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Princess (or Prince) & the Frog Party
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Celebrate AZA’s amphibian conservation day from 10:00a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 14 at Oregon Zoo! Whether a kid or just a kid-at-heart all are encouraged to dress up in honor of the DVD release for Disney’s “Princess & the Frog.” This will be a B.Y.O.T. (Bring Your Own Tiara) party! Come as your favorite prince, princess or favorite amphibian. It’s sure to be a royally great day at the Zoo. Radio Disney will be here to add to the fun along with crafts, games and frog activities.
Frog kissing is o… Cost: Free with Admission.
Sunday, March 14, 2010, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon RD
Portland, OR 97221.
Bach Cantata Choir Lenten Concert
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: The Bach Cantata Choir presents a Lenten concert March 14th, 2010. Ralph Nelson will conduct the 50-voice choir, soloists, and chamber orchestra in two Bach cantatas, #156 and #182; and G. Allegri's Miserere. The concert will be held at Rose City Park Presbyterian Church, NE 44th and Sandy, Portland, Oregon, at 2 pm. While no admission will be charged, a free-will offering will be gratefully accepted. The audience is invited to participate in singing the final chorale in English.. Cost: Free.
Sunday, March 14, 2010, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Rose City Park Presbyterian Church
NE 44th & Sandy
Portland, OR.
"For The Next 7 Generations" A documentary movie
Arts
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: For The Next 7 Generations, a documentary film chronicling the efforts of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers from the four directions to heal the earth & her inhabitants will show at 4 pm. A fundraiser for the Earth & Spirit Council, the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers and The Oregon Food Bank. Cost: Tickets $8 in advance or $10 at the door. Please bring non-perishable food item(s) for donation. Ticket Web Link: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/99704.
Sunday, March 14, 2010, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St.
Portland, OR 97202.
Preventing Medicare Fraud Waste and Abuse
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Preventing Medicare faud,waste and abuse. Cost: free. Ticket Phone: 360-735-3686.
Monday, March 15, 2010, 11:00 AM – 11:40 AM.
Washougal Community Center.
Deep Vein Thrombosis Awareness Event
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Legacy Emanuel Medical Center is hosting a free a DVT Awareness Event. Learn about the risks, symptoms, and treatment of DVT. Bonnie Bernstein, ESPN Broadcaster, and national patient spokesperson for the Coalition to Prevent DVT, will share her story. Join Mary Ann WIlson, RN, founder and host of Sit and Be Fit, as she leads a fun group exercise demonstatration. Space is limited. Registration is required. Cost: Free. Ticket Phone: 503.335-3500. Ticket Web Link: www.legacyhealth.org.
Monday, March 15, 2010, 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM.
Legacy Emanuel Medical Center
2801 N. Gantenbein Ave.
Portland, OR 97227.
Science Pub: First Impressions
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Frank Bernieri, Associate Professor, OSU Department of Psychology
It’s no secret that people often judge each other based on immediate intuitions. We make split-second judgments all the time. Social psychologist Frank Bernieri’s work on first impressions has been seen on TV and widely published. Join him in a discussion about how much first impressions can really tell us.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
McMenamins
700 NW Bond St.
Bend, OR 97701.
For more info visit www.osucascades.edu. Opal School Open House
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Opal Museum School, inside the Portland Children's Museum is having an open house information night for interested parents. Please come to learn more about the Preschool and Early Kindergarten opportunities for your child. Adults only please. Cost: FREE. Ticket Phone: 503-471-9917.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Portland Children's Museum.
Magic, Marriage & Divorce
Lectures
Type of Event: Arts. Booking Readings. Kids & Family. Lectures. Event Description: On Tuesday, March 16th, the Walters Cultural Arts Center will celebrate Women’s History Month with a Spoken Word presentation by Pacific University’s Dr. Martha Rampton entitled Marriage, Magic and Divorce in the Ninth Century. This fascinating talk will discuss how the actions taken by a mid-ninth century German king to divorce his wife for his mistress, have affected views of women, marriage and romance through the ages. Cost: No Charge.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Walters Cultural Arts Center
527 E Main Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123.
For more info visit www.ci.hillsboro.or.us. Maceo Parker
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Maceo Parker: his name is synonymous with Funky Music, his pedigree impeccable; his band: the tightest little funk orchestra on earth.
Everyone knows by now that he's played with each and every leader of funk, his start with James Brown, which Maceo describes as " like being at University "; jumping aboard the Mothership with George Clinton; stretching out with Bootsy's Rubber Band. He’s the living, breathing pulse which connects the history of Funk in one golden thread. The cipher which unravels dance… Cost: Reserved Seating $35 Advance ; $38 Day of Show. Ticket Phone: 541-317-0700. Ticket Web Link: http://www.towertheatre.org/tickets-events/events/354965.aspx.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St, downtown Bend.
For more info visit www.towertheatre.org. Hatfield Lecture Series - Patty Limerick, Western American History
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Our next speaker in the Mark O. Hatfield Distinguished Historians Forum is Patty Limerick, Faculty Director and the Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado. Limerick has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between academics and the general public, as well as worked to demonstrate the benefits of applying historical perspective to contemporary dilemmas. Individual tickets are still on sale for the last three lectures through Box Office Tickets. Cost: Ranges from $10 - $80 per lecture.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
First Congregational Church
1126 SW Park Ave.
Portland, OR 97205.
For more info visit ohs.org. S.T.A.R. (Sustainability Training for Accredited Real Estate Professionals)
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: The S.T.A.R. program gives real estate professionals the knowledge and skills to communicate with clients about the value and benefits of a new or remodeled green home. Participants will be able to identify which home features and building products provide greater energy, water, and resource efficiency and create a healthier living environment for their clients. Graduates are eligible for a $100 rebate from Energy Trust of Oregon. Cost: $365. Ticket Phone: 503-968-7160 ext. 20. Ticket Web Link: https://www.earthadvantagehomes.com/realtor-registration.php.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Earth Advantage Institute: 16280 SW Upper Boones Ferry Rd. Portland, OR 97224.
For more info visit www.earthadvantage.com. Women's Health Lecture: “A History of Empowering Women through Contraception: What Does the Future Hold?” and Open House
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: “A History of Empowering Women through Contraception: What Does the Future Hold?”
Presented by:
Jeffrey T. Jensen, MD, MPH
Leon Speroff Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Director, Women’s Health Research Division
Learn about the various contraceptive methods from the past to the present. We will discuss advances in research that have provided several options for family planning.
Women’s Health Research Clinic Open House
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Multnomah Pavilion, Roo… Cost: Free. Ticket Phone: 5034943666.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Oregon Health & Science University, Mackenzie Hall, Room 1162.
For more info visit www.ohsu.edu. FREE TAX FILING TIPS CLASSES AT THE BEAVERTON CITY LIBRARY
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: Through the Beaverton Cares program and in cooperation with Liberty Tax Service, the City of Beaverton is also offering free tax preparation workshops. Workshops will be held at the Beaverton City Library.
3 to 4 p.m. General Tax Tips, Determining Filing Status
4 to 5 p.m. Tax Implication of Job loss, Short Sales, or Foreclosure
Please RSVP via e-mail to neighbormail@ci.beaverton.or.us or call the Neighborhood Office at (503) 526-2380.
Thank you to Liberty Tax Service for donating time to teach… Cost: 0.00.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Beaverton City Library
12375 SW Hall Blvd
Beaverton, OR 97005.
Crossroads Lecture
Lectures
Event Description: Photo Preservation with Brina Bolanz on "Costumes &Hairstyles: Photo Dating 1840-1900.". Cost: $3 or free for members/PCC.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Washington County Museum
17677 NW Springville Road.
69th Annual St. Patrick's Day Celebration
Fairs & Festivals
Type of Event: Fairs & Festivals. Kids & Family. Event Description: $10, $5 students 12-20, free 11 & under with paying adult
4:30 - 7:00 Children’s Activity Area
4:45 TVF&R Pipe and Drums Band
5:30 Tír Eoghain Céilí Entertainers
6:00 - 7:00 Parrots-4-Show
6:30 Irish Traditional Band
8:15 Molly Malone Irish Dancers
A corned beef and cabbage dinner is served from 4 to 7:30. Cold sandwiches, snacks, and drinks are also available.
Come celebrate this family oriented event with the Irish in Portland. You will have a great time whether you are 8 or 80.… Cost: $10, $5. Ticket Phone: 503-691-2078.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Ambridge Event Center, 37 NE Clackamas St, Portland.
Medicare 101
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: understanding medicare by the SHIBA helpline. Cost: free. Ticket Phone: 360-735-3686.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
201 NE 73rd ST suite101
Vancouver, wa 98665.
Brandi Carlile
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Clear 101.7 and Random Presents proudly bring you Brandi Carlile and "The Give Up The Ghost Traveling Show". Cost: Reserved Seating $27 in Advance $32 Day of Show. Ticket Phone: 541-317-0700. Ticket Web Link: http://www.towertheatre.org/tickets-events/events/364057.aspx.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St, downtown Bend.
For more info visit www.towertheatre.org. Of the People or for the People: Getting the Government We Deserve
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Speaker Jeff Golden presents: The problem with this country, according to some disenchanted Americans, “is that there are no real leaders anymore.”. Cost: $2 for members, $5 non-members. Ticket Phone: 503 585 7012.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM.
Mission Mill Museum, 1313 Mill St SE, Salem, OR.
Your Fertility, Your Options: OHSU Fertility Consultants Open House
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Learn from OHSU’s fertility experts about your options for having a baby. We offer a full range of services not found in other fertility programs in the area. We invite you to join us at an open house to meet our staff and to learn more about our services.
Refreshments will be provided. Register at www.ohsuwomenshealth.com/events or by calling 503-418-4506. Cost: 0. Ticket Phone: 503-418-4506.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
Center for Health and Healing, 10th Floor
3303 SW Bond Avenue
Portland, OR 97239.
LIVE CONCERT WITH RANDAL BAYS & DAITHI SPROULE
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Enjoy two great musicians, Randal Bays and Daithi Sproule, play Irish music to make you dance. Bays has performed all over the U.S. Europe and Canada, including the Gaelic Roots Festival, the San Francisco Celtic Music and Arts Festival, the Festival Des Musiques-Vivantes in France, and the Willie Clancy Summer School and Festival in Ireland. Sproule sings in English and Gaelic and has made the guitar a significant factor in Irish music by being one of the first folk artists to make extensive use of the… Ticket Phone: 541-386-3845. Ticket Web Link: http://oakstreethotel.com/events.html.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 6:00 PM.
Concert at Columbia Center for the Arts at 215 Cascade St. Hood River.
Advance Concert Tickets sold at:
Oak Street Hotel, 610 Oak St. Hood River
Phone: 541-386-3845.
For more info visit oakstreethotel.com. Give Peace a Dance! Awards Gala & Auction
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Food & Wine. Event Description: The Gala will honor outstanding individuals who have made special contributions to the field of mediation and conflict resolution in Oregon. The event includes a light dinner and dessert buffet, dancing and silent auction. Advanced registration required. The Oregon Mediation Association is a nonprofit membership organization committed to the development, support and advocacy of mediation in the State of Oregon. Cost: $40 per person / $300 for a table for 8. Ticket Phone: 503 872 9775. Ticket Web Link: http://www.omediate.org/pg1046.cfm.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 6:25 PM – 10:00 PM.
Tiffany Center Ballroom
1410 Southwest Morrison Street
Portland, OR, 97205-1930.
For more info visit omediate.org. Local Author to Sign Historic Photos of Oregon
Book Readings
Type of Event: Booking Readings. Event Description: Local Author and University of Portland graduate, William Stack, will be signing copies of his new book, Historic Photos of Oregon at Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, Portland on Thursday, March 18th from 7-8pm. For more information visit www.turnerpublishing.com, or call 503-284-1726. Cost: FREE.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR 97232.
"We're going to defend ourselves:" The Portland Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Local Media Response
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Portland author Martha Gies and Jules Boykoff, a political science professor at Pacific University, will present a talk on the how the Black Panther Party in Portland was covered in local media. Special guests will be Kent Ford and Percy Hampton, original members of the Portland Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Cost: free.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand Ave. Portland.
Brandi Carlile
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Clear 101.7 and Random Presents proudly bring you Brandi Carlile and "The Give Up The Ghost Traveling Show". Cost: Reserved Seating $27 in Advance $32 Day of Show. Ticket Phone: 541-317-0700. Ticket Web Link: http://www.towertheatre.org/tickets-events/events/364059.aspx.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St, downtown Bend.
For more info visit www.towertheatre.org. Closing Statements
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: This concert pairs the very last works by Bartók and Tchaikovsky, though they are very different in outlook and tone. The Third Piano Concerto was written while the Hungarian composer was living in New York although Bartok died just before he finished the orchestration of the Piano Concerto’s finale. Judy Park makes a welcome return to Portland from the Rice to play this 20th century gem. Tchaikovsky, it seems, was at his happiest when sad! The composer died in a mysterious fashion just days after the… Cost: $30/adult; $25/senior; $10/student; $5/child. Ticket Phone: 503-234-4077. Ticket Web Link: www.columbiasymphony.org.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM.
First United Methodist Church
1838 SW Jefferson St
Portland.
Quarter Moon One
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Ashland Community Theatre is proud to announce the latest installment of its playreading series 'Quarter Moon'. It will present 8 ten-minute plays by Rogue Valley playwrights, directed by Saj Kirkland, March 19-20 at 8pm and March 21 at 2pm. Tickets are available only at the door. Cost: $10.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
1050 Bellview Grange, Ashland, OR.
Exhibit Opening - Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration
Museums & Exhibits
10am-5pm.
Type of Event: Museum & Exhibits. Event Description: This traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution paints a poignant picture of teenage immigrants in America. Photographer Barbara Beirne was inspired by teenage refugees she met in Kosovo. She worked with immigrant teenagers in America to help them tell their stories through photography. This exhibit tells the story of what it means to leave one’s home at a young age and acclimate to life in a different environment. Cost: Ranges from $0 - $11.
Saturday, March 20, 2010 – Sunday, May 30, 2010.
Oregon History Museum
1200 SW Park Ave.
Portland, OR 97205.
For more info visit ohs.org. 34th Annual Peter Rabbit Breakfast & Carnival
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Fairs & Festivals. Kids & Family. Event Description: The families of West LInn Community Preschool invite you to join us for this favorite commmunity tradition. Breakfast will be served from 8am-11am and the carnival hours are 8am-12noon.
