May 14, 1998 Oregon Humanities Center Contact Holly Campbell (541) 346-1001 or John R. Crosiar 346-3135 During Campus Arts Faire May 23 EUGENE--The Oregon Humanities Center will host events featuring the composer and performer of music for the PBS documentary on Northwest explorers Lewis and Clark, as well as two award-winning Oregon writers during the first Campus Arts Faire on Saturday, May 23. Gary Stroutsos, a Seattle scholar and artist of the many traditions of the North American Native flute, will give a free lecture and demonstration at 2 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge at Gerlinger Hall, 1468 University St. Stroutsos composed and played the music featured in the recent Public Broadcasting Service documentary, "Lewis and Clark," by filmmaker Ken Burns. President Clinton invited the Seattle musician to play at the White House in November 1997. Stroutsos' latest release, "Native Heart," on Makoche Records will be among his CDs available for sale at the May 23 event. At 4:30 p.m. in the Gerlinger Alumni Lounge, poet John R. Campbell of Eugene and fiction writer Lidia Yuknavitch of Portland--UO alumni and winners of Poets and Writers' Magazine's 1997 Writers' Exchange awards--will present a free literary reading. Their May 23 reading, given in New York City last October, is the first reading of these award-winning works in Oregon. A free public reception with Stroutsos, Campbell and Yuknavitch will follow at 6 p.m., also in the Alumni Lounge at Gerlinger Hall. For more information about the center's May 23 events, visit the Oregon Humanities Center's website at <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~humanctr/> or call (541) 346-3934. The Campus Arts Faire, set from noon to 5 p.m. May 23, will offer free events for arts fans of all ages to showcase the university's wide variety of arts and cultural programs and talents. Visitors may pick up free maps and schedules at a central information booth opposite the Erb Memorial Union on the lawn near the Pioneer Mother statue at University Street and Johnson Lane. At noon, Fred Crafts will depart the information booth on a one-hour infotour of arts venues on campus. Free parking will be available during the Campus Arts Faire in university lots at various places around campus. Metered spaces, however, will be enforced. For the latest information about the Campus Arts Faire, sponsored by U-Lane-O Credit Union, the UO Alumni Association, and multiple campus and community arts groups, call GuardLine from a Touch-Tone phone at 485-2000, ext. 2787, for a 24-hour taped message; on the Internet, browse http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~uocomm/artsfaire/; or call Jeffrey Jane Knoche, (541) 346-5885. -30- #P-2241/A&E