Can't Miss It: Wednesday

SMALL BUSINESS SKILLS: SeattleSCORE, the people who help small business people learn stuff, have put together a 4-hour seminar, Marketing 101. On the syllabus! Identifying your customers, packaging your product or service, creating effective marketing tools, and getting repeat customers. Now, in this market none of this will help, but it will get you out of the office for a bit, and you might meet some new people.

noon-4 p.m. // SCORE Office, 2401 4th Avenue, Ste 450 // $45

SOUNDS LIKE SUFJAN: My Brightest Diamond is singer-songwriter Shara Worden's venture into the spotlight after playing with Sufjan Stevens as a member of the Illinoismakers. Expect a mash-up of opera, cabaret, chamber music, and rock, we're told. Who are Clare and the Reasons, though? That's the big mystery. UPDATE: "A blend of orchestral chamber pop strings with a good dose of noir atmosphere," says Under the Radar.

7:30 p.m. // the Triple Door, 216 Union Street // $20

GO GO GORILLA: Northwest biologist and poet Thor Hanson--now there's a good old-fashioned name for you, Thor!--is at Elliott Bay talking about what we're assuming were his years of research from just outside the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda. Otherwise, the title of his book, The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda, would be a huge freaking lie and not "a book of learning, of companionship, of interdependence, between people and between people and animals." The Gorilla Journal says it's "very well written."

7:30 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Company // FREE