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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.)
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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!
(7:30-10 pm. 1014 SW Stark St. $15 at the door, $18 in
advance from Brown Paper Tickets.)
Dentistry In The Pearl That’s
Something To Smile About!
New
Patient Basic Cleaning
(exam required)
Children’s Exam and Cleaning
(new patients 12 & under)
Professional Home Whitening
(exam required)
In Office 1 Hour “Zoom”
Tooth Whitening (exam required)
(503) 546-9079
222 NW 10th Avenue
www.sundbergdentistry.com
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