Brain Party is an event supporting the Right Brain Initiative, a project of the Regional Arts and Culture Commission. The Right Brain Initiative hires artists to teach in schools. Hey, we all have a right brain, so who can argue with that! The event includes art installations, games, music, a DJ, brain massage and a brain sprinkler as well as food and drink. affär at 3001 NE Ainsworth 5PM
Portland is a design town filled with chickens. The city allows each home three, but where are they going to live? They thrive with a spot out of the rain, and safe from coyotes, where they can hide their eggs from you. That would be a chicken coop. Portland designers have flocked to design fancy chicken coops. You can see some today in this self guided tour of Portland's most designer-y coops. It's sponsored by Growing Gardens which helps families start Victory Gardens, healthy and inexpensive food gardens modeled on WWII-era conservation gardens. A guide book to the coops is the ticket and is available at Concentrates, Garden Fever!, Livingscape, Naomi's Farm Supply, People's Co-op, Urban Farm Store and the Hollywood Whole Foods Market. Sponsored by Growing Gardens www.growing-gardens.org/portland-gardening-resources/chickens.php In N, NE, SE Portland. 11AM-3PM. Tickets available until the day before, $15
Research Club has a full day of events for your research pleasure. First is Study Hall #2, short entertaining talks. Mike Robinson tells you everything you ever wanted to know about telling jokes. The Every Country Club presents their project to learn the location, name, and capital of every place in the world. Nim Wunnan presents the History of Applause, reprising a lecture from Nationale in May. After Study Hall there is an open visual art crit. Sign up by email at the Research Club website. At Research Club research-club.org, 215 SE Morrison Street, Suite 2020. Study Hall 11AM-3PM. Crit 3:30PM-6. Arrive within a half hour of start of each for admission due to building security. Free
The Research Club launches its ten week survivalist series with a few few free lectures. GTFO (the ABCs of Survivalism): "If you're not an artsy type, but you WOULD like to know how to deal with the worst-case scenarios (2012! nuclear holocaust! riots! zombie apocalypse!)... Taught by the captain of my apocalypse team, former Navy Electronics Technician and current Field Service Engineer Matthew Geiger, this class will focus on the basics: supplies to keep in your home and vehicle to protect yourself and successfully get to safety in the event of [[insert disaster here]], where and how to get them, and how to know what supplies you need (like iodide tablets), and what to skip (like colloidal silver). Be prepared."
Research Club Survival 101 first class at the Waypost 3120 N Williams 4PM-5:30 Free
