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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1987)
days through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Audience discus sions with the director, dramaturg, and cast follow matinees on January 11 and 25. Reservations are recommended, 222-2487. In Watch on the Rhine, a German anti- Nazi activist brings his American wife and children back to the safety of the wife's childhood home outside Washington, D.C. However, events in Europe and en emies close at hand intrude upon their peaceful sanctuary, disrupting the entire household and forcing Kurt, the anti fascist, to choose between his family and his political ideals. Director Jim Gilsdorf (nominated for a W illie Award for his direction of Arms and the Man at New Rose] says ' Watch on the Rhine is about loyalty, love, political commitment, and real heroism." 14 • WEDNESDAY The Blues Sisters have been invited back to Key Largo to open for the Razor- backs. Please come and help support al ternative music in the mainstream clubs. Starts at 9 p.m. Cover $2.00. 7 • WEDNESDAY Lesbian and Gay Pride, Inc. Com m unity Forum. Individuals and members of lesbian and gay organizations are in vited to a Community Forum to begin planning Lesbian and Gay Pride '87. To night's agenda w ill include discussion of what you'd like to see happen in this year's Pride celebration and implemen tation of work committees. Come to Room A, Multnomah County Public Library, 801 S.W. 10th Avenue, Portland, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. For more information call 236-4386. Oregon H istory: For New Oregonians. A basic primer of the major themes of Oregon history, filmed in the locations that best illustrate the issues of the times: Astoria, Fort Rock, Champoeg, and other settings help tell the story. Pro duced by OPB and the Oregon Historical Society. Host, Mark Sparks and Jane Fergeson 10 p.m. K O A P Travel for the Disabled Helen Keeker’s talk on travel opportunities for the disabled w ill include lots of practical advice, inspiration stories, a display of ingenious travel aids and ideas about where to go for further information. Helen, a registered nurse and seasoned traveler, is the author of Tra vel fo r the D isa b le d , a handbook of resources and access guides worldwide. Helen regularly leads tours through Travel for the Disabled in Vancouver, WA. Travel agents interested n booking travel for disabled clients w ill find this presentation helpful. Free at Pow ell’* Tra ve l Store, 701 SW 6th, 8:00,228-1108. Powell's Travel Store is wheelchair acces sible. Please use the Square's lobby entrance (through the waterfall) and bear left down the hall. Lesbian Community Pro je ct s first session of "Introduction to Computers” class. 6.30-8.30. Call 233-9079. 9 • FRIDAY_______ Old Times, critically hailed as Harold Pinter's most important play, opens in the Blue Room tonight at 8:00. The scene is a fashionably remodeled farmhouse in the country, where a prosperous and urbane couple are enter taining the wife's former roommate and friend, whom they have not seen for many years. Three people in a room — three minds, three versions of the past, three interpretations of the present and desires for the future. Whose memories are cor rect? Who is speaking honestly? How much is each concealing and for what reasons? Portland Civic Theatre Blue Room. 1530 SW Yamhill St., 226-3048 Just Otu 12 January. 1987 V» 15 • THURSDAY The Glorification of the Family: A Socialist Feminist Response w ill rocus A rtists Repertory Theatre present Childe Byron by Romulus Linney at 8 p.m. at W ilson Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW 10th, YWCA Building — 3rd floor. C all 223-6281 for reservations. Starring Bob McGranahan, as Lord Byron, and Diane Olson, as his daughter Ada. Countess of Lovelace, Childe Byron is a meeting of these two fiercely inde pendent, yet passionte individuals which never actually took p'ace in real life. Directed by Pat Blem. 10 • SATURDAY Interiors tonight at 7:30, Woody Allen's Freudian exploration of a family stars Dianne Keaton, Geraldine Page 8t more. Introduced by Dr. Francine Siegel. At NW Film and Video Center, 1219 SW Park. 11 • SUNDAY A community meeting for the organiz ing of the Portland Take Back the Night m arch and rally w ill be held at 3.00 p.m. at the YWCA located at tttlSW 10th Avenue. Main topic of discussion will be whether to hold the Take Back the Night march and rally on Thursday, July 30,1987 in con nection with the Conference of the Na tional Coalition Against Sexual Assaults which is being held in Portland from July 30 to August 1,1987. For more information call 232-3842. A free workshop on Group Facilitation and Consensus decision-making by C a roline Estes. Caroline Estes is a former Quaker who has facilitated many con sensus decision-making meetings with up to 500 people. She has devoted her life to furthering the consensus process and to help groups use it most effectively. Realiz ing that a good group process needs a good facilitator, Caroline has been train ing facilitators during the past two years. She is also currently writing a book on the subject. At Cramer Hall, PSU, 9-4. Call 229-4452, ext. 13. The New Rose Theatre welcomes 1987 with a powerful, moving drama by one of the American theater's most celebrated authors. Lillian Heilman. Watch on the Rhine continues through February 14 with performances Wednes on why the right wing's "pro-fam ily" agenda attacks gains of the feminist movement and the role media hype has played in countering women's progress. Ra d ica l Women meeting on Thursday, January 15,6:30 p.m., Multnomah County Central Library, 801 S.W. 10th Avenue. Everyone is welcome. For more information call 249-8067. Wheelchair accessible. 28 Up (Great Britain, 1984) — 8 p.m. at NW Film & Video Center. Michael Apted's extraordinary documentary on the com ing of age of 14 children interviewed at ages 7,14,21 and 28. 16 • FRIDAY Ceremonies In Dark Old Men by Lonne Elder III opens at The Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center Theatre, 5340 N. Interstate, Portland, OR 97217. Written in the late '60s and first per formed at the St. Marks Playhouse, New York City, on February 4,1969 by the Negro Ensemble Company, Ceremonies In Dark Old Men chronicles a short period in the life of a struggling urban black fam ily, the Parkers, as they strive to break the confines of the Harlem ghetto. Cere monies opens tonight and continues Fri days & Saturdays at o.^O. A ll perform ances are at 8.00 p.m.