Don Jose Matsuwa, 105 yr. old Huichol Shaman, shares ceremonial tradi
tions of his people including the Dance of the Deer, Thursday, April 28, at 7
pm at the Wesley Center. Donations of $6-$10 will benefit the Huichol people.
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Soloist Roger Aydelott will per
form with the Eugene Gleemen at
their 57th Annual Concert at the
Hult Center for the Performing
Arts, Saturday, April 30, at 8 pm.
Eugene Gleemen
to Sing at
the Hult Center
The Eugene Gleemen will present
their 57th annual concert in the Silva
Concert Hall of the Hult Center for
the Performing Arts on Saturday,
April 30 at 8 pm. The group, com
prised of 60 male members mostly
from the Eugene-Springfield area,
was established in 1926 and gave its
first concert that year. Today,
onlyone member remains from the
original group while several others
have been singing for close to half a
century with the Gleemen.
“We enjoy singing for the people
in our community,” says director
Estley Schick, “and we do it for the
sheer fun of it—in schools, nursing
homes, benefit dinners, churches,
and now finally at the marvelous
Hult Center.”
The Gleemen repertoire spans a
variety of different styles from tra
ditional and patriotic, to spiritual
and popular. A number to be fea
tured in this year’s concert is “Magic
Music” composed by Joyce Eilers
for the Crescent Valley High School
Men’s Chorus of Corvallis.
Guest artists will be the U of O
Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble. Tic
kets are $5 for all seats (unreserved),
through the Gleemen, Kiwanis or
Rotary Club members, and the Hult
Center box office, 687-5000. Net
proceeds will benefit local youth
programs.
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Coming; Up
she 2nd Amari Oregon Lmnngination Celebration begins a month-long cele
bration of the arts and sciences, starting April 30th on the downtown mall.
Events on “kick-off” day begin at 10 am and will include performances of
manes from “The Music Man” and Shakespeare, gymnastics, art and theater
workshops for children—-and more. The Oregon Imagination Celebration is an
cdecars program of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
Washington. Check next week’s What’s Happening for schedule of events.
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Mt 7th Ammai Conference on Aging will be held May 3 2 4 at Oregon State
University. ‘Connections for Aging: Families, Friends and Formal Services”
is the theme of this program sponsored by the OSU Program on Gerontology.
On May 3 at 8:30 Dr. Barbara Silverstone will give a lecture which is open to
the public, free, and to be held in the OSU Conference Center. (The 20 some
workshops are full.) Dr. Silverstone is presently developing and evaluating
cost-effective models of service to the frail elderly.
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TheRevolutionaryCommunist Youth Brigade calls upon those who want to
fight for the future to unite for an internationalist May First to stand in op
position to the preparations by both blocs for mass nuclear annihilation. April
29th will be a focal point of May First Action, with a forum at the UO and
there will be a torchlight march on the 30th to bring in May First. Contact the
Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, 344-5536, P.O. Box 3723, Eugene
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What’s Happening
_in the Sky_
April 21-27
To the ancient observer of 2000 years ago, the Zodiac was an important tool
for comprehending the heavens. When that observer went out for a nightly
stroll, he or she would look for the Moon and planets amidst the 12 Zodiacal
constellations and would then describe their positions as being "in a sign.” For
example, on a particular night the Moon might have been located in front of
Leo (thus, Moon “in” Leo), Venus “in” Gemini, Mars “in” Libra, and so on.
Compounding the significance, nightly entertainment was not as accessible
then as it is now and the heavens were the arena for colorful displays. So, just
as there is a TV Guide for today’s viewer of the ‘ ‘airwaves, ’ ’ in the ancient past
a record of Zodiacal positions was used to organize what was visible in the
nightly hours.
Just how relevant such information can be is apparent when we focus our
gaze above and to the left of Spencer’s Butte this coming week at 9 pm. In do*
ing so you should be able to see the large constellation Virgo, the virgin, lying
on “her” side. This constellation is home to the 16th brightest star in the sky,
Spica, as well as to thousands of distant external galaxies (each of which is
millions of light years away). Looking to the left of Spica, a point of yellowish
light even brighter than that star is visible. This is the ringed planet Saturn. Try
to look at it with binoculars or a telescope; what you'll see with the latter is one
of life’s greatest treats.
Wednesday, April 27th, Saturn should be particulary easy to find.
Throughout the night hours the Moon will be situated next to this ringed globe.
Incidentally, from now until next fall Saturn will be visible in the sky once the
Sun sets. As you’ve surely noticed, Venus continues to blaze away in the west
at evening twilight. Small wonder it is often reported to authorities as a whitish
UFO! Thursday, April 21st is the best night of the year for seeing the planet
Mercury. Look for it at sunset as a moderately bright yellow light between
Venus and the already sunken Sun. Finally, Jupiter rises to its own prominence
at about 10 pm in the southeast, outshining the stars with its whitish light until
the Sun’s golden rays flood the sky at dawn.
This Week’s Celestial Eye-Opener (taken from the book, The Moon):
“Although a detail of the moon’s surface must measure more than fifty miles
to be visible to the naked eye, a look through the Lick telescope (36-inch refrac
tor) reveals irregularities not more than a thousand feet across. If a building
similar to the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. were erected somewhere on the
moon, Lick astronomers would be able to see it as a tiny dot somewhere in the
middle of one of the maria. Using the two-hundred inch telescope of Mount
Palomar, one would theoretically be able to recognize the finer details of the
building. With a mirror as large as the Pentagon itself, one would be able to see
not only the people coming in and out of it, but also to tell whether they
belonged to the Army, the Navy or the Air Force!”
—Larry Deckman
Glow-in-the-dark maps of the Heavens over Eugene/Springfield are now
locally available. Forget the rain outside as you look above your bed each night
and see the stars shine! The map also makes a “glowing” birthday or holiday
gift. They can be purchased for $7 from Larry Deckman at 2406 Lawrence St.
in Eugene. Call 343-7166.