Children games and prizes, raffle baskets, silent auction, pictures with Peter Rabbit and more.. Benefits West Linn Community Preschool. Cost: $3 Children, $5 adults/in advance, $6 adults/at the door. Ticket Phone: 503-657-5050.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
West Linn High School
5464 West A Street
West Linn OR.
First-of-spring I-205 Multi-Use Path Planting
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Join Friends of Trees for a first-of-spring planting along the I-205 Multi-Use Path. Metro Council President David Bragdon will greet volunteers at the planting, which is part of a three-year project to plant thousands of trees and shrubs along the transportation corridor from the Columbia River south to Gladstone. Project partners include ODOT, Metro, and East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District and planting event sponsors Cantel Sweeping and Collier Arbor Care. No experience is needed. Friends of… Cost: Free.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
SE Hawthorne Blve. & SE 95th Ave. Portland, OR.
Season Opening Celebration
Museums & Exhibits
Type of Event: Arts. Kids & Family. Museum & Exhibits. Event Description: Maryhill Museum of Art, one of the Northwest’s most iconic cultural destinations, will open it's 70th Anniversary season on March 20 with a full day of festivities. Tour the special exhibition "70: Seven Decades of Collecting at Maryhill Museum of Art," and kids of all ages can help create the Great 70-Object Art Assemblage. The day concludes with a festive reception. Cost: Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors, $2 for children 6-16; Family Fun activity and admission to the museum is free for children under 17 accompanied by an adult.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Maryhill Museum of Art
35 Maryhill Museum Drive
Goldendale, WA 98620.
World Renowned Author Speaker Gangaji Comes to Portland
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: This week the community of Portland Oregon will have the opportunity to listen to words of wisdom from world-renowned author and speaker, Gangaji. On Friday March 19th at 7:30PM, a Public Meeting with Gangaji will be held at Unity Church of Portland; 4525 SE Stark St, Portland OR, and on Saturday March 20th beginning at 9:30 AM, a Day of Inquiry with Gangaji will be held at World Forestry Center Cheatham Hall, 4033 SW Canyon Rd, Portland OR. Cost: $95-$110. Ticket Phone: 541-482-3100. Ticket Web Link: www.gangaji.org.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 9:30 AM – 7:00 PM.
World Forestry Center Cheatham Hall, 4033 SW Canyon Rd, Portland OR.
Heslin House Museum and City Jail
Museums & Exhibits
Type of Event: Museum & Exhibits. Event Description: Heslin House Museum: The historic Heslin House was built in circa 1890. The current exhibit is in two rooms on the first floor and combines photographs, maps, text, and artifacts to tell the stories of the early settlers, Fairview through the years, Dairy Row, and the Heslin Family. The Fairview City Jail, circa 1914, is also included in the tour. Open the third Saturday every month from10am-3pm at 60 Main Street, Fairview. Donation requested. Special tours by appointment. 503-261-8078. Ticket Phone: 503-261-8078.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
60 Main Street, Fairview.
Zimmerman Heritage Farm
Museums & Exhibits
Type of Event: Museum & Exhibits. Event Description: Zimmerman Heritage Farm: The historic Zimmerman House was built in 1874 and was home to three generations of the Zimmerman Family. Their furnishings and personal articles remain in this two-story Victorian home. Open the third Saturday of every month, 10am-3pm at 17111 NE Sandy Blvd. Gresham. $3 Admission. Special tours by appointment. 503-261-8078. Ticket Phone: 503-261-8078.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
17111 NE Sandy Blvd. Gresham.
Family Day
Museums & Exhibits
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Enjoy this month's family day at the Oregon History Museum, inspired by our exhibit Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration that opens today! After visiting the new exhibit, learn about the Yasui Brothers during a gallery talk in Oregon My Oregon. Explore immigration through the unique perspective of teenagers. Experience authentic henna hand painting, and then visit our craft table for puppet making. Two children are admitted free with one paid adult.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
Oregon History Museum
1200 SW Park Ave.
Portland, OR 97205.
For more info visit ohs.org. Breastfeeding Center Grand Opening
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Celebrate the Grand Opening, get to know our space and come learn about the services offered. Cost: Free.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
12108 SE Cartlon St. Portland, OR 97266 (1 blk N. of Foster Rd.).
Eugene Guitar and Stringed Instrument Showcase
Museums & Exhibits
Event Description: The event will feature 24 of Eugene’s finest guitar, bass and classical stringed instrument builders, including Novax Guitar, Fox Hollow Guitar, DePaule Supply Inlay, Moses Carbon Graphite, Soloette Guitar, Doug Heydon, Ray Kraut, Lynn Berg, Ogle Viola De Gamba and Frank Nakatsuma. There will be casual musical performances throughout the afternoon. Cost: $3.00; children under 14 free.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Campbell Center
155 High Street
Eugene, Oregon.
Building Community Wealth in Malheur County
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: Oregon Rural Action is sponsoring a community-based process for homegrown prosperity on Saturday, March 20th in Ontario at Treasure Valley Community College in the Weese Bldg Room 10. In the Building Community Wealth assembly, participating community members will develop a plan for attaining short- and long-term sources of revenue and employment by identifying local resources, engaging local initiative and talent, and designing a locally-endorsed and sponsored vision of community quality of life. Cost: Free, Dinner for minimal fee.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 1:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
Treasure Valley Community College in the Weese Bldg Room 10, Ontario, OR.
For more info visit oregonrural.org. Radical Deconstruction of Apathy (RDA)
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: Radical Celebration Of Self
Radical Celebration Of Self is a transformative opportunity to elicit, nurture and depict the Divine presence that is YOU. In this playshop we will explore and discover the landscape of your highest qualities and attributes that make you unique and beautiful. Cost: free.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
625 NW Everett St.
For more info visit cityrepair.org. Third Saturday Poetry Reading, Tsunami Books
Book Readings
Type of Event: Booking Readings. Event Description: Poets Nancy Moody & Quinton Hallett will read from their recently published books. Cost: Free.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
2585 Willamette St.
Eugene, OR.
Jon Raymond at the Nye Beach Writers' Series
Book Readings
Type of Event: Booking Readings. Event Description: JON RAYMOND is the author of “The Half-Life,” a novel, and “Old Joy,” a story that became a feature film. His writing appears regularly in Artforum, Bookforum, etc. “Wendy and Lucy,” a film co-written by Raymond, was screened at Cannes. His latest book is the short story collection “Livability.”. Ticket Phone: 541-574-7708. Ticket Web Link: http://www.writersontheedge.org.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM.
Newport Visual Arts Center
777 NW Beach Drive
Newport, Oregon.
For more info visit www.writersontheedge.org. Miz Kitty's Parlour Vaudeville Novelty Show & Revusical
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: TRASHCAN JOE:
http://www.trashcanjoe.com/
LEAPIN' LOUIE:
http://www.comedytricks.com/
VINCE BROWN:
http://www.vincebrownmusic.com/
CHARLEENS: Charleston Dancin' Cuties!
SALMONFLY STRINGBAND:
http://salmonflystringband.com/. Cost: $12. Ticket Phone: 503-223-4527.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:15 PM.
Mission Theater 1624 NW Glisan.
For more info visit www.mizkittysparlour.com. Contra Dance - Three-Fingered Jack with Gordy Euler
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Contra Dance - Three-Fingered Jack with Gordy Euler
7:30 pm intro session, dance 8:00 - 11:00. Cost: $6 CFS/EFS members, $7 non-members, $1 discount for bike/walk.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 7:30 PM – 11:00 PM.
FCC Gatton Hall 4515 SW West Hills Road, Corvallis.
Shen Yun
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Kids & Family. Event Description: Inspired by the spirit of an ancient culture, Shen Yun Performing Arts brings to life classical Chinese dance and music in a gloriously colorful and exhilarating show.
See ancient legends of virtue brought to life alongside modern tales of courage. Hear soaring songs by masterful vocalists that move and inspire. Delight in the magnificent music of a live orchestra. Experience a sense of beauty and enchantment like no other in this world.
Part of a 20-country world tour.
Children under the age of 3… Cost: $25 - $105. Ticket Phone: 503-342-8066. Ticket Web Link: www.ticketmaster.com.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 7:30 PM – 10:15 PM.
Keller Auditorium
222 SW Clay Street
Portland, OR 97201.
The Irish Rovers
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: For 45 years they have made every day St. Patty's Day with "The Unicorn" "Wasn't That A Party" and their unique sense of humor.
For more information visit the official website of The Irish Rovers! http://www.irishrovers.info/. Cost: Reserved Seating $35 and $40. Ticket Phone: 541-317-0700. Ticket Web Link: http://www.towertheatre.org/tickets-events/events/350339.aspx.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St, downtown Bend.
For more info visit www.towertheatre.org. Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Family Band
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Kids & Family. Event Description: Join us at the Walters Cultural Arts Center for a rare Saturday night concert featuring the Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Family Band. Their love for music is infectious, and their expertise is beyond compare. With violin, mandolin, guitar, banjo, and piano – not to mention their beautiful vocals – these two delight audiences wherever they go.
Jay Ungar and Molly Mason are extraordinary musicians. If you didn’t know it before, you sure did after Ken Burns’ The Civil War hit the airwaves. Cost: $18 advance/ $20 day of show. Ticket Phone: 503-615-3485.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
Walters Cultural Arts Center
527 E Main Street
Hillsboro, OR 97123.
For more info visit www.ci.hillsboro.or.us. Portland Gay Men's Chorus presents: ABBA/Queen
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Kids & Family. Event Description: Come put on your dancing shoes and bell bottom pants and join PGMC as we celebrate both the music of ABBA and Queen all in one concert. Dress your retro best and maybe youll even be crowned our "Killer Queen" or "Dancing Queen'
to buy tickets go to:
www.pdxgmc.org. Cost: $16-28. Ticket Phone: 503-226-2588. Ticket Web Link: www.pdxgmc.org.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
Kaul Auditorium
3203 Se Woodstock Blvd
Portland OR 97202.
Portland Gay Men's Chorus presents: ABBA/Queen
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Kids & Family. Event Description: Come put on your dancing shoes and bell bottom pants and join PGMC as we celebrate both the music of ABBA and Queen all in one concert. Dress your retro best and maybe youll even be crowned our "Killer Queen" or "Dancing Queen'
to buy tickets go to:
www.pdxgmc.org. Cost: $16-28. Ticket Phone: 503-226-2588. Ticket Web Link: www.pdxgmc.org.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Kaul Auditorium
3203 Se Woodstock
Portland OR 97202.
World Renowned Author/Speaker Comes to Portland
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: This week the community of Portland Oregon will have the opportunity to listen to words of wisdom from world-renowned author and speaker, Gangaji. On Friday March 19th at 7:30PM, a Public Meeting with Gangaji will be held at Unity Church of Portland; 4525 SE Stark St, Portland OR, and on Saturday March 20th beginning at 9:30 AM, a Day of Inquiry with Gangaji will be held at World Forestry Center Cheatham Hall, 4033 SW Canyon Rd, Portland OR. Cost: $20 Donation. Ticket Phone: 541-482-3100. Ticket Web Link: www.gangaji.org.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM.
Untity Church Portland OR.
Camp Champoeg
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Outdoor, hands-on, interactive spring break camp offers lessons in cultural and natural history for the naturally curious, the socially incline and the talented and gifted. Cost: $225. Ticket Phone: 503.678-1649.
Monday, March 22, 2010 – Friday, March 26, 2010.
Champoeg State Heritage Area, St. Paul.
Spring Break Around the World
Fairs & Festivals
10am-5pm. Every day starting March 22 through March 26.
Type of Event: Fairs & Festivals. Kids & Family. Museum & Exhibits. Workshops. Event Description: Join the World Forestry Center Discovery Museum as we go on a global experience close to home!
Each day explores a new and exciting region of the world culminating with a trip home to Native America. Learn about the unique and interesting cultures of five different locations!
Venture to Greece, travel through India, explore Australia, traverse Central & South America, and journey home to Native America.
Museum open daily 10am -5pm.
All activities are included with museum admission. Cost: $5-8.
Monday, March 22, 2010 – Friday, March 26, 2010.
World Forestry Center Discovery Museum
Washington Park
4033 SW Canyon Rd.
Portland, OR 97221.
"The Heartsong of Charging Elk" Lecture Series Presented by WSU Vancouver
Lectures
7-9pm.
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Four nightly lectures inspired by James Welch's award-winning novel, "The Heartsong of Charing Elk." Guest speakers include: Raymond J. DeMallie, Louis S. Warren, Kathryn W. Shanley and Lois Welch. Cost: Free. Ticket Phone: 360-546-9647. Ticket Web Link: http://vancouver.wsu.edu/heartsong.
Monday, March 22, 2010 – Thursday, March 25, 2010.
WSU Vancouver
14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave.
Vancouver, WA 98686.
For more info visit vancouver.wsu.edu. PEEPs Spring Break Camp!
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Environmental day camp for middle school youth March 22-26, 2010. PEEPs will engage in community service activites and daily field excursions in and around Portland. Spaces still available!
www.portlandpeeps.org. Cost: $200.
Monday, March 22, 2010, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
55 SE Main St, Portland OR 97214.
Recycle / Reuse Art Week! @ The 100th Monkey Studio
Kids & Family
Every day starting March 22 through March 26.
Type of Event: Arts. Kids & Family. Workshops. Event Description: Spring Break, March 22nd-26th
Recycle / Reuse Art Week!
Youth Only Art Studio
Come explore the earth through art making! In this week long Spring Break Camp we will learn a variety of different art techniques and projects through using earth friendly products!
Some projects that will be included in this 5 day week will be - Paper Making, Soap Felting, Encaustic Painting ,Soy Candles & More!
please contact the studio to register
503-232-3457 or the100th@the100thmonkeystudio.com. Cost: $55-$200. Ticket Phone: 503-232-3457. Ticket Web Link: www.the100thmonkeystudio.com.
Monday, March 22, 2010, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
110 SE 16th Ave, Portland, OR 97214.
PCPA Noontime Showcase--Opera Improv
Arts
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Opera Improv demonstrates the elements of opera and allows audience members to create their own mini-opera in a "Choose Your Own Adventure" format. It's lively, informative, interactive, unexpected--but most of all, fun. Opera Improv, a brown bag lunchtime event, is appropriate for children grades K through 6 and for opera-novice adults, too! Cost: free. Ticket Phone: 503-248-4335.
