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Issue 12, Volume 45, March 24, 2017

Arts & Entertainment

Andrew Christian at underU4men March 30 to promote his new book Sex=Power=Freedom

(l) Model Arad with Andrew Christian – Photo courtesy of andrewchristianimages.com

The hottest new item by fashion designer Andrew Christian isn’t a pair of latex underwear – it’s a three-pound, reflective silver coffee table book. Now, the provocateur-turned-author is stopping by Seattle and Portland to promote Sex=Power=Freedom and to dance the

night away.

Described as his “passion project,” Sex=Power=Freedom tows the line of scandalous on every one of the 200 black and white glossy pages. The book mostly see ANDREW CHRISTIAN page 8

SWC’s A Woman’s World a powerful concert in support of women’s rights and achievements

Seattle Women’s Chorus during A Woman’s World – Photo courtesy of Seattle Women’s Chorus

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer SEATTLE WOMEN’S CHORUS A WOMAN’S WORLD CORNISH PLAYHOUSE March 17-19

For the second Seattle Women’s Chorus concert with Paul Caldwell, Caldwell focused on women’s plight in the world for the first act and gave the second act over to a full-fledged opus to famous women see A WOMAN’S WORLD page 8

PNB’s Director’s Choice Seattle Jewish Film Festival: presents thrilling program Pamela Lavitt talks to SGN – Gay Gezunt March 26 of new works

Pacific Northwest Ballet soloist Sarah Ricard Orza with company dancers in Jessica Lang’s Her Door to the Sky, which PNB is presenting as part of DIRECTOR’S CHOICE, March 17 – 26, 2017 – Photo by Angela Sterling

by Sharon Cumberland SGN A&E Writer PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET “DIRECTOR’S CHOICE” MARION OLIVER MCCAW HALL March 17 (continues through 3/26)

Pacific Northwest Ballet’s annual “Director’s Choice” program presents new works by living choreographers so that Peter Boal, PNB’s Artistic Director, can show audiences how ballet is developing in the see DIRECTOR’S CHOICE page 5

Still from Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? – Photo courtesy of Seattle Jewish Film Festival

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer SEATTLE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL March 25-April 2 http://seattlejewishfilmfestival.org/

With the 22nd annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival (SJFF) launching on Saturday, I managed to fit in a brief chat with SJFF and Stroum Jewish Community Center Cultural Arts Director Pamela Lavitt. see SJFF page 13

Anacortes is the crown jewel of Fidalgo Island, the drive-to island accessible by bridges with a myriad of recreational activities.

Enjoy sailing, whale watching, hiking, kayaking, mountain biking, golf, camping, sport fishing, bird watching, beach combing, and much more. The island has numerous marinas, plus over 50 miles of forest trails and a number of city parks.

Anacortes also boasts a host of art galleries, antique shops, boutique cafes, and restaurants with locally sourced specialties.

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Celebrating 41 Years!

Blondie & Garbage, Natalie Merchant, Phillip Phillips on Chateau St. Michelle’s summer lineup I’ve got a few additional concerts to announce and here they are: British housetechno act Simian Mobile Disco, who’ve interviewed with Seattle Gay News before, will play a DJ set at Nectar Lounge on May 11, indie folk band Cowboy Junkies will perform at the Neptune Theatre on July 15 and electronic trio Above & Beyond will appear at The Gorge Amphitheatre on September 16 and 17.

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer Wine and live music? There’s no better way to spend a summer evening and thanks to Chateau St. Michelle, you can see some of the biggest performers on stage in the coming months surrounded by stunning vineyards just 30 minutes from Seattle. The complete lineup for the winery’s Summer Concert Series was unveiled this week, kicking off June 1 with a performance by Elvis Costello, followed by two sold-out concerts by John Legend on June 3 and 4.

The Moody Blues will entertain crowds on back-to-back nights at the Woodinville outdoor venue, June 10 and 11, and then legendary artist Santana will play a pair of sold-out shows on June 23 and 24. Chris Isaak appears on July 1 and then a doublebill featuring Blondie & Garbage is happening July 13, followed by Lyle Lovett & His Large Band on July 15, Lindsay Buckingham & Christine McVie (of Fleetwood Mac) on July 19, Natalie Merchant on July 22, 2 Cellos on July 23 (sold out), Diana Krall on July 28, Festival of Jazz (Herb Alpert & Lani Hall, David Sanborne, Marc Antoine, Kandace Springs) on July 29, Wine Country Blues Festival (Buddy Guy, Charlie Musselwhite, John Mayall, Colin James) on July 30, Allen Stone on August 4, Michael McDonald & Boz Scaggs on August 10, Bryan Ferry on August 11, ZZ Top & The Doobie Brothers on August 25, Chicago on August 26, Gipsy Kings on September 1, The Australian Pink Floyd Show on September 4, Steve Winwood on Sep-

Among the new music releases this week is RuPaul’s latest album, American. The multi-talented performer, who is also developing a TV series with Star Wars: The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams, stated in an interview with Logo’s internal website newnownext.com that it’s “a beck and call to reclaim what this country really stands for which is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I think it’s so important now to do that.” American is available now at your favorite online or traditional record store.

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tember 8, Pink Martini on September 9 & 10 and Goo Goo Dolls with Phillip Phillips, who interviewed with Seattle Gay News two years ago, on September 15. Tickets for all newly announced shows go on sale March 25 (10am) at Ticketmaster.com, or charge by phone at (800) 745-3000. For more information on Chateau St. Michelle’s summer shows, log onto wineryconcerts.com.

Finally, farewell to yet another music icon who passed away recently, Chuck Berry. The legendary guitarist and singer was a rock pioneer, praised by everyone from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones to Guns n’ Roses. Numerous fellow artists, including Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, John Mayer, Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Brian Wilson and Gary Clark Jr., to name just a few, expressed their condolences on social media when he died on March 18. His hits include “Johnny B. Goode,” “Roll Over Beethoven” and Maybellene.” RIP to a music master, Chuck Berry.

Red Hot Chili Peppers fire up Key Arena with thrilling show

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS KEY ARENA March 17 In case you were wondering, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are doing fine. Actually, they’re doing very well. Just ask any of the nearly 20,000 fans who crammed into Key Arena last weekend and they’ll tell you that the legendary rock band is probably sounding better than they ever have.

The group, which was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013, opened their concert with “Around the World,” after a short instrumental jam, in front of a sold out audience that never sat down from the second the act went on stage. All around the arena, people stood on their feet for the duration of the two hour show, even through the slower numbers, and on the main floor close to the stage fans jumped and danced jubilantly like kids playing in a bouncy house.

The Chili Peppers – lead singer Anthony Kiedis, guitarist-bassist Flea and drummer Chad Smith – certainly look older, at least from the last time I saw them live, back in 2006 at White River Amphitheatre.

But they’re in good shape, and they’ve still got their chops, individually and collectively. Kiedis, who wore solid black shorts with matching shirt, shoes and baseball cap, along with cartoon character-printed tights tucked into a gray pair of socks and a thick

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but groomed moustache, was in standout form on Friday night vocally, singing or rapping his way through about 16 songs from the band’s earliest years to present day.

What fans didn’t get to hear were two of the group’s biggest hits, “Can’t Stop” and “Dosed,” but on the bright side they listened to superb renditions of several Chili Peppers’ classics, such as “Otherside,” “Snow (Hey Oh)” and Aeroplane,” not to mention a really soulful version of “Californication” featuring Kiedis singing mesmerizingly front and center of the stage, then turning to face sideways with his self-reflection appearing on a gigantic screen behind Smith’s drum set, which was actually made up of thin, long metal beams that stretched from the platform up to about 20 feet high.

Magically, a series of tubular lights, that looked like rows and rows of illuminated candles, hung over a portion of the main floor and frequently moved in various formations during the show. It was like having a carpet of lights directly over our heads the entire concert, at times dipping down to almost within arm’s reach.

