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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Issue 17, Volume 43, April 24, 2015

Brett Morgen,

The hunt has ended: An interview with

director of new Kurt Cobain bio doc, discusses his HBO film

Hunter Foster

The many faces of Hunter Foster – www.broadwaybox.com

by Eric Andrews-Katz SGN A&E Writer JASPER IN DEADLAND 5TH AVENUE THEATRE April 30-May 24 Hunter Foster is what you’d call a Broadway quadruple threat. He has accomplished himself as a musical theater actor, singer, librettist and now playwright. His works include the classic musicals: Cats, Les Miserables, and Grease, as well as some more contemporary shows like Martin Guerre, Footloose, King David or Urinetown, the musical. Aside from writing

the musical Summer of ‘42, Hunter Foster has now penned the new musical Jasper in Deadland.

Eric Andrews-Katz: Who were your earliest influences in becoming a performer?

Hunter Foster: I think the first person that I wanted to be was Harrison Ford. I grew up with Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, and that sort of thing. It was the first thing that influenced my wanting to be an actor. For musical theater, it was Mandy see foster page 16

Lyon Opera Ballet an accomplished modern dance troupe presents two hits and a miss

LYON OPERA BALLET UW WORLD DANCE GEORGE MEANY HALL April 16 Ballet has always been included in opera as part of its multi-tiered spectacle of drama, instrumental music, vocal acrobatics and dance. Most large opera companies have their own ballet troupes to provide visual and musical interludes – from polkas

in Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, to The Dance of the Hours in Ponchielli’s La Gioconda to a wild bacchanal in Saint-Saens’ Samson and Delilah. And let’s not forget the foot-stomping troops of gypsies and matadors in Bizet’s Carmen.

The French – who invented ballet, and in whose language both classic and modern dance continue to be taught – have been particularly committed to dance in opera from its earliest origins in the court entertainments of Lully and Rameau to the grand opera extravaganzas of Berlioz, Gou-

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by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK SIFF EGYPTIAN Through April 30 HBO debut May 4 The rock world came to a standstill on April 5, 1994 when Kurt Cobain, lead singer of grunge trio Nirvana, was found

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dead in his Seattle home. Most fans knew him as a musician, a punk poet and skilled guitarist with beautifully freakish vocals who brought issues of rejection, failure, abandonment, and rebellion to the surface of mainstream. But no one really knew him as a son, husband, or father. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is a new documentary that chronicles the journey of boy to man see morgen page 7

Nubian Pride King and Queen Pageant

by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor

Lyon Opera Ballet Sarabande – © Michel Cavalca

by Sharon Cumberland SGN Contributing Writer

Brett Morgen – photo by John Fleenor

Nubian Pride Productions held the 6th Annual Nubian Pride King & Queen Pageant, newly renamed The Ultimate People of Color Pageant April 18 at The Summit (on E Pike). The all-age’s event was attended by more than 100 people.

The Ultimate People of Color Pageant is the longest running people of color pageant in Washington state.

This year’s pageant was hosted by Honey Mahogany of “RuPauls Drag Race – Season 5” and Regine Dynasty, founder of Nubian Pride Productions.

This year the pageant honored King Star K. Lebron and Queen Beyonce St. James, last year’s reigning King and Queen, with a performance by The Electronetts Drill and Drum Team.

The newly crowned King and Queen for Nubian Pride are King Licious Dix (aka Roseanna Chillibean) and Queen Iyona No Black, respectively. The two will represent Nubian Pride for the coming year.

Nubian Pride Productions was founded

by Dennis Jimerson, also known as Regine Dynasty, in November 2009. His idea was

to create events for people from all walks of life to come together in a safe space and enjoy each other.

Nubian Pride is a Gay-straight alliance (GSA) providing quality entertainment for the purpose of charitable giving and community building that strives to educate everyone on the legacy and achievements of African-American Heritage.

Although they are a GSA organization, Nubian Pride does not limit their community service. Nubian Pride’s volunteerism and fund-raising benefits children’s organizations, cancer research, public health research and education and other organizations providing services to the local community. They serve people of all ages, races, genders, orientations, and faiths.

According to Nubian Pride Production, “Our focus is making a positive difference for people in our local communities. We strive to be role models in words and actions. We stand for acceptance, understanding and unity.”

“By attending our events, you are supporting our efforts in the community,” say officials.

For more information please go to www.NubianPride.com.

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Hozier appears in pro-Gay marriage PSA, announces Portland show this fall

Hozier – courtesy of Island Records

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer Hozier has quickly become the LGBT community’s strongest ally. The young singer-songwriter, who became an overnight sensation with his global hit “Take Me to Church,” taped a PSA encouraging his fellow countrymen and women to vote “yes” for marriage equality in Ireland. The 2.12 minute video, part of the Straight Up for Equality campaign, features the Grammy-nominated artist sincerely asking everyone to “value the equal treatment of people on our shores.” He further states, “I want to be proud to live in a nation that does not discriminate or implicitly condemn.” Hozier, a shortened version of his real name, Andrew Hozier-Byrne, has continually offered his support of Gay rights in interviews this past year. Ireland votes for marriage equality on May 22.

And, speaking of Hozier... if you missed his sold out performance at the Paramount Theatre in February, you can catch him live on October 20 at the Moda Center, in Portland.

Fans who pre-order the album at the artist’s website, adamofficial.com, will receive a complimentary download of “Ghost Town.”

Lambert will appear on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show” on April 30. Unconfirmed, though rumored, is a tour later in 2015.

Charlie XCX on July 25 (The Showbox SoDo), and Huey Lewis and the News on August 28 (Tulalip Amphitheatre at Tulalip Casino Resort). By the way, opening for Charlie XCX will be Bleachers, which features Jack Antonoff of fun.

Hot twink alert: R5 is coming to Marymoor Park this summer! The American pop act is led by super cute singer-actor Ross Lynch, who appeared on the Disney comedy “Austin & Ally,” and includes three of his siblings – Riker, Rocky and Rydel Lynch – vand a nonrelated member, El-

Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman have added a second performance at the Moore Theatre. The multi-talented, real life couple are bringing their “Summer of 69” production to Seattle on Friday, May 1. The pair made headlines recently when they, along with Grammy-winning band Wilco, cancelled a scheduled gig in Indiana in protest of the state’s religious freedom law. Besides musical numbers, the show is expected to include comedic banter between the “Will & Grace” and “Parks and Recreation” stars, offkilter skits, and possibly some naughty exchanges, since neither lovebird is known for being a goody two shoes; in fact, in interviews prior to the tour, Mullally and Offerman stated that their appearance would not be suitable for all ages. Tickets for both performances, at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., are priced at $35 and available at stgpresents.org.

“I want to be proud to live in a nation that does not discriminate or implicitly condemn” –Hozier lington Ratliff. R5 is scheduled to perform August 14 at the Redmond public park, as part of its nationwide “Sometime Last Night Tour” promoting the group’s new album by the same name. “Loud” and “Let’s Not Be Alone Tonight” are the first singles released from the 2015 record. If you watched “Glee,” you might recognize Riker Lynch as a recurring member of the Warblers from Dalton Academy. Tickets for R5, priced between $35 and $45, are on sale now at axs. com. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. on the day of the show.

Adam Lambert is back! After touring with the remaining members of rock band Queen, our favorite eyeliner-wearing glam pop star is returning with a new album called The Original High on June 16, featuring the leadoff track “Ghost Town,” a midtempo dance track that will likely become a club smash in the coming weeks. Lambert’s third studio effort was recorded in Los Angeles and Stockholm with producers Max Martin and Shellback, who’ve worked with dozens of high-brow artists from Taylor Swift to Katy Perry. Eleven tracks are included on The Original High with an adAlso coming soon to Seattle, or nearby, ditional four added to the Deluxe Edition. is Against Me! on July 19 (The Neptune),

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Finally, the lineup for the 2015 Billboard Music Awards continues to grow, thus far boasting Hozier, Kelly Clarkson, John Legend, Meghan Trainor, Sam Smith, Nick Jonas, Ed Sheeran, and Wiz Khalifa.

The ceremony is set for May 17 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

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SSO’s “become ocean” CD/DVD fails on a number of counts

by Rod Parke SGN A&E Writer SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA john luther adams: become ocean CD/DVD Try as I might, I can see no way around writing a negative review about this CD/ DVD combo set from the Seattle Symphony. Being generally inclined to like “minimalist” music, I wanted to like john luther adams’ “become ocean.” I have also been impressed by some of the recent CDs produced in-house by the Seattle Symphony and its recording engineer, Dmitriy Lipay.

But this set fails on a number of counts.

First of all, the music: Beginning with

a single, quiet low note and building on a series of arpeggios, its first moments are virtually a rip-off of the famous opening of Wagner’s RING cycle, even employing a similar scoring for bassoon. But unlike the Wagner, this opening is murky (like a polluted ocean?) and builds a wall of sound that doesn’t really go anywhere. Oh, there are undulating waves of sound all right, and cloudy crescendos. But the orchestration is so dense throughout that one can scarcely identify what instruments are playing. A much more effective musical representation of being in the ocean is to be found in the Bernard Herrmann score for the 1953 CinemaScope film, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef. There, too, arpeggios give the dreamy effect of being in water, but it’s done with utter clarity on a simple minor chord with an added 7th. The effect was pleasant and appropriately a bit ominous.

This listener found the sound of this CD unpleasant, especially on repeated auditions.

I’m willing to admit that a live experience of “become ocean” might be quite a bit more appealing and interesting, especially if one considers this description of how it was performed by the Seattle Symphony, both in Seattle and in Carnegie Hall: (Quoted from Wikipedia) “The bulk of the orchestra is split into its three natural groups, full-size strings, woodwind and

brass sections. Each group is given slowly moving sequences of sound, often in the form of arpeggios for the strings, and each block has its own rise and fall. Thus the groups overlap in an ever-changing pattern.

Harmonies are fundamentally tonal; simple diatonic intervals form the basis of the wind instruments’ staggered chords. The phrase lengths are constructed so that there are three moments when all the groups reach a climax together; the first is early on, and the second represents the greatest surge of sound. From that point, the music is played in reverse: the entire piece is palindrome.”

To be fair, respected New York critic Alex Ross, writing in The New Yorker and on his blog, gave a glowing review, saying he “went away reeling” and “it may be the loveliest apocalypse in musical history.”

And the work won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music and the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Classical Composition.

Given that the CD is accompanied by a DVD, wouldn’t it have been nice to actually see the interaction of these three groups?

The recording gives no sense of space, even when one listens to the DVD with its Dolby Surround Sound, which has the unfortunate effect of making the sound even more messy than the stereo CD. Instead, the DVD gives us only very uninteresting, very flat and not very attractive still pictures of ocean. I

would have loved to see how Ludovic Morlot conducted his musicians, for keeping time in such murky, rather shapeless music must have presented a challenge. How could the players know where they were in the score?!

Another way this CD/DVD set fails is in lack of information about the composer or the music. Instead, there are no less than five pages listing information about the SSO and its musicians. The brochure is pretty (with dark blue and indistinct images), but it does not even tell you that the piece is 43 minutes long, something almost every classical CD booklet mentions. I had to go to Wikipedia to get any information at all, other than the date and place of the recording and its engineer. Downright strange!

Lastly, the packaging makes it awkward to remove the discs and booklet. One can hardly avoid touching the recorded surfaces to extract the discs, something I try to avoid.