Monday, March 22, 2010, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Rotunda inside Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97205.
For more info visit www.pcpa.com. Spring Break Activities at the Mill
Kids & Family
11am-2pm.
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Come Spend Some Time at Mission Mill During Spring Break! Mission Mill Museum will be offering a variety of activities during the Salem-Keizer area Spring Break. For more info, (503)585-7012, http://www.missionmill.org. Cost: Members Free, $2 Non-members (all ages).
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 – Thursday, March 25, 2010.
Mission Mill Museum, Part of the Willamette Heritage Center
1313 Mill Street SE, Salem, OR.
For more info visit www.missionmill.org. Portland's 10th Annual Diversity Employment Day Career Fair
Fairs & Festivals
Type of Event: Fairs & Festivals. Event Description: Portland’s, 10th Annual Diversity Employment Day Career Fair. Portland’s top employers with 100’s of jobs and career positions–available now. Employers confirmed are Pacific Power, Salem Hospital, Allstate, and many more. Pre-register with your résumé and avoid the huge line. E-mail your résumé to fasttrack@citycareerfair.com and receive your fasttrack pass. Visit www.citycareerfair.com for details.The career fair is FREE and Open to the Public. Business Attire is required. Bring Plenty or résumés. Cost: Free Admission. Ticket Phone: 562-406-7486. Ticket Web Link: www.citycareerfair.com.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
Doubletree Hotel Portland, 1000 N.E. Multnomah St. Portland, OR 97232.
Magic of Maps
Museums & Exhibits
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Learn how explorers and missionaries used a compass and how to unlock the secrets of maps. Make a simple compass form cork, needle, magnet and water. For more info, (503)585-7012 http://www.missionmill.org. Cost: Members Free, $2 Non-members (all ages).
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Willamette Heritage Center/Mission Mill Museum
1313 Mill Street SE, Salem, OR 97301.
For more info visit www.missionmill.org. Lords of Nature, Life in a Land of Great Predators
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Lectures. Event Description: Wolves are big news in NE Oregon. This film and following panel discussion shows the award-winning documentary "Lords of Nature" which explores the beneficial effects of wolves and cougars on our ecosystems, with special relevance to water. Panel discussion with ODFW and USFWS wolf mangers, environmentalists and scientists. Cost: Free Admission.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Eltrym Theater, Baker City, OR.
For more info visit www.lordsofnature.org. Cookin’ on the Trail
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Come explore Pioneer foods, cooking and daily life for kids living here more than 150 years ago. Make a dry biscuit mix to take home to bake. For more info, (503)585-7012, http://www.missionmill.org. Cost: Members Free, $2 Non-members (all ages).
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Mission Mill Museum, Part of the Willamette Heritage Center
1313 Mill Street SE, Salem, OR.
For more info visit www.missionmill.org. OHSU Free Noontime Concert; Randy Porter
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: In a repeat of last year’s very spontaneous and successful format, Randy Porter will take suggestions for established melodies from the audience and re-interpret them in his own unique way!
Randy Porter is well known for his fine jazz piano performance. As a Steinway Artist, Randy draws from a rich palette of sonorities found within his imagination and the depths of the piano.
Parking is very limited on Marquam Hill. Please allow additional time. Alternative options include the #8 bus, or the Portlan… Cost: $0.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
OHSU Auditorium
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road
Portland, OR 97239.
For more info visit www.ohsu.edu. Lords of Nature, Life in a Land of Great Predators
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Lectures. Event Description: Wolves are big news in NE Oregon. This film and following panel discussion shows the award-winning documentary "Lords of Nature" which explores the beneficial effects of wolves and cougars on our ecosystems, with special relevance to water. Panel discussion with ODFW and USFWS wolf mangers, environmentalists and scientists. Cost: Free admission.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
OK Theater, Enterprise, OR.
For more info visit www.lordsofnature.org. Debbie Friedman
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Debbie Friedman has created a "Powerful and euphoric body of work" - New York Times.
Sponsored by the Jewish Community of Central Oregon and the JCCO Sisterhood.
For more than three decades, the legendary Debbie Friedman has given the world music that is transformative, offering joy and comfort, hope and faith, healing and inspiration. Music for our times. Music for our lives. Music for our souls. Cost: Reserved Seating $29 Adults and $21 Students and Children. Ticket Phone: 541-317-0700. Ticket Web Link: http://www.towertheatre.org/tickets-events/events/372683.aspx.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St, downtown Bend.
For more info visit www.towertheatre.org. The Playful Past
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Come down to the Mill to try out some of our period games and toys, and make a toy to take home. For more info, http://www.missionmill.org. Cost: Members Free, $2 Non-members (all ages). Ticket Phone: (503)585-7012.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Mission Mill Museum, Part of the Willamette Heritage Center
1313 Mill Street SE, Salem, OR.
For more info visit www.missionmill.org. “Improving Your Training Evaluation”
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Workshops. Event Description: This highly interactive presentation will show how to take steps to make training evaluations more meaningful, both for the L&D professionals and their business partners. Cost: Early bird registration fee (By March 16th): $25 members/$40 non-members Registration fee (After March 17th): $35 members/$50 non-members. Ticket Phone: 503-579-1552. Ticket Web Link: http://www.astdcascadia.org/forms/regformnew.html.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
To Be Determined. Please visit: http://www.astdcascadia.org for location.
For more info visit www.astdcascadia.org. LIVE CONCERT WITH RANDAL BAYS & DAITHI SPROULE
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Enjoy two great musicians, Randal Bays and Daithi Sproule, play Irish music to make you dance. Bays has performed all over the U.S. Europe and Canada, including the Gaelic Roots Festival, the San Francisco Celtic Music and Arts Festival, the Festival Des Musiques-Vivantes in France, and the Willie Clancy Summer School and Festival in Ireland. Sproule sings in English and Gaelic and has made the guitar a significant factor in Irish music by being one of the first folk artists to make extensive use of the… Ticket Phone: 541-386-3845. Ticket Web Link: http://oakstreethotel.com/events.html.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 6:00 PM.
Concert at Columbia Center for the Arts at 215 Cascade St. Hood River.
Advance Concert Tickets sold at:
Oak Street Hotel, 610 Oak St. Hood River
Phone: 541-386-3845.
For more info visit oakstreethotel.com. Delve Seminar: DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: INFINITE JEST
Lectures
Every Thursday starting March 25, 2010 through April 29, 2010.
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: In this seminar, we’ll explore the late David Foster Wallace’s huge, sprawling, complicated novel, Infinite Jest. Published in 1996, Infinite Jest offers a parodic vision of a post-modern North America in persistently creative and often dazzling prose. Noted for its technical virtuosity and ceaseless erudition, at its core Infinite Jest is a deeply humane, unforgettable exploration of our disordered culture—one of the books that matter. Guide: Christopher Zinn is a scholar of American literature and culture… Ticket Phone: 503-203-3075. Ticket Web Link: http://www.literary-arts.org/boxoffice/.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
Mercy Corps Action Center
28 SW First Avenue
Portland, OR.
For more info visit www.literary-arts.org. Visiting Writers Series: Alice Fulton
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Alice Fulton is the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell University. Fulton’s fiction collection, The Nightingales of Troy: Connected Stories, is published by W.W. Norton. Cost: Free.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Psychology 105
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR 97202.
"Jornaleros" Documentary Premier
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: VOZ Workers’ Rights Education Project will be premiering their new documentary “Jornaleros.” Through music, poetry, and art, "Jornaleros" documents the lives and creative work of five Portland day laborers. The film humanizes the debates on immigration and immigrant labor in the US by showing these day laborers, first and foremost, as artists and activists in the community. Tickets can be purchased at the theatre. Cost: $6 general admission/$5 Students/$4 Seniors.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Clinton Street Theatre located on 2522 SE Clinton Street, Portland, Oregon.
Exciting Find!: The Previously Unknown Letter from Meriwether Lewis to William Linnard
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Join Lorna Hainsworth on as she gives an illustrated talk on this exciting new find. Images of original documents are included in the presentation and attendees receive a transcript of each letter. Cost: $2.00 Members & Students, $5 Non-members. Ticket Phone: (503)585-7012.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Mission Mill Museum, Part of the Willamette Heritage Center, 1313 Mill Street SE, Salem, OR 97301.
For more info visit www.missionmill.org. Smoke Soup
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Don’t miss this BodyVox world premier show set to the haunting, propulsive music of vaunted songwriter and Grammy Award winner, Joe Henry. A richly layered companion piece to the company’s 2009 hit, The Foot Opera Files, Smoke Soup uses movement, imagery and Henry’s deeply personal, distinctly American music to accompany a cast of characters through an intensely physical dance theater cycle. BodyVox Artistic Directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland collaborate with a team of choreographers. Henry’s smoky m… Cost: $36 - $48. Ticket Phone: 503-229-0627.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
BodyVox Dance Center
1201 NW 17th Ave
Portland, OR 97209.
Theatre Thesis Production: A Community-Based Theatre/Anthropology Thesis
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Taiga Christie ’10 experiments in community-based theatre, she describes as theatre conducted with and for a specific community. The goal of her production is to question assumptions and to promote discussion and dialogue. Cost: $1-3. Ticket Phone: 503-777-7284. Ticket Web Link: http://info.reed.edu/theatre/tix.taf.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Studio Theatre
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR 97202.
Oregon Ceramic Association 51st Ceramic, Doll and Crafts Show
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: You may purchase supplies for doing ceramics. There's a ceramic competition. There are brushstroke classes and painting demos along with wheel throwing demos. There are make and takes. Cost: $5.00.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Washington County Fair Complex
Hillsboro, Oregon.
64th Annual All Northwest Barbershop Ballad Contest
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Barbeshop quartet competition and concert featuring Michael Allen Harrison with youth violinist Tanner Johnson. Also featuring guest quartet "Realtime". Saturday shows are also available. Cost: $16-$18. Ticket Phone: 503.357.3006. Ticket Web Link: http://wssingers.com/bs/2010_Barbershop_Mailer.pdf.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
Forest Grove High School
1401 Nichols Lane
Forest Grove OR.
"The Heartsong of Charging Elk" the Concert, Wayne Horvitz, Composer
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: WSU Vancouver presents reknowned Seattle composer/musician Wayne Horvitz and his musical adaptation of James Welch's award-winning novel for four voices and 10 instruments. Cost: FREE. Ticket Phone: 360-546-9647. Ticket Web Link: http://vancouver.wsu.edu/heartsong.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Vancouver School of Arts and Academics
3101 Main Street
Vancouver, WA 98686.
For more info visit vancouver.wsu.edu. Smoke Soup
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Don’t miss this BodyVox world premier show set to the haunting, propulsive music of vaunted songwriter and Grammy Award winner, Joe Henry. A richly layered companion piece to the company’s 2009 hit, The Foot Opera Files, Smoke Soup uses movement, imagery and Henry’s deeply personal, distinctly American music to accompany a cast of characters through an intensely physical dance theater cycle. BodyVox Artistic Directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland collaborate with a team of choreographers. Henry’s smoky m… Cost: $36 - $48. Ticket Phone: 503-229-0627.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
BodyVox Dance Center
1201 NW 17th Ave
Portland, OR 97209.
Theatre Thesis Production: A Community-Based Theatre/Anthropology Thesis
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Taiga Christie ’10 experiments in community-based theatre, she describes as theatre conducted with and for a specific community. The goal of her production is to question assumptions and to promote discussion and dialogue. Cost: $1-3. Ticket Phone: 503-777-7284. Ticket Web Link: http://info.reed.edu/theatre/tix.taf.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Studio Theatre
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR 97202.
Tribute to Cal Tjader Redux: After Six Jazz at The Bijou
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Live Jazz: After Six Jazz plays Jazz & Blues Standards from the Cal Tjader Repertoire, with: Mike Horsfall, vibes; Dennis Caiazza, bass; Ron Steen, drums; Graham Covington, piano; and Rick Tjader, music director and producer. Cost: $15 cover. Ticket Phone: 503-222-3187.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM.
Bijou Cafe
132 SW Third
Portland, OR 97204.
Cash Levy
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Unscripted comedian, Cash Levy will be shooting his one hour comedy TV special tonight. Cost: General Admission $10. Ticket Phone: 541-317-0700. Ticket Web Link: http://www.towertheatre.org/tickets-events/events/374791.aspx.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St, downtown Bend.
For more info visit www.towertheatre.org. Indoor Kite Festival
Fairs & Festivals
Type of Event: Fairs & Festivals. Kids & Family. Event Description: Oregon's premier Indoor Kite Festival is in Lincoln City. Yes, it's true. If you have the right kite and know how to do it, you can fly kites indoors without wind---and have great fun even if the weather outside is frightful! So everyone can enjoy this great sport, Lincoln City is bringing expert indoor kite fliers from all over the country to demonstrate the art and teach kids of all ages how to soar without wind.
We will feature a Kids Carnival. Located in the commons area at Taft High School. Please co…
Saturday, March 27, 2010 – Sunday, March 28, 2010.
Taft High School, 3780 SE Spy Glass Ridge Drive, Lincoln City, Oregon.
Easter Eggstravaganza
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Come see the Easter Bunny arrive by Helicopter! Join us for a special Easter event at the Evergreen Air & Space Museum. Kids will have a blast making fun crafts, hunting for eggs, meeting baby animals at our petting zoo, and watching the Easter Bunny fly in on a helicopter! Make sure to reserve your spot for the one-of-a-kind Easter event! Cost: Members $6, General Public $9, Pictures with the Easter Bunny $10. Ticket Phone: 503.434.4185.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 8:15 AM – 11:00 AM.
Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, 500 NE Michael King Smith Way, McMinnville, OR 97128.
FREE TAX FILING TIPS CLASSES AT THE BEAVERTON CITY LIBRARY
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: Through the Beaverton Cares program and in cooperation with Liberty Tax Service, the City of Beaverton is also offering free tax preparation workshops. Workshops will be held at the Beaverton City Library.
9 to 10 a.m. General Tax Tips, Determining Filing Status
10 to 11 a.m. Earned Income Credits/Dependent Care Expenses/Education Credits
Please RSVP via e-mail to neighbormail@ci.beaverton.or.us or call the Neighborhood Office at (503) 526-2380.