From their new album The Getaway, the four-piece – with newly added member Josh Klinghoffer, in baggy rust-colored pants and a double-layering of oversized long-sleeve tee shirts – introduced three new songs, including “Go Robot” and the leadoff single “Dark Necessities.” The third entry was “Goodbye Angels,” squeezed into the encore.

Before lunging into a wild, exciting rendition of “Higher Ground,” a Stevie Wonder cover that also became part of RHCP’s own catalog when they recorded it for the album Mother’s Milk in 1989, Kiedis asked everyone to take off their shirts and wave them around as a “throwback” to the old Chili Peppers days.

“We’re going to wave them like we really don’t care!” shouted Flea, donning a pair of baggy pants that were made completely from stitched-together patches and a sleeveless shirt that fit him more like a vest.

As they were told, concertgoers throughout the venue – mostly men ranging in age from 20 to 45, some with muscular bodies – went shirtless, dancing energetically to the song. Kiedis himself took his shirt off and never put it back on for the remainder of the night.

A super lively version of “By the Way” closed out the main set as large graffitilike images flashed rapidly at the blink of an eye on the makeshift screen. For an encore, a trio of songs included a short solo cover of Malfunkshun’s “Until the Ocean”

by Klinghoffer and then RHCP closed it all out with a much-anticipated performance of “Give It Away.”

As they exited the stage, Flea thanked everyone for attending the show and reeled off a short list of Seattle bands that he praised for their music, including Alice in Chains and Soundgarden. This capped an amazing performance by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, an act adored by fans that apparently has a lot still left in the tank.

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SGN EXCLUSIVE:

Gay pop artist, Matt Zarley joins the movement with The Estrogen Sessions

by MK Scott SGN Contributing Writer Broadway veteran, Billboard dance sensation and People Magazine’s firstever Gay “Hottest Bachelor” Matt Zarley has received critical acclaim as an LGBT artist for over a decade since his debut on the music scene. His latest release, The Estrogen Sessions, a tribute to some of his favorite female singers is Zarley’s first entirely self-produced project. It was released on Wednesday, March 8, 2017, to coincide with International Women’s Day. The project concept was born while Zarley was working on his web series, “UnCOVERED,” which features Matt re-imagining and covering a popular song, as well as filming a music video of each tune. Matt noticed a trend that almost all of the songs he was gravitating to were originally made famous by women.

This has been my third interview with Zarley in six years, and my second in over a year, I had a chance to chat with Matt by phone on March 15th.

MK Scott: I was thrilled to hear about your new album already, so soon after last year’s Hopeful Romantic. You just released The Estrogen Sessions, which was smartly released on International Women’s Day. Was that planned like that?

Matt Zarley: It was. I can’t lie, it was.

I started working on the project before and then I would say probably midway through the project, I was like, when can I release this? I wanted to do something coinciding with a special day or something, something specific. And I thought, oh, International Women’s Day, that’s perfect, that’s coming up. So it was probably like six months ago when I realized that International Women’s Day was on the horizon. So it just worked out perfectly. I just finished the album probably a month before. So it worked out great.

MK: So this is your first self-produced album?

Matt Z: It is, yeah.

MK: And also something new that you haven’t done before, and that’s doing an album filled with covers.

Matt Z: First time, yeah. I mean, I sort of toyed with the idea for a while, and I had this music web series that I’ve been working on for like a year and a half. And I was working on that in the beginning and realizing that almost every song that I was covering were women’s songs. So I was like, hm, this is sort of a recurring theme, so to take something true from this and turn it into something bigger, so that’s where the idea came from.

MK: And of course, the timing cannot be even more perfect, with like the Women’s March and a lot of other issues that currently we’re facing in the moment, and so it’s just perfect timing.

Matt Z: Oh, thanks. I mean, that was just totally unplanned. Obviously, I didn’t know that all of those events were on the horizon when I was starting to work on this.

But the timing seemed to present itself as a good time.

MK: So, you get to sing “I Will Always Love You,” “He Used to Be Mine,” “Together Again,” “Take a Bow,” “Angel of Mine,” and all of that, and also “I Look to You.” And also you get to do a duet with…

Last time it was Shoshanna (Bean). This time you get to do it with Billy Porter (of Kinky Boots fame). How was that?

Matt Z: Oh, it was great. I mean, Billy and I have been friends… He’s one of my oldest friends, probably, in New York, friends for almost 30 years, believe it or not. We’ve been trying to sort of make this happen for a while, but the timing never worked out and the project was never ideal or for whatever reason, it just never presented itself in the ideal way. And with this project, it just seemed like all the pieces were in alignment, we could make it happen, and it was really great. I’m really, really ecstatic that it finally came to fruition.

MK: And I remember how Whitney

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Houston was such a huge influence on you.

I remember when you were performing over a couple years ago, I saw you live in North Hollywood there, and this was right after Whitney had died, and you had shared a little bit of a story about working with her.

Matt Z: Oh yeah, yeah, you know, having both of these songs on the album… I mean, in all fairness, I have to give credit to Dolly Parton, because obviously “I Will Always Love You” is her song. And honestly, if I am speaking completely candidly, the first time I heard it was her version, when she recorded it for The Best Little Whorehouse film. And that was the first time I heard the song, and I fell in love with the song back then. And then, of course, Whitney did her

that’s kind of scheduled regularly where I actually do get a chance to cover a song or two that people actually request, so that’s how it was born. People would request songs that they wanted to hear me sing, and I would do a new version of the song and shoot a… I like to call it a “factoid video,” where I had little bits and pieces of factoids that people maybe didn’t know about the song and I would incorporate that in the music video as I presented the song itself.

That would happen, pretty much once a month is when that would happen. That was sort of the precursor to The Estrogen Sessions, so that’s sort of how that was born.

MK: Are you still working on “UnCOVERED”?

Matt Zarley – Photo by Matt Zarley

version, which was iconic, and I would never, ever even think of covering that song because it is so iconic, it is so identifiable with her more than anything. You know, I actually recorded the song for a dear friend of mine’s 50th birthday guests, It’s his favorite song. So I’m like, I’m gonna record that song as a gift to him, and it turned out better than I anticipated, and I said, I think I’ll put this on the album. So it actually sort of worked out. Yes, she’s always been a huge influence of mine, pretty much from the beginning, really, from starting singing lessons and back when I was a teenager and she was really the standard that everyone sort of held themselves to. I was honored to cover her songs for this project.

MK: If I remember correctly, you guys did work together once, didn’t you?

Matt Z: We did. I – work together. I was in “Cinderella,” which is a TV film she appeared in and produced in. And we didn’t really work together, if I’m being completely honest. But I mean, she was in it, and I was in it, so I guess we kind of did, indirectly. So she was executive producer and star of that version, which was with Brandy, who I did work with quite a bit.

MK: Also, you had mentioned a little something about your web series, “Uncovered.” Tell me a little bit about that.

Matt Z: I had gotten several requests over the years from listeners and supporters of my music that they wanted to hear me cover this song or that song. I thought, you know, the best way for me to do something like that would be to create something

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Matt Z: I’ve taken a break from it only because of working on The Estrogen Sessions, and I’m going to be shooting a bunch of videos for The Estrogen Sessions, so it’s like a step back, so I could do that. So, at the present time, I’m actually not working on “UnCOVERED,” because I’m working on The Estrogen Sessions, which is sort of a division of “UnCOVERED,” I guess, in a sense.

MK: In fact, you might be able to include some of the videos in “UnCOVERED.” Matt Z: Exactly, right?

MK: Also, of course I always ask this of you. Last time I spoke to you last year, you were still single. Are you still eligible?

Matt Z: I am still eligible, yes.

MK: Yay! We love it.

Matt Z: At the moment.

MK: We still got to get you onto the OUT eligible list.

Matt Z: Well, you make that happen, would you, MK? MK: Yes, we’ll try to work out some magic to say, you know, how come Matt is not on the list every year? Put him on the list!

