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October 2009 || Vol.2 - Issue. 10

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A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TEACHER SARAH O'MARA!!!
October 7th

AN OCTOBER ZOMBIFIED FORTE STAFF

Rock Out With The Little Mermaid!

Some of our students make some very creative videos. Rock out with the Little Mermaid. Featuring: Riley & Ciara.
Click to view their music video

FORTE MUSIC SCHOOL COLORING CONTEST

FORTE IS HAVING IT'S FIRST COLORING CONTEST!

Haul out your pens, ink, sequins, paints, crayons, beads, feathers, glitter, pom-poms, glue, tape, staples - or whatever you can scare up to decorate your masterpiece!

All current students and all ages are eligible to enter. Drop off your finished masterpiece by Friday October 30th at 6:45pm. Spooktacular prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. All entries will be displayed at Forte and the winners will be featured in the November Email Newsletter! Stop by to pick up your coloring sheet, or click the photo above to print your own.

Just A Reminder About Illness

With cold and flu season coming around, we just wanted to remind that you can cancel your lesson if you need to. Cancelling your lesson by 7:00pm the night before the scheduled lesson makes you eligible for a makeup lesson. Once a semester, you are allowed an emergency cancellation at any point 1 hour before your scheduled lesson time. This cancelled lesson will be eligible for a makeup lesson as well. We strongly urge parents to keep their children home if they are sick with "flu like" symptoms. Rei at the front desk is there to help you reschedule your missed lesson(s).

Upcoming M-Company Musical Theater Workshop

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
December 5th, 12th & 13th

CLICK HERE TO VIEW MAP

Weeboppers Group Music Education

Each Weeboppers class utilizes a curriculum composed entirely of original music, lyrics, games and activities developed through a joint effort by the Forte Music School creative team. The music is catchy, fun and most importantly...modern. The CD of music (included with your tuition) connects with the kids on a level that is fresh and exciting, while at the same time enjoyable to the parents’ ears as well.

NOW ENROLLING!

We are offering WeeBoppers on:

Tuesdays from 10:15am - 11:00am

Class begins the week of: November 3rd, 2009
Class ends the week of: March 9th, 2010

NEED MUSIC FOR YOUR WEDDING & SPECIAL EVENT?

Book Josh Carlsen For Your Event

Your wedding or other special event is important and so is the music you wish to enhance your event.
Forte Music School's Teacher Josh Carlsen is a professional acoustic guitarist who is currently taking bookings for all occasions. He is available as a soloist, but can also be accompanied by Violin and Flute.

For more information and to contact Josh about your special event email or view his You Tube page below:

EMAIL JOSH

JOSH'S YOU TUBE PAGE

ARTWORK ON THE STUDENT BLOG

Our music computer lab has many fun and informative music games for our students to use before or after their lesson. However, occasionally, some of them move through all of the games and/or just want a bit of a break from them. So instead, we've found, that a number of our students are drawing amazing works of art in the paint program. There were so many great ones, that we thought it would be fun to share them with you. So we've posted them on our student blog. CLICK HERE to see them for yourself. You might even see your OWN work of art up there.

Fall Semester Business Hours:

MONDAY - THURSDAY
Noon - 8:00pm
FRIDAY
Noon - 6:30pm

FALL SEMESTER 2009 MASTER CALENDAR

Fall Semester September 14th, 2009 - February 5th, 2010

CLICK HERE TO VIEW CALENDAR

October Local Events

Halloween Fantasy Trail
October 1st - 30th
HOURS: 12 pm - 5pm Day &
7 pm - 10 pm Night

Great for all Ages! Take a Halloween walk through a lighted, wooded, "Fantasy Trail", decorated with spooky sights and sounds. Walk through a 40 foot castle with Halloween scenes. Also, walk through a tunnel, maze, crooked house, suspension bridge and more. Pumpkins and refreshments are available.

ADMISSION/TICKETS: Adults $4.00 Children 12 and under $3.50

LOCATION:
Fantasy Trail
19754 South Ridge Road
Oregon City, OR 97045

SCREAM
October 10th, 2009 - January 3rd, 2010

Are you brave enough to put your head in the guillotine, pet a tarantula, or experience a free-fall? Get your heart pumping and your palms sweaty as you examine the physiological, neurobiological, and sociological aspects of fear in Scream! Featuring Goose Bumps! The Science of Fear. Learn how the brain and body work together in response to potential threats. This experiential and holistic view of fear science was developed by the California Science Center.

Museum Admission: $5 per youth/senior
Free for teachers
$2 per adult chaperone (with school and youth groups)
$7 per adult/college student

LOCATION:
OMSI
1945 SE Water Ave
Portland, OR 97218

FRIGHT TOWN
October 3rd, 2009 - November 1st, 2009

FrightTown is the Pacific Northwest’s newest haunted event featuring three amazing haunted houses in one location for one price. Baron Von Goolo’s Museum of Horrors, the top rated madhouse of humor and horror, returns for its seventh year in Portland, making it the longest running haunted house in the whole state; the number #1 scariest haunted house in Portland for three years running, Elshoff Manor: The Asylum, is bigger and scarier than ever; and all new for 2008, The Chop Shop is a gear-grinding thrill ride into gore and and terror unlike anything this town has ever seen. There’s something to scare everyone at FrightTown!

Admission: $20 All Ages
Click Here To Download A $10 Off Coupon

LOCATION:

FrightTown™ is located in the Exhibit Hall beneath the Memorial Coliseum at the Rose Quarter, right off the Red, Yellow and Blue MAX lines. Facing the Coliseum from the Commons, follow the signs and enter FrightTown by proceeding down the staircase to your right.

Visit Their Website Here

THE RIPPLE EFFECT: Art Auction
October 24th, 2009
4:00pm - 9:00pm

A team of diverse artists to work with recycled materials recovered from the Clackamas river to inspire sustainable lifestyle choices. The project is ran hand-in-hand with They Love Clean Rivers, an emerging non-profit formed from an annual river clean up. For the past 6 years they have been taking volunteers down the Clackamas cleaning out thousands of pounds of trash left from recreational river users. In 2008, we recovered over 6,000 lbs of trash, which was then sorted for recycling and art.

The art show provides a venue for local artists to display creative solutions to help decrease our carbon footprints. Through this exhibition we auction of the art 50% to supporting the individual innovators of this art, and 50% to We Love Clean Rivers.

Auction Closes At 8pm All Ages
Click Here For More Info

LOCATION:

NW 14th Ave & Burnside

THEATER: Company
October 3rd, 2009 - November 1st, 2009

Here comes Company, in comes Company, lots of Company! “Company” follows the odyssey of Bobby, a turning-35-year-old bachelor who has been unable – or more to the point, unwilling - to walk down the aisle…until now. A series of random vignettes follow the five of Bobby’s best couple friends and his relationship with his three current squeezes. Each, in its quirky and hilarious fashion, increasingly inspires Bobby to tie the knot before it’s too late.

LOCATION:

Winningstad Theatre
1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97205

Click Here For More Info.