MEN AT WORDS June 28 at Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe

MEN AT WORDS-Poetry Reading at Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe On Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 6:30 PM, local poets and authors in print, Robert Davies, David Filer, Henry Hughes and Scot Siegel, will read their work, in conjunction with the 46th Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts. This year's Festival visual arts theme is "Cutting Edges--the Mosaic". Joan Maiers hosts the event. Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe 45 South State Street in downtown Lake Oswego, Oregon. Free and open to the public. Donations accepted to assist Little Artibonite Orphanage in Haiti. Contact: 503-697-7097

24/7: Marking 7 Years of War with 24 Concerts in 24 Hours

Thanks to David Abel for passing this on: 24/7: Marking 7 Years of War with 24 Concerts in 24 Hours March 21, 7:00 pm through March 22, 7:00 pm Weiden & Kennedy Atrium 224 NW 13th Avenue Portland Each concert begins on the hour. All ages welcome. Free. Schedule can be downloaded at http://radio.wk.com By mid-March, the United States will have been at war in Afghanistan and Iraq for over seven years. To mark this important, if tragic, anniversary, over 150 of the Portland area's best classical, contemporary, and world musicians, gathered by Bill Crane and Thomas Lauderdale, are uniting to make a giant musical gift to the city and beyond. 24/7 is a series of 24 dramatic concerts, each starting upon the hour, beginning 7:00 p.m. Saturday, March 21, and continuing to 7:00 p.m., Sunday, March 22, in the Weiden & Kenndy Atrium.