Summer Festival, June 27 - July 31, is packed and includes many free events. $10 student tickets may be purchased in advance; $10 senior rush tickets are available 30 minutes before each concert (some concerts already sold out; check www.cmnw.org for up-to-date availability). List follows of free or inexpensive ways to enjoy Chamber Music NW. Complete information can be found at: www.cmnw.org
Cynthia Kirk (503) 925-0184 Cynkirk@aol.com
Ongoing, in the lobby of Cabell Center Theater, 8825 SW Barnes, where CMNW concerts are heard Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 PM:
* "String Suite (plus two)," exhibition of large format charcoal drawings by Lucinda Parker, inspired by music she's heard at Chamber Music Northwest
* Music-themed color photographs by Bernard Mindich
7 - 7:30 PM, before every evening concert, "Musical Conversations." Q&A between artists and audience.
Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Kaul Auditorium/Reed College, SE 28th abd Woodstock
Tuesdays, Fridays, Lower School at Catlin Gabel, 8825 SW Barnes Road
Every Wednesday, 11 AM - Noon, Open Rehearsals at Kaul Auditorium/Reed College, SE 28th and Woodstock. Informal discussions with the artists follow the rehearsal. Bring a picnic.
Wednesday, July 6: Brahms, Songs for Viola and Mezzo Soprano
Wednesday, July 13, 7:00-8:30pm: Bloch, Piano Quintet at Sherman Clay/Moe's Pianos · 131 NW 13th Avenue at Davis · Free
Friday, July 15, Noon - 1 PM, Imani Winds' at the Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park
CMNW's 35th Anniversary gift to the City of Portland
Sunday, July 17, 2 - 3pm, Family Concert · Kaul Auditorium/Reed · $5, all ages. Bruce Adolphe's Oceanophony with narrator Michele Mariana.
Wednesday, July 20, 7:00-8:30pm: Chausson, Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet at Sherman Clay/Moe's Pianos · 131 NW 13th Avenue at Davis.
Wednesday, July 27, 7:00-9:30pm: Schoenberg, "Transfigured Night" for String Sextet. Whitsell Auditorium/Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue at Madison, · $7

Saturday, July 16, 1:00pm - 7:00pm
FREE GEEK Community Technology Center
1731 SE 10th Avenue (SE 10th and Market)
Free Geek celebrates five years of the Community Technology Center with a Street Party and Fund Raiser. Geek Fair Five! is a free event for all ages. We'll have two stages of live music and organic food and refreshments. "Beat-the Geek" game show, Smash-tacular! (you get to go "Office Space" on a printer of your choosing), eco-friendly info. booths, video gaming room, indy video screenings, chunk bikes, and kids' activities.
Geek Fair Five! will be showing local performers The Bad Mintons, Beliss, Dorado, The Black Peppercorns, Empty Room, Like a Circus Fire, Raina Rose, The Sprockettes, Trashcan Joe, Tre Music and Dan Mills, Vivian's Keeper, Chunk 666, SweetJuice, and The Vulturines.
Geek Fair Five! iffers many fun ways to contribute to the Free Geek cause: a silent auction with lots of great items donated from local businesses, and a raffle featuring a really nice Linux computer as the grand prize. Spend time battling for network supremacy in the game room. Free Geek's computer thrift store will also be open with some great specials and bargains for the computer hobbyist.
Geek Fair Five! is sponsored by Free Geek and the following local businesses and organizations. Backspace, CD Baby, The City Repair Project, KBOO 90.7 FM Community Radio, Roots Organic Brewery, SCRAP, and Southeast Uplift Neighborhood Program.
Free Geek is a local non-profit that recycles and refurbishes donated computers and other equipment, making them available to individuals and non-profits. Volunteers can participate, learn, and earn a free computer system in the process. Orientation tours are held daily at noon and 6pm.
In five years, Free Geek has received over 230,000 donated gizmos, while more than 4,500 volunteers have refurbished over 5,500 computer systems that have been given away through their programs. Free Geek's recycling has salvaged over 600 tons of scrap, keeping toxins such as lead and mercury from the landfill and recovering valuable materials such as gold and copper for reuse.
For more information, check out Free Geek fair webpage at www.freegeek.org/geekfair. See you there!
Contact: Oso Martin (503) 232-9350

Tuesday, July 19th, 9:00pm - 11:00pm
Dante's, SW 3rd and Burnside (503) 224-6166
Producer, Composer, Arranger, and Concert Pianist, Michael Allen Harrison is a man of extraordinary talents. His music ranges from movie scores to arrangements for piano, orchestra, ballet, jazz, fusion, New Age, Broadway Musicals, and Adult Contemporary. Tickets $12 advance / $15 at the door available at any Safeway/Ticketswest outlet, Music Millenium, Dante's, and Roseland Grill, or online at www.ticketswest.com - or by phone at 1-800-992-TIXX! A benefit for the Tara Foundation.

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