Matt Z: Well, get me on that list, and make me ineligible. That would be perfect.

MK: Excellent. This is my burning question… In fact, I just thought of this today. Would you ever consider going back to Broadway?

Matt Z: Absolutely, for sure. If the right opportunity presented itself, without a doubt.

MK: What would be your dream role?

Matt Z: A role that hasn’t been done yet.

MK: A new show?

Matt Z: Something that I could create, something that would showcase the vocal ability side, and present myself in a way that no one’s really seen me be presented before. Something that would be life-changing and career-changing. I think that’s what it would require for me to go back to New York. I love my home here, and I love my life here, and for me to pick up and go back, it would definitely have to be something special. But I am so open.

Without a doubt, I’d be open to that.

MK: So my next important question is related to my last question, is about your feelings about the current political climate, and how we can motivate today’s youth?

Matt Z: Oh God, that is a long discussion. The political climate presently, I think, is a disaster… as in quoting Donald Trump, “I think it’s a disaster.” I think, I think what’s happening right now in our country is very scary, honestly. I’m not even being dramatic. I know a lot of people feel the same way, but I think it’s crazy what’s happening, and disheartening and heartbreaking and scary, quite frankly. I mean, I just, I almost hesitate sometimes even looking at the news because I’m afraid of what I’m going to read. And I just think that, you know, so much groundwork has been laid for the next generation. I feel like the torch has to be passed at some point, and they need to start doing their share. I mean everyone has to get involved. I just feel like people depend on little bits and pieces of what they read, and a lot of times don’t do all the research they need to do to really find out what’s going on. And so that’s kind of where we got into trouble this last election. I feel like people just assumed that Hillary was going to win, and we all know what happened, and it didn’t happen that way. I think people got complacent. And I think we can’t get complacent. We have to keep moving, especially when things, when freedoms and certain rights are in jeopardy, which is really scary. People need to stand up for what they believe in, and whatever that is, at least stand up for whatever that is and not get complacent. I think that’s the biggest thing is still to be complacent, because you can’t take it for granted because it may be gone tomorrow. Which is frightening, but it’s scary what’s going on, in my opinion. This president scares me, actually.

MK: Like I said, the more we unite, the more we’re going to hopefully win the fight, win the battle.

Matt Z: I just think we can’t get complacent, we’ve gotta keep moving, and we can’t assume that the fight is over or that the struggle is over, because it’s not, clearly.

Exactly like you said, we’ve got to unite and keep trudging forward, and standing up for what we believe in.

Matt Zarley’s The Estrogen Sessions is available on iTunes and other digital outlets. For more information, visit MattZarley.com. Follow Matt on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @MattZarley.

Hear the full interview on MK’s podcast at podomatic.com/podcasts/itsfab MK Scott is a local arts blogger. Check out his blog at outviewonline.com

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Celebrating 41 Years!

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hands of the young masters. This year we’re seeing two works we’ve never seen at PNB before – David Dawson’s fantastic “Empire Noir” and Jessica Lang’s lyrical “Her Door to the Sky.” We’re also seeing “New Suite,” a work presented two years ago in the allWilliam Forsythe program, which has now entered PNB’s repertoire.

When works enter a company’s repertoire, like Balanchine’s “Jewels,” Cerrudo’s “Little mortal jump,” Wheeldon’s “Tide Harmonic” and Pite’s “Emergence” (all returning to PNB next year), audiences progress beyond the pleasure of the moment – though the moments are always pleasurable – to creating a ballet memory.

They learn to compare and contrast works and choreographers, and to develop discerning taste. Knowing what you like and what you don’t like isn’t taste: knowing why you like or don’t like something is taste.

We can thank PNB for giving us the ability, over time, to see a large variety of quality work that enables us to be a discerning audience with broad tastes. Of course, Seattle wouldn’t even have a ballet company if not for Francia Russell and Kent Stowell, PNB’s Founding Artistic Directors, who recognized the potential of Seattleites to make ballet happen here. Now Peter Boal continues to expand our horizons and develop our taste with his worldwide knowledge of choreographic talent. Here are his Director’s choices for this year, in the order in which they were performed.

“Empire Noir” (2015) Choreography: David Dawson Music: Greg Haines Costumes: Yumiko Takeshima Usually the most thrilling piece – the one that brings audiences to their feet for extended cheering and applause – is presented last, like a fireworks display. In this case, however, David Dawson’s exciting “Empire Noir” was presented first and yes, we leapt to our feet cheering at the end.

Though the dance was “noir,” the choreography and music were in Technicolor.

The monochromatic set uses a dramatic black parabola (think upside-down swoosh) and bright, white, shadow-casting light to create performance fields for the black-clad dancers. Greg Haines’ percussive music – bells, drums, wood clappers, horns – and Dawson’ daring, architectural movement are the fireworks contained in this dark world.

Haines’ sharp, rhythmic music fuses with the movement, driving dancers into ever more vivid and architectural shapes. The dance began with all ten dancers facing the audience at the footlights, arms extended to

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Lindsi Dec with corps de ballet dancer Miles Pertl in William Forsythe’s New Suite, which PNB is presenting as part of DIRECTOR’S CHOICE, March 17 – 26, 2017 – Photo by Angela Sterling

one another, like cut-out dolls from another planet with one hand at a ninety-degree angle up, and the opposing hand at a ninety degree angle down. This motif returned repeatedly as Dawson explored odd numbers of dancers – three, seven, five, one, nine – in an ever-shifting numerical universe.

One particularly striking move has a male dancer grip his partner under the arms in a floor-skimming swing as she forms a diamond with her legs. It’s potentially ungainly, yet strange and absorbing. And just in case we didn’t fully grasp it the first time it came around, Dawson has all five couples perform the same low swing at the finale, moving the group in a large circle like the orbit of a planet that has stars circulating inside the perimeter. There were amazing fishtail-shaped lifts with the women uplifted in backbends, there was the clever device of dancers entering and leaving the stage at a run, and the continuing use of the hands as gestures independent of the arm, unlike the classical tradition of the hand as

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Jerome Tisserand in the American premiere of David Dawson’s Empire Noir, which PNB is presenting as part of DIRECTOR’S CHOICE, March 17 – 26, 2017 – Photo by Angela Sterling

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an extension of the arm. There are so many dramatic configurations of the body and the corps of dancers in this ballet that one can only wonder at the inventiveness of Dawson’s choreographic mind. I haven’t been this impressed with a modern ballet since Crystal Pite’s “Emergence.”

“New Suite” (2012) Choreographer: William Forsythe Music: George Frederic Handel, Luciano Berio, Johann Sebastian Bach Costumes: William Forsythe and Yumiko Takeshima This collection of seven duets to Handel’s “Concerti Grossi, Op. 6” and Luciano Berio’s “Duetti per Due Violini Vol 1” is not exactly new in that they are harvested from Forsythe’s years of choreographing longer works in various settings – many in Germany where he was the choreographer in residence at the Frankfurt Ballet. New costumes did much to signal to the audience a connection among pieces that might otherwise seem random. The more classical, courtly dances were performed in skirts and tights while the more modern dances were performed in short pants for the women and knee-length leotards for the men. It was a subtle difference, but effective, in that the mood of each piece was visually matched with the aural qualities of the music. In 2015 I thought this program was a bit disjointed, but this year it struck me as an integrated meditation on the duet form, and its progression from courtly origins to the edgy, angsty present.

