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Q-LAND and LoveTribe present a free men's wellness yoga class (6:30-8:30 pm. RSVP to 503-223-8822 or www.lovetribe.org/menspint.) • It's back in your crack! The Red Cap Garage presents Vas-o-Line every second and fourth Wednesday with DJs Beyonda, Dandylion, Stormy and Sol spinning an eclectic array of progressive beats for a full night of nicotine-free dancing. (9 pm. 1035 SW Stark St $345 sliding scale.) bonds between young women on the verge of adulthood, at In Other Words. (7:30 pm 8 NE Killingsworth St.) FRI • JULY 14 Portland Center Stage presents the eighth annual Just Add Water/West, a developmental festival of new dramatic work for the stage, through July 23. (www.pcs.org) The Egyptian Club presents Pink Show: Drag for Breast Cancer (7 pm. 3701 SE Division St.) Modern folksinger/songwriter Joni Laurence celebrates the release of her fourth CD, With No Apology, at Cozmic Pizza in Eugene. (7-8:30 pm. 199 W Eighth Ave.) SAT • JULY 15 THU • JULY 13 Elder Resource Alliance invites older members of the sexual minorities community to meet each other, share common interests and enjoy fun conversation every second Thursday at Niki s Restaurant. (2-3:30 pm. 736 SE Grand Ave. Rachel 503-224-2640.) Trans singer/songwriter Namoli Brennet of Tucson, Anz., offers an unmatched poetic wit and a funky style of folk that's inspired and original at Haven Coffee. (7 pm. 3551 SE Division St.) / goj Back by popular demand, life coach Barb Beck Xj^F presents a three-week relationship series at Aura for lesbians ready to jump back in the game and fine-tune their dating skills to find a lasting, healthy rela tionship. (7-8:30 pm. 1022 W Burnside St. Register at www. girlsongay com.) Karen Lee Boren reads from and signs Girls in Peril, a mag Asian tr Pacific Islander Lesbians and Gays take a beau tiful 4.5-mile hike to Angel's Rest. Meet in Starbucks at Hollywood Fred Meyer. (9:30 am. 3030 NE Weidler St RSVP to aplg_pdx@yahoo.com.) f OUT This is not your grandfather's barbecue! Q-LAND and LoveTribe invite men to play Emo-Touch Football, enjoy food off the grill and end the evening with a nurturing touch exchange and a puppy pile meditation. (3:30-10 pm. RSVP to 503-223-8822 or www. lovetribe. org/menspirit.) Modern folksinger/songwriter Joni Laurence celebrates the release of her fourth CD, With No Apology, at Mississippi Pizza Pub. {6 pm 3552 N Mississippi Ave.) Lucie Blue Tremblay performs at St. David's Episcopa1 Church Parish Hall. Proceeds benefit the Breast Exam Project. (8 pm. 2800 SE Harrison St. $254100 from Touchstone Coffee House.) Viva Las Vegas From her second-floor window in Portland’s historic Pettygrove house on Northwest 23rd Avenue, Gabriela Küpper-Kandziora can watch the activity below and dream up new ideas. She has just opened a small European-style spa above Vivace Café, but that’s only part of what she is dreaming up for the Portland lesbian community. Küpper-Kandziora recognizes the importance of the hard work and political activism that demand the attention of the women's community, but she also believes lesbians need opportunities to get away from it all and spend some time playing. With Evona Sliwinska and Chellie Longmire, she offers the monthly social gathering Eat My Martini. The three started Your Place or Mine Productions when they decided to collaborate on “designing events for women who love women,” adding diversity to the mix. They prefer to work in cooperation with similar groups and avoid schedule conflicts with other offerings. The partners’ latest plan is “a swanky, sin-filled junket” to Las Vegas from Oct. 6 to 8. The weekend event, called I Krave, You Krave, We All Krave Las Vegas, centers around evening activities at the women’s club Krave. The weekend includes a “Fashionistas” show, a Friday icebreaker and evening of dancing at Krave, a Saturday “Pink Jeep Tour,” back for more fun at Krave on Saturday night and a Sunday brunch (so partiers don’t have to rise too early). The package includes lodging at Alexis Hotel, with access to several in-house swimming pools and lots of opportunities to relax. Küpper-Kandziora is looking for 16 to 20 women who are excited about participating in this travel opportunity. In addition, Your Place or Mine is encouraging Portland lesbians to send a photo for possible inclusion