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Weeklong or partial passes may be
purchased online or through the mail,
or individual tickets for each event
may be purchased at the door. For a
source of comprehensive information,
visit www.ladyfest.org. You can also
receive information by calling
(360) 252-2086 or e-mailing
info@ladyfest.org. — Katy Davidson
Lesbian Diva is not
an oxymoron
I n her way to Ladyfest is perfor
mance artist Kimberly Dark,
who will he in Portland 7 p.m.
July 31 at the Touchstone Coffee
House to test-drive excerpts from
her new show, True Confessions o f
a Lesbian Diva.
Her most recent show, The ButchJ
Femme Chronicles, has been touring
nationally to rave reviews for two
years. Her new show is due to be re
leased in its entirety by January 2001,
but you can preview it this month in Portland.
True Confessions is a collection of stories
and poetry combining grandness, absurdity and
the stunning truths of lesbian relationships.
Because the stories are told in the first person,
the audience comes to know the Diva person
ally and, as she puts it, is “allowed a rare
glimpse into femme-dyke grandeur.” The show
is at turns funny and touch
ing, presenting a version of
how a “lesbian femme diva”
is created by interactions
with others and how that
public character might be
misunderstood.
Dark, who lives in San
Diego, plays various charac
ters in the piece, although
her emphasis is on the words,
not props or costumes. She’s
been doing performance art
for six years, which sprang
from a desire to “be the non
boring poet at readings.”
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A festival of
Olympian proportions
fhat started as a small buzz early this year
now has evolved into a full-fledged,
nationwide alarm: Ladyfest 2000 soon
will inundate Olympia, Wash.!
A few months back, an ad hoc group of
intelligent, artistic women began outlining a
summer festival that would include a variety
of mind-opening events, including visual art
exhibits, spoken word performances, film
showings, practi
cal workshops
o and live music.
5 Between Aug. 1
3
and 6, these
plans will be set
in motion.
Ladyfest has
been planned
exclusively by
women and is
dedicated to
exhibiting the
work of women artists, although people of all
genders are welcome to attend. Almost every
single one of Olympia’s performance spaces and
concert halls will^lay host to the diverse collec
tion of events. Activities include a guitar basics
workshop, a “badass-fatass” panel and a work
shop on creating alternative menstrual products.
Live bands include the Aislers Set, the Butchies,
Lois, the Need and Sleater-Kinney.
he thinks he
can keep his
place in the
cast because
he’s become
that icon of
male hetdom:
a good
provider! He is
apparently the
only one who
has figured out
how to catch
fish and thus
each day
serves up squid
and stingrays
he has cap
tured on his
mighty spear.
O f late, Richard has been pushing the toler
ance of his fellow tribe members because he
prefers to go au naturel most of the time. He is
not the castaway who would be voted One We
Most Want to See Naked. Here’s his descrip
tion from the truly hilarious Survivorsucks.com:
“Richard 38, (A K A Dicque) is single and is
a corporate communications consultant (oooh,
must be important) from Newport, RI. Special
talent: simultaneously jogging and being a dick.
Has second biggest bazooms on cast.”
The site also claims to have it on ironclad
authority that Richard isn’t the only homosex
ual on the island. Their pro
file of the hottie Jenna may
contain a clue:
“Jenna, 22, is single and
is a college student from
Franklin, N.H. Hobby: writ
ing angry letters to advertis
ers about Dr. Laura.”
Sounds like our kinda
gal!
Local girlfriend
makes good
potted in the Feb. 2 edi
tion of Just Out by an
editor at Girlfriends mag
azine, Portland artist damali
ayo was picked to be fea
tured as Girlfriend of the
Month in the August issue.
Much more than just a
pretty face, she is a highly
inventive artist and is curat
ing the shows at the new
Groundswell Gallery, 1800
S
Guilty pleasure
s all of you know who
are inside watching tele
vision at 8 p.m. Wednes
days instead of soaking up
scenic sunsets, the castaways
on the summer megahit Sur
vivor include an out gay man.
Known only as Richard,
Kverything damali ayo does, she does tev
hundred portent. The way she secs things.
"Being biracial doesn't make me any less
African American, and being bisexual doesn’t
make me any less of a dyke." The opin
ionated artist grew up in Washington, D.C.,
went to Brown University in Rhode Island,
and now lives in ibi t land, Oregon— which
makes her bicoastal, too. Despite her fancy
education, ayo has no formal training in
art. Her thought-provoking installations—
little black dresses accessorized with
pacifiers over the bust, say—are strictly
In fact, art cam e into her life
a dream. "All of a sudden, I had
some tiling that summed up everything 1
was and ever knew."
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