Just as Picasso mastered classical drawing before breaking out into his cubist experiments, so Forsythe shows us his mastery of classic dance forms in the first three sections of this piece before letting loose with modern movement. Charming dancers dance charmingly to charming music – which is to say, we see the elegant lines, the flowing gestures, the gentlemanly attention of the cavalier to the lady, and her sweet return of regard in every step and lift. The art of this style is to make it look easy, which the dancers did with unfailing skill and courtesy. The final section of this dance is also courtly, performed by two company and audience favorites, Carrie Imler and Jonathan Porretta. Their ease, expertise, and affection delighted the audience. The middle three sections, performed with modern movement to classical works, showed Forsythe’s mastery of angular movement, which abandons the perfectly

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parallel arm and leg of classical ballet for the off-balance, anti-grace of anxiety-suffused dancing. Since these works are lifted from longer pieces they end abruptly, so that after a duet of struggle and entanglement the couples just walk off stage in opposite directions. It looks right in this context, and forms a perfect bridge from the wildly modern of “Empire Noir” to the swirling, elegant “Her Door to the Sky.” “Her Door to the Sky” (2016) Choreographer: Jessica Lang Music: Benjamin Britten Costumes: Brandon McDonald The set of this beautiful dance is a large version of Georgia O’Keefe’s patio door at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. A vivid blue backdrop sets off a beige rectangle with eight small windows along the bottom and an elevated double door at the center. Five pairs of dancers – the women in gorgeous, ombre-shaded dresses in bright colors, the men in white Mexican style shirts and pants, also vividly dyed in ombre shades up the legs and arms – inhabit this landscape as if worshiping the goddess of the sun. At various times in the dance the portal and portholes are used, with dancers peeping out the low windows or lifted onto the high door, as if there is a benign barrier between two equally beautiful worlds.

The integration of set, lighting, costumes, and choreography in this dance was seamless. Jessica Lang has a penchant for the beautiful, as those who have seen her unforgettable “The Calling” will remember – a single dancer who manipulates a massive skirt – and swirling skirts are no less central here as dancers leaped and twirled to Benjamin Britten’s lovely music.

It is an enticing experience, homage to the sublime drama of Georgia O’Keefe’s art by an equally talented woman choreographer. Women are central to the dance, but rare birds as choreographers in a profession still dominated by men. Bravo to Director Peter Boal for choosing Jessica Lang to offer a dance at the other end of the spectrum from “Empire Noir.” The logic of the program was clear by the end, going from the percussive, architectural drama of Dawson, through the arc of courtly-to-modern duets in Forsythe, to the swirling integrated beauty of Lang. This perfectly balanced program, “Director’s Choice,” continues at McCaw Hall through March 26.

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Ethereal Personal Shopper a haunting mystery

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer PERSONAL SHOPPER Now playing Like a quiet shadow of grief and melancholy stalking its heartsick prey, revered writer/director Olivier Assayas delivers another genre-jumping marvel in the form of the quietly devastating supernatural drama Personal Shopper. This is a story that’s never as simple as it appears to be, a journey into fantasy, seduction, fear, paranoia, longing and fear that builds, not in intensity, but in resonance as things progress towards their conclusion. It is a movie that gets under the skin, leaving an indelible imprint that lingers in the psyche and in the soul, the overarching spell it casts uniquely eternal.

Maureen Cartwright (Kristen Stewart) is an American living in Paris, working as a personal shopper for demanding German supermodel and actress Kyra (Nora Von Waltstätten), and also moonlighting as something of an amateur psychic. She’s a medium who at the moment is tasked to ascertain whether there is a presence still lurking inside a recently vacated house the prospective new owners are leery of making their own. Most of all, though, Maureen is waiting for a sign from her recently deceased twin brother, the young man tragically succumbing to a heart condition they both share and may, in time, be the cause of her death, too. He promised to make contact from the afterlife if he went first, and as the house she’s been contracted to detect a presence in just so happens to be the same one the siblings grew up in, if he’s going to find a way to say hello, it’s going to be there.

There’s quite a bit going on here, the auteur behind films as diverse as Sum-

Kristen Stewart as Maureen Cartwright in Personal Shopper – Photo courtesy of IFC Films

mer Hours, Carlos, Boarding Gate, Demonlover and Clean not content to craft a simple ghost story and leave things at that.

Reteaming once again with his Clouds of Sils Maria star Stewart, Assayas paints a picture filled with multiple meanings and interpretations, each of them leading to a series of emotional revelations that are as complex as they are universal. This is a painful story, but not in any way that is expected, the shock and awe associated with contact with beings from beyond the grave far from the key element that drives Maureen forward to make the choices she ultimately makes.

Stewart is astonishing. Quickly morphing into one of the great actors of our time, this performance is, as far as I’m concerned, unquestionably the actress’ best one yet. Stewart deconstructs herself bit by bit, wasting away into a ghostlike state

as she journeys onward with her daily life, shopping for Kyra, video chatting with her estranged boyfriend and dealing with strange text messages on her iPhone that might be coming from a caller who’s no longer amongst the living. She mines emotional territories that are startling in their visceral intensity, everything culminating in an internal realization that is as stark and as terrifying as it is authentic and pure.

Personal Shopper also plays like an imaginative companion piece to Assayas’ 1996 classic Irma Vep starring Hong Kong superstar Maggie Cheung. But while both films are set in Paris and revolve around young women who are trying to navigate through a culture they partially understand and can only relate to in passing, the emotional tone and visual style between the pair couldn’t be more different. And yet, the connective tissue linking them is readily

apparent for those who wish to see it, each narrative in its own way a ghost story with protagonists struggling to find their place in the world as they grapple with issues only some of which are within their personal control. More, they feature strong, smart and intuitive young women at their center, both ready and eager to take charge of the situation, even if doing so will irrevocably change their lives in ways they cannot predict and can barely understand.

This is also the first film, to my knowledge, to show Assayas working with computer-generated visual effects of any sort, his utilization impressively, and uncomfortably, inventive. Early on the director makes it clear there really are spirits shadowing Maureen, their eerie ephemeral wispiness an injection of mystery that caused the hair on my arms to stand on end every time there was even the slightest hint they might appear.

He allows frequent cinematographer Eric Gautier (Something in the Air) the freedom to make these moments his own, his camera never showing more than it needs to as these apparitions wisp in and out of the frame with psychedelic viciousness.

But, make no mistake, as haunting and as scary as all of this might turn out to be Personal Shopper is not a horror movie. This is a human drama, plain and simple, one that deconstructs the grief process in ways that have seldom been seen or attempted before. Assayas channels energies that are explosively one-of-a-kind, the languidly methodical nature of the pacing belying the rich emotional density that makes up every step of Maureen’s sojourn to self-actualization and personal growth. This is a seriously magnificent motion picture, one worthy of additional exploration, serious debate and multiple interpretations. See it at once.

Raucous Devil’s Candy a terrifying heavy metal horror treat

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer THE DEVIL’S CANDY Now playing Jesse Hellman (Ethan Embry) is a talented painter and heavy metal enthusiast who has struggled to find success in his chosen profession, taking commissions to paint murals for local businesses in order to do his part paying the family bills. But with those jobs looking as if they’re going to be rolling in on a regular basis, and with his wife Astrid (Shiri Appleby) having a steady job that consistently brings in a steady paycheck, the couple makes the gigantic decision to buy a secluded house located deep within the secluded Texas heartland. The deal was just too good, and while teenage daughter Zooey (Kiara Glasco) moans slightly about having to move away from her friends and go to school someplace new, all of them realize this is a major opportunity they can’t afford to pass on.

There’s a reason the house is being sold for such an obscenely low price. While the real estate broker does disclose that the prior residents did die on the premise, he didn’t know exactly how the accident that took their lives ended up happening. Their mentally unbalanced son Ray (Pruitt Taylor Vince), himself also a metal impresario who plays a mean Gibson Flying V, had more to do with this tragedy than the investigating authorities realized. Additionally, he’s been hearing voices for quite some time, the most controlling of them telling him in to feed a certain demonic beast residing in the bowels of Hell its favorite treat. As to what that is, he’ll never tell, but Ray’s infatuation with Zooey should be all anyone needs to see to realize that his intentions in regards to the youngster are anything but pure.