Minimalist music, whether classical or popular, is highly repetitive and often trance-inducing. If you wish to experience great contemporary minimalist music, try Steve Reich’s “Music for 18 Musicians” (classical) or Patrick O’Hearn’s “Between Two Worlds” (popular). To my ears, “become ocean” isn’t in the same league.

Reviewer Rod Parke can be reached at rmp62@columbia.edu.

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck has one-week engagement at Egyptian

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK SIFF CINEMA EGYPTIAN Limited Engagement Through April 30 Seattle is one of three cities – New York and Los Angeles, the other two – that will screen the new documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck at theaters, before debuting to national audiences on HBO. The film is directed by Brett Morgen, who helmed 1999s Oscar-nominated documentary On the Ropes (with co-director Nanette Burstein) and the Rolling Stones bio doc Crossfire Hurricane.

Kurt Cobain grew up in Aberdeen, and it’s here where the movie begins with a golden-haired boy blowing out the candles of his second birthday. “Kurt had to be born, it was a must,” says his mother Wendy O’Connor, who recalls the artist’s childhood, a kid who was spirited and too darn cute, whether he was running around in a Batman cape or wearing shorts with a construction hat.

But the troubles in Cobain’s life started at age 9, when O’Connor and father, Don Cobain, divorced. So things become a bit grim in the film from then on, as the rock star bounces between homes and experiments with booze, pot, sex, and even suicide. Rejection, humiliation, and alienation played big roles in his early struggles, but the bright side is that he expressed all this frustration into art, by creating songs and drawings and recordings.

Eight years ago, widow Courtney Love

handed the keys to a storage facility, where family archives and art work left behind by Cobain was kept, to Morgen, who immediately began piecing items together that would tell a more insightful story of his life, from boyhood to manhood, from son to father, from hopeful musician to global icon.

The documentary strictly centers on him, and not the grunge movement, or Seattle, or Nirvana and includes appearances by Love, O’Connor, Don Cobain and step-mother Jenny Cobain, sister Kim, former girlfriend Tracy Marander, and friend/bandmate Krist Novoselic. Personally, I love the scenes with Cobain and daughter Frances Bean, who serves as Executive Producer of the film, and footage of him singing a few notes of Soundgarden’s “Outshined.”

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck plays at SIFF Cinema Egyptian for a one-week engagement, beginning April 23, and will then premiere May 4 to nationwide audiences on HBO (9-11 p.m. ET/PT). Brett Morgen interviewed with Seattle Gay News for this week’s edition.

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continued from cover nod, and Mayerbeer. So imagine how my opera-loving heart lifted at the thought of a French opera ballet company coming to Seattle, and how thrilled I was to see that the music in all three dances on the program was by J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel – a baroque-lover’s dream! The only way I could have been happier was if the program included Glück’s “Dance of the Blessed Spirits and Dance of the Furies” from Orfeo ed Euridice.

Well – (sigh). It was not to be. Though the Lyon Opera Ballet was founded in 1969 for just the purpose described, it was reorganized in 1984 as a modern dance troupe with – as far as I can discover – no relationship at all to the Opera de Lyon. The badlytranslated program notes (unusual for the UW Dance Series) did nothing to unravel this mystery, or to explain why this group of very fine modern dancers retain the suggestion of a tradition they no longer perpetuate. Nevertheless, I quickly reorganized my hopes when I saw that Benjamin Millepied, formerly a principal dancer in the New York City Ballet and presently director of dance in the Paris Opera Ballet, was offering the first piece.

Millepied, you may recall, broke through the high-culture bubble into the low-culture limelight when he choreographed the 2009 blockbuster film Black Swan and married its star Natalie Portman. He was mentored at City Ballet by the great choreographer Jerome Robbins, and has gone on to choreograph ballets for some of the finest opera companies in the world. His dance, “Sarabande,” was the best of the three we saw, with “Steptext” by the very famous William Forsythe making a fascinating partnership. Alas, the longest and most populated dance of the evening, Emanuel Gat’s “Sunshine,” was an underlychoreographed and overly-repetitive mess that left the big-hearted Seattle audience so baffled on the night I was there that they didn’t clap at the end until the lights came up and they realized the dance was over.

Then – possibly from relief – they gave a hearty round of applause to the dancers who had already proven their mettle in the first half of the program and who were, perhaps, to be appreciated for doing their best to make meaning out of something so energetically disorganized and lacking in ideas that it was more of a free-for-all than

Lyon Opera Ballet Steptext – © Jaime Roque de la Cruz

a dance. Here’s my take on the Lyon Opera Ballet’s selection of non-opera non-ballets:

“Sarabande” – choreography by Benjamin Millepied; music by J.S. Bach The plaid-shirted men who danced this collection of short movements to Bach flute and violin partitas managed to make themselves seem like a much larger group, coming and going with such fluidity that only at the curtain call was I convinced that four dancers had executed all the variations.

Millepied’s style is a deceptively casual approach to the disciplined dance vocabulary of ballet, beginning with a soloist using swaying, kneeling, and shrugging gestures, graduating to increasingly complex and intertwined movements in duets, trios and a final quartet. Millepied gave each individual a chance to show his virtuosity, much as in classical ballet, but my favorite aspect of this dance was the global building up of engagement among the dancers until something that began simply – a dance you or I could have done in our youth – became

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something so patterned and overlaid that the very process became the dance, like a story arc that didn’t need a story. The many small dances that made this big dance were perfectly matched with Bach, and offered fruitful reflections on the often austere music of the master. I think Millepied is a choreographer coming into his own, and I hope the Paris Opera Ballet gives him a chance to expand his work, much as Mark Morris’s stint with the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels gave him the chance to develop his genius and his master works.

“Steptext” – choreography by William Forsythe; music by J.S. Bach How interesting for Seattle dance audiences to see another of Forsythe’s works on the heels of PNB’s full evening of Forsythe choreography. This fascinating work, set to strange eruptions of Bach rather than to a flowing whole, is the same era as Forsythe’s very popular “In the Middle Somewhat Elevated” (1987), the most successful of the dances presented in the PNB program.

“Steptext” has a lot of the edginess and angularity of the later, more major piece, but a very different and, for me, more coherent focus. It seemed to be working out polarities: silence versus music; black versus red; arms versus feet; stopping versus starting; light versus dark; side light versus front light; ballet gestures versus modern gestures; ancient versus modern; the male body versus the female body. Every element of this work for three black-clad men and one scarlet-clad woman pushed at some opposite, the most remarkable being a move from stillness to a breathtaking virtuosity on the part of the woman – here danced by a phenomenal Ashley Wright – whose partner seemed to restrain her from behind as she explored freedom of movement. While many of the idiosyncratic stopping and startings of music, plunges into darkness, and sudden exits seemed less exciting than it must have seemed in 1985, the questions posed by this dance were timelessly interesting.

“Sunshine” – choreography by Emanuel Gat; music by G.F. Handel; soundscape by Emanuel Gat and Frédéric Duru My subscription-buddy observed that it was good “Sunshine” was offered last because if it had been presented first no one would have stayed for the rest of the program. Though a whole gang of dancers dressed as adolescents and acting like brats raced around to the fading in and out of a Handel trumpet voluntary, there was one interesting idea that developed when the voice of a conductor began to coach the trumpets on dynamics, tempo, and sound production (if my rudimentary French served me correctly). As the conductor of the music gets the orchestra into shape, the wild cavorting of dancers begins to show some semblance of order – a theme that, after twenty or so minutes of tedious collisions and eruptions was somewhat hopeful. Sadly, however, the minute the dance seemed to offer a hint of meaning it was over – so suddenly that we, the audience, were left in dumb confusion. What more can I say about this sad misuse of a whole company of talented dancers than to direct an open letter to the Lyon Opera Ballet as follows: Dear LOB: Please remove “Sunshine” from your repertoire and insert something more worthy of your wonderful company.

May I suggest a work by Mark Morris? Or, in honor of your national and operatic history, something of Lully? Something from Faust? Or, for those of us who actually like to hear baroque music instead of bits and pieces, how about something to Glück’s “Dance of the Blessed Spirits”?

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continued from cover through music, art, handwritten notes and lyrics, rare Super 8 film footage, and intimate interviews with those closest to him.

Directed by Brett Morgen, an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker known for his acclaimed work, such as 1999’s On the Ropes, for which he won a Directors Guild of America award (with Nanette Burstein), and 2012’s Crossfire Hurricane about the Rolling Stones, this biographical project allows viewers to see Cobain as a cuddling parent, romantic hubby, disgruntled teenager, and as an adorable golden-haired tot who could light up a room. Seattle is one of three cities that will screen the film in theaters before making its May 4 debut on HBO. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck will play through April 30 at SIFF Cinema Egyptian on Capitol Hill; for tickets, go to the box office inside the theater or purchase them online at siff.net. I spoke with Morgen, en route to a premiere this week at the Cinerama, and here is what he shared with me about this wonderful documentary.

Albert Rodriguez: Where were you and what were you doing when you first heard Nirvana?

Brett Morgen: The first time I heard Nirvana was in my school cafeteria at Hampshire College, in 1990, and they were playing a show for about 150 people. And that’s about as far as I can attest to that story because I was pretty hammered and have a very vague recollection of seeing them. But the second time was at The Forum, in 1993, the second to the last show they played in the States. (laughs) And, sadly once again I was inebriated and don’t remember that much, but they were frickin’ awesome from what I can remember. But, when I came into this film – I didn’t approach the family, they approached me – I was a casual fan, but by the time I finished the film, I’ll tell you right now, I’m a hardcore fan.

Rodriguez: What are you hoping audiences take away from this film, especially longtime devoted fans?

Morgen: I’m hoping audiences will walk away with a deeper understanding and appreciation for Kurt Cobain, the man, as well as Kurt Cobain the artist. I think people identify with Kurt Cobain, singersongwriter and lead singer of Nirvana, but Nirvana was just one form of expression for Kurt. Kurt operated on so many forms of expression, so many forms of media, both orally and visually, and in a sense he was creating this oral and visual document of his life. And that’s why I feel the best place

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to get Kurt Cobain’s story is not in a book, not in an article, but in a cinema, where you can really experience him 360.

Rodriguez: In contrast to the Rolling Stones, who are still alive, when filming this documentary, did you feel the weight of the world on your shoulders chronicling the life of an icon that people continue to idolize?

Morgen: I don’t think you can enter a project like this thinking about that, or else you’d never get out of bed. I was making this film for an audience of one; that was Frances (Bean Cobain). I wanted to give her this time with her father. Quite frankly, she has no memory of her dad and she’d only been to the storage facility once, and that was only for a few minutes before this, so in a way this was my opportunity to try to bridge the gap between a father and daughter. The one thing she said to me was, “Keep it real, keep it honest.” We’re all fallible, we’re all human. In having a deeper understanding and appreciation for Kurt, the man is much more endearing and likeable than the myth. There were many sides of Kurt that we probably had limited access to, his humor, his romanticism; it’s beauti-

ful, just beautiful. It was an honor to work on the film for the past 8 years.

Rodriguez: Is there any additional footage that will be included with the DVD release? I read in another interview that footage with Dave Grohl didn’t make the cut.

Morgen: Well, Dave Grohl is way too awesome to be in a DVD extra; it just feels inappropriate. I will tell you, and you’re the first person I’m saying this to, because we haven’t discussed the DVD release yet, we’re going to do a complete and total deluxe DVD package that will be out in early November, and it will be comprehensive and I’m about to start working on it now.

We also have a brand new book coming out next week that’s going to have all the extended interviews from the film, as well a bunch of Kurt’s work that has never been seen before.

