday evening the bill received 60 votes in the Senate, and President Obama plans to sign the bill on Monday – President’s Day.
A United Voice
“This is an important victory for ...
Facets of Africa performs for Coast Guard
February 18, 2009
Caton Lyles and Habiba Addo
Graciela Teofield, Jennifer Lanier, Caton Lyles and Habiba Addo
Facets of Africa Storytellers with the Coast Guard
An Overview of 2009/2010 Parks and Recreation Budget Planning
For a review of the budget process to date, please visit the Budget 2009–2010 page at www.portlandparks.org.
The PP&R budget website has been refreshed and updated to include all current news. The links below will take you directly to the areas indicated.
• The bureau’s proposed budget for FY 2009–2010 [Note: this file is 5.2 MB], which was submitted to Council February 5th.
• Questions are the responses from PP ...
IFCC Board Chair Welcomes New Mayor
IFCC Board Chair, Jesse Beason, seen here with newly-minted Mayor Sam Adams and Mayor Adams’ new executive assistant, Cevero Gonzalez. As well as serving on IFCC‘s Board of Directors, Jesse Beason is the Executive Director of Portland Community Land Trust.
photo by Lisa Loving of The Skanner.
Last day to be a part of history
IFCC‘s Silver Anniversary Improvements Project is complete.
Exactly seventeen months, to the day, since it began. We raised a new sign. We soundproofed the theatre. We widened the stage door. We installed a window display box.
The sign is synergy between art and technology. If you haven’t already seen it. Drive by. Especially in the late afternoon, as the sun is setting. It positively glows. And we can display information about all the ...
IFCC New Faces Series to be part of Fertile Ground: a City-wide Festival of New Work
IFCC New Face’s Series is proud to be a part of Fertile Ground, Portland’s city-wide celebration of new works which will run January 23rd through February 1st, 2009.
New Faces highlights two playwrights from diverse and often under-represented communities with a workshop process and public reading. Fostering a deeper understanding of the human condition while deepening Portland’s pool of creative talent.
The Fertile Ground Festival is a great way to sample the ...
IFCC Theatre Haunted?
Delirious at IFCC
Over 270 of you got delirious with us, on Saturday, October 25, in our almost one hundred year old firehouse and on the Patton Park Plaza . We danced, enjoyed good food, got our ‘homecoming pictures’ taken by Mishima Photography, and shared stories in the gallery. We inaugurated our new sculptural marquee/message center. We welcomed back old friends, and made new ones. Thank you to our presenting sponsors Wells Fargo, TriMet and Portland Parks and ...
A stellar cast comes home
L.E. BASKOW / TRIBUNE PHOTO
The Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center is throwing a fundraising homecoming party for its 25th anniversary. Former members of its Student Production Company, including (from left) Linda Brown, Andrea White, Adrienne Flagg — as well as the public — are invited
Adolescence is rarely perfect for those living through it. But Heidi Durrow has started out worse than most.
She was 10 years old when her family came to Portland from Europe. Unfamiliar ...
IFCC throws happy homecoming party
by Marty Hughley, The Oregonian (photo by jeffamram.com)
Sunday October 26, 2008, 3:20 PM
To celebrate its anniversary, the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center put on a 1980s-style homecoming party Saturday night. Silver balloons and pink lace lined the theater railings. Charles Jordan, who helped start the center during his early-‘80s stint as a city commissioner, made an introductory speech worthy of any proud school principal. Mayor-elect Sam Adams crowned the homecoming queen ...
IFCC Supporters preview Mike Suri Sculptural Bracket: October 3, 2008
Mike Suri, in his studio with IFCC‘s new sculptural bracket sign.
Mike Suri and IFCC Board members welcomed a small group of special friends to preview the sculptural bracket work in progress. Mike’s original designs for IFCC, were inspired by the vibrant artistic energy that flows inside the building and the art noveau steel work of the turn of the century.
The sculpture, which will bracket a electronic message center, will be anchored ...
Overlook: Arts center blasts back from the brink
Olivia Bucks/The OregonianCrews install an unusual sign/artwork at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center on Monday. A party Saturday will celebrate the center’s comeback.
North Portland's historic Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center will throw a party Saturday to mark the pending arrival of a new marquee that's also an ornate bronze sculpture.
