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21 THURSDAY Sunrise 6:19am; Sunset 8:04pm Av High 62; Av Low 39 CONFERENCE ArtCessAble Conference and Don’t Just Stay Home! Cinema Sensibilities on Disability Film Festival, through April 23. For full schedule go to cul- turalforum.uoregon.edu/ArtCessA ble.htm Tonight’s film festival theme is “Hollywood Dearest,” 7pm, 175 Knight Law, UO. DANCE The Works, student dance concert, 8pm tonight, tomor- row and April 23, Performance Hall, LCC. $6, $5 stu., sr. EARTH DAY LCC Earth Week Events: “Defining Sustainability and How it Applies to Everyday Life,” discussion, noon, Building 1 Courtyard; Bubbler Bros., 11:30am, Bristow Square; Blue Vinyl screens, 3pm, Building 3 Boardroom, LCC. FREE. P R E S E N TAT I O N Introduction to “Biology 103,” the work of Lynn Margulis: biological evolution by symbiosis, 6:30pm, Euglena Edu. For information go to www.prototista.org FREE. SPIRITUAL Humanity’s Team An opening for “conTEXT,” 6pm, Maude Kerns Art Center. $3 sug. don. COMEDY ComedySportz team improv comedy, 8pm tonight and tomorrow, ComedySportz Theater. $8. TRIM’s Interfaith Books & Beliefs group discusses Judaism, 7pm, Borders Books. FREE. CONFERENCE ArtCessAble Conference and Don’t Just Stay Home! Cinema Sensibilities on Disability Film Festival continue. Tonight’s film festival theme is “Loud, Proud and Female,” 7pm, 175 Knight Law, UO. See Thursday, April 21. SYMPOSIUM DANCE The Works continues. Meeting, discussion of life, love & unity, 7pm, Spiritual Growth Center. FREE. Women in Sports Business Symposium, 4:30pm-6pm today and 9am-noon tomorrow, Lillis Business Complex, UO. Val Ackerman’s keynote speech is at 4:30pm today; panel discus- sions take place tomorrow. Register at www.warsawcenter.com FREE. THEATER Beauty and the Beast, 7pm today; 7:30pm tomor- row and April 23; 2pm April 24, North Eugene High School. $8, $6 stu., sr. Copenhagen, 8pm tonight, tomor- row and April 23 and 28-30; 2pm April 24, Lord Leebrick Theatre. For information call 465-1506. See Thursday, April 21. EARTH DAY Oil on Water screens, 6pm, Knight Law, UO. FREE. Earth First! Round River Rendezvous Road Show: spoken word, slideshow, music and discus- sion, 7pm, EMU, UO. FREE. GATHERINGS The Unbroken Thread Quilt Show, 10am-4pm, Lane County Historical Museum. A pre- sentation on “Sewing It? Or Searching for It?” is at 10:30am; a panel on “Quilting at Long Distance” is at 1pm. $4, $10 week pass. LITERARY ARTS David Sedaris, 8pm, Hult Center. $18.50- $28.50. MUSIC One Point Star, No Looking Back, StopSignGo, Hot Sack of Nuts, 6:30pm, EDGE Skatepark, Spfd. $5, $8 to skate. Nancy Ream and the John Bliss XTET, 7pm, Triomphe, 1591 Willamette. FREE. UO Opera Ensemble presents Rossini’s “La Cambiale di Matrimonio (The Marriage Contract)” and Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi,” adapted by Charles Turley, 7pm tonight, tomorrow and April 24, Beall Hall, UO. $10, $5 stu., sr. The Good Life, The Velvet Teen, Bella Lea, Consafos, 8:30pm, WOW Hall. $8 adv., $10 dos. Latino Music Festival, a benefit for Centro LatinoAmericano, with Sandunga, Sun Bossa, Mithrandir, Samba Ja, Macaco Bellho, Edson Oliveira and Caliente, 8pm, McDonald Theatre. $25. Todd Snider, South Austin Jug Band, 8:30pm, John Henry’s. 21+ show. $15 adv., $17 dos. Stop Kiss continues. See Thursday, April 21. You Can’t Take It With You contin- ues. See Thursday, April 21. 