7 things to do this week: Bulgarian folk-inspired music, Parker Quartet, and ‘Dyad Dance and Music’
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Virtual events still dominate the entertainment landscape around Portland, and with that in mind, we’ve curated a batch of streaming theater, dance, and classical music performances for the upcoming week. Some of the offerings are free, or low-cost and accessible to anyone with an internet connection.
Broadway Rose Theatre Co. s production of The Last Five Years stars Kailey Rhodes as Cathy and Jeff Rosick as Jamie.Photo courtesy of Broadway Rose
“The Last Five Years”
Broadway Rose Theatre Co. mounts a livestreamed musical about a brief marriage between two young artists: a struggling actor and a literary prodigy. Music and lyrics are by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown. The local production will be directed by Sharon Maroney and stars Kailey Rhodes as Cathy and Jeff Rosick as Jamie.
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It's on the road again - to Worcester - for Musicians of the Old Post Road, as the chamber music group performs its first concert live in a venue in over a year
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Fatima Shaik Considers Her Search Through Economie Journals
March 15, 2021
In the 1950s, my father discovered a pile of wet ledgers on the back of a dump truck in our neighborhood. He brought them to our house, dried them on our sunny porch, and put them into the closet. In 1997, I opened and read them. What I found was a treasure trove, one that could contribute significantly to our understanding of Black history and literature.
Approximately 3,000 pages of French handwriting distributed throughout 24 journals described the lives of Black men in their own words. The journals, containing the minutes of meetings from 1836-1935 of the Société d’Economie et d’Assistance Mutuelle in New Orleans, contained the names of soldiers, activists, lovers, and builders of a community that nurtured my family and spoke to America, but were silenced.