Rodriguez: Surrounding Kurt’s death, there have been conflicting stories about what motivated him to kill himself. Did you feel the responsibility or an obligation to approach this?

Morgen: Yes, it was something I was very conscious of. One can never really know exactly what was going on in Kurt’s mind at the end, but I feel with this film the audience is given an insight that has been up to now either rarely discussed or heard, so I think by the time you walk out of the movie the audience is able to have a much more informed understanding of what troubled Kurt through life than they might have previously.

Rodriguez: I was surprised with the openness of Courtney Love, especially when she confesses to almost cheating on Kurt, because those rumors were out there. Did this come up in conversation? I need to go back and watch it because it almost seems like she’s

using the film to set the record straight on this subject.

Morgen: It’s so interesting you said this because you need to go back and watch the film; I’m not even asking her about it. What I said to her was something about Kurt’s sensitivity to criticism, and then she took that and ran with it and then went into the story about Rome. I don’t think Courtney came to the interview with any idea she was going to tell me that story. In fact, after the interview she was very troubled that she had talked to me about it. But I didn’t tell her I was putting it in there until she saw the film, when it was finished. I didn’t know how she was going to react. But I think Courtney has been so abused by the lies of the media – this is my theory, I never said this to her – that I feel she was at the point where she just said, “Fuck it, I have nothing to lose.” I’m telling you, on my life, that the woman had no control or creative input into this movie. However, this movie wouldn’t exist without the generosity and the gift she gave me, which was the gift of trust and respect that I would create this sort of honest portrait that would reveal the Kurt we never knew. It was important for me that the audience experience Courtney through Kurt’s eyes, and that’s not something she said, that’s coming from me as the director. Because I felt to understand why Rome would affect Kurt the way it did, you would have to understand the investment in the relationship.

Rodriguez: I found it interesting that Krist Novoselic is identified as a “friend” and not bandmate.

Morgen: It’s funny you say that; I never thought twice about that. That’s how he would think of himself. He’s from Aberdeen, he was there from the beginning and his interview is not really about Nirvana, it’s about Kurt Cobain. This isn’t a film about Seattle, it isn’t about grunge, and it’s not a film about Nirvana, it’s about a boy named Kurt and his journey through life. I find it much closer to his boyhood than any documentary I’d seen previously. What I was drawn to was Kurt’s art and forms of expression, and the idea we can create a film from the inside out rather than the outside in.

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Crowe’s Diviner a lovely, emotionally honest directorial debut

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer THE WATER DIVINER PACIFIC PLACE Now playing Australian farmer Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe) has come to the desolate trenches and ungodly wasteland of the Gallipoli battlefield four years after the end of WWI looking for his three sons. The soldier in charge of identifying and burying the remains of the dead, Lt. Colonel Cyril Hughes (Jai Courtney), is dumbstruck as to how this man thinks he can walk into the middle of no man’s land and find what he’s looking for, his initial thought to send him packing. But his Turkish counterpart, Major Hasan (Yilmaz Erdogan), convinces him otherwise, the pair allowing Joshua a day’s worth of time to see what he can find in order to hopefully ease his unfathomable pain.

The Water Diviner, a major hit in its home country and the winner of three Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, including Best Picture, marks the directorial debut of star Crowe. Showing that his time working with the likes of Ridley Scott and Peter Weir (who, it should be noted, made Gallipoli – a film this one in no small part owes something of a minor debt of gratitude to), the actor shows strong narrative and visual chops behind the camera, allowing the primary members of his cast room to breathe and evolve at the same time. It’s a striking motion picture, emotionally honest and pure, and while it doesn’t build to anywhere too terribly surprising, the film still manages to authentically tug at the heartstrings in ways that are deeply profound.

Not that this isn’t a bumpy ride at times.

Crowe engages in some technical shenanigans, playing with film speeds and camera angles at some terribly odd moments, calling attention to the technique being utilized, allowing attentions to shift away from the central story. There’s also more going on within the confines of this feature than the running time can comfortably contain, Andrew Knight and Andrew Anastasios’ sprawling screenplay adding multiple subplots that, while giving the picture historical context, don’t always add up to anything substantive. The time jumps – both forward and back – are frequently jarring, a climactic “Three Weeks Later” set up of a final meeting between Joshua and a friendly Turk particularly annoying.

Yet, unlike Angelina Jolie’s muddled WWII survival tale Unbroken, Crowe never loses sight of the bigger picture, never forgets what’s at the heart of things. More than that, he makes the growing friendship and trust between Joshua and Major Hasan have weight, values it in ways that do both men, as well as the film itself, all kinds of justice. Their travails (as well as their travels) are linked in ways both physically and spiritually, the potent poignancy of where each man is headed never lost from the time the unlikely pair make one another’s acquaintance to the almost heartrending moment when they are forced to part company.

He also gets a number of superlative performances out the members of his cast, not the least of which is Erdogan’s spellbinding turn as Hasan. He dominates nearly every scene in which he appears, adding a layer of complexity that is as subtle as it is all-encompassing. Cem Yilmaz is also exceptional as the major’s trusted secondin-command, the irrepressible Sergeant

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Jemal, a man so used to war and conflict he can’t help but be unsettled by this supposed peace. Jacqueline McKenzie pops up in a key early role as Joshua’s emotionally scarred wife, Eliza, while the beauteous Olga Kurylenko is mesmerizing as Ayshe, a Turkish widow and hotelier, who at first doesn’t want the Australian staying in her establishment only to slowly discover that both share deep, everlasting grief brought on by the ravages of war.

It’s hard to know what to fully make of Joshua’s relationship with Ayshe’s adolescent son Orhan (Dylan Georgiades), some of their moments together having a loving simplicity that’s deeply affecting while others bristle with melodramatic stiltedness that’s irritating. Still, Crowe is smart enough to never linger on any given scene for longer than necessary, allowing silence to speak volumes and quiet introspection to pack a meaner punch than any grenade ever could. As a filmmaker, he focuses on

finding truth even in the most mundane of conversations, the finer points of cricket building fast friendships between former enemies and a cup of coffee offering a kind of solace that makes unimaginable tragedy almost endurable.

The movie is superbly shot by the great Andrew Lesnie (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring), while Chris Kennedy’s (Lawless) production design is ruggedly gripping, bringing to life this post-WWI world of wonder and terror rather nicely. Best of all might just be David Hirschfelder’s (Shine) understated, sensuously complex score, the veteran composer working with the likes of vocalist Lisa Gerrard to craft a devastating sonic landscape that fits things marvelously. But ultimately this is Crowe’s showcase and his alone, and as such The Water Diviner, while not without its faults, still makes for a fine directorial debut and is thus without question worthy of a look.

Riveting Dior puts Haute Couture under the microscope

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by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer DIOR AND I SUNDANCE CINEMAS Now playing The somewhat secretive world of Haute Couture, i.e. the major high fashion houses responsible for the dresses celebrities and their like wear on various Red Carpets the world over, hasn’t been so mysterious this past decade-plus. This is due in large part to the explosion of reality television, especially the double-whammy of “America’s Next

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Top Model” and “Project Runway.” Same time, most don’t know what goes on in a lot of these utopias of dressmaking, while others are prone to roll their eyes and turn their head the other direction when others start waxing poetic about various designers and the outfits they’ve created.

Frédéric Tcheng’s (Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel) dazzling documentary Dior and I looks to change this perspective, focusing on designer Raf Simons’ and his first haute couture line of dresses for iconic Parisian fashion house Christian Dior. Starting with his taking over as artistic director in 2012, the film looks at how

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the Belgian-born designer deals with the various weights and pressures of having to put his imprint on one of the most influential purveyors of taste and culture in the entire world. Short version? The picture isn’t near as pretty as the dresses being worn by the models walking down the runway.

What makes the film genius isn’t how it makes the world of high fashion relatable to the masses and not just the one-percent that can actually afford the clothing (which, shockingly, it does) but more in how indepth it chooses to document a work place in transition. Simons is under unimaginable pressure, trying to throw together an entire line in six weeks not the normal six months, and while the stress does get to him – how could it not – his strengths as a leader come through time and time again. His ability to delegate, to reason, to allow his people to make their own decisions and choices, trusting they will help make the line a success, this is how we like to imagine major companies are run. More than that, it also shows how communication and dialogue can facilitate any working relationship, big or small, analyzing how success isn’t just lucked into but earned every difficult step of the way.

The best bits involve the Belgian understanding just how much of an outsider he is to his Parisian workers, namely the talented seamstresses and clothiers who are respon-

sible for assembling his vision first stitch to last. He has to win them over, get them on his side, knowing if he does not his tenure as leader of Dior will be decidedly shortlived. How he navigates these relationships is the heart and soul of the motion picture, Tcheng rightfully keeping the focus there, allowing the remainder of the chaos and inspiration happening throughout to speak for itself without additional embellishment on his part.

Does the film speak to those outside the haute couture world? I think it does, the way the filmmaker analyzes and dissects workplaces and their power structures is utterly fascinating. But there’s an inside baseball aspect to this foray into Dior that’s understandably unavoidable, and those with a fondness for high fashion are certain to respond to all that Tcheng is detailing with far more passion and excitement than those who do not. For my part, I was suitably impressed by Dior and I, and can’t help but feel that those willing to take a chance on the documentary will undoubtedly feel the same after they give it a look.

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Suitably mushy 5 to 7 an enjoyable literary romance

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer 5 TO 7 Now playing Aspiring 24-year-old writer Brian Bloom (Anton Yelchin) spies the beautiful Arielle (Bérénice Marlohe) smoking a cigarette outside of the Manhattan St. Regis. Intrigued, he goes against his normally reserved nature and heads across the street to see if he can make her acquaintance.

Somehow his play works, the pair sparking up a conversation that quickly blossoms into more. Thing is, not only is the French woman nine years older, she’s also married with two kids, her husband Valery (Lambert Wilson) a respected diplomat.

Yet he’s perfectly okay with her having an affair. After all, he’s engaged in one, spending time with young literary editor Jane (Olivia Thirlby) when the opportunity arises, doing so with his wife’s full consent.

You see, as long as the rules are followed, as long as the canoodling takes place between the hours of five and seven in the early evening, everyone can remain friends.

Soon Brian, much to the bewilderment of his parents Arlene (Glenn Close) and Sam (Frank Langella), finds himself becoming part of Arielle and Valery’s extended family, even growing close to the pair’s young children while also catching the watchful eye of Jane in the process.

5 to 7 is a movie about writers, and, as such, struggling writers like myself almost can’t help but relate to certain aspects of it.

Victor Levin (Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!), making his feature directorial debut,

has assembled his script pretty much as one would expect, Brian going through the various ups and downs this May-December scenario openly hints at while also examining his thought process as he attempts to put words down on paper. Yet there is still a whimsical honesty to the protagonist’s journey I was undeniably drawn to, and while the film itself is far from being a Wonder Boys-style knockout, overall I still enjoyed this romantic trifle a fair little bit.

I don’t think this would be the case if Yelchin hadn’t been involved. Some of the voiceover he’s required to deliver can be a little ham-fisted, a little too on-the-nose, yet thanks to his idiosyncratic cadences it never annoys near as much as it probably should. More, his central performance, the way he adroitly dances his way into this relationship with Arielle, how he pieces things together as he navigates strange culturally (and sexually) ambiguous waters, all of it feels natural. Yelchin also just has a knack for tackling scenes and moments in ways that aren’t expected, making his transformation from young man to worldwise adult that much more affecting in the process.