23 SATURDAY Sunrise 6:16am; Sunset 8:07pm Av High 62; Av Low 40 ARTS/VISUAL Do Mi Stauber demonstrates colored pencil draw- ing and shows beginning techniques, 1pm-4pm, UO Bookstore. FREE. “Sketchbooks: Textures of Nature” with Kristine Kirkeby, 1pm, Mount Pisgah Arboretum. Register at 747- 1504. $15. Global Warming Panel, 6pm, 150 Columbia, UO. FREE. FILM BENEFIT MS Walk to raise Beyond These Narrow Borders and talk by Peter Hwosch, 7pm, World Café. Don. money for the Oregon Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 9am registration, 10am walk, Skinner’s Butte Park. For information go to www.mswalkoregon.com GARDENING “Diagnosing Disease” with Ross Penhallegon, 6:30pm, OSU/Lane County Extension Office Auditorium. Register at 682- 4243. $6. Spring Fling 2005, fund-raiser for Birth to Three with oral auction, raf- fle, dinner, music and more, 6pm, Eugene Hilton. For information call 484-5316. $75. GATHERINGS The Unbroken Thread Quilt Show, 10am-4pm, Lane County Historical Museum. A presen- tation on “Miniature Reproductions of Old Traditional Quilt Patterns” is at 10:30am; Quilts of Gee’s Bend, Alabama screens at noon & 2pm; a panel on “Quilting to Perfect an Art” is at 1pm. $4, $10 week pass. COMEDY ComedySportz con- tinues. See Friday. CONFERENCE ArtCessAble Conference and Don’t Just Stay Home! Cinema Sensibilities on Disability Film Festival continue. Tonight’s film festival focus is “Not Dead Yet,” a filmtalk and discus- sion, 7pm, DIVA. The Eugene Glass School’s Dual Purpose Project party is at 7pm, Eugene Glass School. See Thursday, April 21. KIDS Gimme Games for elem. ages, focus on words, creativity and strategy, 4pm, Downtown Library. FREE. calendar Once Upon a Mattress continues. See Thursday, April 21. Gallery Talk: “From Idealism to Individualism: Artists of Europe Creating a View of the World,” David Turner, 2pm, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. FREE. Magic Kitchen (Hong Kong), 4pm, 115 Pacific. FREE. 16 APRIL 21, 2005 Oliver! continues. See Thursday, April 21. DANCE The Works continues. LECTURES “America in a Different Mirror: Re-visioning Our Nation’s Past,” Ron Takaki, 10am, Building 6, LCC. FREE. See Thursday, April 21. EARTH DAY Surf Day! Dollar Day Sale, all proceeds benefit the Surfrider Foundation, 10am-6pm, Buffalo Exchange. FREE. Mark Thoma and Tim Duy speak on “Social Security Insurance, Privatization and Other Proposals for Reform,” 12:15pm, Mallard Banquet Hall. Register at 343-7917. FREE. “Hiking Ireland,” slide lecture by Tyler Burgess, 1:30pm, Willamalane Adult Activity Center. Register at 736-4444. FREE. “What Should Be the University’s Role in Land Development?,” Don Holtgrieve, 3pm, Hendricks Hall, UO. FREE. “Breathing Life Into the Dead: Making History Come Alive on the Page,” Erik Larson, author of Isaac’s Storm, 4pm, Gerlinger Lounge, UO. FREE. Living Legends knock it out the park Sunday at the McDonald Theatre. Kiss Me Kate, 7:30pm tonight, tomorrow and April 23, Springfield High School. $8, $5 stu., sr. Jean Hegland reads from Windfalls, 7pm, Mother Kali’s Books. FREE. 2nd Annual Downtown Eugene Excellence Awards Celebration, noon, Eugene Hilton. FREE. Oliver!, 8pm tonight, tomorrow and April 23, Cottage Theatre, Cottage Grove. $16, $14 Thursday. Sexual Assault Support Services’ 7th Annual Poetry of Survival reading, 7pm, Tsunami Books. Bring original or favorite poetry or lyrics to share. For information call 484-9791. Once Upon a Mattress, 7:30pm tonight, tomorrow and April 23, Marist High School Theatre. $10, $8 stu., sr. Pacifica Forum: “Latter Day Saints’ Peace Testimony: Initial Inquiry into the Posture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Regarding War and Peace,” 4pm, 128 Chiles, UO. FREE. LITERARY ARTS MUSIC Rob Tobias & Friends, 12:15pm, Hult Center. FREE. The Rainy Day Blues Society pre- sents Johnny Dyer, Mark Hummel, Jerry & the StageHogs, Paul Biondi, 7pm, Cozmic Pizza. $8 adv., $10 dos. Eugene Symphony featuring Adam Neiman, piano, presents Beethoven’s “Concerto No. 3” and others, 8pm, Hult Center. A pre- concert talk is at 7:15pm. $15-$42. Northwest Royale, On the First Day … They Were Kittens, Idle Class, Paranos, benefit to help pay Tara Smith’s