Thank you to Liberty Tax Service for donating tim…
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Beaverton City Library
12375 SW Hall Blvd
Beaverton, OR 97005.
Intuitive Heart Healing (Embodiment Reiki) 1
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: Intuitive Heart Healing or Embodiment Reiki is a unique combination of traditional Usui Reiki with the addition of Embodiment Tools. The Embodiment Tools add additional advanced skills of energy healing around intuition, dynamic energy movement, mind/body emotional connection and emotional processing techniques. The synergy of these techniques creates a powerful tool that enables the receiver to understand, process and empower their own healing even more deeply. Cost: $250.00. Ticket Web Link: http://embodimentreiki1.eventbrite.com/.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM.
Flanders House
2926 NE Flanders
Portland, OR.
Oregon Ceramic Association 51st Ceramic, Doll and Craft Show
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: This is the 2nd day of the 2 day event. Make and takes, demos, items to purchase. etc. Cost: $5.00.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Medicare 101
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: a presentation by the SHIBA helpline. understanding medicare. Cost: free cal to reserve seat. Ticket Phone: 360-735-3686.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
Cascade Park Library
600 NE 136th Ave
Vancouver,wa.
64th Annual All Northwest Barbershop Ballad Contest
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Barbershop Ballad Contest & Concert. Featuring Michael Allen Harrison & youth violinist Tanner Johnson. Two shows available on Saturday 2pm & 7pm. Cost: $20-$22. Ticket Phone: 503.357.3006. Ticket Web Link: http://wssingers.com/bs/2010_Barbershop_Mailer.pdf.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Forest Grove High School
1401 Nichols Lane
Forest Grove OR.
64th Annual All Northwest Barbershop Ballad Contest
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Finals: Barbershop Ballad Competition and concert featuring Michael Allen Harrison & youth violinist Tanner Johnson. Also featuring guest quartet "Realtime". Cost: $20-$22. Ticket Phone: 503.357.3006. Ticket Web Link: http://wssingers.com/bs/2010_Barbershop_Mailer.pdf.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Forest Grove High School
1401 Nichols Lane
Forest Grove OR.
Cash Levy
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Unscripted comedian, Cash Levy will be shooting his one hour comedy TV special tonight. Cost: General Admission $10. Ticket Phone: 541-317-0700. Ticket Web Link: http://www.towertheatre.org/tickets-events/events/374793.aspx.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St, downtown Bend.
For more info visit www.towertheatre.org. Smoke Soup
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Don’t miss this BodyVox world premier show set to the haunting, propulsive music of vaunted songwriter and Grammy Award winner, Joe Henry. A richly layered companion piece to the company’s 2009 hit, The Foot Opera Files, Smoke Soup uses movement, imagery and Henry’s deeply personal, distinctly American music to accompany a cast of characters through an intensely physical dance theater cycle. BodyVox Artistic Directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland collaborate with a team of choreographers. Henry’s smoky m… Cost: $36 - $48. Ticket Phone: 503-229-0627.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
BodyVox Dance Center
1201 NW 17th Ave
Portland, OR 97209.
Theatre Thesis Production: A Community-Based Theatre/Anthropology Thesis
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Taiga Christie ’10 experiments in community-based theatre, she describes as theatre conducted with and for a specific community. The goal of her production is to question assumptions and to promote discussion and dialogue. Cost: $1-3. Ticket Phone: 503-777-7284. Ticket Web Link: http://info.reed.edu/theatre/tix.taf.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Studio Theatre
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR 97202.
The Rose City Collectors Market Show & Blanket Drive
Fairs & Festivals
Type of Event: Fairs & Festivals. Event Description: This Show has 200+ Tables full of Antiques & Collectibles, and is held once a month on the following Sundays: March 28th, April 25th & May 16th. March 28th Show we will be having a Blaket Drive for Catholic Charities Housing Project for Single Homeless Women. Bring your Blankets, and Check out The Show. Fun for everyone!
More info. Tracy 503-238-0222, rosecityshow@aol.com www.rosecitycollectorsmarket.com. Cost: 9 am - 3 pm $2.00 & 7 am $6.00.
Sunday, March 28, 2010, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
Airport Holiday Inn's Columbia Conference Center 8521 NE Columbia Blvd. Portland, Or. 97220.
Musical Passions
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: It is time to mark your calendar for another great Starlight Symphony Concert!
Our next concert features some wonderful selections for the whole
ensemble including Respighi's- The Pines of Rome, a Custer arrangement
- Salute to the Big Bands, and local composer Jeffrey Olenick's -
Chetvorno. This last piece will be accompanied by a performance of the
Zabava Dance Group. There will also be some works highlighting our
string section. These include Vivaldi's - Concert for Mandolin in D,
old time Ame… Cost: Please note our new ticket pricing: 18 and under - FREE seniors over 60, college students (with valid ID) $7, general admission $10.
Sunday, March 28, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM.
Tigard United Methodist Church
9845 SW Walnut Place, Tigard.
For more info visit www.starlightsymphony.us. Ruth Reichl
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Reichl is a long time editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine and the former food critic for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She is also the author of three critically acclaimed memoirs, including Tender at the Bone, Garlic and Sapphires, and most recently, Not Becoming My Mother. Reichl believes food tells us a great deal about ourselves and our society. The Los Angeles Times has written, “Ruth Reichl is a commanding and daunting figure in American culture.”. Ticket Web Link: http://www.literary-arts.org/boxoffice/193/.
Sunday, March 28, 2010, 7:30 PM.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway (at Main Street).
For more info visit www.literary-arts.org. History Pub
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Join us for history pub this month in the Kennedy School theater, brought to you by the Holy Names Heritage Center, McMenamins and OHS. This month’s topic: “The Columbia River Highway: Its History, Decline and Preservation. Guest speakers Robert Hadlow, David Sell and George Fekaris will be sharing the history of the Columbia River Highway, including the restoration and reconnection work that has taken place. All ages are welcome to this free event. Cost: Free.
Monday, March 29, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
McMenamins Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave.
Portland, OR 97211.
For more info visit www.mcmenamins.com. 2010 Governor's Race Environmental Debate
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Gubernatorial candidates Allen Alley, Bill Bradbury and John Kitzhaber will be asked to lay out solutions for challenges that face Oregon's environment, including climate change, energy, toxics, public health, and the management of the state's natural resources and special places.
Hosts: Environment Oregon, Oregon Environmental Council, Oregon League of Conservation Voters, Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club.
Moderator: David Sarasohn of the Oregonian
The debate will serve as one of the criteria in… Cost: Free, but registration is required. Ticket Phone: (503) 238-0442. Ticket Web Link: http://oregon.sierraclub.org/debate.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
Smith Memorial Student Union, Ballroom (3rd Floor)
Portland State University
1825 SW Broadway Ave
Portland, OR.
Wild Life Conservation Lecture
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Green Roofs and Living Walls for Wildlife - Dusty Gedge / President, European Federation of Green Roof Associations A world-renowned "green roof" expert shows how to convert rooftops, big and small, into living landscapes, brimming with wildlife. Cost: $10 general admission, $8 members of Oregon Zoo, Audubon Society of Portland, World Forestry Center, students and seniors. Ticket Phone: 503-226-1561. Ticket Web Link: http://oregonzoo-cascadeoutfitters.stores.yahoo.net/.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Oregon Zoo - Cascade Crest Banquet Center
4001 SW Canyon Rd
Portland OrR 97221.
For more info visit www.oregonzoo.org. Wildlife Conservation Lecture Series
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Oregon Zoo is hosting a lecture series where you can learn more about various issues concerning wildlife conservation.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
- Dusty Gedge, Green Roofs and Living Walls for Wildlife:
A world-renowned "green roof" expert shows how to convert rooftops, big and small, into living landscapes, brimming with wildlife.
Lectures start at 7 p.m. in Oregon Zoo's Cascade Crest Banquet Center $10 general admission, $8 members of Oregon Zoo, Audubon Society of Portland, World Forestry Center, st… Cost: $10. Ticket Phone: 503.226.1561.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon RD
Portland, OR 97221.
OMSI Science Pub: Sex, Relationships, and Technology
Museums & Exhibits
Type of Event: Museum & Exhibits. Event Description: With L. Kris Gowen, PhD, EdM, sexuality educator and research associate at Portland State University.
Science Pub is a relaxed gathering with expert speakers discussing cutting-edge advances in science and technology that directly affect people’s lives. No scientific background is required—just curiosity, a sense of humor, and an appetite for food, drinks, and knowledge. Science Pub is casual, interactive, and fun! Visit http://www.omsi.edu/sciencepub for more information. Pubs are free with a suggested c… Ticket Phone: 503.797.4000. Ticket Web Link: www.omsi.edu.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 7:00 PM.
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan
Portland, OR.
OMSI After Dark
Museums & Exhibits
Type of Event: Museum & Exhibits. Event Description: Shoot off water rockets, concoct chemical creations, and explore the wonders of OMSI with no kids in sight! Enjoy a glass of wine while learning about robots, tornados, or fossils. Talk to a brewer about the science behind beer, or taste how an extra 10% cacao can make a difference in chocolate. All that and more with OMSI After Dark, a night at the museum for the 21-and-over crowd filled with food, drink, and science fun!
Admission is free for members and $10 for non-members. Visitors 21-and-over only;… Cost: Free for members, $10 for non-members. Ticket Phone: 503.797.4000. Ticket Web Link: www.omsi.edu.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
OMSI
1945 SE Water Avenue
Portland, OR 97214.
April Artist Feature: Kimry Jelen
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Kimry Jelen Artist Feature: April 1 through April 25th, 2010
Preview Reception: Thursday April 1, from 5-8pm
Artist Reception: Friday, April 2, from 5-9pm, during the Art Hop and Bend First Friday Gallery Walk. Featuring new original paintings by Kimry Jelen. Refreshments, live music, and an opportunity to meet the artist.
Where: High Desert Gallery, at our downtown gallery location, 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford. Gallery hours: Open daily10am to 6pm. For more information, please call 541-3… Cost: free and open to the public.
Thursday, April 1, 2010.
High Desert Gallery
10 NW Minnesota Avenue at the Oxford
Bend, Oregon 97701.
For more info visit www.highdesertgallery.com. Special Preview Reception: Kimry Jelen
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: April - Kimry Jelen
Artist Feature: April 1 through April 25th, 2010
Preview Reception: Thursday April 1, from 5-8pm
Artist Reception: Friday, April 2, from 5-9pm, during the Art Hop and Bend First Friday Gallery Walk. Featuring new original paintings by Kimry Jelen. Refreshments, live music, and an opportunity to meet the artist.
Where: High Desert Gallery, at our downtown gallery location, 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford. Gallery hours: Open daily10am to 6pm. For more information, please… Cost: free and open to the public.
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
High Desert Gallery
10 NW Minnesota Avenue at the Oxford
Bend, Oregon 97701.
For more info visit www.highdesertgallery.com. LIVE CONCERT WITH RANDAL BAYS & DAITHI SPROULE
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Enjoy two great musicians, Randal Bays and Daithi Sproule, play Irish music to make you dance. Bays has performed all over the U.S. Europe and Canada, including the Gaelic Roots Festival, the San Francisco Celtic Music and Arts Festival, the Festival Des Musiques-Vivantes in France, and the Willie Clancy Summer School and Festival in Ireland. Sproule sings in English and Gaelic and has made the guitar a significant factor in Irish music by being one of the first folk artists to make extensive use of the… Ticket Phone: 541-386-3845. Ticket Web Link: http://oakstreethotel.com/events.html.
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 6:00 PM.
Concert at Columbia Center for the Arts at 215 Cascade St. Hood River.
Advance Concert Tickets sold at:
Oak Street Hotel, 610 Oak St. Hood River
Phone: 541-386-3845.
For more info visit oakstreethotel.com. The Gubernatorial Candidates’ Public Forum
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: The Museum is working with various orgs. and university political science depts. to present this gubernatorial candidates' public forum. Cost: free.
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
Mission Mill Museum, 1313 Mill Street SE, Salem, OR 97301.
Smoke Soup
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Don’t miss this BodyVox world premier show set to the haunting, propulsive music of vaunted songwriter and Grammy Award winner, Joe Henry. A richly layered companion piece to the company’s 2009 hit, The Foot Opera Files, Smoke Soup uses movement, imagery and Henry’s deeply personal, distinctly American music to accompany a cast of characters through an intensely physical dance theater cycle. BodyVox Artistic Directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland collaborate with a team of choreographers. Henry’s smoky m… Cost: $36 - $48. Ticket Phone: 503-229-0627.
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
BodyVox Dance Center
1201 NW 17th Ave
Portland, OR 97209.
April First Friday Art Reception: Kimry Jelen
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Food & Wine. Event Description: April - Kimry Jelen
Artist Feature: April 1 through April 25th, 2010
Preview Reception: Thursday April 1, from 5-8pm
Artist Reception: Friday, April 2, from 5-9pm, during the Art Hop and Bend First Friday Gallery Walk. Featuring new original paintings by Kimry Jelen. Refreshments, live music, and an opportunity to meet the artist.
Where: High Desert Gallery, at our downtown gallery location, 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford. Gallery hours: Open daily10am to 6pm. For more information, please… Cost: free and open to the public.
Friday, April 2, 2010, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
High Desert Gallery
10 NW Minnesota Avenue at the Oxford
Bend, Oregon 97701.
For more info visit www.highdesertgallery.com. First Friday Irish Ceili, music and dance
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: 3rd season of this fun cultural event.
Includes live music, complimentary lesson, all dances taught and cued.
All ages, but mind your children so that they are not stepped on. Ticket Phone: 503.691.2078.
Friday, April 2, 2010, 7:30 PM – 11:00 PM.
Winona Grange, 8340 SW Seneca Street, Tualatin 97062.
For more info visit www.sandairishentertainment.com. Smoke Soup
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Don’t miss this BodyVox world premier show set to the haunting, propulsive music of vaunted songwriter and Grammy Award winner, Joe Henry. A richly layered companion piece to the company’s 2009 hit, The Foot Opera Files, Smoke Soup uses movement, imagery and Henry’s deeply personal, distinctly American music to accompany a cast of characters through an intensely physical dance theater cycle. BodyVox Artistic Directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland collaborate with a team of choreographers. Henry’s smoky m… Cost: $36 - $48. Ticket Phone: 503-229-0627.
