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32 JUStlOUt MARCH 21, 2008 or other items like toys or coupons for nice prizes, in cluding two tickets to any performance this season at Portland Center Stage. Proceeds benefit Camp Starlight. (4 pm. 110 NW Broadway $5 donation.) Women seeking women: JustOutPersonals.com © - presents a monthly single women's Bunco night at Q Center! (5:30 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.) The Adventure Group meets for Fenouil's monthly re gional dinner featuring numerous courses from Alsace- Lorraine. (6:30 pm. 900 NW 11th Ave. RSVP to Ron at 503-284-3345.) Queer poet Jen Currin celebrates the launch of her new book, Hagiography, at Worksound. The eyening also fea tures poetry readings by Christine Leclerc and William Stobb, short movies by Jackie and Heather Lane and Danielle Lombardi, performance art by Mary Rose and music by Love Perestroika, Pelican Ossman, The Form less and DJ NoShameBeat (7 pm. 820 SE Aider St.) MON • MARCH 31 THU • APRIL 3 Elder Resource Alliance presents the second half of a two-part information and discussion workshop about diabetes at Friendly House. Coffee and tea will be served. (2-4 pm. 1737 NW 26th Ave.) In Other Words presents a queer polyamory discussion group. (6:30-8:30 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St.) Portland Center Stage's Green House School of Theater presents Topics in Playwriting: Play Tuning instructed by queer playwright Matthew B. Zrebski every Monday through June 9. This course is for serious writers who wish to put their existing draft through the grinder. (7-9 pm. 128 NW 11th Ave. $200 from 503-445-3793 or education@pcs. org.) 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts presents extreme performance artist Ron Athey with Samantha Sweeting, Aria Ben ner and Micah Perry at Hippodrome, followed by an after-party next door at Branx. (8 pm. 315 SE Third Ave. $8.) Queer neo-folkie Holcombe Waller ft the Healers per form at Doug Fir Lounge with The Golden Bears and Tom Brosseau. (9 pm. 830 E Burnside St. $10 from Tick ets West.) C.C. Slaughters presents Are You Smarter Than a Quiz Master? Win cash and prizes! (7 pm. 219 NW Davis St.) WED • APRIL 2 KATU-TV spotlights gay dog photographer Horace Long on AM Northwest. (9 am.) FRI • APRIL 4 Out Dancing's intermediate country two-step class starts tonight and continues every Friday in April at Ankeny Street Studio. Beginning waltz class follows. (6:15-7:15 pm country [$32 for month], 7:15-8:15 pm waltz ($24 for month]. 975 SE Sandy Tudor Choir to Portland: let Your Mind Go' on Early Choral Tour Blvd. 503-236-5129. outdancing.info.) ness these days, choral music is a con siderable commercial commodity. passion for early choral music led Fullington to bring together an ad-hoc For Seattle-based conductor and group of like-minded singers singer Doug Fullington, that makes in Seattle in the early 1990s. some sense: He says contemporary audiences are attracted by the “time During the decade-plus since then, the 12-voice ensemble less... very human quality” of early has developed a cult follow choral music, which makes it so broad ing, released a handful of first- rate recordings and attracted In the booming early-music busi ly appealing. So when his professional chamber This national attention. at the reverberant St. Mary’s Cathe dral, 1716 N.W. Davis St., he looks group. “There’s room for a forward to a church full of listeners choir like ours.” Portland for a concert 8 p.m. March 29 SAT - APRIL 5 Gay-owned Paolo Design Group presents Turn-Key House Planning, a workshop to identify how to do-it-once and do-it-right for building a custom home or undergo ing a major remodel. Break fast included. (9-11:30 am. 1110 NW Marshall St. RSVP to 503-222-1757, ext. 11, or relations@paolodesigngroup.com.) “There aren’t too many ensembles like us in the U.S.,” says Ful lington, who conducts the chorus, The Tudor Choir, sweeps into keyed more into the “panoramic sort For its first Portland ap of sound” of the music than the actual pearance in five years, the original religious functionality of the choir will tour two chunks of English and Italian psalms and motets choral repertoire written for the choir will perform. specific