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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1988)
w ith many dykes. ( Friday through Monday, Sept. 9-11, sliding-scale registration is based on m onthly incom e, 488-1954.) Outside-In hosts its first-ever street dance tonight to celebrate 20 years o f providing free m edical and counseling services for street people. ( Southwest 12th Avenue and Salmon Street, 223-4121.) 10 • SATURDAY See the machine that makes art at Saturday Celebration at the Oregon School o f Arts and Crafts. Also appearing is the improvisational com edy group Waggie and Friends. ( 11 am-3 pm, 8245 SW Barnes Road, 297-5544.) Southwest United Church o f Christ sponsors a w alkathon today to benefit Outside-In, one o f the nation's first free com m unity health clinics. ( 223-4121.) 11 • 1 # THURSDAY The Photographic Image G allery presents “ Photographs of the Columbia Gorge" by artists Ray Atkinson, Gary Braasch, Stu Levy, Steve Terrill and Tery Toedtemier. (6-9 pm, through October \, 208 SW 1st Ave., 224-3543.) 6 • TUESDAY The First Tuesday Coffeehouse presents singer-songwriter Jane Howard and the folk duo Passage. Carol Steinel is master o f ceremonies. A special vegetarian buffet is to be available. (7:30 pm , O livia 's, 1033 NW 16th Ave., $2, 239-0944.) The Healing Connection Breakfast presents Donna M ille r o f Inner Action Seminars on “ Creating Successful Relationships.” ( 7-8:30 am, Ezekiel’s Wheel, 2106 NW Northrup St., 12.) 7 # The ninth annual West Coast Women's Music and Comedy Festival begins today w ith workshops, entertainment, crafts, dancing, cam ping, food and fun. Enjoy the company of thousands o f women in a private wooded camp in the foothills o f Yosemite. ( Thursday through Monday, Sept. 1-5. $135, [8 /8 | 893-4075.) Make a name for yourself in radio! Learn about your com m unity radio station and how you can get involved at tonight's KBO O Volunteer Orientation. Volunteers are especially needed in the news and public affairs departments and for Detour, the new lesbian and gay news show. (7 pm , Linda Shirley, 231-8032.) The Coalition for AID S Education presents a Speakers' Bureau training in tw o tracks. Track I is for people who have not yet done AIDS speaking through a CAE agency such as CAP, the county health department or Planned Parenthood. Track II is for people who have been through Track I or who are currently doing AIDS speaking or education through a CAE agency. (6-9 pm, Sept. 1, 8 and 15, Red Cross, 3131 N Vancouver Ave., M im i, 223-5907, or Ronnie, 284-1234.) 2 • FRIDAY_______ The Southern Oregon Lambda Association sponsors its annual campout this weekend at Howard Prairie Lake near Ashland. Activities include a talent show, volleyball and horseshoe com petition, a scavenger hunt, a wilderness sculpture creation, and a "M r. and Ms. W ilderness" stage show. ( Friday through Monday, Sept. 2-5, Asperkaha Camp, $29.95 includes Saturday dinner and Sunday brunch, 773-8146.) WEDNESDAY 9 • FRIDAY_______ New York perform ance artists Tom Keegan and Davidson Lloyd appear tonight w ith their acclaim ed works, “ C raw ling O ff Broadway“ and “ Passing on the Right and O ther Accidents.“ The pieces use juggling, magic, drag, humor, mime and storytelling to entertain; "Passing" includes a gay and lesbian history o f the United States. (8 pm , Friday and Saturday; 7 pm, Sunday, Echo Theatre, 1515 SE 37th Ave., $7 advance I tickets: Laughing Horse Books, A Woman's Place Bookstore, Artichoke M usic and Echo Theatre ], $8 at the door, 231-1232.) M etropolitan C om m unity Church and Ecumenical M inistries o f Oregon co-sponsor the third annual 50-hour HIV/AIDS Vigil, w hich sup ports one's own healing process through w ork shops, worship, music and contact w ith caring people. ( Friday through Sunday, Sept. 9-11, 1644 NE 24th Ave., 281-8868.) In Her Image, A Gallery of Women's Art Artquake presents the incomparable Miriam Makeba empress of African song, w ith guest Hugh Masekela and a 15-piece international all- star band. Exiled from her native South Africa in 1960 and from the United States in 1968, Makeba returned to the United States last year as a spec ial guest on Paul Simon's Graceland W orld Tour. (8 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, $15-$25. 