Friday, April 2, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
BodyVox Dance Center
1201 NW 17th Ave
Portland, OR 97209.
Theatre Production: Antigone
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Reed Theatre presents Antigone, by Jean Anouilh, translated by Lewis Galantière, and directed by Kate Bredeson, assistant professor of theatre. First produced in German-occupied Paris during World War II, Anouilh's version of the Greek myth is a meditation on power, responsibility, and duty. Cost: $1-5. Ticket Phone: 503-777-7284. Ticket Web Link: http://info.reed.edu/theatre/tix.taf.
Friday, April 2, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Mainstage Theatre
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR 97202.
Building Community Wealth in Union County
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: Oregon Rural Action is sponsoring a community-based process for homegrown prosperity on Saturday, April 3rd in Cove. In the Building Community Wealth assembly, participating community members will develop a plan for attaining short- and long-term sources of revenue and employment by identifying local resources, engaging local initiative and talent, and designing a locally-endorsed and sponsored vision of community quality of life. Cost: Free, Lunch available for purchase.
Saturday, April 3, 2010, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Kimsey Commons at the Cove Ascension School, 1006 Church St. Cove, OR.
For more info visit oregonrural.org. Easter Eggstravaganza
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Please join us for an Easter Egg Hunt! Thousands of colorful candy-filled eggs, prizes, food, and loads of fun for children of all ages! Cost: FREE! Ticket Phone: 503-649-4444.
Saturday, April 3, 2010, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
Life Church
5585 SW 209th Ave
Aloha, OR 97007.
FREE TAX FILING TIPS CLASSES AT THE BEAVERTON CITY LIBRARY
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: Through the Beaverton Cares program and in cooperation with Liberty Tax Service, the City of Beaverton is also offering free tax preparation workshops. Workshops will be held at the Beaverton City Library.
2 to 3 p.m. Earned Income Credits/Dependent Care Expenses/Education Credits
3 to 4 p.m. Self Employment/Seniors 50 Plus Tax Tips/Tax Issues Regarding Stocks,
Bonds & Retirement
Please RSVP via e-mail to neighbormail@ci.beaverton.or.us or call the Neighborhood Office at (503) 526-2380.
Thank…
Saturday, April 3, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Beaverton City Library
12375 SW Hall Blvd
Beaverton, OR 97005.
Contra Dance - Dan Compton, Fran Slefer, Mick Doherty with Erik Weberg
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Contra Dance - Dan Compton, Fran Slefer, Mick Doherty with Erik Weberg
7:30 pm intro session, dance 8:00 - 11:00. Cost: $6 CFS/EFS members, $7 non-members, $1 discount for bike/walk.
Saturday, April 3, 2010, 7:30 PM – 11:00 PM.
NOTE LOCATION CHANGE
Corvallis Boys and Girls Club 1112 Northwest Circle Blvd.
Smoke Soup
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Don’t miss this BodyVox world premier show set to the haunting, propulsive music of vaunted songwriter and Grammy Award winner, Joe Henry. A richly layered companion piece to the company’s 2009 hit, The Foot Opera Files, Smoke Soup uses movement, imagery and Henry’s deeply personal, distinctly American music to accompany a cast of characters through an intensely physical dance theater cycle. BodyVox Artistic Directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland collaborate with a team of choreographers. Henry’s smoky m… Cost: $36 - $48. Ticket Phone: 503-229-0627.
Saturday, April 3, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
BodyVox Dance Center
1201 NW 17th Ave
Portland, OR 97209.
Theatre Production: Antigone
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Reed Theatre presents Antigone, by Jean Anouilh, translated by Lewis Galantière, and directed by Kate Bredeson, assistant professor of theatre. First produced in German-occupied Paris during World War II, Anouilh's version of the Greek myth is a meditation on power, responsibility, and duty. Cost: $1-5. Ticket Phone: 503-777-7284. Ticket Web Link: http://info.reed.edu/theatre/tix.taf.
Saturday, April 3, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Mainstage Theatre
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR 97202.
OMSI Science Pub: Seeing Time: Geologic Clues to Our Ancient Earth
Museums & Exhibits
Type of Event: Museum & Exhibits. Event Description: With Marli Bryant Miller, PhD, senior instructor and research associate professor in the geology department at the University of Oregon
Science Pub is a relaxed gathering with expert speakers discussing cutting-edge advances in science and technology that directly affect people’s lives. No scientific background is required—just curiosity, a sense of humor, and an appetite for food, drinks, and knowledge. Science Pub is casual, interactive, and fun! Visit http://www.omsi.edu/sciencepub for more information… Ticket Phone: 503.797.4000. Ticket Web Link: www.omsi.edu.
Monday, April 5, 2010, 7:00 PM.
Bagdad Theater
3702 SE Hawthorne
Portland, OR.
Harbingers of Spring: Paintings by Shannon Richardson
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: During the month of April, Portland painter, Shannon Richardson's work will be featured at the Mary Lou Zeek Gallery. Tu-Fri 10-5:30, Sat 10-5, Sun-Mon closed.
In 2006 Shannon received the distinction of being named by Southwest Art Magazine as one of “21 Artists Under the Age of 31 to Collect Now.” PDX Magazine also recognized Shannon as one of ten contemporary artists in the Northwest in the article titled, “Fine Young Things”. Cost: free.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 – Saturday, May 1, 2010.
Mary Lou Zeek Gallery
335 State Street
Salem, OR 97301.
For more info visit zeekgallery.com. Virginia Garcia's 2nd Annual Healthcare Symposium Featuring John Kitzhaber
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Workshops. Event Description: This symposium will bring together state, business, policy and healthcare leaders to discuss various views on how our evolving healthcare climate is impacting our lives and where we should go from here.
Keynote Speaker: John Kitzhaber, M.D. Governor, 1995-2003
Moderator: Jack Friedman, CEO, Providence Health Plans
Panelists:
Sue Hennessy, Vice President, Health Plan Services, Kaiser Permanente Northwest
Gil Muñoz, CEO, Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center
Dick Stenson, President and CEO, Tuality… Cost: $50 for individuals, $350 for tables of eight. Ticket Phone: 503-352-8617. Ticket Web Link: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/97100.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 7:00 AM – 9:30 AM.
Where: Oregon Zoo Vista Room
4001 SW Canyon Road
Portland, OR 97221.
It's In the Bag: Canada: It’s NOT part of the US
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: OSU-Cascades’ annual lecture series showcases the range of research and scholarship underway by our faculty.
Ron Reuter, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Natural Resources
What is the world’s second largest area based on land mass, and the
thirty-sixth based on population? It’s Canada. Reuter recently explored
the Province of Alberta as a fellow of the International Canadian Studies
Institute. Come learn of his discoveries in the Great White North and why
Canadians like to say, “we’re just like the US,…
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Cascades Hall, Room 118
Bend, OR 97701.
For more info visit www.osucascades.edu. Health Reform in Oregon--How We Can Lead the Nation
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Please describe the event, and include any contact information for presenting companies, artists, etc. Cost: 0.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
OHSU Marquam Hill Campus
School of Nursing Auditorium
3181 Sam Jackson Park Rd.
For more info visit www.cpd.ogi.edu. Free Public Readings April 7:Jackie Shannon-Hollis, Peter Sears, Brian Christopher and Elizabeth Enslin
Book Readings
Type of Event: Booking Readings. Event Description: Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting at the Blackbird Wine Shop, 4323 NE Fremont, 7-9pm. This show is 21 and over. Contact Julie Mae Madsen at maemadsen@gmail.com for more information. Cost: FREE.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Blackbird Wine Shop, 4323 NE Fremont, Portland, Oregon.
House of Floyd
Arts
Event Description: HOUSE OF FLOYD, a reverent tribute to Pink Floyd, captures the intoxicating sights and sounds of the original for even the most discriminating fan. HOUSE OF FLOYD pays the highest tribute to the original by accurately recreating all of the nuanced musical complexity and powerful visual imagery of Pink Floyd. The result of this obsessive attention to detail is a total Floyd production...music, lights, lasers and video. HOUSE OF FLOYD will transport you back to that mystical moment when you first discovered t… Cost: Reserved Seating $26 Advance / $29 Day of Show. Ticket Phone: 541-317-0700. Ticket Web Link: http://www.towertheatre.org/tickets-events/events/362112.aspx.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St, downtown Bend.
For more info visit www.towertheatre.org. Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Complexions embraces diversity with 14 dancers of different ethnic and dance backgrounds performing a range of dazzling work encompassing big, dynamic ensembles, poignant duets, and solos. Ticket Phone: 1-800-982-2787. Ticket Web Link: http://www.ticketmaster.com/.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 7:30 PM.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR.
For more info visit www.whitebird.org. Yonder Mountain String Band
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: ***Tickets On Sale Fri, February 5th, 10:00 AM***
Wed, April 7th, 2010 9:00 PM (Doors open at: 8:00 PM)
Yonder Mountain String Band
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St, Portland, OR 97209 (503-225-0047)
All Ages. $25.00 Advance. $30.00 Day Of Show. Tickets available from TicketMaster. Cost: $25.00 Advance. $30.00 Day Of Show. Ticket Phone: 503-225-0047. Ticket Web Link: http://www.ticketmaster.com/search?tm_link=tm_homeA_header_search&q=yonder+.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 9:00 PM – 11:50 PM.
Crystal Ballroom.
Certified Residential Green Appraiser Series(CRGA)
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: Presented by Earth Advantage Institute and Watkins & Associates, the CRGA course meets April 8, 9 & 10 from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. This course will expand your appraisal expertise to green homes, the fastest growing construction market segment in the U.S. Continuing education credits hours are available for OR and WA appraisers. Cost: $425. Ticket Phone: (503) 968-7160 x18. Ticket Web Link: http://www.earthadvantage.com/class-paid-registration.php?WhichClass=43.
Thursday, April 8, 2010.
Earth Advantage Institute: 16280 SW Upper Boones Ferry Rd. Portland, OR 97224.
For more info visit www.earthadvantage.com. Susan Howlett: Inviting Your Board Members to Raise Money Joyfully!
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: Your board members mean well, but they hesitate and struggle when it’s time to ask others for support. Find out how to remove the barriers that keep them from feeling confident and successful in this engaging and interactive session, filled with practical suggestions you can use the same day!
If your board members have ever felt reluctant to participate in fundraising, this workshop is for you – and them. Bring a board member or two and help them grow more confident and successful in their role as ambass… Cost: $50 Members/$65 non-members. Ticket Phone: 503-274-1977. Ticket Web Link: www.wvdo-or.org.
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
American Red Cross-Oregon Trail Chapter
3131 N. Vancouver, Portland Oregon.
Ethics and Leadership Seminar
Workshops
Type of Event: Lectures. Workshops. Event Description: Join Sally Rhys for a seminar on ethics in leadership. "Leaders need to be aware of the shadow they cast," says Rhys.
Trust in organizations is at an all-time low. This plays out in organizations via costly employee misconduct, which is on the rise. Over half of employees report having seen behavior which violates company policy or laws at least once in the last 12 months. Cost: $85. Ticket Phone: 503-725-8085. Ticket Web Link: http://sesweb.ses.pdx.edu/pdc_cat/catalog/details.cfm?id=BLM06A.
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Portland State Professional Development Center.
For more info visit www.pdc.pdx.edu. LIVE CONCERT WITH RANDAL BAYS & DAITHI SPROULE
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Enjoy two great musicians, Randal Bays and Daithi Sproule, play Irish music to make you dance. Bays has performed all over the U.S. Europe and Canada, including the Gaelic Roots Festival, the San Francisco Celtic Music and Arts Festival, the Festival Des Musiques-Vivantes in France, and the Willie Clancy Summer School and Festival in Ireland. Sproule sings in English and Gaelic and has made the guitar a significant factor in Irish music by being one of the first folk artists to make extensive use of the… Ticket Phone: 541-386-3845. Ticket Web Link: http://oakstreethotel.com/events.html.
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 6:00 PM.
Concert at Columbia Center for the Arts at 215 Cascade St. Hood River.
Advance Concert Tickets sold at:
Oak Street Hotel, 610 Oak St. Hood River
Phone: 541-386-3845.
For more info visit oakstreethotel.com. Smoke Soup
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Don’t miss this BodyVox world premier show set to the haunting, propulsive music of vaunted songwriter and Grammy Award winner, Joe Henry. A richly layered companion piece to the company’s 2009 hit, The Foot Opera Files, Smoke Soup uses movement, imagery and Henry’s deeply personal, distinctly American music to accompany a cast of characters through an intensely physical dance theater cycle. BodyVox Artistic Directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland collaborate with a team of choreographers. Henry’s smoky m… Cost: $36 - $48. Ticket Phone: 503-229-0627.
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
BodyVox Dance Center
1201 NW 17th Ave
Portland, OR 97209.
U-Theatre
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: 3 Performances: April 8-10, 7:30pm
A whirlwind of athletic drumming, marital arts, Buddhist chanting, and mesmerizing movement. Ticket Phone: 1-800-982-2787. Ticket Web Link: http://www.ticketmaster.com/.
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 7:30 PM.
Newmark Theatre
1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR.
For more info visit www.whitebird.org. Considering The Figure
Workshops
Every day starting April 9 through April 11.
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: This workshop is for artists who love the figure and want to work from a live model to learn how to render it beautifully. We’ll look at anatomy, figure ground relationship, composition, mark making, alternatives to traditional approaches, and different approaches in both dry and water based media. Cost: $365. Ticket Phone: 541-994-5485. Ticket Web Link: http://www.sitkacenter.com/classes/detail.lasso?recid=1570.
Friday, April 9, 2010, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
56605 Sitka Drive
Otis, OR 97368.
For more info visit www.sitkacenter.org. Everyday Heroes! La Salle's 16th Annual Auction & Dinner
Kids & Family
Event Description: NEW DATE. NEW LOCATION. SAME GREAT CAUSE.
Who is YOUR hero? A parent, grandparent, or friend? A favorite teacher or coach? At La Salle, we are surrounded with everyday heroes on a daily basis. At this year’s event, we will be focusing on the local everyday heroes that touch the hearts and minds of our young Lasallians. Cost: Tickets start at $90. Ticket Phone: 503-353-1410. Ticket Web Link: http://www.lshigh.org/s/255/lasalle.aspx?sid=255&gid=1&pgid=1656.
