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WEDNESDAY
APRIL 17
SUNRISE 6:25AM; SUNSET 7:58PM
AVG. HIGH 47; AVG. LOW 34
ART/CRAFT Jean-Michel Bas-
quiat's Masonic Lodge: Anat-
omy of the Soul, 5:30-7pm,
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of
Art (UO). FREE
Closets. All around there are closets with
trap doors that the characters Robb and Bart
must go through to find peace and reconciliation
in Henry Alley’s moving new novel, Men
Touching, published this year by Chelsea
Station Editions. Alley, a Eugene resident
and an emeritus professor of literature at the
University of Oregon, takes readers through
Robb’s PTSD following the Vietnam War and
his drug addiction. They mask the horrors of
a hit-and-run incident in Saigon. Bart is a high
school drama teacher, a gay man coming out to
his family and a caregiver to a man dying of HIV/
AIDS. All of it is set in the 1980s of Alley’s native
Seattle. The two stories merge until each man is
able to stand on his own, haltingly at first, then
with stride and purpose.
Men Touching is Alley’s fifth novel. He also
has a collection of short stories published (The
Dahlia Field) as well as literary articles in The
Kenyon Review and other journals.
A reading and book signing for Henry
Alley’s Men Touching is 7 to 8:30 pm Thursday,
April 18, at Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette
Street. FREE. — Dan Buckwalter
E U G E N E W E E K LY . C O M
BENEFIT Save the Bee!, 11am-
10pm, Oakshire, 207 Madison
St. An annual fundraiser and
the release of 2019 Save
the Bee: a dry-hopped hazy
blonde ale with honey. $1 from
every pint sold throughout
the whole day will be donated
to Save the Bee!
COMEDY Wednesday Night
Fight Mic, 7:30pm, The Drake,
77 W. Broadway. FREE
FILM Movie Appreciation
Group: The Ugly American,
1pm, Willamalane Adult Ac-
tivity Ctr, 215 W. C St, Spfd.
FREE
This Mountain Life, 6pm, Bi-
jou Art Cinemas, 492 E. 13th
Ave. $6-8.
Eugene International Fly Fish-
ing Film Festival, 7pm, Wildish
Community Theater, 630
Main St, Spfd. $15-18.
GATHERINGS Overeaters
Anonymous, 8am, First
Christian Church, 1166 Oak
St. FREE
Pet-Loss Grief Support
Group – Companioning
Care LLC, 11:30am-12:30pm,
Companioning Care LLC. $10-
30. Before your first group
meeting, call for a short chat
to make certain the group is
a good fit for your situation:
(541) 255-7116.
Pet-Care Coping Support
Group – Companioning Care
LLC, 1-2pm, Companioning
Care LLC. $10-30. Before
your first group meeting,
call for a short chat to make
certain the group is a good
fit for your situation: (541)
255-7116.
Co-Dependents Anonymous,
women only 12-step meeting
(infants allowed), 6pm, St.
Thomas Episcopal Fellowship
Hall, 1465 Coburg Rd. FREE
LGBTQIA+ Support Group
for Survivors of Sexual
Violence, 6-7:30pm, Sexual
Assault Support Services,
591 W. 19th Ave. FREE
NAMI Connection Survivors
of Suicide Attempts, 6pm,
NAMI Resource Ctr., 2411
Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.
FREE
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