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New Musical Brings Vanport Before the Flood to the Portland Stage

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Vanport the Musical is the work of playwright Shalanda Sims and Northwest Children's Theater artistic director Sarah Jane Hardy. The musical is a collaboration with Vanport Mosaic, a memory-activism festival. Vanport was built to house workers during World War II, many of whom were Black. In 1948, a flood left at least 15 people dead and 18,000 homeless, about a third of them Black.

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New Musical Brings Vanport Before the Flood to the Portland Stage

Vanport the Musical opens at Northwest Children’s Theater, sharing the lost history workers' city in World War II later was destroyed by a 1948 flood.

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