Friday, April 9, 2010, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
The Governor Hotel ~ Heritage Ballroom
614 SW 11th Ave
Portland, OR 97205-2624.
For more info visit www.lshigh.org. The Choice: Harvesting the Garden of Our Spirit
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: Take time for yourself to cultivate the garden of your life. Experience how to release choices you’ve made that aren’t working and create new choices to guide you into a healthy, vibrant future.
This event is for Friday April 9th from 6pm - 10pm, Saturday April 10th from 9am - 10pm and Sunday April 11th from 8am - 3pm. Cost: $150 for the weekend. Ticket Phone: 503-794-8542.
Friday, April 9, 2010, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
Franciscan Spiritual Center
6902 SE Lake Rd, Suite 300
Milwaukie, OR 97267.
Celebration of Syrah Gourmet Dinner
Food & Wine
Type of Event: Food & Wine. Event Description: A weekend of food, wine and a benefit silent auction for Salud!. The weekend kicks off with a reception and dinner hosted by seven Northwest winemakers. Begin with a private reception in Edgefield's Blackberry Hall, followed by a multicourse dinner prepared by Edgefield's Black Rabbit Restaurant and paired with our guest winemakers' Syrahs.
Additional tasting events take place on Saturday. Cost: $75 per person, reservations required. Ticket Phone: 503-669-8610.
Friday, April 9, 2010, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
McMenamins Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St.
Troutdale, Or 97060.
Smoke Soup
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Don’t miss this BodyVox world premier show set to the haunting, propulsive music of vaunted songwriter and Grammy Award winner, Joe Henry. A richly layered companion piece to the company’s 2009 hit, The Foot Opera Files, Smoke Soup uses movement, imagery and Henry’s deeply personal, distinctly American music to accompany a cast of characters through an intensely physical dance theater cycle. BodyVox Artistic Directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland collaborate with a team of choreographers. Henry’s smoky m… Cost: $36 - $48. Ticket Phone: 503-229-0627.
Friday, April 9, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
BodyVox Dance Center
1201 NW 17th Ave
Portland, OR 97209.
Doug Benson
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Fri, April 9th, 2010 8:00 PM (Doors open at: 7:00 PM)
Doug Benson
The Puff Puff Pass Comedy Tour
Aladdin Theater 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR 97202 (503 233-1994)
All Ages. $20.00 Advance. $25.00 Day Of Show. Tickets available from TicketMaster . Ticket Phone: 503 233-1994. Ticket Web Link: http://www.ticketmaster.com.
Friday, April 9, 2010, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM.
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR 97202.
For more info visit www.squarepegconcerts.com. Oregon Council for the Social Studies Spring Conference 2010
Lectures
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: Theme: Journey on the Columbia River: Past, Present and Future.
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
Rainier Jr. Sr. High School
Rainer, OR.
For more info visit www.oregonsocialstudies.org. Spring Canyon Day
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Fairs & Festivals. Kids & Family. Workshops. Event Description: Join the Reed community in planting native trees and shrubs. Tools, training, food, and fun will be provided; everyone is welcome to participate. Dress for the weather and bring gloves if you have them. Cost: Free.
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
Studio Arts Building
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR 97202.
For more info visit www.reed.edu. Beaverton "Living Greener" Neighborhood Summit
Fairs & Festivals
Event Description: Topics Include
•Energy Trust Residential Incentives: Savings Throughout the Home, Jim Fitzpatrick, Energy Trust of Oregon
•Conserving Water with Native Plants and Natural Gardening, Christine Hollenbeck, Clackamas River Water Providers
•Electric Vehicles: Arriving in Oregon, George Beard, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University
RSVP TODAY
Call (503) 526-2380 or send an email to bhickman@ci.beaverton.or.us. For more information visit BeavertonOregon.gov/LivingGreener.
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
Beaverton City Hall
4755 SW Griffith Dr
Beaverton, OR 97005.
For more info visit www.beavertonoregon.gov. Selecting the perfect Custom Draperies by Adrette Designs
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: Create that perfect ambiance in your room by learning about the latest trends and designs from custom draperies to the most innovative shades, blinds and shutters.
Marlys Wiegand, Adrette Designs' designer, will show you how to select sustainable window fashions for a healthier living environment as well as window shades that may qualify for a Federal Tax Credit.
This seminar also includes a Trunk Show with the latest fabrics and trims. Please ask questions!
Space is limited. Contact us at Designs… Cost: FREE, please RSVP. Ticket Phone: 503-675-7750.
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM.
THE JOINERY on SE Woodstock.
For more info visit www.adrette.com. 2010 North Willamette Wine Trail
Food & Wine
Type of Event: Food & Wine. Event Description: North Willamette Vintners invite novice and experienced wine lovers alike to trek among 21 landmark wineries along the North Willamette Wine Trail April 10-11.
Throughout the weekend, ticket holders will enjoy a variety of complementary tastings, creative wine pairings and one-of-a-kind activities.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.NWVintners.org. Cost: $35 in advance ($45 day of); $10 designated driver. Ticket Web Link: www.NWVintners.org.
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Twenty-one local wineries shaping the North Willamette Valley, residing in or immediately adjacent to Washington County.
Bacon! Bacon! Bacon! with Justin Wills and Sharon Wiest
Food & Wine
Type of Event: Food & Wine. Event Description: In this demonstration-style class our chefs will explore everybody's favorite — bacon! Have you ever tried bacon-cured duck or salmon? And what about bacon before it's smoked, as pork belly? And maybe even a sinful but oh-so-good sweet treat with bacon adding smokey and salty elements? You get the idea... Cost: $50, meal and wine included. Ticket Phone: 541-557-1125.
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Culinary Center in Lincoln City, 801 SW Hwy 101, 4th Floor.
Celebration of Syrah Grand Tasting and Benefit Silent Auction
Food & Wine
Type of Event: Food & Wine. Event Description: Taste from a selection of more than 40 Syrahs — compare wines, contrast flavors and narrow them down to determine your favorites as you feast on a generous buffet of appetizers. Guests can bid on items in a silent auction to benefit Salud! a non-profit organization that aids Oregon's seasonal vineyard workers in securing medical care. Cost: $35 per person. Ticket Phone: 503-669-8610. Ticket Web Link: http://www.shopmcmenamins.com/products/1671-Grand-Syrah-Tasting-Silent-Auction-Tickets.
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
McMenamins Edgefield
2126 SW Halse St
Troutdale, Or 97060.
MAGICAL STRINGS
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Philip and Pam Boulding and family create the distinctive music with Celtic harps and hammered dulcimers colorfully augmented by pennywhistles, concertina, vahila (Malagasy harp) and storytelling. Ticket Phone: 360-834-7807. Ticket Web Link: cpasconcerts@eccgas.org.
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Camas Theatre at Camas High School
29600 SE 15th St.
Camas WA.
Mandolin - Music of India
Arts
Event Description: RASIKA - www.rasika.org presents the classical Mandolin concert of the internationally renowned U Shrinivas and his ensemble from India. www.mandolinshrinivas.com for artist detials. Contact: rasikapdx@gmail.com. Cost: $25. Ticket Phone: 503-531-7266. Ticket Web Link: www.rasika.org.
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
First Congregational Church
Portland, OR.
Smoke Soup
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Don’t miss this BodyVox world premier show set to the haunting, propulsive music of vaunted songwriter and Grammy Award winner, Joe Henry. A richly layered companion piece to the company’s 2009 hit, The Foot Opera Files, Smoke Soup uses movement, imagery and Henry’s deeply personal, distinctly American music to accompany a cast of characters through an intensely physical dance theater cycle. BodyVox Artistic Directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland collaborate with a team of choreographers. Henry’s smoky m… Cost: $36 - $48. Ticket Phone: 503-229-0627.
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
BodyVox Dance Center
1201 NW 17th Ave
Portland, OR 97209.
Doug Benson
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Doug Benson began performing stand-up in San Francisco when he was 22 years old, after some friends pushed him to try it out.
With comics Arj Barker and Tony Camin, Benson co-created the show “The Marijuana-Logues” - a play on Eve Ensler’s “Vagina Monologues.” Except, obviously, about weed. The show was well reviewed and found an enthusiastic audience, running for a year Off-Broadway in New York. “The Marijuana-Logues” was later turned into both a CD and book. Cost: Reserved Seating $23 in advance $28 Day of Show. Ticket Phone: 541-317-0700. Ticket Web Link: http://www.towertheatre.org/tickets-events/events/364065.aspx.
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St, downtown Bend.
For more info visit www.towertheatre.org. Hearing Voices 2010 Storytelling Festival
Fairs & Festivals
Type of Event: Fairs & Festivals. Event Description: The Washington County Cooperative Library Services (WCCLS) hosts the 6th Annual Hearing Voices Storytelling Festival April 11–18 as part of National Library Week. The festival features four professional storytellers/ensembles: Willy Claflin (San Francisco, CA), Nuestro Canto (Beaverton, OR), Brody Theater (Portland, OR) and Oregon Shadow Puppet Theatre (Portland, OR). The festival performances are designed for the enjoyment of adults and children ages 6 and up, unless otherwise noted.
The week-long story… Cost: Free.
Sunday, April 11, 2010 – Sunday, April 18, 2010.
Locales throughout Washington County.
For more info visit www.wccls.org. 50+ Connections Expo
Fairs & Festivals
Type of Event: Arts. Fairs & Festivals. Food & Wine. Museum & Exhibits. Event Description: The 14th annual Expo will give you the opportunity to encounter exciting services, ideas, and resources available for your active, healthy, independent lifestyle! Expect to see over 140 exhibits, free health screenings, prizes and interactive activities. Exhibits will include experts in volunteerism, health insurance benefits, healthy living, food, retirement communities, travel, home remodeling, finance, education, fitness, and much much more. Questions? 360-735-3683 or jeannep@hsc-wa.org. Cost: A suggested $3 donation at the door helps to support the Retired and Senior Volunteer program.
Sunday, April 11, 2010, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Hilton Hotel & Convention Center
301 W 6th Street
Vancouver, WA 98660.
2010 North Willamette Wine Trail
Food & Wine
Type of Event: Food & Wine. Event Description: North Willamette Vintners invite novice and experienced wine lovers alike to trek among 21 landmark wineries along the North Willamette Wine Trail April 10-11.
Throughout the weekend, ticket holders will enjoy a variety of complementary tastings, creative wine pairings and one-of-a-kind activities.
Tickets are $35 in advance and $45 at the door. Designated driver tickets are $10. Tickets can be purchased online at www.NWVintners.org. Cost: $35 in advance ($45 day of); $10 designated drivers. Ticket Web Link: www.NWVintners.org.
Sunday, April 11, 2010, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Twenty-one local wineries shaping the North Willamette Valley, residing in or immediately adjacent to Washington County.
Claudia Schmidt Concert
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Food Roots' Claudia Schmidt Concert - Sunday, April 11, 2010, 2 - 4 PM
Claudia Schmidt, folk musician extraordinaire, will perform a concert fundraiser for Food Roots at the Tillamook United Methodist Church, 12th Street in Tillamook Oregon. The concert will be followed by a local foods appetizers reception 4-4:30 pm. To learn more about Claudia Schmidt go to www.claudiaschmidt.com. Concert tickets are $20 and the reception is by donation.
The event is sponsored by TLC Federal Credit Union. For tickets,… Cost: $20. Ticket Phone: 503-842-3154. Ticket Web Link: http://www.foodrootsnw.org/news.htm.
Sunday, April 11, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
3808 12th Street
Tillamook, Oregon 97141.
For more info visit www.foodrootsnw.org. WildLife Conservation Lecture
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Returning Condors to Arizona
Chris Parish / Director, Condor Reintroduction Program, The Peregrine Fund
Get the latest news from Arizona’s Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, where the majestic condor, once at the very brink of extinction, is being returned to the wild. Cost: $10 general admission, $8 members of Oregon Zoo, Audubon Society of Portland, World Forestry Center, students and seniors. Ticket Phone: 503-226-1561. Ticket Web Link: http://oregonzoo-cascadeoutfitters.stores.yahoo.net/.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Oregon Zoo -Cascade Crest Banquet Center
4001 SW Canyon Rd
Portland OR 97221.
For more info visit www.oregonzoo.org. Wildlife Conservation Lecture Series
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Oregon Zoo is hosting a lecture series where you can learn more about various issues concerning wildlife conservation.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 -
Chris Parish, Returning Condors to Arizona:Get the latest news from Arizona’s Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, where the majestic condor, once at the very brink of extinction, is being returned to the wild.
Lectures start at 7 p.m. in Oregon Zoo's Cascade Crest Banquet Center $10 general admission, $8 members of Oregon Zoo, Audubon Society of Portland, Wo… Cost: $10. Ticket Phone: 503.226.1561.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon RD
Portland, OR 97221.
Concert: "Drums along the Pacific
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Cornish College's Pacific Rims Percussion Quartet—Christopher Hahn on piano, Paris Hurley on violin, and Paul Taub on flute—perform music of John Cage, Henry Cowell, and Lou Harrison. Cost: Free.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Kaul Auditorium
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR 97202.
12th Annual McGinty Memorial Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease: “Every Step of the Way”
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: This year’s conference theme is “Every Step of the Way” The interactive sessions, motivating speakers, and innovative ideas will focus on the many facets of Alzheimer’s disease, caregiving, research, communication, life-enhancing activities, and person-centered care. Participants will gain valuable insight into Alzheimer’s disease as well as learn practical solutions and strategies on how to enhance the lives of people with dementia and their caregivers and families. Cost: $85. Ticket Phone: 503-416-0201. Ticket Web Link: http://alzoregon.kintera.org/McGinty2010.
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 7:30 AM – 4:15 PM.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Embassy Suites Hotel Washington Square
9000 SW Washington Square Road - Tigard, Oregon.
For more info visit www.alz.org. Job Search Workshop
Workshops
April 15 & April 16.
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: Mary Erickson brings us this workshop designed for unemployed people who are seeking tangible steps to begin a serious job search. Attendees will learn the critical elements of resume writing, networking, researching their target companies, interviewing and negotiating once a job offer has been made. Cost: $20 suggested donation. Ticket Phone: 503-794-8542.
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Franciscan Spiritual Center
6902 SE Lake Rd, Suite 300
Milwaukie, OR 97267.
