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32 ! ¡UStOUt OCTOBER 5, 2007 TUE • OCT. 16 The Feminist Film Society screens Alien at In Other Words. (7 pm. 8 NE Killmgsworth St www femmistfilmsociety blogspot com.) WED • OCT. 17 In Other Words hosts the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, a monthly discussion and working group to explore themes raised in the book The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex. (6:30 pm. 8 NE Killings worth St.) / go ^ The Men's Wellness Center presents an informational session on Cele brating the Body Erotic, Body Electric's interactive workshop designed to connect men to their deepest centers of pleasure and help them discover how to give and receive more fully using breath, touch and movement. (7-9 pm. 928 SW Stark St.) THU • OCT. 18 Wonder Ballroom presents an evening with comic genius Harry Shearer, the actor and voice behind some of America's greatest characters, including Wayion Smithers (The Simpsons), Derek Smalls (This Is Spinal Tap) and Victor Allan Miller (For Your Consideration). (8 pm. 128 NE Russell St. $32 from box office or Ticketmaster.) FRI • OCT. 19 In Other Words presents a spoken word performance by Kimberly Dark, whose writings explore gender, sexuality, abuse, poverty and education by blending humor, poetry, storytelling, education and social research to stimulate critical cultural analysis. (7 pm 8 NE Killingsworth St. $548 donation) j Lesbian artistic director Monica Huggett launches her 13th season with Portland Baroque Orchestra in a debut of four rarely heard solo violin concertos by the first master of the form, Antonio Vivaldi, through Oct. 21 at First Baptist Church and Reed College's Kaul Auditorium. (7:30 pm Friday and Saturday, Amazing Race winner (and Lance Bass ex) Reichen Lehmkuhl joins the cast of the gothic soap opera Dante's Cove Oct. 19 on Here. H. D wayne D avis , Broker AS YOUR AGENT I WILL: Cell 503/319-4057 Listen to you Office 503/294-IIOI Communicate throughout the process Email hddavis@realtytrust.com Be present through closing and beyond www.realtytrust.com/hdwaynedavis 909 SW 11th Ave. 3 pm Sunday, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. $15-$39 from www pboorg.) folks with the oh-so-straight, lesbians with church ladies and all points in between! (9 am-3:30 pm. 833 N Shaver St.) Here debuts the third season premiere of the gothic soap opera Dante's Cove, America's sexiest guilty pleasure. (8 pm) Sneakin' Out performs during Keep Portland Weird: A Community Festival featuring group ukulele lessons, robots, zine-building, belly-dancing, wild food foraging, cacaphony and much more at Central Library. (Noon-4 pm. 801 SW 10th Ave.) Q Center presents Cabaret with a Q. Portland's newest "anything goes” monthly piano bar/ cabaret. Be the "singular sensation' you've always wanted to be! (8-11 pm 69 SE Taylor St.) SAT • OCT. 20 Portland Sacred Harp hosts the 16th annual Shapenote Singing Convention through Oct. 21 at Mississippi Ballroom. Gay men will harmonize with gospel singers, transgender The Imperial Sovereign Rose Court presents Coronation 2007 at Crystal Ballroom. This year's theme is "Once Upon a Mattress: A Night in the Monarch’s Bordello." (5 pm 1332 W Burnside St. $45450 from Ticketmaster. For a complete schedule of related events, visit www.rosecourt.org.) The Eagle PDX presents the sultry new dance night How Rude! Pants Off Dance Off featur ing DJs Danny Damage, Olek, III Camino, Bdrm Eyes and guests. (8pm 1300 W Bumside St.) BearBust at Gail's Dirty Duck. (8-11 pm. 429 NW Third Ave $8 members, $10 non members.) Tip your hat to Crystal's Country Jam at the Portland Metro Club (PPAA). (8-9 pm lessons, 9 pm-1 am dancing. 618 SE Alder St. $5, $8 with lessons.) Someday Lounge throws the dance party Golden featuring experimental disco/house/ electronic quartet Atole, Copy, Arohan and DJs Linoleum and Mike Williams. (9 pm. 125 NW Fifth Ave. $5.) The Grass Is Always Greener “The nature of my findings has been so difficult to prove,” What do Leaves of Grass poet Walt Whitman, the Quaker in part because of the Quakers’ “reputation of moral strict religion and 19th century sailors have in common? If you answered “gay marriage,” you would probably enjoy a conver ness,” Gould says. “It’s really challenged not only our under sation with Mitch Gould. standing of Whitman but of Quakers, too.” Gould will give two presentations in addition to the Gould, author of several scholastic articles on Whitman exhibit. “1 Call to Mankind: Leaves of Grass as Quaker and curator of LeavesOfGrass.org, is presenting This Begin' Testimony” is a dramatic reinterpretation of Whitman’s ning of Vs: Walt Whitman and the Spiritual Origins ofQay well-known “Song of Myself’ and will be delivered during Marriage through Oct. 28 at Q Center, 69 S.E. Taylor St. It’s a combination dramatic reading, lecture and exhibit of the exhibit’s reception at 6 p.m. Oct. 5. Gould will also concept art from Goulds upcoming animated short, “This deliver a more in-depth summary of the exhibit at 2 p.m. Beginning of Me.” Oct. 7. For more information call 503-234-7837. —Ben Nystrom Although the focus of the exhibit is the link between Whitmans writings and the current struggle for legal recognition of same-sex relationships, the heart of the event is the role the Quaker religion played in shaping his radical message of gay equality. “It’s so different than what we all thought,” Gould says of the gay under tones in Whitman’s work. “There is a mys tery here, and it’s taken me 15 years to unravel it.” According to Gould, the Quakers’ acceptance of Whitman’s “manly love” concept allowed him to speak out against the more conservative Puritan views of homosexuality. “If you break it down to the level of theology, conservatives oppose gay marriage because they believe love between two men or two women leads people away from God,” Gould says. “The picture we get from Whitman and the Quakers couldn’t be more in contrast to that idea.” Although the scribe’s work is no stranger to queer lit theory, Gould says he’s never seen queer Whitman criticism paired with Whitman’s involvement This month Q Center displays concept art from “This Beginning of Me,“ an with the Quakers. animated short by Walt Whitman scholar Mitch Gould. 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