Voices of a People's History of the United States Live Event

Submitted by Adam Sanchez on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 5:52pm.
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May 16 2008 - 8:00pm
May 16 2008 - 10:00pm

NOTE: New Date and Time for this event!

May 16, 8 PM
First Baptist Church
909 SW 11th Avenue

Portland, OR Featuring Viggo Mortensen, performance poet Staceyann Chin, Portland student activist Sarah Levy, editor and author Anthony Arnove, and other fine actors and activists.

Voices of a People's History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, is the long-awaited primary-source companion to Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's History of the United States. It features the words of rebels, dissenters and visionaries from our past -- and present.

The performance is sponsored by the Illahee Lecture Series and is a benefit for Voices of a People's History of the United States, a 501c3 created to encourage civic engagement and to further history education by bringing the rich stories of dissent and activism in the United States to life through public readings. (More info at howardzinn.org)

Friday, May 16, 8 PM
First Baptist Church
909 SW 11th Avenue
Portland, OR

For more information, contact Illahee:
Box office phone: 503-222-2719
email: info@illahee.org
web: www.illahee.org/lectures
Tickets: $20, $10 for students