LIVE CONCERT WITH RANDAL BAYS & DAITHI SPROULE
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Enjoy two great musicians, Randal Bays and Daithi Sproule, play Irish music to make you dance. Bays has performed all over the U.S. Europe and Canada, including the Gaelic Roots Festival, the San Francisco Celtic Music and Arts Festival, the Festival Des Musiques-Vivantes in France, and the Willie Clancy Summer School and Festival in Ireland. Sproule sings in English and Gaelic and has made the guitar a significant factor in Irish music by being one of the first folk artists to make extensive use of the… Ticket Phone: 541-386-3845. Ticket Web Link: http://oakstreethotel.com/events.html.
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 6:00 PM.
Concert at Columbia Center for the Arts at 215 Cascade St. Hood River.
Advance Concert Tickets sold at:
Oak Street Hotel, 610 Oak St. Hood River
Phone: 541-386-3845.
For more info visit oakstreethotel.com. FROGZ
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Imago's best-known show FROGZ returns to Portland after a three-year hiatus. The show runs April 15 - May 15: Thursdays at 7pm, Fridays at 7pm, Saturdays at 2pm and 7pm, and Sundays at 2pm. Cost: Adults $29, Youth/Senior $26, Kids $16. Ticket Phone: 503-231-9581.
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
17 SE 8th Ave. Portland, OR 97214.
Great Oregon Coast Garage Sale
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: The City of Lincoln City promotes the annual "Great Oregon Coast Garage Sale" an annual community wide garage sale with over 100 individual and organizational garage sales. Sales will be combined with "insidewalk" sales throughout the city to give everyone a greater shopping experience.
The Greater Newport Chamber and Central Oregon Coast Association will join forces with Lincoln City Visitor and Convention Bureau to promote citywide garage sales in their towns during the same weekend. FMI 1-800-452-215…
Friday, April 16, 2010 – Sunday, April 18, 2010.
Citywide, Lincoln City, Oregon.
The Merry Widow
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Franz Lehár’s much loved operetta sparkles with romance, wit, sophistication and elegance. Taking place in Paris, The Merry Widow peeks into an effervescent world filled with musical charm and naughty fun. Presented by PSU’s nationally acclaimed opera program with the PSU Symphony Orchestra. Join us as guest visiting artist,the world-renowned stage director Tito Capobianco, sets an unforgettable stage of music and delight!
April 16, 20, 22, 24 at 7:30 pm
April 18 (Sunday) at 3:00 pm. Cost: $26 Adult, $24 Senior, $15 Student, $20 Group of 12 or more, $22 PSU Alumni Association Member. Available through PSU Box Office, Ticketmaster, and at the door. Ticket Phone: 503-725-3307.
Friday, April 16, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
St. Mary’s Academy , 1615 SW Fifth at Market.
For more info visit www.pdx.edu. Portland's LARGEST Garage sale
Fairs & Festivals
Event Description: Portland's Largest Garage at the EXPO Center...Back by Popular Demand from our Vendors & Shoppers, Over 500 Garage Sales in 1 Spot with Thousands of Shoppers Come Shop You have Over 500 Booths to find the Perfect Treasure....1 day Only April 17th 2010 8AM to 5PM ..Vendor Space starting at $45.00...General Admission For Adults $3.00 Kids Free with Half the Proceeds to the Portland Rescue Mission! Come be a part of this Great Community Event & Help Yourself and those in Need.For More Information or to Sign u… Cost: $3.00 with Proceeds to the Portland Rescue Mission.
Saturday, April 17, 2010.
Portland EXPO Center.
Portland's LARGEST Garage sale
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Event Description: Portland's LARGEST Garage Sale Coming to the EXPO Center
Come Shop Over 300 Garage Sales all in one Location Saturday April 17th 8am to 5pm $3.00 Adults free for kids with 50% donated to the Portland Rescue Mission, for More information Visit our web site www.portlandgsale.com. Cost: $3.00 Adults Kids Free w/50% Donated to the Portland Rescue Mission.
Saturday, April 17, 2010, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Portland EXPO Center
2060 N Marine Dr.
Heslin House Museum and City Jail
Museums & Exhibits
Type of Event: Museum & Exhibits. Event Description: Heslin House Museum: The historic Heslin House was built in circa 1890. The current exhibit is in two rooms on the first floor and combines photographs, maps, text, and artifacts to tell the stories of the early settlers, Fairview through the years, Dairy Row, and the Heslin Family. The Fairview City Jail, circa 1914, is also included in the tour. Open the third Saturday every month from10am-3pm at 60 Main Street, Fairview. Donation requested. Special tours by appointment. 503-261-8078. Ticket Phone: 503-261-8078.
Saturday, April 17, 2010, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
60 Main Street, Fairview.
Zimmerman Heritage Farm
Museums & Exhibits
Type of Event: Museum & Exhibits. Event Description: Zimmerman Heritage Farm: The historic Zimmerman House was built in 1874 and was home to three generations of the Zimmerman Family. Their furnishings and personal articles remain in this two-story Victorian home. Open the third Saturday of every month, 10am-3pm at 17111 NE Sandy Blvd. Gresham. $3 Admission. Special tours by appointment. 503-261-8078. Ticket Phone: 503-261-8078.
Saturday, April 17, 2010, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
17111 NE Sandy Blvd. Gresham.
The Tuna Intensive
Food & Wine
Type of Event: Food & Wine. Event Description: In this demonstration-style class our chefs will prepare a menu starring tuna (Albacore, Bluefin...) along with the first spring greens and vegetables. Cost: $50, meal and wine included. Ticket Phone: 541-557-1125.
Saturday, April 17, 2010, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Culinary Center in Lincoln City, 801 SW Hwy 101, 4th Floor.
Bend Spring Festival
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Fairs & Festivals. Food & Wine. Kids & Family. Event Description: April 17 & 18, 2010, Northwest Crossing
Celebrating the return of the sun, the renewal of the earth, and the launching of a
busy Central Oregon outdoor season, the all free Bend Spring Festival takes place in the award winning Northwest
Crossing Neighborhood on Bend’s Westside. Thousands will come out to explore the
original art, to get some tips from the Oregon State University Master Gardeners, to enjoy
live music, great food and wine and beer. This is a lovely festival. To learn more about this nei… Cost: FREE to public.
Saturday, April 17, 2010, 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM.
Northwest Crossing
Bend, OR.
Art Materials SWAP @ The 100th Monkey Studio
Kids & Family
Type of Event: Arts. Kids & Family. Workshops. Event Description: It's that time again!
Bring art materials that have been collecting dust around the house and trade them in for some new inspiration!
LNPB http://lnpb.org will also have an open studio art making table for you to get creative and learn more about
their amazing organization!
We are donating a large portion of the leftover material to Buckman Elementary
SUN School Program. http://buckmanelementary.org/home/sun/
For more information check out our website! Cost: FREE. Ticket Phone: 503-232-3457. Ticket Web Link: www.the100thmonkeystudio.com.
Saturday, April 17, 2010, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
110 SE 16th Ave, Portland, OR 97214.
Contra Dance - George Penk & Creighton Lindsay with Mary Devlin
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: George Penk & Creighton Lindsay with Mary Devlin
7:30 pm intro session, dance 8:00 - 11:00. Cost: $6 CFS/EFS members, $7 non-members, $1 discount for bike/walk.
Saturday, April 17, 2010, 7:30 PM – 11:00 PM.
FCC Gatton Hall 4515 SW West Hills Road, Corvallis.
X: 10 years of inspiration in flight
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Pendulum Aerial Arts celebrates 10 years with a retrospective performances & community day w/ student showcase on April 25.
Fri/Sat, April 17, 23 & 24: 8pm
Sun, April 18: 7.30pm
Sun, April 25: 1-4pm. Cost: Adults: $15 | Children, Students, Seniors: $10 | Children under 6: Free | April 25 Community Day is $10 for everyone. Ticket Phone: 000-000-0000. Ticket Web Link: http://www.pendulumdancetheatre.org/reservations.htm.
Saturday, April 17, 2010, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM.
French American International School
8500 NW Johnson Street
Portland Oregon 97229.
For more info visit www.pendulumaerialarts.org. Portland Youth Philharmonic Chamber Music Concert
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Come hear the PYP musicians play in small groups in intimate setting. Ticket Phone: 503-223-5939. Ticket Web Link: www.portlandyouthphil.org.
Sunday, April 18, 2010, 4:00 PM.
Mary's Woods at Marylhurst
17400 Holy Names Dr.
Betty Buckley ~ Broadway by Request
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Backstage stories and distinctive songs from the Tony-winning actress ("Cats" "Sunset Boulevard" "Promises, Promises") in her one-woman show "Broadway by Request".
For more information visit the official website of Betty Buckley! http://www.bettybuckley.com/. Cost: Reserved Seating $35 and $40. Ticket Phone: 541-317-0700. Ticket Web Link: http://www.towertheatre.org/tickets-events/events/350341.aspx.
Sunday, April 18, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St, downtown Bend.
For more info visit www.towertheatre.org. Collage: Drawing with Shapes and Textures
Workshops
Every day starting April 19 through April 22.
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: To develop an understanding of the craft of collage, students will experiment with a variety of papers, adhesives and techniques. Each student will be encouraged to discover both conceptual and formal approaches to building a series of related images through the medium of collage. Cost: $315.00. Ticket Phone: 541.994.5485. Ticket Web Link: http://www.sitkacenter.com/classes/detail.lasso?recid=1542.
Monday, April 19, 2010, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Sitka Center For Art and Ecology
56605 Sitka Dr.
Otis, OR 97368.
For more info visit www.sitkacenter.org. Collage: Drawing with Shapes and Textures
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: workshop dates: April 19 - 22. To develop an understanding of the craft of collage, students will experiment with a variety of papers, adhesives and techniques. Each student will be encouraged to discover both conceptual and formal approaches to building a series of related images through the medium of collage. Cost: $280 tuition $35 materials fee. Ticket Phone: 541.994.5485. Ticket Web Link: http://www.sitkacenter.com/classes/detail.lasso?recid=1542.
Monday, April 19, 2010, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
56605 Sitka Dr.
Otis OR 97368.
For more info visit www.sitkacenter.org. Science Pub: Organic Produce, Clean Soil and Local Food
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: James Cassidy, Crop and Soil Science, OSU Department of Agricultural Sciences
Soil science may not be sexy, but if you want great organic produce, that’s where it begins. Oregon’s bounty of fruits, vegetables, berries, and wine emanate from those humble origins. Discover how James Cassidy and OSU agricultural scientists break ground daily to learn how plants and soil interact to provide the healthiest foods.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
McMenamins
700 NW Bond St.
Bend, OR 97701.
For more info visit www.osucascades.edu. Edwidge Danticat
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Danticat is considered one of the most accomplished young writers at work in the United States today. Her novels include Breath, Eyes, Memory, and The Dew Breaker, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her most recent book, the memoir Brother, I’m Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Awards for Autobiography. Her work explores the wonder, terror and heartache of her native Haiti, and her family’s multigenerational saga of exile and immigration, an American story both old and new. Ticket Web Link: http://www.literary-arts.org/boxoffice/193/.
Thursday, April 22, 2010, 7:30 PM.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway (at Main Street).
For more info visit www.literary-arts.org. 45th Annual Shell Show
Museums & Exhibits
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Museum & Exhibits. Event Description: Discover the beauty of the ocean at the 45th Annual Shell Show. Enjoy a wide variety of rare and beautiful shells from around the world, including conch, mollusk, oyster, and clam. Presented by the Oregon Society of Conchologists (OSC), 20+ exhibits will be on display. Event is included with museum admission. Cost: Event is included with museum admission. Ticket Phone: 503.797.4000. Ticket Web Link: www.omsi.edu.
Friday, April 23, 2010 – Sunday, April 25, 2010.
OMSI
1945 SE Water Avenue
Portland, OR 97214.
Central Oregon Chapter of OSU Master Gardeners presents the Annual Spring Gardening Seminar & Garden Market
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Keynote Speaker, Gail Langellotto-Rhodaback, Statewide Coordinator OSU Ext. Master Gardener Program.Her talk: Genetically Modified Foods. Classes: Hardy Perennials, Vegetable Gardening, Raising Chickens, Food Preservation, Using Conifers in C.O. Growing Apples, Hobby Greenhouse, and more. Cost: $10 per class, pre-registered or $15 per class on day of event. Ticket Phone: 541 548-6088. Ticket Web Link: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/deschutes/.
Saturday, April 24, 2010.
Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center, Middle Sister Bldg. 3800 SW Airport Way, Redmond.
For more info visit extension.oregonstate.edu. Columbia County Master Gardeners' 15th Annual Spring Garden Fair
Fairs & Festivals
Type of Event: Fairs & Festivals. Event Description: Master Gardeners will offer 7,100 tomato plants in over 45 varieties for $1.25 each. Our Tomato Information Table with certified Master Gardeners will help you get your plants started the right way. Our Plant Clinic table will be stocked with information on a wide variety of garden subjects. Our Raffle will run all day. More than two dozen local vendors will offer garden-related items such as herbs, trellises, containers, garden art, perennials, vegetables, books, trees, shrubs. Admission and parking ar… Cost: Free.
Saturday, April 24, 2010, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
St. Helens High School Commons
2375 Gable Road
St. Helens OR.
Parade and Carnival Days
Fairs & Festivals
Type of Event: Fairs & Festivals. Kids & Family. Event Description: Annual 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade, FUNtastic Carnivals, Community Fair, Live Music and entertainment, Face Painting, Pony Rides, and fun for the whole family! Cost: Free admittance!
Saturday, April 24, 2010, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Eastport Plaza Shopping Center
SE 82nd Avenue and Holgate.
East Portland Homeownership Fair
Fairs & Festivals
Type of Event: Fairs & Festivals. Workshops. Event Description: Everyone dreams of owning a home. But don't just dream it! Get the tools you need at the Fifth Annual East Portland Homeownership Fair. If you're worried about foreclosure, we'll have experts on hand to provide private, one-on-one foreclosure prevention counseling. Admission is free. The Fair's biggest attraction will be the drawing for a $4,000 homebuyer's assistance grant. The winner will be able to use the money to help purchase a home, or renovate a home being purchased.
FREE admission, kids activiti… Cost: FREE.
Saturday, April 24, 2010, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Ron Russell Middle School, 3955 SE 112th (at Bush St).
