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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1987)
16 • THURSDAY Women Radicals In The First Am erican Revolution. Celebrate Inde pendence Day by honoring the many un sung women revolutionaries who orga nized, agitated and fought for freedom in the First American Revolution. Radical Women meeting is tonight at 6:30 p.m., Multnomah County Central Library, 801 S.W 10th Avenue. Everyone is welcome. For more information call 249-8067. Wheel chair accessible. 17 • FRIDAY Today through Sunday, The Women's Healing Ground in Estacada w ill present a workshop titled Women As Healers: Reclaim ing Our Herbal and Healing Tra d itio n with Colette Gardner. Cost is $60-75 for the weekend. Space is limited. Pre-registration is required. 37010 SE Snuffin Rd., Estacada, OR 97023, or call 630-7848. "Sweeney Todd" opens tonight, 8 p.m., at the Portland Civic Theatre on the Main- stage and runs through August 15. Per formances are Thursdays through Satur days at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m. Tickets are $13.50 adults and $12.00 stu dents and persons over 65. For reserva tions, ca ll 226-3048.1530 SW Yamhill. 18 • SATURDAY Celebrate the anniversary of ttie Nicaraguan Revolution tonight at Lewis and C lark College on the lawns by the pool, 5-9 p.m. $2.50 adm ission, under 12, free. C all Portland Central America Sol idarity Committee, 233-5181 for more information. Join the Forest Group on a backpack ing trip to the Sisters area. See beautiful alpine meadows. Call Sherrie at 288-9510. The Lesbian Community Project is sponsoring a Summertime Dance Party, tonight, 8:00-1:00 a.m. at Echo Theatre, 1515 SE 37th. Dance the blues away with the great sounds of the B lues Sisters, Uncommon Sense and other bands to be announced. Adm ission is $5.00 and all ages are welcome. Hear some of the best bands in the Nortl iwest. so dust off your blue suede shoes and dance, dance, dance! Alcohol and non-alcoholic beverages w ill be available. 19 • SUNDAY D esert Hearts w ill show tonight at the Prim ary Domain, 1033 NW 16th, at 7 :30 p.m. for $1.00. 20 • MONDAY Required pretrip meeting for the Forest G roup’s Broken Top Climb on Aug. 1-2. C o ll Sylvia at 654-9156 ? 1 • TUESDAY Coming Out Stories —- Then and Now is the topic of the Lesbian Forum. This evening of sharing Coming Out Stories will take place at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1624 NE Hancock, 7 :30 p.m. The Lesbian Forum is a women only event. They offer supervised childcare, interpret ing for the hearing impaired and deaf and wheelchair access (the 16th Street entrance is attended from 7 :00 to 7 :25). The suggested $2 donation helps defray costs (more or less is okay). 24 • FRIDAY Today through Sunday, the 4ih Annual Women in the Woods at Breitenbush Hot Springs. Come and enjoy the natural set ting, therapeutic hot springs, pools, steam sauna, hiking trails, rustic cabins, old mountain lodge, ovo-lactic vegetarian m eals (included) at historic Breitenbush Hot Springs, 60 m iles east of Salem. This three day retreat for Lesbians is limited to 100 participants. There'll be time available for healing workshops, play, relaxation, m usic — your choice. Sliding fee scale $85-$145 (Set your own fee). Register early, spaces go quickly. $25 deposit (re fundable until May 15). Carpooling avail able from Portland or Salem. Sponsored by Phoenix Rising, 333 SW 5th, Suite404, 223-8299. World Beat Music Festival with Obo Addy, The Caribbean All Sta rs and others at Pine Street Theatre, 9 p.m., call 235-0027 for more information. 