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OCTOBER b. 2007 justout,» Creative Juices Gays gather at PICA's annual TBA Festival abor Day came, and for the second year in a row, my father-in-law arrived for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts’ Time-Based Art Festival. I must admit I’m I kinda proud of him; there aren’t many guys his.age who’d open themselves up to 11 days of avant-garde performance and cutting-edge music. A retired insurance salesman, my father-in-law is a showman at heart—a jazz musician who plays the trombone with his toes. (His tagline is “How about a hand for my foot.7”) As such, he’s found an outlet to channel his creative energies. So the topic of creative outlets was on my mind when 1 ran into Geoff Beasley and Jim Sampson. Geoff recently retired from the medical field and now works full time in his garden. “There’s some kind of history there,” he told me, “perhaps Native American, and 1 need to protect it." As any lover of Pink Martini knows, his garden was the inspiration for Thomas Lauderdale’s “The Gardens of Sampson and Beasley. “It’s kind of scary how I’ve spent my whole life creating it," Beasley said, “and I feel when I leave, it will disappear. Out Going BY FLOYD SKLAVER F he’s shafted. He’s also organizing Portlanders as part of a national event that will break the world’s record for Most People Dancing the Same Dance at the Same Time. (The current record is 127,000.) Head to Holocene and hook into the fun (while raising money for the Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center) on Oct. 27. Tony Rebensdorf used to sing with the Satori Men’s Chorus and “misses it terribly.” He was chatting with Scott Fedje, who, as creative direc tor of Nau Clothes, “hand-selected all 1,000 songs to be played in Nau’s retail stores." Jon Joseph told me he “takes pictures and writes bad poetry.” Carlos Perez wishes he could be a sculptor, making papier-mache pieces “like we used to make in elementary school,” and Just Out's Jim Radosta finds his creativity by following The Artist’s Way. “I still do Morning Pages," he said. “They allow you to start every day by Floyd joins Sarah Dougher for the opening of TBA. addressing what’s on your mind and what At the next table, Malina Rodríguez and David you’re going to do about it." Banyan huddled in discussion about the night’s Aleks Peikrishvili told me his creative outlet is performances. Both worked on the festival— “authentic movement dance,” which means Malina as lighting designer for Portland contempo “listening to what your body has to say.” He attend rary dance troupe Teeth (“I find inspiration in ed the festival with Willamette Week's Stephen collaborating with other artists,” she told me) and Marc Beaudoin, who “sings and plays recorder and David as TBA’s program assistant. When 1 asked trombone with FourScore." The next night, about his creative outlets, David said he loves 1 caught Stephen showing off his blue striped “writing and connecting people together.” underwear to attorney Mike Long, who is making The Oregonians Grant Butler answered this a freeform structure out of more than 3,000 wine way: “I’d like to adopt the artistic philosophy of corks he’s collected. Taylor Mac. We should all celebrate our differences Howie Baggadonutz, who recently sold and strive to be fierce.” When pressed for an expla Wonder Ballroom (where TBA’s late-night revues nation, he said: “I’d start with my drab wardrobe took place), told me, “If 1 had time, 1 would go back and banish khakis. Let the fabulousness begin.” to performing solo standup comedy.” Carlee Speaking of the fabulous Mac, the self-proclaimed “Ezmerelda” Smith, who calls herself “a people “Bob Rope of Subversives" brought his outrageous connector,” misses her days as a burlesque costumes and ukulele to TBA again, telling a near- performer, pasties and all, and Geoff Watland is sold-out crowd, “Nothing’s worth doing unless it a burgeoning filmmaker working on a remake of makes you nervous.” “Little Red Riding Hood” starring shapeshifters. PICA’s Brian T. Wilson (not to be confused Performance artists like musician Holcombe with my best friend, Brian “BoBo” Wilson) said Waller certainly showed us the shape of things to his creative outlet is “dancing in my living room.” come, while the TBA Festival inspires all of us to express ourselves when we’re (Tut Going. © Boyfriend Eric Olson said he didn’t have one but decided, then and there, to take up “underwater basket weaving.” Alan Silver is creating a radio FLOYD S klaver wants to know about your event. E-mail him at floydsklaver^comeast.net. play about a man who apologizes to all the women £ - Ml Phillip Adams - "the number * one choreographer in Australia" ■ . 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