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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
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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
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Progressii>e Folk Duo
Carol Steinel
Koing Kuoch (left) and Tymme Reitz in No Ordinary Love
plus
Workshops
Women Made Crafts
...and more
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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
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Rock, Country & Blues
The Objects
Mistresses O f The Groove
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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:
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8th NW International
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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
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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!