There aren’t a lot of surprises. There really is only one place for Brian and Arielle’s relationship to end up, and while the moment that signifies the end is nigh is played with far more intensity than I was ready for, that didn’t make this third act shift in focus and tone any less by the numbers. Yet, Levin manages to get his points across in ways that aren’t always a cliché; and I like the fact the writer’s interactions with Jane – who not unsurprisingly becomes very important – remain more or less strictly

Bérénice Marlohe (Arielle) and Anton Yelchin (Brian) in 5 to 7 – www.themarysue.com

professional. On top of that, even though they’re not around much, Arlene and Sam are sensational characters, Close and Langella making the most of their few moments, adding color, insight, comedy and candor usually right when the movie needs all of those things the most.

Sadly Marlohe is mostly beauteous window dressing, the fact Arielle becomes anything memorable a testament to the Skyfall actress’ capacious talents more than it has anything to do with either Levin’s writing or his direction. Her face is a sea of emotional tumult, the moment Brian expresses feelings that once stated can never be taken back a truly extraordinary one as far as Marlohe’s shifting reactions are concerned.

But, sadly, as an actual human being, Arielle is tragically one-dimensional, making

her “La femme Robinson” (as Sam likes to call her) nowhere near as interesting as she undeniably should have been.

Be that as it may, there’s enough meat on this drama’s bones for me to be more than satisfied with where the film goes and how it ends up getting there. Yelchin, as stated, is terrific, while some of the exclamations Levin ends up expressing are one’s I wholeheartedly responded to, his ultimate statement about stories, their focus and whom they’re composed for especially so. 5 to 7 might be slight, but it is so in ways that matter, and like a piece of delicately elating pulp romantic fiction it ends up being a page turner worth reading all the way to the mushily agreeable end.

Generic Unfriended afraid to take risks out upon. Calling to mind last year’s no-budget horror sensation The Den, director Leo Gabriadze and screenwriter Nelson Greaves have done a moderately decent job setting up their premise and world, making what is happening to Blaire and her friends feel far more believable than by any rights it probably should. It moves at a decent clip, mixing up conversations between the principals, Messenger conversations between the heroine and others as well as various Internet searches with relative ease. As silly as all this might be, it’s explored rather nicely, the filmmakers managing to generate a palpable sense of dread and susHeather Sossaman (Laura) and Matthew Bohrer (Matt) in Unfriended – movie-list.com pense right from the start.

But, unlike the far superior The Den video chat, issuing an ultimatum that, if

by Sara Michelle Fetters they hang up, if they disconnect, if they at- (which, incidentally, didn’t have to sucSGN A&E Writer tempt to sever the digital connection, they cumb to supernatural mumbo jumbo in UNFRIENDED will subsequently die. You see, this spec- order to get insidiously underneath the Now playing ter wants to play a game, a deadly serious viewer’s skin), Unfriended proves to not contest of truth or consequences, wanting have the strength of its own convictions, While video chatting with her boyfriend this collection of chums to reveal secrets and while Gabriadze and Greaves’ exploraMitch (Moses Storm) and friends Jess about themselves they don’t want the oth- tion of online teen bullying is frank and un(Renee Olstead), Adam (Will Peltz), Ken ers to know. As the night progresses Blaire settling, they’re so caught up in engaging in (Jacob Wysocki) and Val (Courtney Halv- begins to realize it’s no hacker out to get various horror clichés and tropes they never erson), high school senior Blaire (Shelley revenge, Laura’s return from the grave a allow the inherent terror of the scenario to Hennig) begins receiving strange Facebook supernatural certainty, the former bullies take proper root. Additionally, other than messages from someone claiming to be suddenly finding themselves on the other Blaire (Hennig gives a subtly heartbreakLaura Barns (Heather Sossaman). This is side of the table. ing, beautifully nuanced performance more than a little peculiar because today is Or, in this case, the computer screen. that’s surprising considering the subject the one-year anniversary of the teenager’s The teen-centered thriller Unfriended matter and found footage nature of the suicide, so the fact she’s suddenly being so takes place entirely upon Blaire’s laptop, storytelling), the characters under assault chummy with her former BFF isn’t just im- and it’s through her camera, Skype con- aren’t particularly interesting, the only real possible, it’s downright creepy. nection, Facebook page and other Internet mystery being in which order they are goIt gets worse. This stranger claiming to social network havens that all of the sup- ing to die and how it is going to happen. be Laura has intruded on the company’s posedly terrifying events play themselves There are some nice touches, and I like

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how Blaire navigates through all her various social media programs and platforms as she tries to put the pieces of this puzzle into some semblance of order. I also appreciated that the messages sent via text, Facebook and Messenger didn’t always make a lot of sense, that the heroine was prone to type before fully fleshing out a thought, leading to incomplete exclamations, misspellings and cut-paste-delete-try again redo’s common to the online world. It should also be stated that a few of the deaths are rather startling, achieving the proper shock and awe the filmmakers are going out of their way to achieve.

Overall, though, the movie never wants to be anything more than a standard Bgrade thriller, content to build to a tired, unsurprisingly bleak final image that’s so foregone I could have described it in minute detail before the film itself had even started. Which, it must be stated, sucks because, for a brief second there, I kind of thought Gabriadze and Greaves were going to go the more profound, deeply disquieting route and fade to black in a way that affected Blaire’s world in ways she’d be having to deal with for the remainder of her life, no matter how short or long that might have ended up proving to be. They had the opportunity to not only shock the bejesus out of their audience, but also make a definite, tragically heartbreaking statement about the full consequences of online teen bullying. But Unfriended doesn’t go there, instead choosing the easier, more generic supernatural route, and as such becomes simple to disconnect from and, in the long run, even easier to forget.

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OUTSpoken welcomes Country recording artist Ty Herndon to Sunday’s show!

OUTSpoken, a Pacific Northwest LGBT radio talk show hailing from Spokane, WA features two dynamic hosts, Jonathan Shuffield and Sergey Grankin, who talk about issues and people affecting the LGBT community both locally and globally.

OUTSpoken is proud to welcome Country recording artist Ty Herndon to the April 26 show! Tune in Sundays 12:00 to 2:00 PST 88.1/92.3 FM or stream live from www.hotmesssunday.com.

Ty Herndon is a master of the ties that bind. The Grammy Nominated and Dove Award Winning Country Recording Artist has the ability to connect with an audience far beyond his onstage performance.

Ty Herndon has a passion and commitment to his music that shows in his lyrics. “If I haven’t lived it, I haven’t sung it” as Herndon says. For a career spanning two decades with 20 Billboard chart songs and 5 million albums sold, Herndon sees no signs of slowing down.

Starting as a teenager, Ty Herndon performed at OPRYLAND USA, won Best Male Vocalist on the iconic “Star Search,” and proceeded to receive the title Texas Entertainer of the Year in 1993. In 1995, Herndon signed with Epic Records, where he made his chart debut with “What Mattered Most,” which became his first #1 single and won Song of the Year from Music Row Magazine. His album of the same title debuted at #15 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and had the biggest

first-week shipment in the history of Epic Records Nashville.

Since then, Ty Herndon has continued to find success and overcome the hurdles that come with fame. He has released ten more albums, most recently Lies I Told Myself (2013), which highlights the original style that made him famous and also demonstrates his growth as an artist. With this album Herndon found a new platform for bonding with fans. He invited folks to participate in his album launch via a well-publicized Kickstarter campaign that allowed fan investors to be involved both financially and emotionally. The end result was a testimony to Herndon’s affinity for connection; devotees more than doubled the original funding goal.

In November of 2014, Ty Herndon was the first major market male country artist to publicly come out as Gay. Herndon received a wave of support that only strengthened his relationship with fans. Using his celebrity power for the better good, Herndon is in the planning stages of a new coalition called RALY (Rescue a Life Y’all) to help save lives and raise awareness for those with addiction or identity issues. This is not the first time he has reached out to make a difference. In the past he’s utilized his talents to work with organizations such as the Trevor Project, Make a Wish, St. Jude, and Feed the Children.

Today Ty Herndon is spending his days writing music and collaborating with all of his famed country colleagues and new up and coming artists to create the best album yet. Still the same redneck he’s always been, the king of connecting continues to exhibit all signs of a country superstar who is here to stay.

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Four all-new plays by Washington playwrights in the 2015 BILL & PEGGY HUNT PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL Featuring $10 tickets to see two plays! age Washington state playwrights to pursue their craft and to showcase previously unproduced plays written by Washingtonians.

Playwrights are invited to submit their scripts, which are evaluated by a panel of judges who select the winners. Burien Actors Theatre produces the winning plays in the festival. Top winners in the one-act and full-length script categories are produced as fully staged performances on BAT’s main stage.

The Festival was named to honor Bill and Peggy Hunt’s dedicated service to theater and their devotion to and involvement with BAT. Peggy Hunt joined Burien’s theater scene in 1960. Over the next 35 years both Bill and Peggy appeared in and directed plays, designed and built sets, served on BAT’s Board of Directors, and were involved in some aspect of every theater project.

BAT officially launched the Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival in 1999.

This year, BAT has chosen four playwrights to be honored with awards.

For about the price of a matinee movie theater ticket, you can see two brand-new and award-winning plays live in May during the Playwrights Festival at Burien Actors Theatre.

The 2015 Bill & Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival offers four weekends of four new shows written by Washington State Playwrights from May 1 through May 24.

Tickets are just $10, and each ticket includes admission to two plays – a one-act followed by a full-length.

From May 1-10, the one-act The Study Group is paired with the full-length The Skilled Use of Blunt Objects. The Study Group, written by Stephan Feldman, is a one-act comedy-drama in which a harebrained prank involving a mouse and a desk leads to issues of sexual ethics. The Skilled Use of Blunt Objects, written by Thomas Pierce, is a full-length drama that explores just how far people will go to get elected.

From May 15-24, the one-act Dr. Kritzinger’s 12 O’Clock is paired with the fulllength Four Gone Conclusions: Some Brief Field Trips into the Absurd. Dr. Kritzinger’s 12 O’Clock is a one-act study in evil about the 1942 meeting in which Nazi and

German officials set in motion the “Final Solution” for the Jews. Four Gone Conclusions: Some Brief Field Trips into the Absurd, written by Kevin Boze, is a fulllength comedy that offers an absurdist look at life, the afterlife, whales, aliens and more.

After each play is performed, audience members are invited to participate in a talk-back with the director and playwright.

These talk-backs provide the playwrights with fresh ideas, valuable comment and honest audience response.

The shows are suitable for ages 13-plus due to some adult language and content.

Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Festival sponsors include the Mark Restaurant & Bar, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax and the City of Burien.

For tickets and information, go online to www.burienactorstheatre.org or call 206242-5180. Burien Actors Theatre is located at 14501 Fourth Ave. S.W. in Burien.

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Patinkin. He was someone I wanted to be in musical theater.

Andrews-Katz: What was the first show that gave you the “Theater Bug?” Foster: For me it was – I’m trying to think – I didn’t necessarily grow up with theater. When I saw Les Miserables, I loved it. I used to think that musicals were a sort of tap dancing thing, not an overly dramatic piece. When I saw Les Miserables, I thought that was what I wanted to do.

Not that being in a tap dancing show isn’t fun; but to see a musical like that, that was so epic and grand, with real drama going on…I was mesmerized.

Andrews-Katz: Both you and your sister (Sutton) are Broadway talents. Do you two ever get competitive with each other?