25 • SATURDAY Join the King and Queen of the Home less and their court for the Seventh An nual Hom eless Parade tonight at 6 p.m. The parade w ill leave the North Park Blocks ató p.m. and wind down the streets of O ld Town to arrive at Waterfront Park. Eleven Northwest bluesbands are sche duled to appear, with John Lee Hooker at 6:30 p.m. Free. Tonight, Clinton St. Quartery presents Monty Python's Graham Chapman. For details, call 222-6039. SOAR is Portland's outdoor program for adults with physical disabilities. Each year with SOAR brings days of skiing, rock clim bing, river rafting, hiking, bicycling, and many other outdoor adventures. In the m idst of a ll these instructional trips comes SO AR's Can Do Challenge, a yearly event since 1984. The Can Do Challenge began as and remains SOAR's primary fundraising event. Over the years it has also grown into one of the most exciting and fun-filled family events held in the Portland area for d is abled and non-disabled people to share. The "C D C " is a pledge walk-run-or wheel- a-thon, held on the track at Grant Park. People do laps for one hour, forming a kaleidoscope of variety of speeds and types of motion. Following the Challenge, we have a glorious party, with food and drink, bluegrass music by Wood Putty, great prizes for the top pledge earners, and door prizes. If you believe in equal access to out door adventure for disabled and non disabled people alike, and you want to have a day of fun for yourself and every one else in your family, contact SOAR for pledge sheets and join us in the Can Do Challenge '87, Saturaav. July 25th. (SOAR Left to right — Storto, Joan Findley, Gregg Bielemier and Phillip Sylvester in "Perform ance 1987" at the Northwest Service Center, July 10th and 11th at 9 p.m. does a ll the pledge collections by mail follow ing the event.) Registration is at 9:30 a.m., at Grant Park, N.E. 33rd and U.S. Grant Place (by Grant High School) in Portland. For pledge sheets write or phone SOAR at PO . Box 14583, Portland, OR 97214. (503) 238-1613. Spend a day with G reat Womyn at the Falls. Meet10:00 a.m. at Parking Lot on N.E. 16th & Clackam as — across from Lloyd Center. Bring own picnic lunch. No dogs or alcohol, please. 232-1108 or 643-9345. Fat Lesbians only. 30 • THURSDAY The Prim ary Domain is having a costume party! Costume party? Yes! A costume party!!! Who's your favorite character? Party anim al? Alter ego? How Outrageous can you be? Come on Out and show us. And' Live Music by "Jagged Edge." a six piece top 40, pop, rock band! Surprises — and prizes! For best couple, best single, best crazo! Drink specials every hour! 8:00. $3.00 cover, $2.00 in costume, 1033 NW 16th. 31 • FRIDAY Join the Forest Group at Lost Lake for a fishing expedition. C all Allison and MerTvi, 281-5120 Mary Rose performs women's culture musio, 7-9 p.m. at Art Down The Alley, 3764 SE Hawthorne Blvd. An Evening with Sonia Johnson, to night at 8 p.m. at LaSells Stewart Center, OSU, 26th and Western, Corvallis. Sliding Scale, $1 to $5. This engagement w ill coincide with the release of her second book titled. Going Out of Our Minds, and Other Revolutionary Acts of the S p irit Tickets available at Grassroots in C orvallis, Mother Ka li's in Eugene and A Woman's Place in Portland. The Lesbian Community Project, Portland's only multi-issue, multi-cultural lesbian organization, is hosting its second annual Lesbian Softball Tournament. Last year six teams from the Portland area par ticipated in a one-day event. This year tournament organizers are expanding the tournament to include teams from across the state and as far away as Seattle (hopefully), for two days of fun and soft- ball. A ll lesbian teams are invited to participate. Tournament dates are August 22 and 23, and a ll games w ill be played at Lents Park in Portland. The Statew ide Lesbian Softball Tournam ent is round robin, and there is a ten-team limit. Deadline to register is August 10. LCP is looking forward to an even more success ful tournament this year, and we hope that you w ill join us. If you want more informa tion, or would like to register, contact Dianne HruDec f503) 232-5139 Just Out 17. Julv. I987
