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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1985)
sion of the topic, “Is There a Lesbian Com m unity?" Tuesday, June 18, 7:30 p.m. at W estm inster Presbyterian Church, 1620 N.E. Hancock. W heelchair access, super vised childcare, $2.00 suggested donation. 19 W EDNESDAY B.J. Castlem an and Rya perform at the Prim ary Dom ain for Lesbian and Gay Prid e Week. B.J. and Rya are com edien nes and m usicians who sing songs about life , love, p o litic s, and personals. Rya p la ys uppity guitar and B.J. plays hot piano. Show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are slid in g scale, $4, $5, $6. 20 THURSDAY Souvenirs, a new performance by The G ill A rtists, w ill prem iere tonight through Sunday, June 23rd, at 8:00 p.m. at Port land Center for the V isua l Arts (PCVA), 117 N.W. 5th Ave„ Portland, Oregon, (503] 222-7107. A dm ission is $6.00 general aud i ence, $4.00 PCVA members. Advance tickets are a va ila b le at PCVA and Bass Tic ke t outlets. W orking collaboratively. The G irl Artists: C har Breshgold, Kathy C lark, C ristina De- G ennaro, Susan Martin and Lisa Siegel take a m ulti-dim ensional approach to the creation of their installation/perform ance pieces. Freely com bining visual art tech niques with live performance, audio re cord ing s, projected light and original m usic, they produce artw orks which are d irect, involving, am using, ironic and, perha ps most important, im m ediately understandable. Souvenirs is set in a “sc a le d -to -life " neighborhood environment. The perform ance depicts the d a ily experiences of va rious neighborhood characters, their ritu a ls, traditions, and communication. W ith an off-stage narrator to add insight into the history and relationships of each character, the audience is guided through one day and one night in their lives. Focusing on the sm all, seem ingly in sig n if icant “so u ve nirs" of everyday life. The G irl A rtists reveal their characters' fears, w hile em bracing life, with a ll its idiosyncracies. A s in pa st works, humor plays a m ajor role in Souvenirs. For inform ation and reservations ca ll PCVA at 222-7107. Th is perform ance is m ade possible by grants from the M etropolitan Arts C om m ission, the Oregon Arts Com m ission and by the National Endowment for the Arts. 21 real word for it!" sa ys W alt Wagner. “If there has to be a catch-all word, call it c la ssic a l ja zz." C urrently appearing in Seattle, his only Portland engagem ent w ill be the Portland Art Museum Berg Swann Auditorium , at 9:00 p.m. Tickets are $8.50 at a ll BASS outlets, $9.00 at the door. Counseling Center fo r Sexual Mino ritie s (CCSM) is alw ays looking for new m em bers to contribute tim e and energy to their Hotline, especially during the sum m er months. And now, CCSM has a deal for you — new member training the weekend of June 22nd and 23rd, p lus a potluck dinner and bar tour the evening of June 22nd with current Hotline mem bers. Sim ply ca ll the Hotline at 228 -6 7 8 5 , and leave your name and number if you are interested in the training. 29 For four years the Hester Street Klezm er Band has been recreating the uniquely joyous sp irit of klezm er music in the streets, parks and performance spa ces of Portland and the Pacific North west. The band announces the first con cert in its third annual summ er series sponsored by the M etropolitan Arts Com m ission and the Portland Folklore Society. Klezm er m usic is a style that developed over the centuries in Jewish com m unities in Eastern Europe. The m usic combined elem ents of Gypsy, Rum anian, Greek, M id d le Eastern as w ell as Yid d ish music and it w as constantly changing as Jewish m usicians came into contact with new kin d s of m usic (ranging from m ilitary m usic to light classics). When Jews m igrated to Am erica en m asse at the end of the nineteenth century they brought their klezm er m usic with them and it con tinued to change as it mixed with the ja zz, blues, vaudeville and D ixieland that abounded on the streets of New York. Klezm er m usic has been ca lled Yiddish thirtie s — many of them Jew ish them selves — such as Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. The Hester Street Klezm er Band w ill per form at the Com m unity M usic Center, 3350 S.E. Francis at 8 p.m. The concert is free. SU N D A Y D ugan’s Stage Door is looking for perform ers of a ll kinds, esp ecia lly unex posed talent to perform in a Talent Show case. Richard C olom bi is heading this search with the idea in m ind of providing a sp a ce for new Portland talent to perform and to gain exposure Perform ers of a ll kinds are wanted. M usicians, singers, com edians, songw riters, poets, actors, actresses and any com bination thereof. W hether you are a perform er in need of a p la c e to perform or a person who enjoys seeing new talent, the Talent Showcase is for you. Th is event w ill happen at Dugan's Stage Door at 7 00 p.m D ugan's is located at 1431 N.E. Broadw ay The event is free. For m ore inform ation and registration contact Richa rd C olom bo at 284-3383 W alt Wagner is in concert offering a Just Out, June. 1985 ja zz and in fact it had a great influence on m any ja zz m usicians in the twenties and 30 FRIDAY so lo p iano evening defying description even from Walt himself. Walt Wagner lights up a ja zz spectrum with influences from Fa ts W a lle r to Andre Previn. “There's no SATURDAY B.J. Castleman 11