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Since he took the publishing world by storm with Drown, a 1996 collection of bracing
short stories, the 41-year-old Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz has been a
major player on the international literary scene, garnering a PEN/O. Henry Prize for
short fi ction as well as a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which he landed for his novel
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. You have a rare opportunity to catch this
risen star when Diaz reads from a work in progress Thursday, April 29, in the Knight
Library Browsing Room
BENEFITS “Dance on Purpose”
w/Breakdown Dance Company,
feat. UO Gospel Choir, Nik Fury,
Jphilly, Endrwon, fundraiser for
studio building fund, silent auc-
tion, 6pm today & tomorrow, 471
S. A St., Spfd., www.breakdown-
dance.com $10, $5 stu. & sen.
FILM
DisOrient Asian Film
Festival, today through Sunday,
Bijou Art Cinemas, 492 E. 13th
Ave., info at www.disorientfi lm.
org or 686-2458.
Fourth Friday Film Fest: Emma,
1996 version w/Gwyneth Patlrow,
7pm, Spencer Creek Grange,
86013 Lorane Hwy at McBeth,
www.spencercreekgrange.org
for info. Don.
Banff Mountain Film Festival con-
tinues. See Thursday, April 22.
GATHERINGS City Club of
Eugene Friday Forum: “Summer
in the City: Sizzling & Fresh”
w/Billie Mosier & Jean-Paul
Cunningham,
11:50am-1:15pm,
Eugene Hilton, 66 E. Sixth Ave.
$5, members FREE.
Library Quilt Club, 3-4:30pm,
Springfi eld Library, 225 Fifth St.,
Spfd. FREE.
KIDS/FAMILIES
Baby
Storytime, 10:15am & 11:15 am,
Downtown Library. FREE.
Preschool Storytime, ages 3-6,
10:15am, Bethel Library, 1990
Echo Hollow Rd., 682-5766.
FREE.
LECTURES/TALKS
“Navajo
Cosmology & World Order” w/
Harry Walters, 10am & 1pm, Many
Nations Longhouse, UO. FREE.
“Visiting
Viking
Sites
in
Scandinavia” w/author William
Sullivan, discussion & slide show,
3:30pm, Baker Downtown Center,
975 High St. FREE.
“Kesey’s Living Rivers” w/Robert
Faggen, biographer of Ken Kesey,
7pm, Hult Center. FREE.
Earth Day Lecture: “Yes Men”
activist Andy Bichlbaum, 7pm,
150 Columbia, UO. FREE.
Up Late!
Monday-Thursday
5 till at least 11pm
Friday-Saturday
5 till at least Midnight
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“The Power of Empathy” w/Lisa-
Marie Vincent continues. See
Thursday, April 22.
Learn How to Explore eBay,
demo on buying, selling, bid-
ding & safety on-line, no actual
purchasing, 1:30-4pm, Campbell
Community Center, 155 High St.,
pre-reg. at 682-5318. $13.
LITERARY ARTS Reading &
Discussion w/Simon Cordery, au-
thor of Mother Jones: Raising
Cain & Consciousness, noon, 112
Lillis, UO. FREE.
Public
Plenary
Session:
“Publishing What We Preach:
Feminist Media Scholarship in
a Multimodal Age” w/modera-
tor Deborah Carver, 3-5pm, Erb
Memorial Ballroom, UO. FREE.
w/Brooks Robertson, fi ngerstyle
guitar, 6pm, Supreme Bean.
FREE.
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MUSIC Cozy Evening Concerts
Northwest Horn Symposium
Concert, 8pm today & tomorrow;
1pm Sunday, Beall Hall, UO. $10,
$8 stu.
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