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Kimberlee Van Patten Throws a Bash
What was your most enjoyable recent trip
within 200 miles?
ince folding the wildly popular Peacock
in the Park, Kimberlee Van Patten has
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used her party-planning skills to launch
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a new production company, Vivid
Imagination.
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According to Van Patten, her gift to local enter-
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tainment is elbow grease. That’s my forte, all the
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behind-the-scenes coordination stuff,” she said.
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That amounts to reserving ballrooms, hiring
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caterers and performers, building sets and stages,
advertising and ensuring that light, sound and spe­
cial accommodations are in place for every event
she produces.
Most recently, Vivid Imagination coordinated
Darcelle’s magnificent 75th birthday bash at
Melody Ballroom with entertainment by Sharon
McNight, Michael Allen Harrison and the Sonny
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A ndrea C hiotti
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Member
Head Baker, Pearl
Bakery'
Cycle Techie
“I went with my
sweetheart to Sauvie
Island. We rode our
bikes around and
took pictures of
ourselves.”
“Last February, my
partner and I and our
two boys went skiing
and snowboarding at
Mount Bachelor. The
great thing is no one
else was there since it
was such a bad ski
season.”
Event coordinator Kimberlee Van Patten recently
threw Darcelle’s 75th birthday party.
M itchell U nderwood
Hess Band.
Sticking with a queer bend to all of her projects to
^Van Patten’s day job also requires gobs of coordi­
date, Van Patten has also produced two plays at
nation and organizing. She works as an emergency
Theater Theatre— Mommie Queerest and The Facts
response duty officer for the Oregon Department of
of Life: The Best Little Whorehouse in Peekskill—
Environmental Quality, where she dispatches officials
and brought Mandonna, an all-male Madonna cover
to clean up hazardous spills.
band, to Portland twice.
Until three years ago, Van Patten says she was up
“I love sitting back and watching 5,000 people
to her eyebrows in the Imperial Sovereign Rose Court,
enjoy the show and knowing that 1 had a hand in put­
as a past board member and president. She was also
ting it together,” Van Patten said.
Rose Emperor XXIII.
She continues to own the nonprofit organization
Van Patten derives joy from drawing acts to town.
Peacock Productions, which annually administers the
“Being able to bring them to Portland and introduc­
Audria M. Edwards Scholarship Fund, with applica­
ing them to the city is just a real thrill.”
—JaymeeR. Cuti ©
tions due in May.
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Cast Member at
Darcelle XV
Showplace
“Puerto Vallarta is my
real romantic get­
away Besides that, my
swimming pool.”
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Organic Farmer (left)
H eather K alian
In Other Words Star Volunteer (right)
“We took a Washington trip to Roslyn, because that’s
where Northern Exposure was filmed. We went
from Roslyn to Olympia and up the Olympic
Peninsula. We got to sleep in our car in parking lots.
We just did what we wanted. We didn’t have any
reservations, any plans.”
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