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ju s t o u t ▼ aprii 2 1 . 1 0 0 9 ▼ 2 7 Southern Oregon Hearth & Womansource Present F eeding F renzy Full Moon In June Queer film buffs can find a table laden to bursting at Evergreen State College’s annual festival Cultural Festival for Women - June 9, 10, 11 ▼ On the banks o f beautiful Lake Of The Woods in Southern Oregon by Kelly M. Bryan Carolyn Brandy Percussionist Extraordinaire ChryStOS of the Menominee Nation Lesbian Poet Alice Di Micele Singer/Songuriter Olga Loya Storyteller Musica Femina Flute/Guitar Duo Shelley Phillips Celtic Harpist Rashida Oji Singer/Songuriter Francine & Nymiah Ä S "“ Progressii>e Folk Duo Carol Steinel Koing Kuoch (left) and Tymme Reitz in No Ordinary Love plus Workshops Women Made Crafts ...and more ■ : Ä Radical Standup as it been eight years already? Sleep Shirt Unless You Mean It (4 pm Saturday, Hall 1)? ing in a bag on a kind stranger’s Or Zombie Cottage (1:30 pm Sunday, Hall 3)? floor, struggling to eat and absorb Dottie Gets Spanked (4 pm Sunday, Hall 5)? light in the brief break between Or you might rely on those pesky, oh-so- screenings, rubbing a butt that aches optimistic promo flyer niblets. An example: “Mad from seven or eight near-solid hours About of film the Boy. This experimental pixel-vision viewing, and hoping that you might find the one piece explores the tenuous boundaries of gender elusive film by someone you never heard of that through a series of anecdotes told by women who will change your life— such pleasures there be in have been mistaken for men, and a must-see the Northwest International Lesbian Gay Film synchronized dance scene in a barber shop.” A come-on, a beckoning finger, and yet it could go so wrong. This short is part of a 4 pm Saturday program that also includes a Jenny (Paris is Burning) Livingston short, Hotheads. But sometimes there’s just no easy way to Festival, held annually at The Evergreen State choose. A quandry presents itself at 1:30 pm on College in Olympia, Wash. The venerable 8-year- Saturday when Ada Gay Griffith’s recent portrait old queer-film feeding frenzy will unreel Friday of Audre Lorde, A Litany fo r Survival, is sched through Sunday, April 28-30. Evening showings uled opposite Isaac (Looking fo r Langston, Young (Friday and Saturday) are held at the Capitol Soul Rebels) Julien’s documentary A Darker Side Theater, 206 E Fifth Ave., in downtown Olympia; o f Black, which examines homophobia and vio daytime showings (Saturday and Sunday) are lence in the world of rap and reggae (Shabba held in lecture halls 1, 3 and 5 on the Evergreen Ranks and Cornell West share their views), and campus. Barbara Hammer’s 1995 film Out in South Africa. Saturday night’s bill starts out at 7 pm with a Opening night offers a sequential trio of films— visit with this year’s guest filmmaker. Liberian- not simultaneous— which makes a festivalgoer’s born Cheryl Dunye, who is perfecting the art of life easier. First up at 7:30 pm is Devotion, a the “Dunyementary.” Dunye will speak and screen lesbian story of conflicted passions, where a long- a selection of her work, which i ncludes such titles lost unrequited love shows up in the life of a comic as Greetings from Africa, She Don't Fade, and who’s just about to hit the big time. Canadian The Potluck and the Passion. Following at 9 pm director Mindy Kaplan will be on hand to intro is Ann Turner’s Dallas Doll, a juicy trash-fest duce this U.S. premiere screening. Next at 9:30 with Sandra Bernhard as a U.S. golf pro who pm is the West Coast debut of No Ordinary Love, knows what to do with a hole. The evening’s by newcomer Doug Witkins, which traces the topper is “The Great Punk Rock Show” at 11:30 lines of lust, romance and betrayal that snake pm, with local bands Behead the Prophets, The among four male housemates— gay, bi and Third Sex and Mustache Poop Boogie Machine— hetero— who are left to cope after the mysterious a chance to get the blood recirculating in your death of their ringleader. The feature is paired limbs. There is also the annual festival dance, held with the short Gentle Giants, Bruce Weber’s at Thekla (near the Capitol Theater); doors open celluloid puppy treat for fans of the Newfound at 9 pm, tickets are $4. land hound (the subject of Weber’s latest book). Washington is prey to the same brand of Rounding out the gender parity of the evening is ballot-driven homophobes that we in Oregon are. the cross-dressing, gender bending, martial arts Reportedly, some members of the Washington madcap The Legend ofFong Sai-Yuk at 11:30 pm. legislature would like to see Evergreen (a state- After her son loses a kung fu match for the hand funded college) penalized for mounting an annual of his beloved to the girl’s mother, a woman queer film festival. Yet another primary argument passes herself off as her son’s brother to earn a in an overall strong case for Oregonians to make rematch and repair the family’s honor. Mid-duel, the trek up to Olympia. the two women fall in love. Look for spectacular acrobatics and goofy, melodramatic dialogue. Festival tickets are $5 general; the Cheryl Pack a snack and bring a pillow: Day 2 starts Dunye show is $6. A festival pass is $50 and off early, and the daytime schedule is not so admits the purchaser to all films, including the forgiving as the nighttime one. Each day there are three rounds (11 am, 1:30 pm and 4 pm) in a presentation by Dunye. Tickets can be charged by phone by calling the fe s tiv a l office at veritable three-ring circus of screenings. Which (360) 866-6000, ext. 6542. If you need assistance way to go? How to choose? Since many of the in finding housing or hotel accommodations, call films are made by the as-yet-unknown, some the festival office. times the allure of a comely title must be the deciding factor. How about D on’t Look Up My i Blue Lightning H Rock, Country & Blues The Objects Mistresses O f The Groove M MMf Early Registration Fee - Must be postmarked by May 1 0 ........Sliding Scale $80 -1 Late Registration Fee - May 10 through June 1 .......................Sliding Scale $100-1 We welcome all girl children and boys under 6 ............................ Ages 3 and l!p-$10 - For Brochure & Registration: (503) 488-8445, or write: Full Moon In June, do Womansource, Box 335 J, Ashland, OR 97520 P ¡nenia Get ready. 8th NW International and drive on Lesbian Gay I Film Festival Program Guidas Avariabie in all the usual locations in early April, or by mail, call 360-866-6000 Ext 6542 Ticket Outlets Seattle Bafcy Coy Books 206-323-8842 Olym pia R any Day Records 360-357-4755 A lso m advance on V1SA/M C call 360-866-6000 Ext 6542 Tickets $5 00 Full Pass $50 00 Tickets available at the door Featuring 40 hours o f film and video, dozens o f N W premieres, a festival dance and guest film makers Featunng the premieres o f Devotion. N o Ordinary Love. A Utany tor Survival, Batot M easure Nine, and m any others W heelchair accesible Assstrve listening devices for the hearing im paired are available. April 28-30 Olympia, W A its alw ays a scream!
