Kennedy School
Come have fun in school... for once...
5736 N.E. 33rd Ave.
Portland, OR 97211
Local: (503) 249-3983
Elsewhere: (888) 249-3983
info.ks@mcmenamins.com
Saturday, May 18
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Q Doc Film Festival“Born This Way”2:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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The groundbreaking documentary Born This Way explores the underground gay and lesbian community in the intensely homophobic Cameroon culture that's taking its first steps toward greater acceptance. The film focuses on two people who dream of sharing the truth about who they really are with their families: Cedric wants to come out to his mom, and Gertrude wants to come out to the mother superior who raised her in a Catholic convent.
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Q Doc Film Festival“Lesbiana: A Parallel Revolution”5 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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In the wake of the civil rights, anti-war and feminist movements, there was a groundbreaking wave of activism that changed the face of modern feminism and was based on a simple yet radical idea: inventing a new way of life entirely centered on women. A vibrant, productive lesbian culture came to life through innovative women who created physical and cultural spaces in which to live, meet, discuss and organize this parallel revolution.
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Q Doc Film Festival“Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton”7 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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Filmmaker, poet and exuberant mischief-maker James Broughton was above all an avatar of joyful living – exhorting the world with his motto "“Follow your own weird!” From the beginning, Broughton’s work celebrated the erotic and the whimsical, promoting a free-spirited embrace of the senses. According to Armistead Maupin, “He had a way of getting at the serious by focusing on the silly, and that’s seductive; it creeps up on you.”
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Q Doc Film Festival“Mr. Angel”9:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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Shot over six years, Mr. Angel chronicles the extraordinary life of transgender advocate, educator and porn pioneer Buck Angel. The documentary tells two stories in parallel – that of Buck’s path to selfhood through addiction, homelessness and rejection and that of Buck as an international voice in the queer world. Now well recognized in the industry, he fights to gain legitimacy as an activist.
Sunday, May 19
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Q Doc Film Festival“Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker”12:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker explores the life, times and music of piano legend James Booker, who Dr. John described as “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.” Triply marginalized by his race, sexuality and physical disability, Booker still managed to excel as a musician in New Orleans and Europe in the turbulent ’60s and ’70s, fusing secular, sacred, pop and classical traditions.
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Q Doc Film Festival“Wildness”2:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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Wildness captures the creativity and conflict that arose when a group of young queer artists of color organized a weekly performance party at the Silver Platter, an historic bar in the east end of Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park neighborhood that has been home to the Latino LGBT community since 1963. The party, also called Wildness, became an incubator for queer performers, punks and dance music aficionados.
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Q Doc Film Festival“I Am A Woman Now”4:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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They are all women of a certain age: blue-haired ladies using canes, well-preserved 60-year olds walking small dogs in the park or aging beauties meeting old beaus for a posh lunch. And they all have one thing in common: Dr. Georges Burou. In this beautifully photographed documentary, five trans women reflect back on their lives and the various paths that led them to surgery. In a mixture of interviews, home movies and scenes of their daily lives, we hear their stories.
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Q Doc Film Festival“Valentine Road”7 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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On December 12th, 2008, eighth-grader Brandon McInerney entered E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, Calif., with a stolen gun. His target was Lawrence “Larry” King, an openly queer classmate who had just started coming to school wearing women’s clothing. Valentine Road, named for the street where King is buried, peels back the layers on what Newsweek described as “the most prominent gay-bias crime since the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard.”
Monday, May 20
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Co-sponsored by 1,000 Friends of Oregon“Land-Use Planning at Middle Age: Oregon’s SB 100 Turns 40”History Pub Monday at Kennedy School7 p.m.All ages welcome |
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By Sy Adler, professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University and author of Oregon Plans: The Making of an Unquiet Land Use Revolution.
Honoring the 40th anniversary of the passage of Oregon’s land-use legislation, SB 100, this special program presents the history of the landmark law’s creation and its implementation during the initial, critical years.
Monday, June 24
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History Pub Monday at Kennedy School7 p.m.All ages welcome |
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Mark your calendars for the last Monday every month when you can hear a free history lecture and order a cool pint or two while you're at it.
What was the very first McMenamins pub, opened by Mike and Brian McMenamin? The Barley Mill on SE Hawthorne in Portland. “We borrowed golf from Scotland as we borrowed whiskey. Not because it is Scottish, but because it is good.” -- Horace Hutchinson “Give me a woman who truly loves beer and I will conquer the world.” – Kaiser Wilhelm II How many McMenamins are there in the Seattle area? Three – Mill Creek, Six Arms and Queen Anne. Does each McMenamins pub brew beer? Nope – only our brewpubs and breweries do. They supply our other spots. The Centzon-Totochtin (“Infinite Rabbits”) was an Aztec group that represented the ways humans are affected by intoxication. At the Grand Lodge, the mosaics in the basement hallways were inspired by the work of Spanish artist Antonio Gaudi. “Wine is bottled poetry.” -- Robert Louis Stevenson Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII, was said to be able to drink any man under the table. You show ‘em, Betsy! “Wine is bottled poetry.” -- Robert Louis Stevenson Give it up for St. Arnold, the patron saint of brewers! His miracle was a tankard of ale that never ran dry… Put him on the invite list. McMenamins has a full-time historian on staff. He collects stories, photos, anecdotes and more about McMenamins spots, past and present. Which beer is our best-selling ale? Hammerhead, of course. Have a pint or two today! What’s the name of the Kennedy brewery? The Concordia Brewery, named for the surrounding neighborhood.
