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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1988)
Singer-songwriters Cris Williamson and Tret Fure perform at a brunch today to benefit the Freedom Fund. Funds support the work of O SA, a nonprofit group working with the Native Am eri can youth of the O lym pic Peninsula and providing educational and cultural rediscovery programs aim ed at providing new directions for youth struggling against alcoholism , drug addiction and ch ild abuse. (11 am-2 pm, $25, ludy, [206] 547-7644.) Dance; 8:30-11:30 pm, Adult's Groovmatic Dance, Echo Theatre, 1515 SE 37th Ave., $5 more or less, under 12 free, 284-1110.) The lesbian and gay recovering community sponsors a Bowl-A-Thon as a benefit for Rose City Soberfaire, an annual A lcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon conference. (/ pm, Pro 300 Lanes, 3031 Women with Women and Children sponsors a buffet brunch today. ( 10:30 am, Northwest Service Center, 1819 N W Everett St., $2-$5 sliding SE Pow ell Blvd., $7.50 registration fee, Rainey, 775-4477.) 14 • MONDAY A ll leather/S and M lesbians and gay men are invited to the charter meeting of the Portland A Woman's Coffeehouse is held tonight. (Unitarian Church, Eugene, 343-4864.) 20 • SUNDAY scale, kids eat free, Holly, 282-1529.) 24 • THURSDAY Share Thanksgiving dinner w ith other women and children through the W om en with W om en and Children network. (Call Holly, by Nov. 20, 282-1529.) Chapter of the National Leather Association. (7:30 pm, G a il’s Dirty Duck, 439 N W 3rd Ave., 223-8137.) 4 • FRIDAY________ 1 1 • FRIDAY Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Western "Sisters,” an award-winning drama-comedy by Cherokee Nation, speaks at Oregon State U niver sity tonight on the struggles of m inorities within m ajority society and the changing role of women in Cherokee society. (8 pm, LaSells Stewart Patricia M ontley, opens the Portland W om en's Theatre Com pany's 1988-89 season. Sisters is the story of Sister Ioanna's struggle w ith her religious com m unity's disapproval of her controversial w ork in gay ministry. (See Theater listings for Center, O SU , Corvallis.) details.) Ample Opportunity holds the large-size clothing sale of the season. (9 am-4:30 pm, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4 and 5, Sunnyside United Methodist Church, Southeast 35th Avenue and Yamhill Street, Nancy, 645-0497.) 5 • SATURDAY Sisterspirit, Women Sharing Spirituality, cele brates a grand opening for its new office at A W om an 's Place Bookstore. (5-7 pm, 1431 NE Broadway . ) Echo Theatre presents "Jane Smith, Jane Smith," highly visual theater and music collaboration by D iane Schenker and Thomasa Eckert. The private distress of a public w om an is revealed as an unraveling tapestry of m usical and visual events and im aginings. (8 pm, Friday and Saturday; 7 pm, Sunday, Nov. 11-13, 1515 SE 37th Ave., $7 I tickets: A W om an’s Place Bookstore, Music M illennium . Echo Theatre], 5 8 at the door, 231-1232.) u • SATURDAY Elizabeth Stone, author of Women and the Cuban Revolution, discusses the role of the revolutionary publishing house Pathfinder Press. Sponsored by Pathfinder Books. ( 7:30 pm, Path finder Books, 2730 NE Union Ave., 287-7416.) 6 • SUNDAY The Women's Rape Museum Project is a nonprofit organization with the goal of building the first museum in the w orld to honor the survivors of rape and to docum ent the horrors of this social phenomenon. A planning meeting is held tonight. (7-8:30 pm, 532 SE 52nd Ave. |a< Stark Street |, 236-4641.) N ew Renaissance Bookshop shows a video by Kriyananda, How to Recognize and Trust Your Inner Guidance (3:30 pm, 1338 N W 23rd Ave., 52, 224-4929.) The talents of Janet Peterson, M arie Eaton, Kath leen Fallon and Nan C o llie com bine tonight in the group Motherlode. Accom panied by guitar, bass, 'ce llo , flute, harm onica and other instruments, they offer a rich variety of original political and sing-along songs to create a pleasure-filled evening. (8 pm, Northwest Service Center, 181 9 N W Everett St., $7 | tickets: A Woman's Place Bookstore, Artichoke M usic], $8 at the door, interpreted for the hearing impaired by lenna Cassell, wheelchair accessible, childcare provided.) Lesbian Sushi Lovers dine tonight at Ichidai. (7:30 pm, 3384 SE Divison St., reservations, 282-1529.) Ariel Waterwoman offers a special workshop to lighten the w inter gift-giving season. Learn how to make herbal dream pillow s, sachets, bath salts, special teas and more. (545 includes materials, register: P O Box 1394, Sandy. O R 97055.) 