The Torch had an opportunity to interview via Zoom Dr. Robert Bullard. Bullard has been at the forefront of environmental justice for over 40 years. Where did you grow up? I grew up in South Alabama, in a small-town named Elba. It’s right on the bottom of the state, close to Florida. So what led…
Local performers deliver a powerful message through their art Bounce, Eugene’s gymnastics and circus-arts center, presented “Falling” and “Cirque Pollutia” at The Hult Center in front of hundreds on Feb. 15. Their aerial program instructors and students have performed at The Hult for the past seven years. Bounce’s in-house aerial company performs a contemporary circus…
Lane Community College was visited by the award-winning author and filmmaker Ernesto Javier Martínez on Feb. 6, who presented at the Gender Equity Center in Building 1. Martínez, an associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of Oregon, seeks to understand how marginalized communities in the United States use various forms of media that…
From homosexuality in the 1940s to grammaphobia Thursday, Feb. 6 marked the opening of the Student Production Association’s Winter Shorts program: an evening of six original plays written, directed and performed by the students. Following a brief delay, the house opened and an audience of roughly two dozen entered the Blue Door Theatre. In true…
In the modern collegiate era, the looming specter of cancel culture and safe spaces abounds. Nestled on the second floor of Building One at Lane Community College there is what Teressa Morris describes as a “brave space” to deflect contentiousness while promoting awareness and inclusivity to all within and without of the LGBTQ+ community. It…
Eric Richardson, the Executive Director of Lane County’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, performed a one-man show at the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History on Jan. 23. There, about 50 people crowded into the museum’s lecture hall to hear his speech, double-bass playing, and recitation…
Eugene’s own Eastern European non-profit ArtLinks hosted the 2020 Father Frost Winter Festival on Jan. 18 – 19. ArtLinks, a nearly two-year-old non-profit, held its all-day multicultural winter celebration at the Wheeler Pavillion. The primary focus of the non-profit is outreach: educate locals on customs, practices and languages of Eastern European cultures from the Caucasus…
Close to 500 people showed up on Jan. 20 to celebrate Eugene’s 34th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. March. “We have members in the audience who helped bring forth that first march in 1984,” explained Eric Richardson, the Executive Director of the Lane County NAACP chapter. The hour-long march started at Autzen Stadium, traveled through…