273-9142.) 3 • SATURDAY Artquake, Portland's festival o f the arts, begins today. This three-day extravaganza, in its 12th year, includes live music, theater and dance performances and art displays. ( Saturday through Monday, Sept. 3-5, between Pioneer Courthouse Square and the Portland Center for the Performing Arts on Southwest Broadway, leff, 273-9142.) ju u im i • $4 • September 19*8 presents "Creatures,” a group exhibit featuring w om en’s art and craftw ork w ith a focus on anim als (particularly w ild animals) and their relationships to people. ( Opens 7-10 pm ; continues 12-7 pm, M onday-Friday; 12-6 pm, Saturdays and Sundays, 233 NE 28th Ave.. 231-3726.) SUNDAY Join the Portland Lesbian Choir! This morning's rehearsal, open to new members, is to be followed by a potluck party for old and new members, fam ilies and friends. ( 11 am, rehearsal, Washing ton Park at the picnic shelter across from the Arboretum Visitors' Center; 1 pm, potluck, Kate, 281-2103.) New York performance artists Tom Keegan and Davidson Lloyd offer a Performance Workshop for those interested in learning and improving their im provisational and theatrical skills. (N oon-4 pm, Echo Theatre, 1515 SE 37th Ave., $35, 231-1232.) The drum s' rhythm as a vehicle to journey in consciousness to other “ spirit w orlds" has long been used by Native American m edicine people and other advanced, indigenous cultures to develop healing abilities, trance awareness and learning. J'aime Schelz offers Shamanic Drum m ing I. (7:30 pm, Healing Crystals, 8215 SE 13th Ave., $20.234-2224.) The Blinker Fund, w hich provides direct and support services to people w ith AIDS, hosts its fifth annual dinner and auction. (5:30 pm, cocktails; 6:30 pm , dinner; 7:30 pm, auction, Darcelle XV, 208 NW 3rd Ave., $ 15 tax deductible, reservations requested, 223-1679.) The Network of Entrepreneurial Women holds its m onthly potluck lunch today for lesbian business owners and owners-to-be. Guest speaker Renee LaChance, co-publisher of /ust Out, discus ses advertising. ( 11 am-2 pm, 654-9699.) A buffet brunch and general planning meeting for Women w ith Women and Children is followed by a trip to Artquake's children's area. ( 10:30 am -noon, 2717 NE Hancock St., $2-5 sliding scale, kids free, 282-1529.) 15 • THURSDAY The H ealing Connection Breakfast presents Wes Hsue and Ron Lew speaking on "The Way of Tibet: A Place for the Warrior in the New Age." ( 7-8:30 am, Ezekiel’s Wheel. 2106 NW Northrup St.) 1 6 • FRIDAY “Take Back The Night" is held to protest violence against women. One out of every three wom en are raped, battered or victim ized by incest. Tonight's event includes speakers, music and a candlelight march through downtown Salem. (6 :30 pm, State Capitol, Salem, 371-1517 o r 362-5073.) The a cappella singing group Sweet Honey in the Rock performs in Eugene tonight, co-sponsored by G alaxy Entertainment and the M cKenzie River G athering (Oregon's progressive social-change foundation) as a benefit for the Lesbian C om m unity Project. (8 pm, H u lt Center for the Perform ing Arts, Eugene, $ 14 (tickets: A W oman’s Place Bookstore. M other Kali's and H u lt Center outlets |, 476-7603.) The Urban Art Retreat opens its Gertrude Stein Salon w ith m onthly movies. Tonight: A Question W orn an source presents the 15th annual Women's Fall Gathering in southern Oregon, including crafts, workshops and fun in the sun o f Silence, a Dutch film about the response of a handful o f women to society's treatment of women. (7-8:30 pm, film ; 8:30-9:30 pm, food, drink and discussion, 1833 NE 2nd Ave., 281-5386.) 