8 •TUESDAY Today is Election Day. The polls are open from 7 am to 8 pm. (County election offices: Multnomah. 248-3720; Clackamas. 655-8510; Washington, 648-8611.) 10 • THURSDAY Madeline McNeil plays dulcim er and sings m usic ranging from traditional to musical theater. Local m usicians M ick Doherty and Steve Einhorn also perform. (8 pm. Community Music Center. D 5 0 S E Francis St.. 55, 5 I seniors and students, under 12 free ) just out • 16 • November l*WtX The Portland Opera presents The Pearl Fishers, by Georges Bizet, a story of forbidden love betw een a village hunter and a Brahm an priestess. (8 pm. Saturdays. Nov. 12 and 19; 7:30 pm. Wednesdays. Nov. 16, Civic Auditorium, 5/8-56/ 50, 241-1802.) 13 • SUNDAY The Network of Entrepreneurial Women holds its m onthly potluck brunch w ith a presentation: "H o w to end vour business year and project next year’s marketing and budget requirem ents." (11 am-2 pm, 1115 N W Aspen Court. Canby, 654-9699, days; 266-8777, evenings.) Mother Naomi (Janet Lee) confronts Sister Joanna ( Candace Bahrenburg) in the Portland Women's Theatre Company production of Patricia Montley’s Sisters. 27 • SUNDAY The H arvey M ilk Rem em brance Committee, an ad hoc group organized by the G a y Services N etw ork of Kansas C ity and the National G ay and Lesbian Task Force, has declared today — the 10th anniversary of H arvey M ilk's assassination — to be Harvey Milk Remembrance Day. G ays and Lesbians United of Portland holds a candlelight tribute to M ilk, w ho was a tireless and outspoken advocate for the rights of gay people and other oppressed groups. Elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, he was one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. M ilk and San Francisco M ayor George M oscone w ere assassinated by Dan W hite, another city supervisor. ( 5:30 pm, Southwest Salmon Street and Park Avenue.) D E C E M B E R 16 • WEDNESDAY 1 • THURSDAY Thoman Banyacya, a spokesman for the prophesies of the traditional Hopi people, speaks tonight in Portland. In the early 1940s four men w ere chosen by the Hopi leaders to carry the message of living in balance with the earth; Ban yacya is the sole surviving messenger. Also on display and for sale are traditional N avajo hand- w oven rugs. (4 pm, rug sale; 6:30 pm, speaker, Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1624 NE Hancock St., 54-5 10 sliding scale.) 17 • THURSDAY H o w did pro-choice activists defend a wom an's right to control her body from Operation Rescue, a national right-wing campaign that vow ed to close abortion clin ics across the country on O ctober 29? Radical Women discusses what feminist clin ic defenders, locally and nationally, can learn from one another. (6:30 pm, Multnomah County Central Library, 801 5 W 10th Ave., free, wheel Cascade AIDS Project holds a forum entitled "H IV / A ID S Issues and the 1989 Legislature." (7 pm, Auditorium, The Portland Building, 223-5907.) 3 • SATURDAY C elebrate solidarity and dance w ith Boca M arim ba at the Caribbean feast, arts and crafts fair, Fiesta Resistance. The Portland Central A m erica Solidarity Com m ittee sponsors this festival for all ages. (4 -11 pm, St. Andrew's Community Center, 806 NE Alberta St., 54, 5 1 under 12 [tickets: Artichoke Music, Laughing Horse Books, A Woman's Place Bookstore), 236-7916.) chair accessible, 249-8067.) 18 • FRIDAY Jan Clausen, author of Sinking Stealing, auto graphs her new release, The Properine Papers, a humorous com m entary on the foibles of a middle- class Protestant fam ily that becom e the back ground for a literary lesbian detective story. (7 pm, A W om an’s Place Bookstore, 1431 NE Broadway free. 284-1110.) 19 • SATURDAY Three Nice Girls present a D ance Benefit for A W om an's Place Bookstore. A special children's hour w ith music by M ary Rose and a Kid's Rad D ance start the evening. (7:30-8:30 pm. Kid’s Rad Agnes and LaJune in 1945 on a Harley- Davidson. From a hand-tinted reproduction by Ruth Ellingson showing at Frames of Reference throughout November.