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Learn about the benefits of solar power at free workshops presented by Solarize Northwest. Topics include “GreenStreet Lending Seminar”, this Thursday night at 7pm at the NW Lovejoy branch of Umqua Bank, and “Technical Nuts and Bolts of Going Solar”, at 6.30pm tonight at the Chapman School Auditorium, located at 1445 NW 26th Avenue. For more info, call 823.4265.
*Chapman School Auditorium 1445 NW 26th Avenue; 1139 NW Lovejoy Umqua Bank
**503/823.4265
****www.solarizenorth-nw.org
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Tuesdays at 7.30pm it’s Beginners Canine Freestyle Dance Class at PetUtopia. Sign up early. No dance experienced needed for humans, just a readiness to have fun. The prerequisites for pooch include: basic obedience skills (sit, stay, come, heel). No reactive dogs please (they wouldn’t love it anyway). Class instructor is Carrol Haines, member of Dogs Gone Dancin’. For more details visit the website PetUtopia.com. To RSVP call 503-646-5937.
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Woodstock Library is graced today by a free fast-paced comedy-variety-clown show. Free tickets will be available at 3.30pm, prior to the 4pm program, at the Woodstock Branch Library, SE 49th and Woodstock. And tomorrow at 2pm in the Ledding Library, watch Tikki Tikki Tembo, Tears of Joy Puppet Theatre’s take on Arlene Mosel’s children’s story about a Chinese boy with an extremely long name who falls into a well. Free tickets will be available at 1.30p. For information on these and other library events, visit www.events.multco.lib.org.
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Tomorrow evening at 5.30pm join the City of Portland’s Office of Human Relations and Amnesty International USA Group 48 for a Human Rights Film event. The featured film, Stealing the Light, follows an Afghan-American physician who returns to war-torn Afghanistan to build a school. Dr. Mohammed Khan Kharoti is the founder of Green Village Schools, a Portland=based nonprofit benefitting people in Afghanistan, and he will be present for the dialogue portion of the evening. Register by calling 823.4427
*5315 N Vancouver Ave., Portland, Office of Human Relations.
**503/823-4427
***muna.mohamud@portlandoregon.gov
****www.portlandonline.com/humanrelations
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There is a Japan benefit concerttonight at 7pm in Portland State University’s Lincoln Hall. The event features, among many artists, Portland Taiko, in case you missed the performances in the driving rain at Friday’s vigil in Pioneer Courthouse Square. Donations benefit earthquake and tsunami relief efforts by Mercy Corps. For information, call 503/ 28TAIKO, that’s 288.2456 or visit www.portlandtaiko.org
*1620 SW Park Ave. PSU Lincoln Performance Hall
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Tonight is Gay Skate!, a night of the hokey pokey, backwards skate and putting on some serious mileage at Oaks Park. Proceeds benefit the Just Out Scholarship Fund.
*1 SE Spokane, Oaks Park
**7-9pm, $6+ food donation to Esther’s Pantry
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The Portland Polyamory Circle is a place to chat about inclusive relationships, extended families, and intentional community. They meet every 3rd Tuesday at 7.30pm. Call Laury for more information at 503-285-4848.
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The International Sustainability Leadership Project being hosted by The City of Beaverton July 18-August 5 is accepting applications from potential participants between the ages of 18-24 years old. The project will bring together a total of 60 young people from the Portland area and Beaverton's international sister cities in Russia, South Korea, France, Japan, Taiwan and Germany to explore the latest in sustainability through workshops, tours and interactive discussions with leaders from the local sustainability community. There is no charge to project participants and the benefits are many. Build international friendships, learn leadership skills, and network with industry leaders in renewable energy, energy conservation, transportation, green building techniques, waste management, food systems and water conversation. Deadline for applications is May 1. For more details and to apply on-line visithttp://tinyurl.com/4fwmksj
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Embrace Mental Diversity! What is it like to live with voices, visions, extreme states, and different realities? What do these experiences mean to you? How can we learn to accept and live with who we are? What are ways to cope with fear, trauma, isolation, and overwhelming responses? Are there positive, creative, and spiritual sides to what we go through? What is mental diversity all about? Join the Voices, Visions, Different Realities Group, facilitated by Wiill Hall, an internationally recognized mental diversity educator, advocate, and counselor.who was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Open to people who hear voices, see visions, and have unusual beliefs, including mental health diagnosis such as bipolar, schizophrenia, and psychosis. Inclusive, non-judgmental, pro-choice and pro-diversity. Donation requested, no one turned away for lack of funds.
a*Downtown Chapel 601 W Burnside
**413.210.2803
***portlandhearingvoices@gmail.com
****www.willhall.org
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