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Taking Steps Towards the Future
An annual peaceful protest…a rally by California community-college students, in support of higher education…and a whole lot more. That’s the description of the March in March, in Sacramento.
This year’s March in March took place on Monday, March 4th, 2013. Students from California’s 112 community colleges traveled up to Sacramento to make a statement. In some cases, they traveled all night to participate and make sure their voices would be heard.
Some student committees had made appointments with legislators and talked with them about recent decisions made in Sacramento.
Here is what the experience of March in March 2013 was like–and a look at the two main issues on which March in March participants were focused, for action.
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March in March 2013, Part Two
Pasadena City College had a showing to be proud of, at March in March 2013.
On March 4, 2013 (incidentally, the first Monday of spring break at PCC), Associated Students organized a trip to Sacramento, for participation in the March in March. One hundred eighty PCC students traveled North (some of them rode a bus all night!) to take part in the March, and the rally for higher education that followed, on the steps of the Capitol building. In addition, a student committee from Pasadena City College met with legislators that morning, to discuss recent decisions by Governor Brown that would directly affect California’s community colleges.
Here’s an inside look at March in March, 2013, and the discussions that followed.
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A “Pearl” of a Talent
Award-winning blues singer Mary Bridget Davies has known Janis Joplin all her life.
Mary Bridget, who grew up singing Janis’ music, stars in the musical, “One Night With Janis Joplin”, currently at the Pasadena Playhouse through April 21st. This particular show represents the second time she’s portrayed the “Queen of Rock and Roll” onstage; in 2005, she also starred in the touring production of the smash off-Broadway musical “Love, Janis.” Continue reading
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“Native Voices” With a Message
Randy Reinholz, co-founder and Artistic Director, Native Voices
(Photograph courtesy of Danielle Klebanow and used with permission.)
What if you came to question everything you’d believed, all your life?
That’s the situation facing Reverend Joshua Logan, the protagonist in this weekend’s world premiere of “The Bird House”, at Native Voices.
Native Voices at the Autry is the nation’s only Equity theatre troupe that’s devoted exclusively to producing new works by Native American, First Nations and Native Alaskan playwrights. Diane Glancy’s new play, “The Bird House”, deals with Reverend Logan’s struggles to save his family, his community and his church in tough economic times. Continue reading
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