Foster: Not at all! We’ve both been doing this for such a long time, I think we are happy that either of us has a job. There’s never been any sort of competition with her at all. We both believe that there is enough theater out there, and although the theater is great, there are also better aspect of our lives. It doesn’t have to take up everything in your life.

Andrews-Katz: Does it ever get awkward for either of you when you have to perform together in the same show?

Foster: We’ve only done that twice, and it was a long time ago. It was fine. We were in the shows for short stints overlapping.

It wasn’t really awkward. Actually, it was cool to have her around. We were in Les Miserables and Grease together on Broadway.

Andrews-Katz: You created the role of Bobby Strong. What was your first impression of the musical Urinetown?

Foster: I never really heard titles like that. There were a few, Bed Bugs the musical, or Toxic Avenger and you’d think,

“That’s odd. I don’t know what this is.” that I wanted to eventually tackle writing a But I read through it and thought it was in- musical. Summer of ’42 is a movie I always teresting. The music was really cool and I liked as a kid. I reached out to the screenunderstood what they were trying to do. I writer to secure the rights. We started did a reading and thought it [the show] was working on it. We got several productions pretty good. We didn’t know how good it done and a cast recording. It was something was until we put it before an audience. We that I really wanted to do, writing a musididn’t know what to make of it until the au- cal, and Summer was going to be the first. dience started to laugh. You never know It’s been great. sometimes until then. You can be in a reAndrews-Katz: How would you sumhearsal room and everyone agrees that it marize Jasper in Deadland? works, and that the Foster: I think moment is funny. it’s a show about When you get it in this kid who has front of an audithis friend (that ence they may not has become more get the joke. I’ve than Best Friends) seen it happen over but he is afraid and over again. to love someone.

AndrewsHis own family is Katz: You played dysfunctional. His the role of Sey(girl) friend accimour in the Broaddentally falls into way production of a lake and drowns.

Little Shop of HorHe goes after her rors that was Tony into the UnderAward nominated. world. It’s sort of What was your a modern retellaudition process ing of the Orpheus Hunter Foster – www.theatermania.com like? legend, where he Foster: Oh, I don’t even remember, it has to find and bring her back to the Earth. was so long ago. I was doing Urinetown It’s also a show about dealing with parents at the time. I remember auditioning, and it and what it is to be a teenager in contemwas odd because they were calling me in porary times. These two kids sort of have for Seymour. I wanted to play the dentist. parental issues, and family issues, and they They said, “You’ll read for Seymour” and go through Deadland together. When they I didn’t think I did that well. Then they come out, they come to terms with some called me back and I got it. We went out of of the issues they are facing. It’s also a love town and the production closed. Then they story as well. It’s how people learn to love made changes in casting, directors, and the each other despite the obstacles in life and entire production. They kept me. death.

Andrews-Katz: What inspired you to Andrews-Katz: What was the inspirawrite the libretto for the musical The Sum- tion behind the musical? mer of ‘42?

Foster: Ryan Scott Oliver is the coFoster: I’ve always wanted to be a writ- book and composer of the show, and it was er before I wanted to be an actor. I knew his idea. We have the same agent and she

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ABOUT THE BILL AND PEGGY HUNT PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL The mission of the Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival is twofold: to encour-

of quality live theater serving residents of the Seattle and south Puget Sound areas.

Burien Actors Theatre gives audiences an intriguing and invigorating theatre experience with unusual and fantastical productions they can’t get on a DVD or see anywhere else. The company’s mission is to treat audiences to productions of the highest artistic integrity that excite, engage and involve both the local and expanding theatrical communities in the Puget Sound region.

BAT is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) entity and operates on revenue from ticket sales, donations, grants, sponsorships and volunteers.

TICKET PRICES & PACKAGES Tickets at the Box Office or Online: $10 ticket provides admission to the evening or matinee set of plays.

Dinner and a Show Package: This package includes a two-course meal at the Mark Restaurant & Bar plus a ticket to the show; cost is $25 per person. Contact the Mark at 206-241-6275.

ABOUT BURIEN ACTORS THEATRE Incorporated in 1980, Burien Actors Theatre (BAT) has been a leading producer

hooked us up together. He wanted to do a mash up of all these different legends and tales from mythology. He used Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythologies from all sorts of backgrounds. He fleshed out the characters more and the storyline, and we started working off of his drafts. I found it interesting because it was a real opportunity to score [musically compose] what it was like to be a modern teenager. The pitfalls a teenager faces and also a parallel to what we face in life.

Andrews-Katz: Are there advantages in being an established actor before writing a libretto?

Foster: I think it all goes hand in hand.

I think I know when I’m writing, how I would say it as an actor. I’ve been writing characters with different arcs and journeys that I would want to do as an actor. I try to put myself in the situation as an actor, and ask – “does this make sense to you” or “how would I say it.” It’s very helpful to have both perspectives.

Andrews-Katz: If you could play any role – regardless of limitations – what would it be and why?

Foster: That’s a big question! I always wanted to play – because it is one of my favorite musicals – the M.C. in Cabaret. I thought he was one of the most interesting characters ever written. He’s sinister, yet a showman and there are so many fun things about it. I’ve never gotten to play him and always wanted to. I auditioned for to take over when Alan Cumming was in the role (originally in 1999). I got close but Michael C. Hall got the role after Alan left.

Hunter Foster has appeared on Broadway in many different roles. He was nominated for his role in the Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors. On television he has appeared in “Bunheads” alongside his sister.

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C.C. ATTLE’S BAR & GRILLE 1701 E. Olive Way - 726-0565 THE CANTERBURY - 534 15th Ave. E. - 322-3130 CHANGES IN WALLINGFORD 2103 N. 45th - 545-8363 THE CRESCENT - 1413 E. Olive Way - 720-8188 THE CUFF COMPLEX 1533 13th Ave. - 323-1525 DIESEL BAR - 1413 14th Ave. - 322-1080 DOUBLE HEADER - 407 2nd Ave. S. - 464-9918 GLO’S - 1621 E. Olive Way - 324-2577 HOT MAMA’S PIZZA - 700 E Pine St. -322-6444 JAZZ ALLEY - 2033 6th Ave. E. - 441-9729 JULIA’S - 300 Broadway Ave. E. - 860-1818 KREMWERK - 1809 Minor Ave. #10 - 682-2935 MAE’S CAFE 6412 Phinney Ave. N. - 782-1222 MADISON PUB - 1315 E. Madison - 325-6537

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Meetings Events Activities

TO GET A CALENDAR LISTING: To have your meeting or event considered for the Community Calendar, please mail, fax, or drop off details to: SGN, Attn: Community Calendar, 1605 12th Ave, Ste 31, Seattle, WA 98122.

SGN phone: 324-4297. Fax: 322-7188. E-mail: sgn2@ sgn.org. INCLUDE: Date, time, location, contact phone # for publication (if possible), brief description of event & sponsoring organization. DEADLINE: Tuesday 5pm.

ACCESSIBILITY: Is your event accessible to LGBTQ people with visible or hidden disabilities? See Jean’s List webpage www.scn.org/activism/calendar/disabilities. html for Marla Nonken’s disabilities accommodations lists.

NOTE: Phone numbers accompanying listings are within area code (206) & locations of meetings/ events are in Seattle unless otherwise noted.

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SUNDAY - April 26

Spring Thaw (4/23-4/26). A social weekend presented

by Northwest Bears. www.springthaw.org Seattle Soto Zen. 9:15am-Zazen Instruction, 9:30amZazen. 101 Nickerson St, Lower Level. Follow the traditional forms of the Soto school of Zen in a spirit of warmth & inclusion. Anyone interested in meditation, whether new or experienced in Zen practice or other traditions, is welcome. 323-1659, www.seattlesotozen.org Gay Men’s Bowling in Everett. 10am. Evergreen Lanes, 5111 Claremont Way, Everett. Every Sunday.

Spectators welcome. Join us for lunch afterwards!

Sponsored by the Snohomish County Gay Men’s Task Force. For info email John at johndmarsh@mac.com Seattle Arboretum Foundation’s FlorAbundance Plant Sale. Sat: 9am-5pm; Sun: 10am-2pm. Magnuson Park, Building 30, 7400 Sand Point Way NE. Featuring dozens of specialty nurseries selling an amazing selection of locally grown edibles, annuals, perennials, and woody plants. All sales will benefit the Washington Park Arboretum.

Seattle Center Festal: Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival (4/24-4/26). 10am-6pm.

Seattle Center Armory, Fisher Pavilion and Seattle Center Pavilion. This feast for the senses features Japanese food, Taiko drumming and artisan demonstrations that present both a modern and ancient view of this complex culture. www.cherryblossomfest.org.

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Lambert House Art Night. 7:30-9:30pm. 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. Bring your ideas & let’s have some fun.

322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Unity Gay Men’s AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St. Tacoma. Every Monday.

(253) 474-8897.

Washington Gender Alliance Support Group Meeting in Shoreline. 7:30pm. Center for Human Services, 17018 15th Ave NE, Shoreline. Meets every Monday. For information email info@washingtongender alliance.com Les Be Honest. 8-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Open women only AA group. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org.

TUESDAY - April 28

SATURDAY - April 25

Spring Thaw (4/23-4/26). A social weekend presented

by Northwest Bears. For a list of events & venues visit springthaw.org Seattle Arboretum Foundation’s FlorAbundance Plant Sale. Sat: 9am-5pm; Sun: 10am-2pm. Magnuson Park, Building 30, 7400 Sand Point Way NE. Featuring dozens of specialty nurseries selling an amazing selection of locally grown edibles, annuals, perennials, and woody plants. All sales will benefit the Washington Park Arboretum.

Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 9am. Greenlake (outside Evans Pool). Every Saturday. GLBT running & walking club sponsors weekly runs, monthly potlucks, track & field activity, annual Run With Pride. 448-8518. www.seattlefrontrunners.org.

Seattle Center Festal: Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival (4/24-4/26). 10am-6pm.

Seattle Center Armory, Fisher Pavilion and Seattle Center Pavilion. This feast for the senses features Japanese food, Taiko drumming and artisan demonstrations that present both a modern and ancient view of this complex culture. www.cherryblossomfest.org.

Seattle’s Architectural History (1930s-1970s). 1-3pm.

Seattle Public Library, Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave. UW professor and architectural historian Jeffrey Karl Ochsner will present the history and influences of Seattle’s regional modern architecture development from the 1930s-1970s. FREE. www.spl.org.

Seattle Erotic Art Festival (4/23-4/25). Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, 3rd Ave N & Mercer St. Thurs 4/23 7pm1am; Fri 4/24 2pm-2am; Sat 4/25 12noon-2am. www. seattleerotic.org Fox Theatre presents “Little Shop of Horrors” - in Centralia. 2pm & 7pm screenings. Fox Theatre, 123 S Tower Ave, Centralia. $8 single; $20 family. www. brownpapertickets.com/event/1388550.

Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 6pm-12 midnight. Call for location & details. Every Saturday. (253) 671-2838. www.oasisyouth center.org.

(Also meets Thursdays & Fridays 4-10pm.)

Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 6pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Saturday. Games also on Tuesdays & Thursdays. $4 fee includes coffee & snacks.

For more information visit www.rainbowbridgeclub.org or email rainbowbridgeclub@gmail.com Pride Comedy Series: Heidi Foss with Nico Santos (4/23-4/25). Thurs 4/23 7:30pm; Fri 4/24 7:30pm & 10pm; Sat 4/25 7:30pm & 10pm. Parlor Live! Comedy Club, 1522 6th Ave. Thursday only 18+, other days 21+. Tickets $25 general, $30 VIP. www.parlorlive.com Bearing Witness: Performing Arts Program for Queer Youth of Color & Allies. 9pm. Delridge Community Center, 4501 Delridge Way SW. 8Music! Drag!