Talented writer/director Sean Byrne’s

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sophomore feature The Devil’s Candy is phenomenal. A follow-up to his eerily unsettling 2009 debut The Loved Ones, a movie that took the John Hughes high school comedy and then gorily spun it on its ear, this horror opus, shown at the Toronto International Film Festival way back in 2015, has been well worth the wait, the psychological underpinnings driving things so unnerving I shudder just thinking about them again now. This is a characterdriven, absurdly hypnotic tale of possession, sacrifice, family and faith that pulls zero punches, embracing its metal ethos as it headbangs its way towards its fiery finale. Byrne, drawing on multiple sources for inspiration, uses familiar genre tropes to build his narrative yet still finds a way to make them uniquely his own, this movie a strikingly personal descent into madness I was absolutely floored by.

This is arguably Embry’s best performance. The former teen star of Can’t Hardly Wait fame has managed to carve out a rather nice career for himself as an adult, his highly idiosyncratic choices find-

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ing him taking memorable bit parts in films like The Guest as well as scenery-chewing lead roles in thrillers like Convergence. But the film that put him on the map as a surprisingly dexterous talent capable of mining interior territories far more challenging than those he’s usually asked to explore had to be 2013’s Cheap Thrills, director E.L. Katz guiding him and the rest of the talented ensemble (Pat Healy, Sara Paxton and David Koechner) to a place of brilliance that allowed that glorious shocker to achieve a level of magnificence it never would have ascended to without their collective efforts.

The star this time out, Embry is sensational. Whether reveling in their mutual love of metal with his daughter Zooey (Glasco is also superb), or falling into a creative pit of passion and pain as he finds himself touched by a mysterious, otherworldly muse while painting his latest works, the actor is explosively incredible as he moves from one scene to the next. The character’s love for his family is never in doubt, yet the palpable joy he feels when he

realizes that the abhorrent, grotesquely uncomforting picture he’s struck upon a blank canvas depicts his own daughter in absolute misery is equally strong. Embry navigates this psychological minefield with precision, each step Jesse takes an uneasy dance with an unknown devil that might just prove to be Satan himself.

Taylor Vince, a veteran character actor who has given extraordinary performances in films as varied as Nobody’s Fool, Heavy, Beautiful Girls, Mumford and Identity, is a talent who has never really gotten his due, so often this last decade or so popping up in strange, eccentrically whimsical supporting roles and very little else. Byrne uses him magnificently, his sad, searching eyes burning through the screen as he struggles to fulfill the requests asked of him by his demonic masters, even as he finds common interests with Zooey that reawaken the long-buried parts of his soul that have been crushed to near oblivion over an undisclosed number of years doing the unthinkable. He is the yin to Embry’s yang, the two actors sharing precious few moments together yet still managing to find a way to interact and coexist in a manner that is bracing, haunting and repugnantly genuine.

Byrne directs with supreme confidence, and while comparisons to films like The Shining, Barton Fink, The Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby and The Omen are fairly obvious, there is an imaginative intelligence to all this music-driven madness that is distinctively one-of-a-kind. The themes and ideas lurking at the heart of the filmmaker’s script are surprisingly profound, their insidious complexity adding much more to the conversation than a brief sideways glance might lead a potentially interested viewer to initially believe is there. This is a rich, aggressively dynamic piece of horror cinema, one that goes way beyond genre to a point bordering on magnificence, The Devil’s Candy a terrifying treat worth savoring.

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Connecting the invisible to the physical Olivier Assayas journeys into the supernatural with the haunting Personal Shopper

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer PERSONAL SHOPPER Now playing Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper is an unusual ghost story in that it isn’t a tale of horror even if tension and suspense run throughout the entire picture as if they are the emotional fuel feeding the narrative engine. The story of an American, Maureen (Kristen Stewart), living in Paris working as the personal shopper for a demanding German supermodel, the movie is never exactly what it seems to be. In this case, the young woman is also a self-described medium who hopes to contact the spirit of her recently deceased twin brother, the sibling promising to prove to his sister the existence of the afterlife if he were to succumb to the rare, not usually fatal, heart condition both of them suffer from.

The movie is an existential stunner, anchored by a performance from Stewart that is arguably the best of the actress’ career.

Yet, for Assayas, moving into the realm of the supernatural to tell such a human story of loss, grief, longing and hope wasn’t as far afield from any of his previous, more traditionally grounded motion pictures, including such works like Irma Vep, Summer Hours, Carlos and Something in the Air, as some viewers might initially assume.

“I think in some ways all my movies have been ghost stories,” he says wistfully.

“All of my movies, they deal with the connection between the invisible and physical, and when I started writing Personal Shopper I really wanted to try and make the specter real, and, instead of emphasizing some sort of supernatural being, maintain an undercurrent of communication where these things are possible. I wanted to show here that the communication between the invisible and the physical wasn’t just possible, but was, if not a given fact, certainly an issue. I knew I was going in the direction where I would have to deal with [this], and I was very excited by that notion.”

With that in mind, and having just worked with Kristen Stewart on his awardwinning previous film Clouds of Sils Maria, the director found that he was writing this new script with the actress still at the forefront of his mind. “We have a way of communicating that’s nonverbal,” explains Assayas. “I think we have a lot in common.

The same way I love making movies, the way I love that movies capture something about the experience of the world, I think Kristen has a very similar vision. I think she has certain sensitivities that are attuned to the natural, dark magic of filmmaking.

She understands it.

“When I started imagining this film and this character, the idea of going into areas that I had not experimented in that much before, I felt I only could do it if I had the right actor. It had to be a partnership. With Kristen, she’s always bringing everything back to reality. She can make anything feel true and believable. It’s an extraordinary talent. I knew that I could venture into weird areas because wherever I would go I could trust that Kristen would bring it back to reality and share that with the audience.

She was the medium I needed. Not just the medium she was playing in the movie, but to also be the medium that connects the audience with the story the movie was telling.

Kristen could make that happen.”

The crux of the story revolves around Maureen’s relationship with her dearly departed twin brother, an intimate connection between siblings that’s purposefully

Personal Shopper star Kristen Stewart with writer-director Olivier Assayas – Photo by Amy Sussman / Invision / Associated Press

played as subtly as possible, Assayas only parsing out information as to the closeness of the duo as needed to help propel things forward. “Where I started from was with this lonely character, a stranger in a strange land, and loved the idea of her sharing her emotions with the audience physically,” muses the director. “It wasn’t so much the idea of telling the audience what was going on as it was having them be with [Maureen], to experience whatever it was she was going through.

“Which is also why I needed the genre elements for this film. If I wasn’t going to explain what was going on, I needed to make sure that fear the character was feeling, that sense of mystery, was there for the audience from the start. It really was all about sharing her emotional state, being in that moment with her. That was what I wanted most.”

As part of that, the look of the actual ghost itself was key. How much to show, how concrete and corporeal to make it, those were all questions the filmmaker had to answer, especially considering he was going to reveal early on that this apparition attempting to speak with Maureen was far from being a figment of her imagination. “It took a while to get it right,” admits Assayas.

“I went through a lot of iterations [of the ghost] in order to find what I wanted. I had a clear notion of what it was I wanted, my inspiration was the spiritual photography of the late 19th century, and this was a reproduction of the way they would look at the supernatural inside those images. Finding that took some time.

“I also drew on descriptions of séances by mediums from that time period. I collected a lot of descriptions and recounts of what it was they claimed to see. I wanted to try and reproduce that, which was easier said than done. We went through a lot of trouble to find the look.”

On the opposite end of the technological spectrum, another device Assayas uses to generate suspense are a series of mysterious text messages between Maureen an anonymous entity who might be supernatural

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in origin. “It was a challenge,” laughs the director. “Those text messages, they were both easy and difficult. It was easy in the sense that I don’t think there is any sort of specific tension involved in watching a person type on a phone, so that was relatively easy to film. But, I think, the way to generate tension when filling your scene with a smart phone’s screen is in the waiting for a reply and trying to find the right wording in regards to those responses. I like the normality of it, the way we multitask when we’re typing a message, how mundane that is. Yet there is a mystery in the response.