17 • SATURDAY KBO O 90.7 FM celebrates 20 yean as Port land's only non-comm ercial, listener-supported radio station. A party in W aterfront Park offers music from bluegrass and klezmer to rap and rock. (Noon to dark, W aterfront Park, 231-8032.) A Woman's Place Bookstore hosts an auto graphing and reading w ith Sunlight, author o f Womonseed and a new release. Being. (5 pm, 1431 NE Broadway, free, 284-1110.) Lesbian Sushi Loven meet tonight at Sumida. D inner is follow ed by a video showing of Tampopo, "the first Japanese noodle Western." (7:30 pm, 6744 NE Sandy Blvd., call for reserva tions, 282-1529.) Seventh-day Adventist Kinship's Northwest Chapter hosts a free conference for gay Christians; the theme4s “ The U nconditional Love o f G od." M adelyn Haldeman, a clinical counselor and pro fessor o f New Testament theology at Loma Linda University in Los Angeles, is the m ain speaker. ( 10:30 am-3 pm, M etropolitan Community Church, 1644 NE 24th Ave., free, lunch provided, Scott Kelly, 228-5866.) Alison Thome and Peter Murray, political activists from Australia, contrast the popular C rocodile Dundee image o f The Land Down Under w ith the reality o f workers fighting injustices such as union busting by the Labor Party government. Radical Women hosts this event. (6:30 pm, dinner, $6; 8 pm, speakers, Friends M eeting H all, 4312 SE Stark St., $2, for childcare, c a ll 249-8067.) 18 • SUNDAY Lesbian Squash Players meet today for a potluck brunch. Dishes made w ith squash or that look like a squash ball are to receive special commenda tion. (11 am, 2717 NE Hancock St., 282-1529.) Northeast Portland Lesbians meet their neighbors at a potluck brunch today. ( 11 am, 5924 NE Failing St., 288-7920.) Lesbian and Gay Pride presents "M eet Me In St. Louis," a star-filled variety show w ith master o f ceremonies Shan Carr, International Ms. Leather. (7:30 pm, Embers, 110 NW Broadway, $3, 232-8233.) 19 • MONDAY Poncho's Restaurant hosts a first-anniversary party to benefit Hospice House, a non-profit, non sectarian agency dedicated to fillin g the needs of those in the com m unity who are living w ith life- threatening illnesses or who suffer from grief and loss through death. The evening is to include live m ariachi music, a full Mexican buffet dinner, no host bar and a drawing for door prizes donated by local businesses. (6:30 pm, 6319 SW Capitol Highway, Hillsdale, $25, reservations: send check to Hospice House, 6171 SW C apitol High way, Portland, OR 97201, 244-7890.) Ellen Bass and Laura Davis, authors o f The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors o f C hild Sexual Abuse, lecture tonight in Portland. Ellen Bass has worked w ith survivors o f child sex ual abuse for more than ten years. Laura Davis is a w riter, radio producer and form er talk show host. See book review on page 27. (7:30 pm, First Con gregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., $7.50 ( tickets: Catbird Seat Bookstore], 222-5817.) 20 • TUESDAY J'aime Schelz offers a workshop on “ Developing Awareness" o t the physical, em otional, mental and spiritual selves by explor ing the dynamics o f the seven chakras and seven auras. This is a prerequisite for a year-long training program: see Announcements. (7- 10pm, Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 20 and 21, Healing Crystals. 821 5 SE 13th Ave., $45,234-2224.)