Dance! Spoken Word! More! Features performances by local Queer youth of color & allies, sharing their stories, exploring their art, creating space & opening a door for celebration & awareness in the community. Facebook. com/QuareArts or rodney.greene@seattle.gov

April 25 thru May 3

Seattle Sunday Bowling. 10:30am. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW (at SW Oregon St). Open bowl every Sunday for the GLBT community & friends. You don’t have to worry about how you bowl! $6.50 + $2 shoe rental. (425) 785-4725.

Meditation for GBT Men. 11am-1pm. Cal Anderson House, 400 Broadway. Suitable for beginning & experienced meditators. Sponsored by Dharma Buddies.

Contact Forrest Rode, 920-6117, Mike Chin (509) 990-0007, or Doug Allison, doug.l.allison@gmail.com. www.dharmabuddies.org. (Women may wish to contact our sister meditation group at www.LotusSisters.org.)

Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step (Narcotics Anonymous) group open to anyone in recovery. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org Paths to Recovery Al-Anon Family Group. 12-1:30pm.

Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave, Room 122. Every Sunday. LGBTQ supported. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org Rain City Soccer Club - Ripple Effect. Every Sunday afternoon. Location varies. Ripple Effect soccer team plays a weekly recreational scrimmage game for Gay guys in Seattle. To sign up visit www.raincitysoccer.org Seattle Prime Timers Rap Group. 12:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Subject: “How necessary is physical intimacy for an authentic relationship?” Metro routes 10, 12, 43. www.seattleprimetimers.org No Safeword Writers Group. 1pm. Meets 4th Sunday each month. For info & location, NSWG@sexpositiveculture.org; www.nosafeword writersgroup.org (Also meets 2nd Tuesday, 7pm.)

Rain City Jacks. 4th Sunday each month at 1pm; 1st & 3rd Tuesday each month at 7pm. West Queen Anne/ Interbay. Location & membership details provided upon request. RCJ is a traditional jack-off club. Friendly, sexpositive, non-profit and private. Membership required.

Adult men only. Enroll at the door. www.raincityjacks. org, email info@raincityjacks.org or call 1-888-809-5035.

Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: 5-6:15pm; Mon/Weds/ Fri: 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Every Sun, Mon, Wed & Fri. Pre-registration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www.orcaswimteam.org

April 24, 2015

Shame to Grace Sunday SAA. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Sunday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women who share their experience, strength & hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction & help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency. Seattle SAA helpline 237-8828, SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Pride League Bowling. 6:30pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. Every Sunday (except during the summer). Regular league bowling. Jeff, 932-3731.

Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Every Sunday.

MONDAY - April 27

SOBER - On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. 12-step group open to anyone in recovery & living on a medicine regimen. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Strength Over Speed. 2-3:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Healing Words. 6:30-8pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Monday. Drop-in group open to all who are healing from trauma, addiction, or just the challenges of life in general. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

Pozitively Me! 6:30-8pm. Gay City Health Project, 517 E. Pike St. Every Monday. A group and conversation about HIV for Gay & Bi men newly diagnosed and for Gay & Bi men facing the challenges of living with HIV longterm. www.gaycity.org.

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. FredLind Manor, 1802 17th Ave. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.FreelySpeaking.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7-8:15pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

PFLAG/South King County Monthly Meeting. 7pm.

Unitarian Universalist Church, 25701 14th Pl S, Kent.

Meets 4th Monday each month. Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays is a national support organization for parents, spouses & families of GLBT persons, as well as those sexual minorities. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724.

Trans Youth Group. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Monday. A chance for youth to talk with others about their experiences & concerns related to identifying as Transgender. www.lamberthouse.org

Lesbian & Gay Child Care Task Force Monthly Meeting. 12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Meets 4th Tuesday each month. The Task Force, in conjunction with Child Care Resources of King County, offers referrals to GLBT-welcoming child care centers & provides training, support & curriculum materials to child care providers. (To access this, call 329-1011 & ask for the “Gay-welcoming” child care programs in your zip code area.) The task force meets monthly to assess their progress in achieving their goals.

Simply Positive. 2:30-4pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in support & social group for anyone HIV/AIDS positive. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Artful Expression. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. This is an ongoing art group to visualize the journey thru creative expression. 322-2437; www. sasgcc.org LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton. 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. Meets every Tuesday. Confidential. Snacks provided. Bring friends or come alone - anyone 12-18 is welcome. Questions? Call Sarah Hardin, 425-271-5600 ext 155, or email sarahh@rays.org Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12 step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. For information visit www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Unite for Marriage Seattle Celebration Rally. 6-7pm.

Outside of William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthhouse, 5th Ave & Spring St. On April 28, SCOTUS will hear oral arguments on the subject of national marriage equality.

Movement leaders will stand in solidarity with communities across the nation to send a message of love and understanding, as well as celebrate local progress made so far. Guest speakers include: U.S. Senator Patty Murray, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, Equal Rights Washington and former Washington United for Marriage co-founder Rod Hearne, organizers Sarah Toce and Laura Lee Sturm, musician Spencer Mister and additional guests.

Diverse Harmony. 6:30-9pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave. Every Tuesday. Diverse Harmony is the nation’s first Gay/Straight Alliance Youth Chorus. Youths ages 13-22 are welcome regardless of sexual orientation. www.diverseharmony.org LGBTQ MS Connection/National MS Society. 6:308pm. Swedish Conference Center, Cherry Hill Campus, James Tower, 550 17th Avenue, Room E, 1st Floor.

Meets the 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month. MS Connection is a support group with the goal of providing a safe environment for the LGBT community to express their experiences and the impact of MS on their lives and the lives of their loved ones, as well as provide support for one another. Contact Shelly at 206-250-5002 or LGBTMSConnection@gmail.com.

Queer Young Females Group - For Female-Identified Youth, Ages 22 & Under. 6:30-7:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Tuesday. Topics range from family issues to school happenings to like/lust/love relationships. All Queer females welcome. Come discuss how smart. strong Queer women live their lives. 322-2515, www. lamberthouse.org Tuesday Night Sex Addicts Anonymous (GLBTQI).

7-8:30pm. All Pilgrims Christian Church, 500 Broadway E (enter at 509 10th Ave E; buzz in, Dickson room). Every Tuesday. SAA is a fellowship of men & women whose primary purpose is to stop addictive sexual behavior & help others recover from sexual addiction. Seattle SAA helpline 237-8828. SAA International Service Organization 1-800-477-8191.

Over 40’s Group - For Lesbian Women 40 & Older.

7-8:30pm. University Congregational Church, 4515 16th Ave NE, Pilgrim Room. Every Tuesday. Open group for Lesbian women, 40 & older, in every stage of coming out or being out. Lots of social activities in addition to Tuesday meetings. 545-3521.

Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Tuesday. (See Saturday listing at 6pm.)

Different Drummers. 7:15-8:30pm. Every Tuesday.

Hand drumming classes for Gay men. It’s easy, it’s fun & anyone can do it! Learn traditional African & AfroCaribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques.

Experience connection, community & spirituality. Drums are provided. For info & location call Dennis at 363-4500 or www.outdrum.com What About Me? 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Tuesday. Drop-in social, support & discussion group for Gay & Bi men of all ages. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

Celebrating 41 Years!

Here & Now Gay & Lesbian AA Meeting in Tacoma.

7:30pm. Christ Episcopal Church, 310 N “K” St, Tacoma.

Every Tuesday.

Spiritual Empowerment. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. A group for all LGBT & friends of any spiritual belief to explore how spiritual practice can enrich their life. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Bellingham. 7:30-9pm. St James Presbyterian Church, 910 14th St., Bellingham. Every Tuesday. (360) 445-2411; www.washingtongenderalliance.com. (See Wednesday listing at 7:30pm for details.)

Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. GLBT & GLBT-friendly co-ed water polo team is open to all who want to play. Beginners & experienced players welcome. Check our website for up to the minute details, or call the Otter Hotline 414-8797. www.otterpolo.com.

Seattle Poetry Slam. Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm. Rebar, 1114 Howell St. Every Tuesday. A spoken word poetry event that features a weekly open mic, feature poet, and slam (poetry competition). Come out and express yourself. LGBTQ- & QTPOC-friendly; all genders welcome. $5. 21+. seattlepoetryslam.org

WEDNESDAY - April 29

Mature Friends Morning Exercise/Health & Fitness Get-Together. 10am. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Every Wednesday. An hour of health-related activities, followed by a walk around Greenlake & lunch at a local restaurant. MF is a social group for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.org True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline.

4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important issues, building a supportive community. For information, location & to REGISTER call Lindsay Bagley 362-7282 x 8018 or email lbagley@chs-nw.org GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): A Support Group & HIV/STD Prevention for Youth (14-20) in Everett. 6-8pm. CCA Building, 3331 Broadway - Bottom Floor, Everett. Every Wednesday.

Sponsored by PFLAG Everett chapter. David/Brenda, (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@hotmail.com The Rowing Team Peer Recovery Group. 6-7:30pm.

All Pilgrims Church, 500 Broadway E. Meets every Wednesday. This peer recovery group provides a safe & supportive faith community to share your recovery journey with, God answers our prayers & sends us a boat.

Sometimes rowing furiously for yourself & sometimes for others. All are welcome.

Seattle Gay & Lesbian Book Club. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Discuss the best LGBT novels with other book-lovers in a safe, comfortable conversation. Come once or come every week.

Check our website for this month’s book. http://faculty. washington.edu/swittet/sglbookclub/ SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Lotus Sisters Meditation & Dharma Discussion North. 6:15-8pm. Ravenna Bryant neighborhood. Meets every Wednesday. Call 525-7295 for location. www.

LotusSisters.org.

Center for Spiritual Living. 6:30pm-Meditation, 7pmService. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! Info 527-8801 ext 203, www. cslseattle.org Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 6:30pm. Volunteer Park (in front of Black Sun across for museum). Every Wednesday. (See Saturday at 9am.)

HIV/AIDS Support Group. 7-8:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Wednesday. Please arrive by 7:00pm.

FREE peer-facilitated emotional support group for HIV+ men who are newly diagnosed or newly dealing. 3222437; www.sasgcc.org Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm.

Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300.

All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. No fee, donations welcome. www.ingersoll center.org Seattle Movie Bears Movie Night. Check website for details. Every Wednesday night. Gay & Bi men enjoy a movie at a local theater with opportunity to socialize before & after movies. More info: http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/seattlemoviebears; or e-mail: seattlemoviebearssubscribe@yahoogroups.com Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7:30pm. Call for location. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting in Everett. 7:30-9pm. Everett United Church of Christ, 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Every Wednesday.

Trained peer facilitators lead a structured support meeting helping people deal with issues of gender identity & expression. All adults are welcomed, including those who are questioning, allies, or identify as FTM, MTF, Transgender, Queer, or Intersex, among others. (360) 445-2411; www.washingtongenderalliance.com.

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GAY CITY ARTS SEASON 3: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Gay City Arts Curating Council is seeking proposals for the 2015-2016 Season: “Queer Revolution.” We invite LGBTQ artists to present the best of queer performance art in Gay City’s 40-seat fringe theater space, Calamus Auditorium. This is an opportunity to propose performances and events, which seek to push the boundaries, perception and perspective of queer performance.

