Does your child speak Russian or would you like to expose your child's language-soaking brain to another culture? At the Gresham Library on April Mondays at 4pm, storytime is presented in Russian for children younger than seven years old accompanied by an adult. For information on this and other language storytimes, call 988.5387.
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Tonight is Foreign Language Night at the Blackrose Collective!
Come practice your language skills and with others! This event will be informally organized, bring your own materials to share. Some examples include foreign films, songs, flash cards, textbook exercises, and conversation. Possible languages are: German, Spanish, French, Serbo-Croatian, Italian, and Latin. Bring a friend! There will be coffee and tea. Free! Meet at 6pm the Blackrose Collection at 4038 N Mississippi
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Learn how to mix Pacific Northwest native plants into your garden for new dimensions of beauty and benefits from birds, bees and butterflies.
Tonight at 6.30 Metro is providing a Natural Gardening program that includes a visual presentation, discussion, hands-on learning and free publications for all participants. The event takes place at the Berry Botanic Garden at 11505 SW Summerville Avenue, in Portland. to register call Sabrina at 503-797-1938. Donations are welcome!
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Monday, 4/5/10, 6:30-7:30pm
The Berry Botanic Garden, 11505 SW Summerville Ave, Portland.
www.berrybot.org
call Sabrina at 503-797-1938to register or go to: http://www.metro-region.org/index.cfm/go/by.web/id=576
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Tomorrow morning at 10.30 the public is invited to attend Poetry in Motion and meet the poets behind one of Trimet's most visual public transit art. TriMet receives 324,080 riders per day. With 200 cards being placed on 800 buses and trains, you can imagine the exposure to good poetry the public will have. Join us when we unveil poems by two Portland Public high school students from our Writers in the Schools program, three poems by Oregon Book Awards finalists and three other poems chosen by public vote.
Judith Barrington and Paulann Petersen will open the event with a reading. High school students, Talisha Jackson and Billy Pham will also read their poems in celebration of the event.
The event begins at 10.30am at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts Rotunda at 1111 SW Broadway.
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EVENT DATE: TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 2010
TIME: 10:30 AM
LOCATION: ANTOINETTE HATFIELD HALL (the PCPA ROTUNDA), 1111 SW BROADWAY
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