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900 NE 81st ave
Portland 97213
Artist community realized! 3 day arts festival. Over 100
artists, music, performance, spoken word, tours, ribbon
cutting with Mayor Sam Adams. Free. All ages.
Panel discussion: Artist Affordable Housing Forum
sponsored by Regional Arts & Culture Council and Office
of Mayor Sam Adams. Sat. April 9, 3-5 pm
full schedule of events @
Milepost5.net
the Queer Resource Center, Night of Noise
brings LGBTQ_youth and allies ages 12-23
together to share stories and experiences
around the national Day of Silence.
Mo Kenny, SMYRC’s Satellite Program
developer and Pride Project program coordi
nator, reports that in the past, youth have ex
pressed themselves and their thoughts on
equality in the Night of Noise open mic by
playing guitar, singing, reading an original
poem, doing an interpretative dance, display
ing a painting they made and much more.
The open mic will he youth-focused, but
the SMYRC youth steering committee voted
to allow all ages to Night of Noise.
The Domino Room in Bend, Ore. (51 NW
Greenwood Ave.) hosts “That’s So Gay,” a
Night of Noise celebration, also on April 15,
from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Featuring an open mic
organized by Queer Youth Space, stand-up
comedian Chris Doucette from New York
City and Portland drag-comedy duo ChiChi
and Chonga, the event stands to be a loud
response to LGBTQ_ harassment and
bullying.
The following day, Saturday, April 16 from
7:30 p.m. to midnight, Portland Community
College’s Queer Club throws an all-ages,
90s-themed Queer Prom at Q Center (4115
N. Mississippi Ave.) to benefit Portland’s re
vered LGBTQ^community space.
Whether dressed as a goth, raver or grunge
rocker, attendees will enjoy dancing to DJ
Stormy Roxx and DJ Hufnstuf, and have the
opportunity to give back not only to Q_Cen-
ter, but also to PCC campus’starving students
via the Rock Creek Canteen Project. Admis
sion is $5 without your college ID, and a
canned food donation with college ID. No
one will be turned away for lack of funds.
From one campus-led LGBTQ_ effort to
another, PSU hosts the first annual Queer
Student of Color Conference April 29-May
1. The conference is designed to provide re
sources, leadership, training and skills through
workshops that engage, stimulate and bring
awareness to the unique issues that affect
queer students of color and the communities
they occupy.
With a diverse lineup of workshops, film
screenings and a speech by keynote speaker
Elena Rose—there’s even a speed-dating
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maintain a safe space that will allow for the
t exploration of white supremacy, patriarchy,
heterosexism, trans-oppression, fat oppres
sion and more to find out how they affect and
restrict access to higher education, resources
and connections to other queer students of
color, white LGBTQ_students, heterosexual
students and faculty and administrators of all
backgrounds.
While the conference’s focus is on queer
students of color, heterosexual and white al
lies are welcome to join in on conversations as
participants. Registration is S10 at the door.
In student scholarship news, Equity Foun
dation recently announced the recipients of
the 2011-12 Bill and Ann Shepherd Legal
Scholarship Fund: Lauren Robertson at
Willamette University School of Law and
Heidi Wong at Lewis 6c Clark School of
Law. Each school will receive $5,500 on be
half of its recipient.
Shepherd Legal Scholars are required to
demonstrate a healthy balance of academic
success and activist commitment to the LG-
BTQ_civil rights movement. The scholarship
is named after Bill and Ann Shepherd, who
in the 1970s co-founded what would become
the Portland chapter of Parents, Families and
Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG).
On Friday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m., the signa
ture fundraising event for the scholarship, a
classical music and dessert revue at The Old
Church (1422 SW 11th Ave.) dubbed “A
Class Act,” is expected to once again prove a
rousing success. Composer and soprano The
resa Koon returns by popular demand, and
honorary co-chairs of this year’s Shepherd
Fund include Charles Hinkle, Vera Katz,
Norma Paulus, Cheryl Perrin, former Port
land Mayor Tom Potter and Kathleen
Saadat.
Tickets to “A Class Act” are $40 in advance,
$50 at the door.
For more information about SMYRC’s Night
of Noise, visit smyrc.org. For information about
That's So Gay” in Bend on April 15, email
ashxdoak@gmail.com. For more on the Queer
Prom at Q Center, contact Dede Willis at 971-
722-5782. To register for the Queer Student of
Color Conference, go to sites.google.com/site/
qusocc, or visit qrc.pdx.edu for more information.
For tickets in advance to “
A Class Act, ” visit The
Funny Bone (617 SW Washington St.) or head
to ogalla.org/aclassact.html.
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Miss. Studios Auction and
Concert to Benefit Local
Film, Sexual Assault Re
source Center
A concert and auction at 7 p.m. Friday,
April 8 at Mississippi Studios (3939 N. Mis
sissippi Ave.) is slated to kick off Rid of Me, a
film by Portland’s James Westby, as he pre
pares to premiere the movie at the Tribeca
Film Festival in New York City in April. The
event will benefit the film’s journey, as well as
the Sexual Assault Resource Center, with
some high-profile performances by Storm
Large, Grand Archives, Ohioan, Oracle and
Part Time Pony.