Art and life are a product of cycles. What seemed revolutionary before may seem commonplace now. What does it mean to be a queer artist today? What do today’s artists owe to the efforts of our queer ancestors?

What will queer art look like in the future?

How will queer art bring about change?

Gay City Arts is committed to bringing the Seattle community the best of queer art and performance from a variety of disciplines. Theater, dance, music, performance art, spoken word, film/video, new media and interdisciplinary projects are welcome.

Deadline for proposals is 11 p.m. on Wednesday May 6, 2015. All submissions must be made electronically, via email. For complete details, visit www.gaycity.org/ arts-season/

Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober Group.”

12noon-1pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Open meeting of AA. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting.

12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of women facing HIV together. 720-5566 or 888-292-1912; www.babesnetwork.org.

Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Thursday. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Fridays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

Everett-Snohomish County Friendship Dinner for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS. 6pm. Grace UMC (formerly Firs United Methodist). Meets last Thursday most months. FREE. Everyone welcome. Sponsored by the Evergreen AIDS Foundation & SNOCO Gay Men’s Task Force. For information call (425) 252-7751.

Shifting Gears. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. Drop-in support group (non 12-step) for anyone of any orientation or gender who desires recovery from drugs or alcohol. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group). 6:30-8pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. Sponsored by Youth Eastside Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth.

(425) 747-4937.

Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation - Contemplative Service. 6:30pm. 7141 California Ave SW. 935-0418, office@wsuu.org, www.wsuu.org Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 1422. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a male volunteer. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org Rainbow Duplicate Bridge. 7pm. Bus-accessible Central Area location. Every Thursday. (See Saturday listing at 6pm.)

Buddhism & Recovery. 7:30-9pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery group.

THURSDAY - April 30 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Dining Out for Life. 150 Seattle area restaurants will Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm. Group donate 30-50% of their proceeds to feed those fighting Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium. hunger & illness. Proceeds benefit Lifelong, a Seattle- Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & based community health organization that supports Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, people living with chronic illnesses including HIV/AIDS. anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring For a list of participating restaurants visit www.llaa.org fathers & friends. You are not alone. For information, community events & “questioning” visit www.gfas.org or our message board at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/

Visit us online www.sgn.org

gayfathersseattle Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm.

SASG, 303 17th Ave. E. Every Thursday. A discussion group that is strictly focused on sexual topics and relationship issues related to being a Gay male. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Seattle Otters Water Polo Team. 8-9:30pm. Medgar Evers Pool, 500 23rd Ave E (at E Cherry St). Every Tuesday & Thursday. (See Tuesday listing at 8pm.)

FRIDAY - May 1

Margarita Marathon Cinco de Mayo Weekend (5/15/5). Join Neighborhood Grills & Lunchbox Laboratory for their Margarita Marathon. $1 from each margarita sold will be donated to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. For a list of participating locations visit www.neighborhood grills.com & www.lunchboxlaboratory.com Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Friday.

(253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Thursdays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 303 17th Ave E. FREE drop-in support group (not a 12-step) for Gay & Bi men who desire recovery from meth. www.strengthoverspeed.org. SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Columbia City Beatwalk. 7-10pm. Columbia City Gallery, 4864 Rainier Ave S. 1st Friday each month, May thru September. Columbia City retailers, restaurants & cafes combine the love of good music with good books, fine dining & provocative art. An evening of folk, reggae, R & B, ethnic music & more. Admission to all venues: $5. www.columbiacitybeatwalk.org.

First Fridays in Yakima. 7-9pm. 223 N 1st St, Yakima.

Meets 1st & 3rd Fridays. Social, support, education & advocacy group for the Yakima area GLBTQ community & their allies. All are welcomed & invited. (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html Lambert House Queer Movie Night. 7-9:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Friday. Lambert House is a nationally-recognized activities & resource center for GLBT & questioning youth, ages 14-22. 322-2515, www.lamberthouse.org Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm.

The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western dancing for the LGBTQ community. FREE. www.raincountrydance.org.

Destiny Gay AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St, Tacoma. Every Friday.

(253) 474-8897.

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Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 7:45pm.

Seattle Counseling Service, Rainbow Room, 1216 Pine St at Melrose Ave. Every Friday. (See related listing Sunday at noon for details.) Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www.seattle-al-anon.org

SATURDAY - May 2

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

Friends of the Seattle Public Library Spring Book Sale (5/2-5/3). Sat: 9am-5pm; Sun: 9am-4pm. North Seattle College, 9600 College Way N, Rooms CC1161 & the old cafeteria. Items for sale include fiction and nonfiction books for all ages, CDs, DVDs, audio books and collectible books. Items will sell for $1-$3. All items halfprice on Sunday. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own bags or wheeled suitcase. www.friendsofspl.org.

Margarita Marathon Cinco de Mayo Weekend (5/15/5). Join Neighborhood Grills & Lunchbox Laboratory for their Margarita Marathon. $1 from each margarita sold will be donated to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. For a list of participating locations visit www.neighborhood grills.com & www.lunchboxlaboratory.com 1077 The End’s 5th Annual Taco Truck Challenge.

Trucks start serving food at 11am; music starts at 1pm; Taco Truck Challenge Winner crowned at 4:30pm.

Volunteer Park, 14th Ave E & E Prospect St. Over 25 mobile food trucks serving taco-themed items and a $5 beer and margarita garden (21+) benefiting the Seafair Foundation. The day starts with the Fiesta 5K Ole Fun Run through Capitol Hill. www.1077theend.com; www. tacotruckchallenge.com El Centro de la Raza’a 10th Annual Cinco de Mayo Celebration. Festivities: 3-8pm; Baile/Dance: 6-8pm.

Jefferson Community Center, 3801 Beacon Ave S. Includes live music, entertainment, prizes, children’s activities, craft and informational booths, and traditional Mexican foods for sale. Admission and parking FREE. www.elcentrodelaraza.org Northwest Bears Potluck and Meet & Greet Beer Bust. 6pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave at E. Pine St. Meets 1st Saturday each month. Northwest Bears is a Gay men’s social and service organization providing a focal point within the Gay community for Bears and Bear admirers. www.nwbears.com.

Rainbow Bingo Fundraiser. Doors 6pm, Bingo 7pm.

South Park Neighborhood Center, 8201 10th Ave S. Called by Sylvia O’Stayformore. Benefits South Park Senior Citizens. To REGISTER visit spseniors.org Bearing Witness: Performing Arts Program for Queer Youth of Color & Allies. 9pm. Southwest Teen Life Center, 2801 SW Thistle St. Music! Drag! Dance!

Spoken Word! More! Features performances by local Queer youth of color & allies, sharing their stories, exploring their art, creating space & opening a door for celebration & awareness in the community. Facebook. com/QuareArts or rodney.greene@ seattle.gov Sandra Bernhard in Olympia. Doors 8pm, Show 9pm.

The Capitol Theater, 206 5th Ave SE, Olympia. Tickets: advance $30, day of show $35, VIP $100 includes meet & greet, photo op, champagne & snacks. www.olympia filmsociety.org

SUNDAY - May 3

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

Friends of the Seattle Public Library Spring Book Sale (5/2-5/3). Sat: 9am-5pm; Sun: 9am-4pm. North Seattle College, 9600 College Way N, Rooms CC1161 & the old cafeteria. Items for sale include fiction and nonfiction books for all ages, CDs, DVDs, audio books and collectible books. Items will sell for $1-$3. All items halfprice on Sunday. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own bags or wheeled suitcase. www.friendsofspl.org.

Margarita Marathon Cinco de Mayo Weekend (5/15/5). Join Neighborhood Grills & Lunchbox Laboratory for their Margarita Marathon. $1 from each margarita sold will be donated to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. For a list of participating locations visit www.neighborhood grills.com & www.lunchboxlaboratory.com Border Riders Motorcycle Club First Sunday Ride.

9am-rendezvous; 9:30am. Broadway Grill, 314 Broadway E. Meets 1st Sunday each month. BRMC provides a social & educational fraternity for individuals interested in recreational motorcycle touring. www.border riders.com 5th Annual National Eating Disorders Association Walk. Registration 12:30pm, Walk 1:30pm. Seattle Center, 305 Harrison St. $25 adult, $15 student, $10 child under 12, $5 pets. To REGISTER visit www.nedawalks. org/seattle2015.

PFLAG/Kittitas County. 4-5:30pm. First United Methodist Church, 3rd & Ruby Sts, Ellensburg. Meets the first Sunday of every month. For information, (509) 925-7937.

Seattle Jazz Vespers. 6-8pm. Seattle First Baptist Church, Seneca St & Harvard Ave. 1st Sunday of every month (October-June). The historic Gothic sanctuary of Seattle First Baptist Church is offered to the best jazz groups in the city to perform 100 minutes of their own popular music. FREE. For info 325-6051, www.seattlefirstbaptist.org/sjv

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Allyship - an organization of LGBTQ individuals fighting for economic and social justice. www.LGBTQ Allyship. org, allyship@yahoo.com, 279-8169.

American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/AnotherGay-Social-Club/ Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. com/guide.html BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for Bisexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www.

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Bremerton/Kitsap County - www.outwestsound.org Capitol Hill Alano Club - www.chacseattle.org Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) 963-1994.

DIFFA/Seattle (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS). 763-8885; www.diffaseattle.org DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: Crisis Clinic, 461-3222 (24 hour line); King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) - 24-hour crisis line for information, support, & medical & legal assistance: 1-888-99-VOICE; Northwest Network - support & advocacy for Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse & Dating Violence, 568-7777 (voice), 517-9670 (tty), www.nwnetwork.org; Pierce County Domestic Violence Helpline: Teresa, (253) 798-4166; Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities - offers on-going support groups for men: 323-1768; Seattle Police Dept Domestic Violence Unit, 684-0330; State Wide Domestic Violence Hot Line, 1-800-562-6025.

In an emergency call 911. Report domestic violence and sexual assault.

Equal Rights Washington - 324-2570; www.equal rightswashington.org Everett/Snohomish Cty - www.gaysnohomish.org Freely Speaking Toastmasters - www.freely speaking.org Gay City organizes events & activities for Gay & Bi men & offers anonymous & confidential HIV/STD testing at the Center for LGBT Health, 517 E Pike St. More info or to schedule an appointment, 860-6969. www.gaycity.org Gay & Lesbian National Hotline (GLNH): 1-888-THEGLNH (1-888-843-4564). Non-profit, peer-counseling, information & local resources telephone hotline for GLBT people across the country.

GLSEN/WA - Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network - 330-2099; www.glsenwa.org Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) - 3639188; www.thegsba.org HIV/AIDS Program, Seattle/King County Dept of Public Health, provides confidential/anonymous information about & testing for HIV/AIDS. 205-7837. For a comprehensive list of HIV/AIDS service organizations see the GSBA Guide or visit www.thegsba.org or call Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979.

Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & the Olympic & Rainier Empire - www.facebook.com/ISCSORE; www. imperialcourtofseattle.com Lambert House - 322-2515; www.lamberthouse.org LGBT Library - 517 E Pike St. Open Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. A wide range of fiction and non-fiction for the LGBT community and allies can be borrowed free of charge.