The party will also mark the neighborhood institution’s 25th anniversary — and its rebirth a few years after it was ...
IFCC Managing Director Tours Nez Perce Reservation with WESTAF
IFCC‘s Managing Director, Kimberly Howard, today, spent the morning on a guided tour of the Nez Perce Reservation in Lewiston Idaho. Invited by Aaron Miles, Acting Executive Director of the Nez Perce Tribe, the WESTAF Multi-Cultural Steering Committee and special guests visited the Nez Perce National Historic Park. The Historic Park center showcases Nez Perce portraits, and regalia, along with a canoe carved out of one single tree.
This special day was the culmination ...
Phase One is Done
A picture is worth a thousand words. And if that isn’t enough drive by IFCC today and see what’s going on. Inside and Out.
During
After
and Phase Two has begun
Before
During: Can you tell what’s missing?
Preview of What is to Come
Become a Magic 25 Sponsor
“Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center is twenty-five years of believing in the potential of the human endeavor.” – Susan Goodson Fatherree, Former IFCC Executive Director, 1982–1998
We want to take this opportunity to share something exciting with you. As you might know, IFCC is getting ready to celebrate our 25th anniversary! Twenty-five years of art, performance and community. And we’re celebrating in an ode to the ‘80’s Homecoming.
We will be sending out invitations ...
Crazy 8's to Perform at IFCC Homecoming
Imagine being in charge of entertainment for your homecoming dance in 1982. You would probably have to get some lame DJ or maybe that guy who used to be a senior like three times and now he has a band. OK, that’s the nightmare now imagine the dream. You would want a band that was hot. All around hot. Great music that was jumpin’ with lots of horns and guitars and like, two drummers ...
IFCC Welcomes Five New Board Members
Monica Brown, Jill Cagle, Cashauna Hill, Michael Redden and Scott Werner have been elected to IFCC‘s (Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center) Board of Directors.
Monica Brown joined the IFCC Board because IFCC is a place where people get to hear the untold story through art. She works in the Human Resource Department of Portland Public Schools and is in the current Art of Leadership Class with NWBCA.
Jill Cagle is a Corporate Human Resources Supervisor ...
A Note From Pendleton - Summer Theatre Camp: Young Artists at Play
Hi I’m Jon Woelfer, the Tech Director for the IFCC‘s Young Artists at Play theatre camp in Pendleton. The YAP children’s theatre camp was started by IFCC Creative Director Adrienne Flagg 14 years ago and has been a program run in partnership between the IFCC and the Blue Mountain College Community Theatre for two years.
During the week long camp, a group of seven professional theatre folk from Portland teach classes about ...
IFCC Receives Award from The Oregon Cultural Trust
Today at as part of a statewide, three-city press conference led by Governor Ted Kulongoski, the Oregon Cultural Trust announced that IFCC is among the 52 grantees awarded this year and one of 20 to be first time recipients.
IFCC received Trust funding to support Hip Hop Cabaret, second Sundays in February, March and April of 2009. This is a new program, created to support a cultural form with deep influences across artistic disciplines, gender ...
Purchase your IFCC Passport to Culture
- Join the world of IFCC today.
- Receive your IFCC Passport to Culture along with the 2009–2010 Season Brochure.
- Choose up to 5 performances from the over 16 offered in the IFCC 2009–2010 Season.
- All performances at IFCC are general admission.
Online: Click here to join the world of IFCC today.
In Person: PDX Tickets Box Office, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd, Daily 1pm-9pm
By Phone: 503–205-0715 ...
The Magic 25
Saturday, October 25, 2008
It’s time for IFCC to throw a big bang party! Twenty-five years of fabulous art, performance and community involvement will be celebrated in an ode to the ‘80’s Homecoming.
Every week, from May 3rd to October 25th, drop by here to see what magic moment made the top twenty-five.
And then come get “Delirious” with us on October 25. A full Scrapbook Timeline Exhibit will be featured in our ...
Join in our Silver Anniversary Improvements Project
In celebration of our 25th Anniversary, IFCC is pleased to announce our Silver Anniversary Improvements Project!
The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation has challenged our supporters to raise $10,000 toward our Silver Anniversary Improvements Project. They will match it dollar for dollar.
Add to your gift this year and help us reach this goal. Simply designate on your gift form “extra donation for Miller match”. Together we can transform the face of ...
