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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1986)
Sunday, March 2nd, Sisterspirit C elebra tion with Yana Breeze. 6:00 pm a t the Echo Theater, 1515 SE 37th. Sunday, March 9!h, Sisterspirit Discussion. 2:30 pm a t 2804 NE 42nd. Sunday, March 16th, Sisterspirit C elebration a t 6:00 pm a t the First Unita rian Qhurch, 1011 SW 12th. Sunday, March 23rd, Sisterspirit Discus sion a t 2:30 pm a t 2804 NE 42nd. Sunday, March 30th, Sisterspirit Spring C elebration! 5:00 pm in The M eadow in Forest Park! Take Burnside west to W. 23rd Ave., turn right on 23rd a n d g o to NW Thurman, (turn left), then turn left on 34th. Go right on Franklin, turn left on Aspen, and perk the car. On your beautiful feet, turn right on Raleigh, a n d g o around or over the g a te , a n d up the trail. Bear left at fork a n d you are a t the M eadow !!! In the event of rain, snow, sle e t... w e'll b e a t the First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th. For bus directions to the m eadow , c a ll Frodo, 282-8615. SPORT Ample Opportunity, com m itted to the health, happiness, a n d se lf-a ccep tance of fa t wom en, sponsors physical activities for fa t wom en only from be lly d a n cin g to volleyball. Currently, A m ple O pportunity is sponsoring swim m ing, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 7 :45-8:45 pm a t Buckman Pool, SE 16th a n d Stark, Portland. Fat w o men only, $2.00 per session. Portland Gay Games Team II is in training! For inform ation, c o n ta c t Dan Pil The Desert Hearts by E leanor M a lin The Desert Hearts, the movie adaptation of a Jane Rule novel, The Desert o f the Heart, played Saturday night at the NW Film and Video Center, division of the Oregon Art Insti tute, and again Sunday evening at the KOIN Center to appreciative capacity audiences. The film was one of the entries in the 9th CINEMA Portland International Film Festival, continu ing through March 9th. The Desert Hearts is the story of a lesbian love affair in the relentlessly (if only superfi cially so) hetero-sexual world of Reno, Nevada divorcedom, 1959. Vivian Bell, a respected New York lierature professor, has come to set up residency and get a divorce, shortly before the new school year begins. She checks into a dude ranch, run by Frances, (Audra Lindley), and settles in for what she expects to be a quiet, probably boring six weeks. Her lawyer warns her not to cross the state line, even if she wants to go off or a , “you know, hoot n holler.” Thirty-five years old, attractive, though somewhat bookish, Vivian holes up in her room, and piques the curiosity of the other ranch dwellers. As played by Helen Shaver, Vivian comes across as self-assured, and civil but sardonic. But there is a sadness about her. If she can’t exactly remember why she married her husband, whom she still respects, she knows it is time for her to divorce him, though she can’t exactly say why. They don’t fight, exactly. Vivian immediately attracts the attention of Cay, a casino worker and common-law daughter of Frances, (who had lived with Cay’s father for ten years). Cay is a lesbian who occasionally brings casual dates home to her little cottage, much to her step Just Out, March. 1986 lars a t 777-8309 (g.g. II, PO Box 06811, Portland. OR 97206T Wild Women Events March 8, Saturday, Sand Mountain Ski Tour. 10 m ile day tour in the Hoodoo area. March 7-9, Frlday-Sunday, Elk Lake Resort Ski Tour. Ski (or ride the snow cat) 10 miles to Elk Lake Lodge Limited group size. For m ore inform ation, ca ll 754-1065. or write W ild Women a t Rm. 306,230 SW 3rd. Corvallis, OR 97339. March Forest Group Events Friday, March 7: Forest Group potluck. 6:30 pm. C all Diane a t 282-6391. Saturday, March 15: Cross-country ski trip on Tilly Jane trail. About eight miles. N eed a t least interm ediate skills. Call C arol at 292-3806 for more information. Saturday, March 22: Forest Group outing on either Salmon River or Twin Lakes trail. G roup will either hike or snowshoe, de pe nd in g on weather. Easy trail. C all A m ber a t 236-1377. Saturday, March 29: Forest Group tid e p o o lin g trip to the Newport area. O vernight stay possible. Cost for overnight is $5-$7. C all Cathy a t 864-2569 for details. A R TS GALLERIES Portland Art Museum/Oregon Art Institute presents a series of films in mother’s distaste. Ranch guests and assorted personnel are actually over-impressed with Vivian, seeing her as cultured, intelligent (it goes without saying), too classy for the rest of them. They express their sidelined respect in various odd ways — snide remarks, feeling threatened by her seeming superiority, and jealousy, par ticularly from Frances, who is jealous of Viv ian’s threat to her affections for Cay. Patricia Charbonneau plays the 