prominent chapels of the time: England’s Royal Chapel in the 16th century and Italy’s Sistine When Fullington—a happily part Doug Fullington (seated on stool) leads The Tudor Choir for its first Portland appearance in five years March 29 at St Mary's Cathedral. musical trajectories parted ways soon nered gay man—was young, he got hooked on this stuff. A turning mo Chapel from around the same time, in after, the two kept up correspondence and wrote musical works as gifts for one ment for the budding musician came cluding several works for double chorus another; these works are on the choir’s when he heard a recording of early (with Miserere earning a special pride March 29 program. 17th century master Italian composer of place for Fullington). There’s also an interesting con Gregorio Allegri’s ineffably beautiful Miserere psalm setting for double cho rus. “I loved the fact that it was in a language I didn’t understand," Fulling www. nectivity among the disparate works: The little-known Flemish madrigal- ist Philippe de Monte befriended ac ton says. “You can focus on the sound claimed English composer William of the voices and the sonic beauty and Byrd early in their composing careers. just let your mind go while you listen." Although their religious beliefs and Q-LAND/Manifest presents Create Your Vision Team, where accomplished life coaches will help you clarify and prioritize your intentions for sex/intimacy, work/money and health/fitness, then turn them into concrete actions by forming "dream teams" of men to support you in moving toward your goals. (11:30 am-4:30 pm. RSVP to 503-223-8822 or www.qland. org/calendar.) Hip Chicks Do Wine teach a wine and cheese pair ing class featuring a flight of seven wines paired with four to five cheeses. (1-2 pm. 4510 SE 23rd Ave. $30 from 503-234-3790.) March 21 for Wooley at Wonder's final art exhibit. Alphabet Soup: Labeling, Identity, Stigma, Pride. (5 pm patron event, 8 pm artist reception. 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. $100-$275 from 503-223-9255 or www.cascadeaids.org.) Mylar hosts the Ugly Dress Party featuring raffle prizes at Embers Avenue. Proceeds ben efit Umatilla Morrow Alternatives. (7 pm. 110 NW Broadway. $5 donation.) David York Ensemble performs double choir master pieces by Johannes Brahms, Ralph Vaughan-Williams and Frank Martin in a program titled Echo at Church of the Good Shepherd in Vancouver, Wash. (8 pm. 805 SE Ellsworth Road. $20 from Brown Paper Tickets.) C.C. Slaughters presents the gay athletic social Spring Training. (9 pm. 219 NW Davis St.) SUN • APRIL 6 In Other Words presents Homorobics led by Sarah Sha piro and Nicole J. Georges, physically strengthening our community in a feminist, queer and body-friendly envi ronment with an emphasis on enjoyment, not weight loss! Bring a towel and hand weights if you've got them. (11 am. 8 NE Killingsworth St. $2-$4 donation.) Portland Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence present Sister Bingo every first Sunday at PPAA Hall. (4 pm. 618 SE Alder St. $15 for a game pack, $5 for each additional.) Q-LAND/Manifest presents Beat the Blues, a support group to find practical strategies for dealing with depres sion. (6-8 pm. RSVP to 503-223-8822 or www.qland. org/calendar.) “They’re beautiful pieces in and of themselves, but the history is interest ing,” Fullington says. “You don’t always see that sort of cross-cultural exchange. It’s humanizing.” Tickets are $15-$30. For more in formation visit www.cappellaromana.org. —Stephen Marc Beaudoin China Forbes, the voice of Pink Martini, celebrates the release of her long-awaited solo recording, 78, at Music Millennium. (4 pm. 3158 E Burnside St.) Cascade AIDS Project presents its Art Evening ft Auction at the Oregon Convention Center. This year's theme is “Cirque." Portland Feminism Discussion Group welcomes fe male-identified participants to discuss third-wave femi nism at In Other Words. (6:30-8 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St.) Gay choreographer Mike Barber presents the 15th installment of Ten Tiny Dances at Clyde Common. A different dance every 15 minutes by 10 new and veteran artists on a 4x4 foot stage! 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