Thursday August 9, 2007

05:45 PM : Pillow Fight @ Pioneer Square

ART LIVING Flyered by dalas

When: Thursday, Aug. 9
Time: 6pm
Where: Pioneer Courthouse Square (701 SW 6th Avenue)

show up with a pillow concealed any way you can think of.. like a humpback, pregnant belly, in a backpack, etc, then at the appointed time someone yells "pillow fight" and people go at it, much hilarity ensues, and then when the time is up people just go right back to acting like normal strangers.

RULES:
no hard things in pillows
no "tarring"
no hitting innocent bystanders/small children (only those with pillows!)
keep pillow HIDDEN prior to 6 pm.
BRING YOUR OWN PILLOW (BYOP)

Originally posted here.

08:00 PM : Dongoro! Dongoro! @ Holocene

Fundraiser Flyered by kmikeym

Dongoro! Dongoro!
Dance like you give a damn, help educate the world


Date: Thursday - August 9, 2007

Location: Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison, Portland

Musical Guests: Adrian Orange, DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid

Doors open: 8pm

Cost: $10 at the door, $7 with drafting/art supply donation
Profits at the door support Architects Without Borders' efforts [receipts available for those of you who need the tax deductions]

A team of Portland-area architects, designers, and engineers from Architects Without Borders-Oregon (AWB-Oregon) is providing pro bono design for a master plan of the Wollega Academy, a 40-acre site in Dongoro, Ethiopia, as well as design for several new school and housing buildings.
Currently rural folks, kids and adults, work all day - back breaking work - then come to this campus to study with sixty or seventy others, in a classroom big enough for thirty. It is hot, it is dark and it is ten o’clock in the evening, and they are here because education is everything and this is what is available. A lot of things are needed; Architects Without Borders can at least help out with a school.
The expansion of the Wollega Academy in Ethiopia will make it one of the only schools in the region that provides full educational curriculum for grades 9-12. AWB-Oregon has joined with local contractor Mike Philips to begin work on a new campus, which features large, day lit, naturally ventilated classrooms, dormitories, and a new library. The new campus will give students of Wollega the opportunity to engage learning in a safe, comfortable setting, virtually unknown in Ethiopia.
All money collected at the door will support Architects Without Borders’ efforts. Drafting/Art supplies will be shipped directly to the students @ the university.

To learn more about efforts on this or other AWB projects and how you can help:
www.awb-or.org/