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Weekend Warriors: 1/27-1/29

Here’s the scoop for the weekend. For more ideas on what to do this weekend, check PDX Kids Calendar and the urbanMamas calendar page.

There are still lots of Chinese New Year activities going on around town to celebrate the Year of the Dragon. PDX Kids Calendar did a good job gathering them here.

Penny the Puppeteer performs Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar at the Off Broadway Central Lutheran Church on Friday at 10:30. Free coffee, tea, and stickers! $5 each or 4 for $17.

Free admission to the Portland Art Museum this Friday from 5 to 8! Get to see all the museum has to offer without the admission fee.

Head to the Troutdale Library from 3:30 to 5 for a free movie viewing of The Jackie Robinson Story. Best for older kids and teens.

Here's hoping for some sun. On Saturday from 9:30 to 12, head to the Smith and Bybee wetlands to see and learn about winter birds. Best for ages 10 and up. Advance registration required. Free!

Come to the Scottish Rite Center between 11 and 4 on Sunday for Mochitsuki 2012. Ring in the Year of the Dragon with traditional and contemporary Japanese activities (like arts & crafts to take home), entertainment (like Portland Taiko), and food. $4-12.

The Gregory Heights Library is hosting a Vietnamese Music Ensemble, which will play traditional music performed during the Harvest Moon Festival. Saturday from 1 to 3.

Celebrate National Puzzle Day at the Gresham Library. Design a landscape, family portrait, or anything else you’d like to take apart and put back together. For teens. Saturday from 1:30 to 3. Free! The celebration continues at the Holgate Library on Saturday from 2:30 to 4, and is intended for preschoolers through grade 5.

Have you checked out the new Kindie Music venue Jam on Hawthorne? This Saturday from 5 to 7 is your chance, as Mo Phillips gets down with his fun and zany tunes.

Join Portland Opera to Go! for a 50-minute, kid-friendly presentation of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. At McMenamin's Edgefield on Sunday at 12. Free!

The talented young musicians of the Portland Youth Philharmonic perform their Chamber Orchestra Concert at the Wieden & Kennedy Building on Sunday at 4. $15-20.

Hope this gives you some ideas. Have fun out there! And don't forget to double-check event details by calling or checking the website of the venue, performer, or host organization.

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For the second year, there's a great family friendly concert/craft night from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Jan. 28 at St David of Wales, 2800 SE Harrison St. Marimba, blues, rock. Dancing and music making for everybody. There's also a silent auction and bake sale - it's a fundraiser for Song Garden Preschool.

Posted by: anon | January 25, 2012 at 11:22 PM

Don't forget about the International Cat Show! Meeeeeow!
http://www.tncc.org/spectator.html

Posted by: Hissy C | January 27, 2012 at 07:24 PM

The silent auction items at the Song Garden fundraiser are here: http://songgardenpreschool.wordpress.com/events/

Posted by: anon | January 27, 2012 at 09:42 PM

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