Our East PDX Asian Teen Mentor group has invited us to join them for some friendship and fun.
Monday, March 24
3-5 pm
Mt Scott Roller Skating Rink
5530 SE 72
503 823 3183
Free !
Pizza afterwards!
Please come! The teens were so good to put this together for us! Please rsvp to Jodi Wilf so we can tell the teens how many are coming. jodiwilf@yahoo.com 503-236-8684.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
GREAT WALL YOUTH ORCHESTRA AT FORT VANCOUVER HS AUDITORIUM MARCH 25
World Music with a Chinese Twist:
Multicultural Youth Orchestra from Oakland, CA Presents First Northwest Tour
The Great Wall Youth Orchestra and Chorus of Laney College, in Oakland, California, will tour three Northwest cities for the first time this month, as part of a regional tour sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. The youth orchestra brings together young people from diverse backgrounds to play both world music and classical Chinese songs on traditional Chinese instruments—includin g such popular Western favorites as Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" and Johann Strass's "Radetsky March."
The Great Wall Youth Orchestra and Chorus is a program of the Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, an Oakland-based nonprofit that provides free music education to inner-city schoolchildren. The organization was founded in 1995 by Sherlyn Chew, a music instructor at Laney College and at Lincoln Elementary School, in Oakland, to help fill a gap in arts programming in the public schools.
The youth orchestra was catapulted into the public eye in 2004 by a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal, which cited it as an innovative model for music education and promoting cross-cultural understanding. The article focused on Tyler Thompson, a (then) nine-year old African American boy from the chorus who sings Chinese opera solos. As a result, Tyler and the youth orchestra have been featured on CNN, CBS Sunday Morning, and ABC Good Morning America, and received media coverage worldwide.
Last May, Tyler was invited to Washington, DC to perform at a U.S. State Department meeting between Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and China's Vice-Premier, Madame Wu Yee. The youth orchestra has just received an invitation to perform in Ireland next year, which will mark its first international tour.
For further information, contact:
Melanie 510 502 9049, melanieoreilly@gmail.com
Tuesday March 25th, 7pm
Fort Vancouver High School Auditorium
700 East 18th Street, Vancouver,WA 98661
Tickets : $10, available at door.
Phone: (360) 313-4000 (school switchboard)
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APRIL 6TH WAITING FAMILIES MEETING TO FEATURE HALF THE SKY DIRECTOR
The Sunday, April 6th Waiting Family meeting of FCC Oregon/SW Washington will feature Carol Kemble, Director of Half the Sky Foundation. She will be talking about Half the Sky, their efforts, sponsoring children and the work that they did this past winter to help protect the health and well being of so many children in need in China.
All of the FCC community is invited to come hear her.
The meeting is 3-5 pm at
Doernbecher Children's Hospital
11th Floor Conference Room
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road
Portland, OR 97201-3098
All of the FCC community is invited to come hear her.
The meeting is 3-5 pm at
Doernbecher Children's Hospital
11th Floor Conference Room
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road
Portland, OR 97201-3098
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