It’s like opening a package. You really do not know what is going to be said.

“It’s not like anything else. It’s not like a phone conversation and it is certainly not like writing a letter. Text messaging, it’s an inherently odd way of communicating.

It’s all anticipation. For me, it was trying to stretch that anticipation as far as I could because if that tension could be generated then it would become an important emotional component of the film. So, doing that, it was difficult to find the right rhythms, to find the right methods to make maintaining that tension possible. Every tiny detail affected the whole entire scene.”

“Of course, Kristen’s acting in these scenes was also vitally important,” adds Assayas. “It’s not just someone typing, it’s Kristen as Maureen typing and reacting. It’s the way she expresses emotions that are not always instantly readable, that helps make the tension even more potent.

It’s very, very complex, even more complex than I imagined when I wrote the script.

Kristen just made it all look so easy, and in reality it was actually quite difficult.”

Which feeds right into the filmmaker’s typical working style. No matter what the film or the genre, Assayas assumes his audience is intelligent, that they can figure out the ins and outs of what is going on without extraneous pieces of exposition. “You get away with doing that if you make movies that aren’t too expensive,” he says with a sly wink. “If you do that with a more expensive film, you can’t get away with it. Here, a

movie like Personal Shopper would never get made without someone like Kristen, and I’m very grateful for that. We’re taking risks here, and we’re doing it on a relatively small budget, and she’s taking even more major risks as an actress, and because of all of that we had to manage to make the film on something like a little less than $5-million.

“But a budget like that allows you to embrace those risks and really go for what it is you’re dreaming about achieving. Additionally, I feel very lucky to be working within the framework of the French indie system.

In France, we do have support for films like this. There is this notion that movies are art and they should be supported as such. I’m not sure that functions the same way here with the studios much of the time.”

Having worked within the confines of that French system for over three decades to great critical acclaim and general audience adulation, the filmmaker is still surprised by just how passionately his films are embraced and discussed. “I kind of like it,” Assayas laughs. “I find waiting to discover how people are going to react to my movies exciting. It makes all of this hard work worth it.

“I like trying things. I like to take risks.

If I ever stopped taking risks I think I’d want to stop making movies. I’d find that boring. I like Ken Loache. He is a great filmmaker. But I could never make the kind of movies he does. I don’t like the idea of making the same type of movie over and over and over again. I need a challenge. I need variety. I like the idea that I am going to have a different dialogue with the audience each time out, and I enjoy seeing how they are going to react. Sometimes the audience sees a certain name on a movie and they know exactly what to expect.

“If I do my job correctly then the audience cannot know what to expect just because they see my name attached to the movie. I want to wake up the audience. I want to catch them off guard. That’s the sort of challenge that continues to excite me.”

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26 Miles a rich and rewarding journey of personal discovery

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer 26 MILES LATINO THEATRE PROJECT (AT WEST OF LENIN) Through April 8 In 2015, Theatre22 produced a play by Quiara Alegria Hudes, Water By the Spoonful, which garnered 10 Gypsy Rose Lee nominations and three wins. It had also won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. Director-nominee Julie Beckman directed a super production of that play and has returned to Hudes at a different company for her 26 Miles, produced by Latino Theatre Projects.

So, this production was much anticipated, and does not disappoint. Hudes’ style here is different from Water By the Spoonful, but still smart, thoughtful, and very true to life. This play is very personal to Hudes.

It reflects her own life growing up in Philadelphia. It is set in 1986 with a 15 year-old girl protagonist. That’s one of the small differences that “fictionalizes” the play, since Hudes was born in 1977, not 1971.

But Hudes and character Olivia Jacobs were both born to a Jewish father and a Latina mother. In this play, Beatriz is Cuban and Hudes’ mother was Puerto Rican.

Olivia (Klara Cerris) is living with her father, Aaron (Jeff Allen Pierce), and a hated and hostile stepmother. She’s so unhappy that she calls her estranged mother, Beatriz (Alma Villegas), to come pick her up. And so begins a road story.

In a daze of happiness to be able to

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by Eric Lane Barnes. “A Woman’s World” mixed some Farsi, some body percussion, and a focus on the international condition of women in our times in a powerful evening of support for women’s rights and the possibilities that can exist if women take their rightful places in world affairs.

Caldwell’s style is streamlined and specific. There were dancers on some songs, but they seemed specific choices that enhanced the particular song. The dancers were well choreographed to fit the songs chosen.

Act 1 had a fairly somber tone. The overall focus was on the international plight of women, the horrific choice of warmongers to include sexual assault/rape as a consequence of war conquest on multiple areas of the world, and the perseverance of

(l) Olivia (Klara Cerris) and Beatriz (Alma Villegas) in 26 Miles – Photo by Michael Brunk

spend time with her daughter, Beatriz just keeps driving, and they decide to keep driving until they reach Wyoming, a long-time dream of Olivia’s. Beatriz is now married to a very-accommodating Manuel (Fernando Cavallo). We learn that that marriage is in a bit of trouble, too. The impromptu trip is a vacation for both mother and daughter.

In a brisk 90-minute production, a spare set by Kristina Hestenes-Stimson allows for a rudimentary sketch of two different houses, a car, projected scenic changes (by Mario Gomez), night skies, and minimal fussy changes. Lighting by Zanna Paulson

is key to where the audience should pay attention and to times of day. Sound design

by Joshua Blaisdell includes lots of oldies from 1986 to set the tone and brings us up when emotions get low.

Olivia knows very little about her mother. She thinks her mother abandoned her. The trip allows time for her to hear her mother’s side of the story and for a reclamation of her Latina heritage. Part of their agreement is that her mom teach her five Spanish words a day, which Beatriz is more than happy to do.

In flashbacks, we learn about Aaron and

women in the face of those awful crimes.

There were sets of well-chosen projections, although occasionally the projections took focus away from the great singing.

Care could be taken to double-check that effect in the future, perhaps.

Short videos were included, most particularly focused on the work of Women for Women International (http://www.womenforwomen.org/) and that SWC had decided to partner with them for this concert.

They are clearly doing amazing work in the world. Again, while it was a great idea, at least one of the videos felt like a commercial, and it would likely have been a good idea to call out the partnership much earlier in the concert, in order to prepare the audience that there was a context for a “commercial” for this organization.

The act started with Sensible Shoes taking stage and performing a body-percussion piece with singing of Lead Belly’s “Bring Me Little Water, Silvy.” It was gor-

geous. The Shoes are sounding terrific with twelve singers.

The soloists were uniformly wonderful for each song – strong singers, well-rehearsed, well chosen.

Many songs, including a “lullaby” by Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory (Beneath the African Sky), were of a longing, melodic style. The tone of the music became a bit at odds with the strength and the probable anger and rebellion of the women presented on screen after a while. It sounded “pretty” but there were few songs about being strong and resilient and powerful. This should not sound like a large critique, though. It’s more of a mention of a bit of a mismatch.

Act 2 was fun and amazing. The entire act was given over to an opus by Eric Lane Barnes celebrating some historic women in U.S. history that should inspire us all. He called it “Unsung: Women Who Shaped Society.” Barnes chose Susan B. Anthony, suffrage pioneer; Queen Lili’uokalani, the

Beatriz’ relationship and aspects of Aaron’s personality that are very different from the rigid father he appears to be at the beginning. The revelations are comfortable and unforced. There is time for it to unfold.

The heart of the play is about the daughter and her mother getting to know each other. The men are not deeply written, though they are key enough. Villegas is an animated and joyous picture of Beatriz and she works well with Cerris. She is charming and the audience can pretty easily agree that the character she is playing is younger than she is in real life.

Cerris is a revelation in this role. She’s pretty new to Seattle, having arrived here for Intiman’s Emerging Artist program last year. Her mannerisms on stage are so convincing that you might think she’s a high school student found in great local casting.