medical bills, 8:30pm, WOW Hall. $5. ON THE AIR “The Jefferson Exchange” discusses body building and fitness before steroids with Bill Pearl, 8am and 8pm, KRVM 1280 AM. OUTDOORS/RECREATION Obsidians flat tire clinic, 7pm; Mount Pisgah native plant hike, 3 miles. See YMCA board for details. Stop Kiss, 8pm tonight, tomorrow and April 23 and 28-30, Arena Theatre, UO. $6, $5 stu., sr. Willamette Repertory Theatre pre- sents You Can’t Take It With You, 7:30pm tonight; 8pm tomorrow and April 23; 2pm April 24, Hult Center. For information call 682-5000. Rhythm circle with Annie O’Shea, 7pm, Mother Kali’s. FREE. KIDS Grade 6 play, A Roman Farce, 7pm, Eugene Waldorf School. For information call 683-6951. LECTURES “Korean Literature: Oral Epics,” Kyeung-sun Park, noon, 103 Gerlinger, UO. FREE. 22 “Traumatic Loss and the Reformulation of Subjectivity: The Failures of Renaissance Humanism and the Redemptive Wilderness in Edward Abbey’s Black Sun,” Michelle Satterlee, noon, 159 PLC, UO. FREE. Sunrise 6:17am; Sunset 8:06pm Av High 62; Av Low 39 Pastora Asunción Gutierrez speaks and shows Zapotec rugs, 4pm-7pm, World Café. Presentations are at 5:30pm and 6:30pm. FREE. F R I D AY ARTS/VISUAL “Art Without Limits” presentation and hands-on art regarding accessible art tools for people with disabilities, 8am- 4pm, Hilyard Community Center. For information call 682-6365. “The Chinookan Nations Encounter the Corps of Discovery,” Pat Courtey Gold, 5:30pm, 110 Knight Law, UO. FREE. Flowmotion, 9pm, Cozmic Pizza. $5. Victor Noriega Trio, 9pm, Jo Federigo’s. 21+ show. $5. ON THE AIR “The Jefferson Exchange” discusses pelvic tilt syn- drome with Dr. Harry Oxenhandler, 8am and 8pm, KRVM 1280 AM. OUTDOORS/RECREATION The John H. Baldwin Film & Lecture Series: The End of Suburbia screens at 11am; Jim Maloney discusses “A Random Walk Around Peak Oil” at 12:15pm; Dale Lugenbehl and Sandy Aldridge speak on “The Environmental Effects of Our Everyday Food Choices” at 1pm; Robert Bolman discusses “The Emerging Ecovillage: Intentional Communities and Sustainable Development” at 2pm; Bob Doppelt speaks on “Climate Change: Local Effects, Solutions and Opportunities” at 3pm; Oil on Ice screens at 4pm. EWEB Training Room. FREE. Earth Day Celebration, 11am-5pm, EWEB River Plaza. FREE. GARDENING Worm bin com- posting with an OSU master gar- dener, 10am, OSU Lane County Extension Service Auditorium. Register at 682-5542. $25. Birds of the Willamette Valley slideshow, 7pm, 110 Willamette, UO. FREE. Hands-on composting with an OSU master gardener 10am, River House compost demo site, 301 N. Adams. FREE. Welcome Back Swifts event, see thousands of Vaux’s swifts circling before roosting for the night, sun- set, Agate Hall, UO. For information call 485-BIRD. Early spring containers with Shirley Osuna, 10am Gray’s Garden Center Eugene; 1pm Gray’s Garden Center Springfield. FREE. SPIRITUAL Perennial picks for 2005 with Susan Watson, noon, Down to Earth Olive St. FREE. SYMPOSIUM GATHERINGS Lane County Farmer’s Market, 9am-4pm, 8th Ave. & Oak St. FREE. Forestland Dwellers’ No-Spray Prayer Circle, noon. For locations call 342-8332. Women in Sports Business Symposium con- tinues. See Thursday, April 21. THEATER You’re It!, 8pm tonight and tomorrow, Actor’s Cabaret. For information call 683- 4368. Beauty and the Beast continues. See Thursday, April 21. Copenhagen continues. Thursday, April 21. See Kiss Me Kate continues. See Thursday, April 21. Eugene Saturday Market, 10am- 5pm, 8th Ave. & Oak St. Music by Jim Fritz, 10am; Sharon Rogers, 11am; David G., noon; Richie G. & Michael Kevin Daly, 1pm; Joe Manis Trio, 2pm; Amish Love Child, 3:30pm. FREE. Exotic Bird Fair, vendors, birds, pre- sentations and displays, proceeds benefit Exotic Bird Rescue, 10am- 5pm today and tomorrow, Irving Grange. $2 sug. don.