Hands-On Chocolate and Candy Making 101
Food & Wine
Type of Event: Food & Wine. Event Description: Have you ever wanted to learn to make real gourmet chocolates in your own kitchen? The experts from Litehouse Chocolates will teach you to temper, mold and decorate chocolate to make irresistible delights including truffles and buttercreams. Then it's on to that coastal favorite, sea foam. Cost: $40. Ticket Phone: 541-557-1125.
Saturday, April 24, 2010, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Culinary Center in Lincoln City, 801 SW Hwy 101, 4th Floor.
Mt.Hood Kiwanis Camp 25th Annual Dinner & Benefit Auction
Food & Wine
Type of Event: Food & Wine. Event Description: This fundraising event benifits the Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp for Childern and Adults with
Disabilitiy .There will be enertainment by Michael Allen Harrison and both a silent and live a live auction. Auction items include a trip to Maui, vacation homes on the Oregon coast,spa packages, and more. Last year Mt Hood Kiwanis Camp raised over $130,000.
All of the proceeds provide the opportunity for individuals with disabilities to ejoy the freedon and fun of summer camp they would otherwise not be able to exper… Cost: $75.00 each. Ticket Phone: 503-452-7416 x 100. Ticket Web Link: www.mkhc.org.
Saturday, April 24, 2010, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Embassy Suites Hotel 7900 NE 82nd Ave at NE Airport Way.
Bruce Cockburn
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: The whole point of writing songs is to share experiences with people, says Bruce Cockburn, looking back on a career that includes 26 albums, numerous international awards, and countless concert performances since he released his first solo work in 1970. Cockburn's collected work is a journey-both moody and revelatory-into the dark night and the sweet laughter of the soul, around the world with vivid imagery and unflinching observations of human cruelty, greed, courage, and survival through faith, and back h… Cost: Reserved Seating $36. Ticket Phone: 541-317-0700. Ticket Web Link: http://www.towertheatre.org/tickets-events/events/371392.aspx.
Saturday, April 24, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St, downtown Bend.
For more info visit www.towertheatre.org. Lecture: Tibet's First Modern Art
Lectures
Type of Event: Arts. Lectures. Event Description: Donald Lopez, Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan, will discuss Gendun Chopel (1903–1951). Gendun Chopel was one of the most important—and controversial—Tibetans of the twentieth century, renowned especially for his skills as a painter and a poet. This lecture will provide a sketch of his fascinating life, illustrated with his own paintings and drawings, and concludes with readings of some of his most famous poems, in both Tibetan and English. Cost: Free.
Sunday, April 25, 2010, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Psychology 105
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR 97202.
ReVV 2010: ReVisioning Value Conference
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Lectures. Event Description: ReVV 2010 is a one-day conference that will bring the leading ideas and promising results of how new financial and organizational models are increasing the flow of needed capital to those who will use it to create a more just and sustainable world.
The conference is followed by a day of hands-on workshops and roundtables designed to help participants apply the ideas offered at the conference to their own organizations. See website for details.
Monday, April 26, 2010 – Tuesday, April 27, 2010.
Gerding Theater at the Armory
128 NW Eleventh Avenue
Portland, OR. 97209.
For more info visit www.revisioningvalue.org. Lecture: Buddhism and Science: Past, Present, Future
Lectures
Type of Event: Arts. Lectures. Event Description: In this lecture, Donald Lopez, Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Culture at the University of Michigan, will provide a brief history of the association of Buddhism with science, considering possible reasons for the persistence of the claims for the compatibility of Buddhism and science, as well as what Buddhism has gained, and lost, in the process. The lecture will conclude with some thoughts on the latest association of Buddhism and science: neurological research on Buddhist meditation. Cost: Free.
Monday, April 26, 2010, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Eliot 317
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR 97202.
Lakota Sioux Dance Theatre
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Costumed singers, dancers and storytellers celebrate authentic Indian culture against a backdrop of video images and tradtitional music.
For more information visit the official website of Lakota Sioux Dance Theatre
http://www.lakotadancetheatre.org/index.php. Cost: Reserved Seating $25 and $30. Ticket Phone: 541-317-0700. Ticket Web Link: http://www.towertheatre.org/tickets-events/events/350347.aspx.
Monday, April 26, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St, downtown Bend.
For more info visit www.towertheatre.org. Wildlife Conservation Lecture
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Urban Coyotes
Stanley Gehrt / Assistant Professor and Extension Wildlife Specialist, Ohio State University
The howl of coyotes is becoming increasingly common across our urban landscape. Learn more about these intelligent, adaptable predators and how we can coexist with them. Cost: $10 general admission, $8 members of Oregon Zoo, Audubon Society of Portland, World Forestry Center, students and seniors. Ticket Phone: 503 220-1561. Ticket Web Link: http://oregonzoo-cascadeoutfitters.stores.yahoo.net/.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Oregon Zoo - Cascade Crest Banquet Center
4001 SW Canyon Rd
Portland OR 97221.
For more info visit www.oregonzoo.org. Wildlife Conservation Lecture Series
Lectures
Type of Event: Lectures. Event Description: Oregon Zoo is hosting a lecture series where you can learn more about various issues concerning wildlife conservation.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 -
Stanley Gehrt, Urban Coyotes: The howl of coyotes is becoming increasingly common across our urban landscape. Learn more about these intelligent, adaptable predators and how we can coexist with them.
Lectures start at 7 p.m. in Oregon Zoo's Cascade Crest Banquet Center $10 general admission, $8 members of Oregon Zoo, Audubon Society of Portland, World Forest… Cost: $10. Ticket Phone: 503.226.1561.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon RD
Portland, OR 97221.
OMSI Science Pub: Crime Lab Confessions: A Forensic Scientist Tells All
Museums & Exhibits
Type of Event: Museum & Exhibits. Event Description: With Kori Barnum, a scientist at the Oregon State Police Forensic Laboratory.
Science Pub is a relaxed gathering with expert speakers discussing cutting-edge advances in science and technology that directly affect people’s lives. No scientific background is required—just curiosity, a sense of humor, and an appetite for food, drinks, and knowledge. Science Pub is casual, interactive, and fun! Visit http://www.omsi.edu/sciencepub for more information. Pubs are free with a suggested cover charge of $2. Ticket Phone: 503.797.4000. Ticket Web Link: www.omsi.edu.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 7:00 PM.
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan
Portland, OR.
OMSI After Dark
Museums & Exhibits
Type of Event: Museum & Exhibits. Event Description: Shoot off water rockets, concoct chemical creations, and explore the wonders of OMSI with no kids in sight! Enjoy a glass of wine while learning about robots, tornados, or fossils. Talk to a brewer about the science behind beer, or taste how an extra 10% cacao can make a difference in chocolate. All that and more with OMSI After Dark, a night at the museum for the 21-and-over crowd filled with food, drink, and science fun!
Admission is free for members and $10 for non-members. Visitors 21-and-over only;… Cost: Free for members, $10 for non-members. Ticket Phone: 503.797.4000. Ticket Web Link: www.omsi.edu.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
OMSI
1945 SE Water Avenue
Portland, OR 97214.
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership Seminar
Workshops
Type of Event: Lectures. Workshops. Event Description: More often than not, great leaders have emotional intelligence (the capacity to recognize, understand, value, and effectively apply emotions – their own and those of the people they lead).
This workshop will include activities to stimulate discussion and participation. Topics will include Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Self-Motivation, Social Awareness, Relationship Building, and Interpersonal Influence. Cost: $85. Ticket Phone: 503-725-8085. Ticket Web Link: http://sesweb.ses.pdx.edu/pdc_cat/catalog/details.cfm?id=BLM04A.
Thursday, April 29, 2010, 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Portland State Professional Development Center.
For more info visit www.pdc.pdx.edu. Oregon Potters Association and Ceramic Showcase Present Gathering of the Guilds
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Fairs & Festivals. Kids & Family. Museum & Exhibits. Workshops. Event Description: The Oregon Potters Association's Ceramic Showcase & Gathering of the Guilds is the only art show like it in the country. Not only is it the largest clay show in the U.S. but features work from a variety of art guilds including: Creative Metal Arts Guild, Guild of Portland Woodworkers, Northwest Fine Woodworkers Guild, Oregon Glass Guild, Portland Bead Society and Portland Handweavers Guild. In addition the clay show alone will feature daily demonstrations by nationally-acclaimed potters, adult and childre… Cost: FREE.
Friday, April 30, 2010, 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM.
Oregon Convention Center
777 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
(Conveniently located right on TriMet MAX line)
Portland, Oregon.
The Portland Ballet's Spring Concert
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Kids & Family. Event Description: The Portland Ballet presents works of romance with a touch of drama for its annual Spring Concert. The performance will feature Balanchine’s Valse-Fantaisie set to music by Mikhail Glinka and staged by former New York City Ballet principal dancer and choreographer John Clifford. The program also includes Anton Dolan’s Pas de Quatre, Marius Petipa’s Black Swan Pas de Deux as well as excerpts from Le Corsaire and a new work by The Portland Ballet’s resident choreographer Alexandrous Ballard. Cost: $10.00 - $20.00. Ticket Phone: 503-452-8448. Ticket Web Link: www.ThePortlandBallet.Org.
Friday, April 30, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
The Portland Ballet Studio Theater - 6250 SW Capitol Hwy in Hillsdale.
Viennese Migrations
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Composers were drawn to the cultural epicenter of Vienna during the late-18th and 19th centuries. Oregon Symphony musicians Inés Voglar and Joël Belgique will dazzle you in their CSO solo debuts with Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. Brahms migrated from his native Hamburg via the Schumann household in Düsseldorf to Vienna and his Second Symphony was premiered there in 1877. It is a sunny and warm work and it shows Brahms in holiday mood; the work’s finale being the most exuberant and happy movement from an… Cost: $30/adult; $25/senior;$10/student;$5/child. Ticket Phone: 503-234-4077. Ticket Web Link: www.columbiasymphony.org.
Friday, April 30, 2010, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM.
First United Methodist Church
1838 SW Jefferson St
Portland.
Winds and Waves Recorder Workshop
Workshops
Type of Event: Workshops. Event Description: Workshop dates: May 1 - 3. Come work on a wide variety of music from the recorder repertoire with our internationally renowned recorder faculty. Classes are divided into three ability groups: intermediate, upper-intermediate, and advanced. The final hour on Monday is a “Grand Consort” with all participants playing together. Please note the hours for this workshop are Saturday & Sunday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Monday 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Cost: $225. Ticket Phone: 541.994.5485. Ticket Web Link: http://www.sitkacenter.com/classes/detail.lasso?recid=1443.
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
55605 Sitka Dr.
Otis, OR 97368.
For more info visit www.sitkacenter.org. Fish Taco Cook-Off
Food & Wine
Type of Event: Food & Wine. Event Description: Come taste the best fish taco of the Northwest. In honor of "Cinco de Mayo" join us during this event where Chefs from throughout Oregon will compete to take home the title: Best Fish Taco. The competition will be judged by YOU! This is a "people's choice" competition only!
For more event information contact Maggie Conrad at 541-996-1273 or email maggiec@lincolncity.org. To become a vendor, please contact Sharon Wiest at 541-557-1125 or email sharonw@lincolncity.org.
*We recycle, reduce, reuse when po… Cost: Admission is free, with tasting-sized portions available for a small charge.
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Located at the Culinary Center in Lincoln City at 801 SW HWY 101, on the Fourth Floor, North, above the Driftwood Public Library and City Hall.
Rubies and Roses: A Benefit Ball for Chehalem Youth and Family Services
Food & Wine
Type of Event: Food & Wine. Event Description: Chehalem Youth and Family Services is pleased to announce a spring event you won’t want to miss: Rubies and Roses, a benefit ball for CYFS. Rubies and Roses will be held on Saturday, May 1, at the Tualatin Country Club, Festivities begin at 6p.m. and ticket price is only $40.
The evening includes a silent auction and reception, dinner, and dancing to the upbeat sounds of Rendezvous. To make reservations or purchase tickets, please contact Amanda Mosher at 503-538-4874 or email events@cyfs.net. Tickets a… Cost: 40. Ticket Phone: 503-538-4874.
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM.
For more info visit www.facebook.com. Contra Dance - Moonstruck with Tim Gojio
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Contra Dance - Moonstruck with Tim Gojio
7:30 pm intro session, dance 8:00 - 11:00. Cost: $6 CFS/EFS members, $7 non-members, $1 discount for bike/walk.
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 7:30 PM – 11:00 PM.
FCC Gatton Hall 4515 SW West Hills Road, Corvallis.
Portland Youth Philharmonic Spring Concert--GLORIA!
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Event Description: Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No.2
Dankner* Apocalypse of St. John
Poulenc Gloria
with the Pacific Youth Choir
*meet the composer Stephen Dankner. Ticket Phone: 503-223-5939. Ticket Web Link: www.portlandyouthphil.org.
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 7:30 PM.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway
Portland OR.
The Portland Ballet's Spring Concert
Arts
Type of Event: Arts. Kids & Family. Event Description: The Portland Ballet presents works of romance with a touch of drama for its annual Spring Concert. The performance will feature Balanchine’s Valse-Fantaisie set to music by Mikhail Glinka and staged by former New York City Ballet principal dancer and choreographer John Clifford. The program also includes Anton Dolan’s Pas de Quatre, Marius Petipa’s Black Swan Pas de Deux as well as excerpts from Le Corsaire and a new work by The Portland Ballet’s resident choreographer Alexandrous Ballard. Cost: $10.00 - $20.00. Ticket Phone: 503-452-8448. Ticket Web Link: www.ThePortlandBallet.Org.
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
The Portland Ballet Studio Theater - 6250 SW Capitol Hwy in Hillsdale.
National Lab Day
Museums & Exhibits
Type of Event: Kids & Family. Museum & Exhibits. Event Description: A national barn-raising for hands-on learning, OMSI joins more than 200 organizations nationwide to celebrate National Lab Day, a new initiative aimed to inspire future innovators by improving the quality of STEM education in the U.S. OMSI’s Chemistry, Physics, Technology, Laser Holography, Paleontology, Watershed, Life Science, and Discovery labs will be featuring special hands-on activities to celebrate the kick-off year of this important campaign. Ticket Phone: 503.797.4000. Ticket Web Link: www.omsi.edu.
Sunday, May 2, 2010 – Saturday, May 8, 2010.
OMSI
1945 SE Water Avenue
Portland, OR 97214.