in the 2008 Gurl Shots calendar, which will feature dykes of all sizes, ages and interests. The partner want the calendar to reflect the variety of women in the community. For more information call 503-481-9870 or visit www.yourplaceormineproductions.com or www.gurlshots.com. —Patricia L. MacAodha Gay-owned Brian Marki Fine Art exhibits photographs by Craig Payne this month. BearBust at Gail's Dirty Duck. (8-11 pm. 429 NW Third Ave $8 members, $10 nonmembers.) SUN • JULY 16 Holocene presents Midsummer Night Mas- X^^F querade, a hot night of dancing, costumes and fund Æoj Independent Film Channel debuts Fabulous! Xj^F The Story of Queer Cinema, which traces our raising featuring fire dancing by Flamebuoyant; one- woman multi-instrumentalist electronica by Sugar Short wave of Myshkin's Ruby Warblers; DJ Saffromca spinning great dance beats; and special guest Jen Folker of Dahlia Proceeds benefit Siren Nation, a women's music and art festival scheduled for November 2007. (9 pm. 1001 SE Morrison St. $8 with costume, $10 without.) rich legacy on the big screen from ground breaking works that paved the way for a vital tradition of fiercely independent films. (10 pm and 1:45 am.) Political humorist Kate Clinton hosts this month's episode of the gay and lesbian newsmagazine In the Life on OPB (11 pm.) New Play Festival to Auction Dangerous Writer' for Instant Commission To kick off the eighth annual Just Add Water/West new play festival, Portland Center Stage will hold a benefit July 14 that will auction awarl-winning playwrights for instant commissions to he performed the same evening. Among the playwrights up for grabs at the inau gural Commission! Commission! will he “dangerous writer” Tom Spanbauer (The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon) as well as Portland favorites Sam Gregory (Child of Pleasure), Itamar Moses (Celebrity Row), Ebbe Roe Smith (Deep, Inc.) and Glen Berger (O Lovely Glowworm). Once contracts are signed, patrons wine-and-dine while playwrights work fever ishly with directors, stage managers and actors to bring the vision of their personal “Medicis” to fruition in time to he performed after dessert. Opening bids begin at $250; tickets are $50 from 503-432-2955 or jessyf@pcs.org. JAW/West is Portland Center Stage’s develop mental festival of new work for the stage. Every summer, PCS gathers together a company of profes sional theater artists who collaborate on innovative works in progress. This year’s festival will culminate with public readings of four plays workshopped during the festival, each preceded by five-minute “curtain raisers” from the Promising Playwrights of PCS’ 2006 Visions and Voices high school play Gay scribe Tom Spanbauer will help raise writing program. money July 14 for Portland Center Stage's The 2006 headliners include two Yale School of new play festival, Just Add Water/West. Drama graduates: Sarah Treem (A Feminine Ending), who wrote her first award-winning play at age 12 and now teaches playwriting at Yale, and Liz Duffy Adams (The Listener), who is an alumna of New York University’s Experimental Theater Wing and is distinguished as a New Dramatists Resident Playwright. Two other featured playwrights have Pacific Northwest roots. Kristin Newborn (Telethon) co-directed Seattle’s experimental performance group The Q impound before earning her master's degree in playwnting at Brown University, and Steve Patterson (Lost Wavelengths), local author of more than 25 plays, was the inaugural recipient of the Portland Civic Theatre Guild Fellowship in 1997 and co-founder/co-artistic director of Pavement Productions, specializing in new work development. Readings take place at 4 and 8 p.m. July 22 and 23 at the World Trade Center, I2l S.W. Salmon St. Tickets are $9-$36 from 503-274-6588. This year’s festival also features a number of other special events, many free and open to the public, including community artists labs, a discussion on developing new plays in Portland, a theater fair and special site-specific performances. For details and a complete schedule, visit www.pcs.org. —Timothy Krause XIUAFA1 Design Shop-Talks, a series of forums about new innovations to create a living space that caters to your needs. Tonight's topic is "Kitchen Rage.” Continues July 19 with “Bath Madness." (6-7:30 pm. 1110 NW Marshall St. RSVP to 503-222-1757.)
