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DIVERSIONS .......................▼....................... potential volunteers is being held at 1 p.m. Sept. 1 in the First Congregational Church Library, 1126 S.W. Park Ave. Hits of people are needed to make this 11-day event go smoothly. For more information about volunteering con tact Topher Wallace at 503-280-1762 or topher@sensoryperceptions.org. O u t off Affrica he Homowo Festival of African Arts returns to the South Park Blocks at the Portland State University campus between Southwest Harrison and College streets Aug. 24 and 25. Although the tenn “homo” is part of the title, it’s not all about the queers. (Give it up, not everything is!) Rather it’s a traditional T e n n is , a n y o n e ? Ghanaian festival presented by Portland’s mas ter percussionist Obo Addy. es, there’s a lot of softball going on this Running from 1 to 8 p.m. both days, the month, hut that’s not slowing down Team festival offers nonstop action and activities. Portland Tennis in its 12th annual Rose Addy leads a large group of Ghanaian musi City Open tournament Aug. 30 to Sept. 2 at cians to open the festivities Saturday. You’ll see Portland Tennis Center, 324 N.E. 12th Ave. drumming, dancing, singing and performers “Labor Day weekend the Rose City Open dressed in traditional clothing of the five major will welcome players from all over the country to culture groups of Ghana. Through the weekend are folk art demonstra tions, including basket making, sewing of clothes and shoe making. A children’s area offers face paint ing, head making and the produc tion of African rainsticks, crowns and masks. There’s also an African market Portland’s annual Homowo Festival of African Arts is Aug. 24 and 25 in place and a whole the South Park Blocks bunch of ethnic fixxl offerings. Portland,” says tournament director Kim Bauske. For more information about the festival The tourney is affiliated with the Gay and visit www.homowo.org. Lesbian Tertnis Alliance, which sponsors events around the country. Portland will see players in Open, A, B, C and D levels in men’s and O n th e s tr e e ts women’s singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Team Portland will play host to a barbecue awthorne Summerfest 2002 descends upon from 4 to 8 p.m. Sept. 2 at the center and the trendy boulevard 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. encourages participants and fans to come out Aug. 24- for fixxl, socializing and watching cute tennis Anyone who’s been to this mega-street fair players run arixind in short pants. before knows it’s full of music from acoustical For more information call 503-232-7650 or jazz to punk rock, artist exhibits, kids stuff, all visit www.teamportland-tennis.org. J H kinds of giveaways and contests (including some for your pets), political vendors, skate Compiled by LlSA BRADSHAW boarders and food, fixxl, food. T Some of Stromboli is Island of Donkeys and Dolls (clockwise from left): Michelle Tea, Bucky Sinister, Tara Jepsen, MC STD , Strict Chem and MC Katastrophe The (w e ird , q u e e r! c irc u s is in to w n F ilm fe s tiv a l s n e a k p r e v ie w E he fine folks of Sensory Perceptions, who will once again bring the annual Gay, Les bian, Bi and Trans Film Festival to Portland from Sept. 19 to 29, are throwing a benefit bash 7 p.m. Aug. 29 at Unleash Yourself, 1211 N.E. Alberta St. The fund-raiser is aimed primarily at women because, year after year, male-oriented films are better attended than female. O f course, the hope is that all the queers will attend all the movies, hut they definitely see a need to reach out to the ladies. “The women’s films are not as well attended as the men’s films,” attests artistic director Gabriel Mendoza. He feels this is because of dif ferent reactions to seeing movies and to movie advertising. “With men, you put a picture of a cute guy on it, and that’s enough.. .but in general a lot of the lesbian crowd. ..they want to know what the film is about.. .the film needs to he pro moted to them so they know what’s going on.” (One might also argue that women go to hoy films in much larger numbers than men go to girl films, but let’s not split hairs.) Sensory Perceptions, in any case, has put together a little program to promote the women-themed festival offerings. It’s just $5- $10 suggested donation, all of which goes to the festival, and they’ve invited two fab Portland musicians, Angie Golleher and Maria Webster, to entertain. Madame Mix-a-Lot offers tasty spirits, and you can win festival passes as well as other neat prizes. Plus you get your hands on a schedule before official ones are released. Speaking of the festival, a training for ven more offbeat than Cirque du Soleil is San Francisco-based Strombolli’s Island of Donkeys and Dolls, which marches its way into the Meow Meow, 527 S.E. Pine St., at 9 p.m. Sept. 6. The performance cabaret tour is inspired by the diabolical sideshow creep of PimKchio lore and is a celebration of freaks, misfits, under does, outsiders and infiltrators. “Oh my god, we are going to put on a show for the people,” says the infamous On Our Backs writer and Sister Spit co-creator Michelle Tea. “We are going to take them through the hill range of their emotions; we’re going to crack them up, make them think, inspire, challenge and just plain entertain them.” Well, that sounds compelling. Certainly Morty Diamond of Circus Ridikulous thought so when he put the whole thing together. The “tranny clown" is responsible for creating sev eral San Francisco nightclubs catering to mis fits, including trans dance party Pink Pony. Also on the bill is the queer hip-hop ensem ble The End of the World, made up of M C Katastrophe, M C ST D (Something Totally Deep) and Strict Chem. Katastrophe has toured the United States multiple times with Sister Spit and was featured in the PBS dix:umentary Poetic License, while ST D rocks in death metal bands in his spare time. We have absolutely no information on Strict Chem except that she/he is really cute judging by the photo. Add to this a handful of talented spoken word artists, and you’ve got yourself quite an evening for only $5. Portland - The winds of change are blowing. Are you ready for it? Perhaps one of the best reasons to check in are the sidewalk sales by normally overpriced boutiques and antique stores. Don’t forget to stop by the dyke-run In Other Words, which continues to have one-third of all its merchan dise at 50 percent off throughout August. Then, just a few blocks away, the annual Belmont Street Fair emerges 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 7. 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