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get-together today at 7 :30 p.m. The meet ing w ill include an after-meeting conver sation. Please bring a finger food or be verage. For more information, call Scott at 882-2331. 8 • SUNDAY The Lark String Quartet, plus clarinetist Karen Freiheit, w ill give a recital of works by Mozart, Webern and Brahms, this after noon at 3.00 p.m. at the Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis. Kathleen Follett, violin, Robin Carruthers violin, Cynthia Scott, viola, and Allison 4 • WEDNESDAY Hoffm an Gallery at Oregon School of Arts and Crafts (8245 SW Barnes Road, Portland) presents a dazzling collection of contemporary handmade rugs by a national selection of artists in Fibers Underfoot. The exhibition runs through March 29. The New Rose Theatre presents the premiere of Bad Marriages, an original farce based on three early Moliere com edies, which depicts relations between the sexes as a series of missteps com pounded by misunderstandings. Bad Marriages runs through April 4 with per formances Wednesdays through Satur days at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Audience discussions with the direc tor, dramaturg, and cast follow matinees on March 1 and 15. The play begins in Portland in 1937 where the local branch of the Federal Theater Project has just received a direc tive from Washington, D.C. to “produce a classic or disband." Reaching into their collective memories and limited costume stocks, this group of ex-vaudevillians hits upon the idea of performing a Moliere comedy. The result is sheer hilarity as vaudeville takes on commedia. 6 • FRIDAY_______ The Northwest Theatre of fhe Deaf, in residence at IFCC, proudly presents Ferenc Molnar's drama Liliom. the play on which the musical Carousel is based This production, translated and performed in American Sign Language, w ill be voiced for our hearing audience. Liliom promises to be an exciting visual experi ence for all. Included in the cast of twelve deaf and hearing imparied actors are Georgi Randall (Julie), James Redinger (Liliom), Debi Duren (Marie), and Norma Lea Tuc- cinardi (Mother Hollunder). The voicing actors include Cyndy Ramsey, Gerald Barton, Ernie Casciato, and Robert Nielsen. Liliom plays Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 pm through March 22 at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N. Interstate. Brushfires. a contemporary comedy- drama, by local playwright Tad Savinar, places you smack dab in the confusion of the '80s; a time when men are trying des perately to define their roles much in the same way that women did in the 70s. In a series of vignettes, the characters try to justify the attitudes with which they were raised against Madison Avenue's a non-profit organization and functions largely on volunteer labor, those bids including donated labor may be given preference. Deadline for bids is today. Thank you! 11 • WEDNESDAY Lesbian and Gay Pride ’87 Steering Com m ittee, Room E, Multnomah County Library, 801 S.W 10th, 7:00-8:45. Oregon’s Economic Comeback — What’s In It For Us? State Representative Margaret Carter talks on how to pro- idea of masculiniaty and femininity. Directed by Tad Savinar. Featuring Twig Webster, R. Dee, Bob McGranahan, Laurie Holland, and Raissa Fleming. Brushfires continues through March 28, Thursday-Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m. at Portland C ivic Theater. 1560 SW Yamhill. 7 • SATURDAY____ The Children’s Hour, Lillian Heilman's indictment of homophobia, is being per formed by members of the Portland Civic Theatre School, in a short run through March 15. All performances are on Satur days and Sundays at 3 p.m. in the Blue Room, Portland Civic Theater, 1560 SW Yamhill. The play could mirror a situation in con temporary West Virginia where a teacher's besmirched reputation led to her firing by the local school board; or maybe the fir ing a couple of years ago of a teacher in the Evergreen School District, just across the river in Vancouver. The list goes on and o n ... C ross-C ountry Ski/H o t Springs O vernight. Spend 2 days skiing in the Wind River area in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington, and relax at Carson Hot springs Saturday night. $30 fee includes lodging, transportation and leadership. Advance registration required. For more information, call Oregon's Gay/ Lesbian service center, Pheonlx Rising Foundation at 223-8299. Portland's annual celebration of International Women’s Day w ill take place this year today at the Northwest Se rvic e C enter from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. All people are invited to attend and partici pate in this celebration of women and their accomplishments. This event will have a strong multi-cultural, international flavor to it, as it is indeed a celebration of a ll women. The Northwest Service Center is located at 1819 NW Everett. It is handicapped ac cessible. Many of the events w ill be in terpreted for the hearing impaired. Child care w ill be provided on the site. Some of the organizations which w ill be involved in the day's events include: Moonbeam Her báis, LCP. NOW, Reflections, A Woman's Place Bookstore, Hanford Clearing House. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Portland Feminist Women's Health Center, Community Advocates, Council for Human Rights in Latin America. G SSO gay and lesbian support group in Klamath Falls, w ill be having its monthly Roth, cello, are the members of the Lark String Quartet. 10 • TUESDAY Lesbian and Gay Pride '87 is just three months away and we know you have the energy and expertise to do some of the many sm all tasks ahead. If you've ever thought, “I'd like to help out with Lesbian and Gay Pride," now is the time to call 232-8233 and find out where you're needed. You can plan a Pride Party and help us raise the money needed to fund LGP '87. Join a work committee and get in on the planning from the ground up. Or you may wish to help market LGP '87 fundraising items such as T-shirts, posters, etc. Sharpen your communication skills by helping out on the March 10 LGP '87 Phone Bank. Lesbian and Gay Pride has a task for you, but only if you call 232-8233. The Publicity Committee of Lesbian and Gay Pride '87 is seeking bids from individuols and businesses to assist in pro duction of the official LGP '87 program, i.e., typesetting, layout, printing. If you are skilled in any or all of the aforementiond areas and need more information, please call 232-8233. Because Lesbian and Gay Pride, Inc., is mote women's and minorities' agenda, discussing her work on the Joint House- Senate Trade and Economic Develop ment Committee. The Committee over sees issues ranging from the distribution of lottery funds to assistance to women and minority-owned businesses. Sponsored by Portland Democratic Socialists of America, Westminister Church, 1625 NE Hancock, 7:30 p.m. 12 • THURSDAY Lesbian and Gay Pride ’87 March and Rally Committee, Room E, Mult nomah County Library, 801 S.W. 10th, 7:00-8:45. G raystone Gallery, w ill feature artists Lynne Oulman, sculptor and Julia Stoll, painter. The show w ill open with a recep tion for the artists toay from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The work can be viewed at Graystone, 3279 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, Ore gon through April 12. Ms. Oulman's wood sculpture incorpo rates geometric forms, circle triangle and square, "Inherently e x rrQssing the eternal cycle of life, mysteries ^ jtu re and the magic of spiritual symbolism." O il and watercolor paintings w ill be