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Street Roots is putting on a free event focusing on homeless issues tonight at the Hollywood theater on NE Sandy from 6:30 until 9:00, entitled “Thinking Outside the Box.”
At the event, Kwamba and Dignity Village will screen a portion of the Tent Cities Toolkit interactive movie in which Dignity Villagers, Portland’s former commissioner EriK Sten, Street Roots’ Israel Bayer, JOINs Marc Jolin, and many others are featured.The event will close with an open-mic hour of music and poetry from the audience and broader community. If you would like to participate in the open-mic, “please bring your instrument (mics are provided),” says the press release. Enjoy.Portland’s street newspaper Streets Roots, Sisters of the Road, among others, will open the event with exhibits from local street artists and photographers. The event will also premiere the 15-minute play “Road to Dignity,” written and performed by Dignity Villagers, and directed by Deborah Rodney and Phyllis Jones.
The play is a lighthearted sketch of a typical day at Dignity Village, narrated by Gizmo, one of the Village cats. The play breaks stereotypes of why people are homeless. It gets down to the real nitty-gritty of who we are as people, neighbors, and as members in the community.
The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. (lack)
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: For thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies;
Thou annointest my head with oil; My cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.
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