Her emotions and reactions are a perfect blend of sophistication and naiveté just as any 15 year-old might be.

Olivia’s quest is to figure out who she is, both the Latina side of her and the Jewish side. It’s a quest we all have to go on at some point for ourselves. You’ll find yourself a willing participant in her journey.

For more information, go to www.latinotheatreprojects.org or call 206-718-5077.

Discuss your opinions with SGNcritic@ gmail.com or go to www.facebook.com/ SeattleTheaterWriters. More articles can be found at MiryamsTheaterMusings. blogspot.com.

last queen of native Hawaiians, forcibly deposed by the U.S. government; Billie Jean King, tennis giant who took on Bobby Riggs and won; Katherine Johnson, a “human computer” at NASA and subject of the new movie “Hidden Figures”; Margaret Cho, Korean-American comic who breaks every mold; and The Notorious RBG – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court justice. He ended with a song praising “The Most Inspiring Woman (You).”

Barnes’ compositions are often funny with brisk lyrics. Here he wove what some might call Wikipedia-type information into short odes to the moments of history these women were part of. Equal parts educational, supportive, and empowering, with moments of mirth.

Next up: Seattle Men’s Chorus with their theme of “Born This Way,” April 1 and 2 at McCaw Hall (Seattle Center).

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consists of images that showcase all of the regular Andrew Christian models explicitly engaged with one another. The book is sexy, but topical: Christian’s commentary on today’s political climate.

“A person’s openness to their sexuality directly relates to their emotional freedom,” says Christian, who began tirelessly working on the book immediately following the November election. “Furthermore, society’s acceptance of the LGBT community constitutes our political freedom.”

Freedom is a key point to the book. It features imagery and phrases that unblushingly push for LGBT equality around the world.

“Sex=Power=Freedom” is an in-your-face defender of Gay rights and Gay sex.

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ality without any judgment or morality. I don’t consider anything to go too far.” The controversy in Sex=Power=Freedom goes past the soft-core pornographic imagery. It discusses religion, addiction, immigration, and, of course, Donald Trump.

Perhaps the quote on the first page of Sex=Power=Freedom describes it best: “This book is about sex. Sex is power, it’s emotion, it’s creation, it’s personal expression, and most of all it’s political freedom.”

The book includes one of Christian’s models, Arad Winwin, an Iranian immigrant who escaped his home country for freedom in America.

“People are unaware what it is like for those who have to live in countries where people are denied every type of freedom,” says Arad. “This book let me tell my story

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killed simply because they were LGBT.” Through the United Nations refugee program, Arad immigrated to America where he quickly become one of Andrew Christian’s most popular models.

“If Trump’s extreme vetting had been in place during the last eight years, Arad would surely be dead today,” says Christian. “I want Sex=Power=Freedom to raise awareness for the plight of those who live in hostile, oppressive countries and to help make Americans understand that people from the Middle East are just like us. They want to live in peace and freedom, and many good people like Arad look to the United States for assistance.”

Now, Arad and Christian are travelling in style. On Thursday, March 30, Andrew will be hosting a book-signing in Seattle

followed by an after-party at R Place (619 E Pine St at Boylston Ave) from 9-11pm.

On Friday, March 31, Andrew will be hosting a book-signing in Portland at the underU4Men Flagship Store (800 SW Washington St., Portland). The signing will take place from 7:30-9pm and will be followed by an after-party at Stag (317 NW Broadway, Portland) starting at 9:00pm.

The events at underU4men are free to attend and are open to the public.

Sex=Power=Freedom is on sale at underU4men stores in both Seattle and Portland.

Silver and limited edition gold copies of the book will be available throughout the weekend. (Limited edition gold copies are only available at the book-signings.)

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continued from cover She’s been at the helm of things for over a decade now, and as such she tends to be pretty busy, running this way and that as she goes above and beyond trying to make the SJFF as spectacular as it can be. As such, we only had time for a quick ten question rapid fire back and forth. Here’s what Pamela had to say: Sara Michelle Fetters: This is the 22nd Seattle Jewish Film Festival. It’s the longest running film festival in Seattle outside of SIFF [Seattle International Film Festival].

It’s one of the longest running Jewish film festivals in the United States. You’ve been a big part of the majority of them. What does all of this mean to you?

Pamela Lavitt: I’d like to thank the Academy for this award… [laughs] Honestly, I can’t really accept any awards or take credit for programming this festival. I just having a real passion for theatre and cinema, enhancing public Jewish and arts programming in the region, professionalizing the staff, and finding new ways to engage donors, the press and wider audiences with bigger films, partners and programs that challenge people to engage and think in new ways. Ideally with the filmmakers taking all the hard questions! It’s amazing to realize I’ve given my precious 30s and 40s to this amazing festival, and this fallen academic (did my doctoral work in Jewish folklore and theatre) has made a career out of it. To both, I always get the question, Is this really a full-time job? To do it at this level, year after year, it is more than that. And, as the cultural arts director running another 45 programs at the Stroum JCC’s stage year-round – global music concerts, comedy shows, year-round films, theater, culinary chefs and author talks – SJFF is only part of what my great team does annually. SJFF was my training wheels for engaging all the senses and building a very cultured and connected community.

Sara Michelle Fetters: It seems like, in many ways, this festival is more important than ever. With the political and social climate being what it is, what do you hope people take away from this year’s SJFF? What do you hope they’re talking about and discussing?

Pamela Lavitt: Those of us who live in the Jewish community especially in the Pacific Northwest are no stranger to anti-Semitism affecting our community, sadly, and cultural programs serve a purpose educating, injecting nuance to the conversation and building awareness. The festival has been featuring films about challenging social and political issues since its inception, lessons of the Holocaust, historical and relevant lessons of bigotry, racism and intolerance of all kinds.

In the current climate, this year’s theme of “Arrivals” is meant to celebrate the positive aspects of internationalism, global exchanges and journeys. Cultural exchange and cinema allow people to relate and identify, to be transported and ideally to broaden horizons. Niche festivals like ours prioritize longer forums for discussion with filmmakers, actors, producers and experts such as UW Professor James Felak, who will introduce and do Q&A after the film Keep Quiet, about one of Hungary’s far right leaders, once a professed anti-Semite who has stirred deep hatred in his country, who converted to Judaism after learning he is part-Jewish. Can he take back what he’s done/said/caused? Partners like Holocaust Center for Humanity and ADL educate people every day. What people talk about doesn’t matter, it’s the fact that they will talk, maybe over a glass of wine or cup of coffee and a nosh at the reception after the screening. As Linda Richman – Mike Meyers – urged on “Saturday Night Live,” “Tawk amongst yourselves!” All we can hope for is to tee up a great conversation and a space for inspiring everyone to learn, grow and celebrate Jewish life and culture

in its complexity and diversity, warts and beauty and all.

Sara Michelle Fetters: This seems to be something we can say every year, but this year’s festival seriously appears to be incredibly diverse. Is that something you’re

higher profile releases?

Pamela Lavitt: Our festival has a wonderful history premiering Academy Award nominees and winners from its inception: Last Days, Schindler’s List, Nowhere in Africa, Beaufort and Ajami, while Jewish and Israeli films like Son of Saul, the eventual Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film, have walked away with statues from SJFF. This just means expectations are higher and higher every year. Now we just need folks like Portman and Chastain to attend, right? [laughs] Overall, the answer is yes, if the timing is right. Jewish and festival-goers in general are great for word-of-mouth campaigns. Our audiences set aside time to see films at the festival. Honestly, it takes a lot of calls and conversations to convince studios and filmmakers, so relationships matter a great deal, too. They know we care a great deal about the subject matter, and now year-round we are doing word-of-mouth premieres at our Dolby Digital cinema on Mercer Island. It’s win-win!

Sara Michelle Fetters: How does the SJFF continue to be a part of the overall mission for the Stroum Jewish Community Center? Why does the festival continue to be an important part of that mission?