LGBT MS Connection - 250-5002; LGBTMS Connection@gmail.com. Support group for LGBT persons with MS and their partners and their caregivers. Sponsored by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Lifelong AIDS Alliance - 328-8979, www.lifelongaids alliance.org MEN: Gay City: 860-6969, www.gaycity.org; Knights of Mantra: 329-0886, www.jetchapterkofm.com; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.mature friends.org; Northwest Bears: www.nwbears.com; The Olympians: www.TheOlympians.net; POZSeattle: www.pozseattle.org; Q-Squared: www.qsquared.org; Rain City Jacks: 888-809-5035, www.raincityjacks. org; Seattle Gay Couples: www. seattlegaycouples. org; Seattle Men in Leather: www.seattlemeninleather. org; Seattle Prime Timers: Gay & Bi men 40 & over, www.seattle primetimers.org. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.)

MUSIC: Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony.org; Rainbow City Band: 1-866-841-9139 ext 2126; rainbowcityband@onebox.com; www.rainbowcity band.com; Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus: 388-1408, 323-0750. www.flying house. org.

Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project - gayhistnw@aol.com Northwest Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.org Olympia/Thurston County: www.RainbowCenterOly. org Out & Equal Workplace Advocates/Seattle Regional Affiliate supports the work of LGBT employees and the growing number of ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) making a difference within local companies, including Alaska Airlines, Amazon.com, Amgen, AT&T, Bank of America, Deloitte, Macy’s, Microsoft, Russell Investments, Safeco Insurance, Starbucks Coffee, Xerox. www.outandequal.org/affiliates/seattle PARENTHOOD: Families Like Ours provides a gateway for LGBT families interested in adoption & provides a network of safe placement agencies, training, support & resources: 441-7602, www.familieslikeours. org; Family Works offers support, information & activities for LGBT families: 694-6727, www.familyworksseattle. org; Gay Fathers’ Association of Seattle offers support groups & social activities: www.gfas. org; Proud & Loud Families - Northwest, www.meetup.com/proudand-loud-families-northwest, plfnorthwest@aol.com; Queer Parent Networking Dinners: 568-7777, info@ nwnetwork.org; Rainbow Families of Puget Sound: www.rainbowfamiliesps.org PFLAG is the national organization for parents, families, allies, and LGBTQ people united for equality with chapters in Seattle, Bellevue/Eastside, the Puget Sound region and across Washington state. PFLAG Seattle: 206-325-7724, info@pflagseattle.org, and www.pflagseattle.org; PFLAG Bellevue/Eastside: 425483-6642, info@bellevue-pflag.org, http://community. pflag.org/PFLAGBellevue; PFLAG Pacific Northwest: www.pnwpflag.org; PFLAG Washington state: www. pflagwsc.org.

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PEOPLE OF COLOR: Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Network Program at API Chaya, 467-9976; Center for MultiCultural Health, 461-6910, www.multiculturalhealth.org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, 322-7700, www.entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, 7813565, iya@ilelailai.org; Men of All Colors & Cultures Together (MACCT), 923-8313, macctseattle@yahoo. com, www.macctsea.org; Nubian Pride Productions, nubianpride@gmail.com; People of Color Against AIDS Network (POCAAN) offers rapid HIV testing, M-F, 10am-5pm, 322-7061, www.pocaan.org and on Facebook; Seattle Two Spirit, SeattleTwoSpirit@ hotmail.com; Sistah 2 Sistah, LBT women of African descent, 322-7061, 255-8951; Sistah Sinema, www. sistahsinema.com, info@sistahsinema.com; TrikoneNorthwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www. trikonenw.org; Two-Spirit Honor Project, 1-866-6850164; U.T.O.P.I.A. Seattle.

Pride Foundation - 323-3318; www.pridefoundation. org Project NEON is a program of Seattle Counseling Service providing FREE information & services to Gay & Bi men to reduce health risks associated with methamphetamine use. 323-1768. www.crystalneon.org Public Health-Seattle & King County Online Comprehensive Health Information for Sexual Minorities: www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/personal/ glbt.aspx Q Law: The GLBT Bar Association of WA - 682-6711; www.q-law.org Q Law GLBT Legal Clinic - 235-7235.

Resource & Referral Line can connect you to LGBTfriendly resources throughout Puget Sound and beyond.

Call 323-LGBT Mon-Fri 2-8pm; Sat 2-5pm. At other times leave voice mail and your call will be returned. Or visit www.gaycity.org to view list of resources online or through Facebook.

Safe Schools Coalition - www.safeschoolscoalition. org; 451-SAFE (451-7233).

SEAMEC interviews, researches & rates candidates for public office on issues of concern to the LGBT community. 905-9941, www.seamec.org Seattle Area Support Groups & Community Center (SASG) is a non-profit organization that builds community and cultivates powerful, healthy lives by providing emotional support and personal development services to those affected by HIV/AIDS, the Queer communities, and those who love them. Our work is done in a spirit of safety, trust, inclusiveness, and celebration of individual differences. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org

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Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities - 684-4503.

Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities is a community mental health service for GLBT persons & their families providing comprehensive mental health services on a sliding scale. 323-1768.

Seattle Out & Proud - 206-322-9561; www.seattle pride.org Seattle Police Department Sexual Minorities Community Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle.gov Seattle PrideFest - www.seattlepridefest.org Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) E-zine is an electronic resource distributed to people affected

by HIV/AIDS, case managers, front line workers & other health professionals. Now a part of Lifelong AIDS Alliance, 328-8979, www.thebody.com/step/steppage.html Servicemembers Legal Defense Network - (202) 328-3244; www.sldn.org SHIFT: A Peer Recovery Network - www.shift recovery.org Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Abbey of St. Joan - 860-3666; www.theabbey.org Snohomish Health District HIV/AIDS Program provides free confidential/anonymous HIV counseling & testing 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, until 7pm Tuesdays.

(425) 339-5298.

Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea) - www.facebook. com/socialoutreachseattle South Sound Q Calendar - LGBTQ events in Tacoma, Olympia & Sound Puget Sound area; www.South SoundQCal.com Spokane/Inland Northwest - www.outspokane.com; www.stonewallnews.net SPORTS & RECREATION: Bent Car Guys: www. bentcarguys.org; Border Riders Motorcycle Club: www.borderriders.com; Bottom Dwellers Scuba Club: www.bottomdwellers.org; Capitol Hill Cyclers: join their Facebook group or email capitolhillcycling@ groups.facebook.com or jordan.l.simonson@gmail.com; Cascade Flyers: www.cascadeflyers.org; Different Spokes Bicycling Club: www.differentspokes.org; Emerald City Mudhen Rugby: www.mudhenrugby. com; Emerald City Softball Association: www.emeraldcitysoftball.org, www.eteamz.com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: ethylforever@hotmail.com; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Olympic Yacht Club: www.oycnw.org; OutVentures: outdoor education & recreation activities, www.outventures.org; Pacific Northwest Gay Rodeo Association: www.pacificnwgra.org; Puddletown Squares: www.

puddletownsquares.org; Rain City Soccer: www.raincitysoccer.org; Rain Country Dance Association: a country-western dance organization catering to the LGBTQ community but open to all, www.raincountrydance. org; Sea Dawgs: LGBT ice hockey - SkateSeaDawgs@ gmail.com and on Facebook; Seattle Frontrunners: www.seattle frontrunners.org; Seattle Gay Basketball Association: www.seattlegaybasketballassociation. com; Seattle Orca Swim Team: www.orcaswimteam. org; Seattle Otters Water Polo: www.otterpolo.com; Seattle Quake Rugby: www.quakerugby.com; Seattle Tennis Alliance: www.seattletennisalliance.org; Seattle Unified Bowling Association (SUBA): magee98106@ aol.com, www.teamseattle.org/bowling.htm, www. thepride league.com, Century 21 League; Seattle Volleyball Club: www.seattlevolleyballclub.com; Ski Buddies: www. skibuddies.org; Team Seattle Gay Sports Network is an umbrella organization for a wide range of local GLBT sports activities, 367-4064, www. teamseattle.org (see website for comprehensive list of sports clubs); Triangle Recreation Camp at Bender Creek: recreational camping for GLBT folks. Must be 21; ID required. trc@camptrc.org, www.camptrc.org, 1122 E Pike St #1069, Seattle 98122-3934.

Strength Over Speed - www.strengthoverspeed.org Tacoma/Pierce County - Rainbow Center, 2215 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, a resource center for the LGBTIQA community of Pierce County, (253) 383-2318, www. rainbowcntr.org TRANSGENDER: Emerald City Social Club: (425) 827-9494; Gender Alliance of the South Sound: www.SouthSoundGender.com; Gender Justice League: www.genderjusticeleague.org; Gender Odyssey: www.genderodyssey.com; Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group: 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: 329-6651, www.ingersoll center.org; The New BoyZ Club: www.olympiaftm group.webs.com; Olympia Trans Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/pages/Olympia-Trans-DiscussionGroup/262449878114; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www.washington genderalliance.com WOMEN: BABES: support groups for HIV+ women.

720-5566, 1-888-292-1912; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Lesbians Over 40: 7220729; Mature Friends: Gay men & women 40 & over, www.maturefriends.org; Older Lesbians Organizing for Change/WA State Chapter: gloria@oloc.org, mary@oloc.org, www.oloc.org; Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives: www.pnwlesbianarchives.org; RainshadowWomen: RainshadowWomen@aol.com; Seattle Girls of Leather: www.sgol.org; Tacoma Lesbian Concern (TLC): www.tacomalesbianconcern.org; WOWS: a fun, member-driven social group for Lesbians, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/womenofwest seattle; YWCA Women’s Health Outreach: providing low or no-cost mammograms for income eligible 40+ LBTQ individuals. Follow us at http://lbtqhealth-ywca.blogspot. com, twitter.com/ingridWHO or email lbthealth@ywcaworks.org, 461-4493. (See also listings under Bisexual, Parenthood, People of Color, Transgender.)

Yakima: First Fridays - (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students.

WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools.

330-2099; www.glsenwa. org; www.wagsa.org. GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): a support group & HIV/STD prevention program for GLBTQ youth, 14-20, in Everett, (425) 263-2908, www. globeyouth.org; Health Education Youth Outreach: for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24 - Jessica Hatlo, 206957-1665, jessicah@llaa.org; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 3222515, www.lamberthouse.org; www.MatthewsPlace. com; Oasis Youth Center: for GLBTQ youth, ages 14-25, in Tacoma, (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcen ter.org; Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG)/Puget Sound: 325-7724, www.seattle-pflag. org; Pizza Klatch: weekly lunchtime support groups for LGBTQ youth in Thurston County, www.pizzaklatch.org; Prism: for LGBTQ youth, 14-21, in Puyallup - Cherise.

Alexander@ multicare.org; www.facebook.com/PuyallupPrism; Proud Out Wonderful (POW!): for LGBTQ youth, 13-21, in South King County, 206-326-9112, www. facebook.com/proudoutwonderful; Q Youth Resources: in Kitsap County - 360-698-3335; www.kchaf.org; Queer Youth Space: 206-495-9963; www.queeryouth space. org; Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS): LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth drop-in group, ages 12-18 Sarah Hardin, 425-271-5600, ext 155; sarahh@rays.org; Safe Schools Coalition: www.safeschoolscoalition.org; 451-SAFE (451-7233) (non-emergency), 1-877-SAFESAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888431-TEEN; The Trevor Project: 866-4-U-Trevor; www. thetrevorproject.org; True Colors - Connecting LGBTQ Teens: in Shoreline, 362-7282 x 8018, lbagley@chs-nw. org; Vista Youth Center: for LGBTQ, questioning and allied youth, ages 14-21, in Kennewick, 509-396-5198, www.vistayouthcenter.org; YouthCare/Orion Center: 622-5555; YouthCare/Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): 5228412; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoudGLBTQ): 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273-TALK, www. yspp.org

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