KBOO COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Friday 28 January 2011
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Happy, happy Friday! This is your community calendar for January the 21.
This evening at 7, Portland State University will host an evening with 40-year veteran investigative journalist and foreign correspondent Reese Erlich. Erlich is touring with his new book, Conversations with Terrorists, which draws on decades of reporting, personal interviews, and new research to unearth some of the most problematic and overlooked narratives about terrorism. This event, co-sponsored by American Iranian Friendship Council and Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights, Twill run from 7 to 8:30pm in Multicultural Center Room 228 in the Smith Memorial Student Union at Portland State University.
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503-381-3696
goudarz AT aifcpdx DOT org
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Tomorrow morning, Friends of Trees asks your help planting native trees and shrubs in Tranquil City Park in Wilsonville. They provide breakfast, tools, and guidance, and ask only that planters show up around 8:45 AM and dress appropriately for the weather.
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AndyM AT FriendsofTrees DOTorg
503-282-8846 ext. 24
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Then tomorrow afternoon, the Fertile Ground festival invites you to a staged lunchtime reading of Dorothy Anton’s In Love with Mrs R (The Roosevelt Musical). It starts at 12:30 on the mezzanine of the Gerding Theater at the Armory, located at 128 NW 11th Avenue in Portland.
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fertilegroundpdx DOT com
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And then on Monday, don’t miss a report-back from Portland’s Climate Justice Caravan to Cancun. What really happened at the UN Conference on Climate Change? Are these climate agreements good for working people? How do we, regular people, affect the monstrous beast of climate change? Come on down for videos, stories, inspiration, pictures, tacos!, and discussion of what's next for climate justice, brought to you by PCASC, PDX JwJ, and PDX Climate Change Coalition. It all goes down Monday the 31at 6:30p at the AFSCME Building, 6025 E. Burnside St.
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317-605-8566
megan AT pcasc DOT net
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The Early Assessment and Support Alliance is an outreach and treatment program for young people ages 15 to 25 who are experiencing the first symptoms of psychosis.
The Alliance’s services and resources include
- low-dose medication and medication monitoring
- individual and group counseling
- multi-family groups
- occupational therapy
- family education and support
- vocational training
- life-skills coaching
- 24/7 crisis services
- links to community resources
- education about psychosis
Psychosis can happen to anybody; it is most likely to first occur during young adulthood and it may affect three out of every 100 young people.
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(503) 988-3272.
multco DOT us SLASH mhas
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For more information about any of the events mentioned on the calendar, call the KBOO front desk at (503) 231-8032 or check out the listings at kboo dot fm slash communitycalendar. You have just heard the KBOO Community Calendar on 90.7 fm Portland, 100.7 fm Corvallis and 91.9 fm Columbia Gorge. Thanks for listening to independent, non-commercial, volunteer- run radio, supported by listeners like you!
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