25-year-old Cay, a woman who has found her way to sexual expression, however fitful that might be, but who hasn’t got a career going for her, or a meaningful love of her own. She works in a gambling dive, dabbles in ceramics, and though she has a good friend in Silver, (Audra Akers), who is a co-worker and would-be nightclub singer, still all the people around her are emaciated intellectually and cultur ally. You get the feeling the dry desert air has evaporated all their aspirations and profound thoughts. It’s no wonder, then, that Cay is drawn to Vivian, like a moth to a flame. Although Vivian feigns lack of interest, Cay soon locates the serious chinks in what had at first looked like armor. Vivian feels an attraction for Cay, but she has no experience in such matters, and doesn’t have a response available for the situation. Cay spirits her across state lines, and later, across a more significant, though invisible, line. The brief love scenes are tasteful but erotic. The dilemmas faced by the two women — Cay has finally found someone who matters, but who is going to leave imminently, and Vivian has crossed a line that has shattered her old lifestyle irrevocably, in a time when it was much more radical than it is today — are thoughtfully delineated. Produced and directed by Donna Deitch, the acting is consistently fine. The characters are all well cast, and even the actors with small parts are perfect Deitch has captured the times beautifully. The smoky dives, the hot and dusty desert, the rock and roll and the cowboy clothes — it's a fully realized backdrop against which the love story is played with a lot of humor and a little sadness, too. coordination with M ark Rothko: Works on Paper. Films are shown at PAM, a d mission $2.50 general, $2.00 members At Blackflsh Gallery (117 NW Fifth Street. Portland, 224-2634) Paintings by C onstance Nelson, M arch 5-29. O pen ing reception M arch 6.5:30-7:30 pm. Printmaker From Inkling Studio, a show of prints from a Portland printm aking cooperative, shows a t Hoffman Gallery a t the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts through M arch 20. Inkling Studio is a cooperative work shop for professional printmakers fou nd ed in 1981 by Portland printm aker Liza Jones. Inkling occupies an o ld mom a n d p o p grocery in Southwest Portland, a n d offers in ta glio an d relief printing facilities, private studios, a print show room a n d library. M any different kinds of printm aking techniques will b e represented in the Hoff m an G allery showing: mezzotint, engrav ing, drypoint, etching, w oodcut and m onotype. Northwest Artists Workshop announces Erotic ’86, through Saturday, M arch 15. Erotic ’86 marks the Workshop's third annual exhibition of erotica. This year it is cu ra te d an d juried by Portland artist Tom Prochaska. "M y strongest reason for working with Erotic ’86 is the desire to see the exhibit continue as a Valentine's Day tradition a n d d e ve lo p into a show of quality erotica. I also like the id e a of connecting a h o lid a y o f affe ctio n with our sexual ero tic senses. A an artist a n d as a hum an b e in g , I enjoy the pow er a n d the tum-on of positive erotic im ages. The Erotic Show is p ro b a b ly the only ch a n ce for artists, the p u b lic a n d myself, to see w hat erotic art is b e in g c re a te d in this region. It has always been a w ell-received, highly-attended exhibit a n d has draw n p e o p le o f a ll types, rather than the usual Portland art crow d. The subject obviously holds g re a t possibi lity for controversy a n d positive a n d n e g a tive power." Northwest Artists Workshop, a non profit, artists-run gallery, is lo c a te d a t 522 NW 12th in Portland. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 pm , Tuesday through Saturday. Three O regon Artists will b e featured a t Graystone Gallery, 3279 SE Hawthrone Blvd., Portland, Oregon, through M arch 23.1986. There will b e paintings an d prints by Kevin Fletcher, sculptures by Peter Helzer a n d prints a n d m onotypes by G regory Pfarr. Also, a mini-show of la n d scapes by M ar Gorm an M arch 1 through 26. Blue Sky Gallery w ill present the work of British photographer, Martin Parr. The show will consist o f color photographs taken of b e a c h vacationers in the Resort town of New Brighton, in England. Showing concurrently in our Outer S pace G allery is the work of New York Photographer, Diane Cook. Phoenix Rising Foundation p ro u d ly presents s in g e rs /s o n g w rite r s Romanovsky & Phillips On Tour '86 with special guests Nan Collie and Kathy Fallon of Motherlode 8 PM, Tues., April 29 at Northwest Service Center Net proceeds to benefit Phoenix Rising TIX O N SALE March 15 $10 all seats Call Phoenix Rising 223-8299 or Out Media 236-1252 An Out Media, Inc. Production 15