Pamela Lavitt: It is amazingly confluent and synergistic to be part of an organization whose mission it is to inspire everyone to learn, grow and celebrate Jewish life and culture in its complexity and diversity, warts and beauty and all. This is our fifth rodeo as a cornerstone program of SJCC and we just completed our second season of year-round film and live performance on our cultural arts stage here on Mercer Island.

Ten years ago, I could never have imagined being able to reprise films, have filmmakers come year-round, do “dinner and a movie” or “culinary cinema” programs, insider premieres and program a music, comedy and spoken word series as well.

Under the SJCC’s umbrella, we are building community, ensuring Jewish continuity through the arts and inspiring those connections year-round in a sustained way.

Making our mark on the Greater Seattle arts landscape while garnering broader audiences demographically who love what we do. We can also do more free public benefit screenings for seniors, students, teens and families along with diverse partners like the YMCA, GSBA, College Success Foundation and ParentMap. SJCC has opened up so many more possibilities for SJFF to fuel conversation and draw people closer to the inspiring stories of global Jewish and Israeli life and other talented creatives.

Sara Michelle Fetters: There was a recent article in the New York Times regarding how the Anne Frank House is having to educate people in regards to WWII and the Holocaust. What do you think this says about society as a whole right now? Is there something there we need to be taking note of?

Pamela Lavitt: I saw this article the other day but haven’t read it yet. I’d love to say this story started with Justin Bieber’s renowned insensitive remarks on the Anne Frank House guest book, but the fact is that people of all ages have become inured to the stories of suffering in the Holocaust and that “never forget” has become more a mantra than a purposeful challenge.

But in the Jewish tradition, as we head into Passover (the telling of the story of Exodus), we must retell the story of wandering in the desert, eat matzoh (the bread of affliction) and take the journey “as if we were slaves” ourselves journeying from slavery to redemption and freedom. To remember doesn’t mean to read, but to tell, to recite, to eat, to identify, to share, and to hopefully discuss while doing social good in the world.

There are refugees and survivors who sponsor this festival because it is one of the few public low-barrier ways for people to engage with these topics because, outside of having survivors in your family (which are few now, as time, as it does, slowly continues to pass), or going to Holocaust Museums or touring Europe, it’s sometimes difficult or costly to engage with the past. Those of us in the Jewish education world realized twenty years ago that “experiential” museums and films have the power to relate to people in an impactful way.

Sara Michelle Fetters: Not that every Jewish story does or should revolve around that tragic era of history. What are you most proud of in regards to some of the stories and themes presented in some of this year’s SJFF offerings? What brings a smile to your face when you think about these films?

Pamela Lavitt: When you get to meet directly with directors such as Barak Heymann, Jessie Auritt, Dani Menkin and Leah Warshawski and Todd Soliday, you can’t help but be inspired and smile, not to mention the opportunity to host Sonia Warshawski, the subject of Big Sonia and a Holocaust survivor, and introduce actor Alon Aboutboul to audiences. The excitement is contagious! This is the bottled lightening we strive for. Connecting with creatives and being amazed at their ambition, productivity and tenacity, it is awe-inspiring, and the moment when they realize that, this is it, that their film is finally up there on the big screen, it brings a smile to my face knowing we’ve had something to do with helping them fulfill that dream. Oftentimes, we festival exhibitors are meeting people on the rise, unknown to most, showcasing little gifts and best-kept secrets about to be unwrapped and revealed to the world at large. We get to draw the curtain up and watch everyone else smile and take selfies with them.

Sara Michelle Fetters: How long do you see yourself continuing this job? What gets you excited to come to work every day?

Pamela Lavitt: My fabulous teammates. I work with great people dedicated to creating heightened opportunities and experiences for the community. Also, our loyal funders, my SJCC colleagues and their collective passion at always striving to make this festival and all our programs bigger and more meaningful annually, that keeps me excited to come to work every day, too. With new leadership from Amy Lavin, CEO, the Stroum JCC is about to take another leap, and we are all excited to see how far and how high we can jump. At this time, I see a lot of room for professional growth and I plan to continue at warp speed ahead!

Sara Michelle Fetters: What’s next for the SJFF? Where do you go from here?

Pamela Lavitt: Yikes! I’m not sure. We keep growing, selling out and raising the festival’s and the JCC’s profile. But sometimes I might just prefer a marguerite and a real (not “reel”) vacation. How about I take a job as a cabana boy? It might be time to go on a new (and I don’t mean screen) adventure!

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arguably one of the more high-profile features you’ve ever managed to have as a SJFF selection. After scoring Natalie Portman’s directorial debut A Tale of Love and Darkness last year, do you feel like the SJFF is becoming a destination for these

Pamela Lavitt – Photo courtesy of tisch.nyu.edu

thinking about when you program?

Pamela Lavitt: Yes, we have some annual rubrics: Do we have films in French, Spanish, Hebrew, German? Do we have strong LGBTQ and women’s films? Do we have Israeli films that show off its emerging cinema market, gives the Israeli community a feeling of home and something to chew on and shows off its multifaceted population? We love featuring what I call the “Jews in strange places” such as Uganda, the Amazon or China. Then there’s genre. Where are the comedies and are they schmaltzy or breakthrough? We have premiered five Academy Award-nominees over the year, so razzle-dazzle is nice, too!

Sara Michelle Fetters: Notably, there are a number of films directed and/or written by women this year, as hot a topic, as far as cinema is concerned, as any there is right now. Was this a focus for you? Can you talk some about a few of these films?

Pamela Lavitt: It wasn’t all that intentional. In the documentary genre in general, this year we’ve got our Closing Night selection Big Sonia (directed/produced by Leah Warshawski), Last Laugh (directed

by Ferne Pearlstein) for our special Brunch program and our “teen screen” Supergirl (directed by Jessie Auritt, who will be attending the festival). We have featured female directors in these premiere programming slots, giving them a fairly high profile.

And, of course, Niki Caro who directed The Zookeeper’s Wife (and previously Whale Rider) is testament that documentary film is not the only cinematic space friendly to female filmmakers. Producer and star Jessica Chastain intentionally chooses to work with female directors, and she recently said about the production (according to The Hollywood Reporter “the most female-populated film set ever”), “I’m in Prague filming [the movie] with director Niki Caro. I can’t tell you, it’s amazing. I’ve never been on a set with so many women…There are female producers, a female screenwriter, a female novelist [Diane Ackerman], a female protagonist and a female director. [Even] a female camera operator [and] female stunt coordinator…

You don’t feel a hierarchy; you don’t have anyone feeling like they are being left out or bullied or humiliated. Sometimes being the only girl on a set, you can feel like a sexual object.” I think that’s powerful stuff, a powerful statement, when you consider female directors and crew make up only 20-percent of Hollywood productions.

Sara Michelle Fetters: As you just mentioned, The Zookeepers Wife is one of these films. Not only is it terrific, it’s also

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by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer THE BELKO EXPERIMENT Now playing For the 80 U.S. employees allowed into work, the day starts out like any other for the staff working in the Bogotá, Colombia office of the Belko Corporation. But executive Mike Milch (John Gallagher Jr.) notices a lot of weird things happening, including a handful of armed soldiers taking up residence in the empty warehouse the company keeps vacant next to the main building. But before he can tell COO Barry Norris (Tony Goldwyn) about his suspicions, a strange voice comes over the intercom ordering the staff to kill two of their own in 30 minutes, and if they do not the consequences will be lethally dire.

Of course, no one believes the order, everyone heading down to the lobby in order to evacuate until they can all figure out what is going on. Problem is, they’re all locked in, the landlines have been cut and their cell phones are jammed. Worse, this is not a gag, and as the group refused to follow through on the voice’s commands four random employees drop dead thanks to the explosive charge inserted into everyone’s neck, done by Belko under what now everyone realizes were maliciously false pretenses. Now they all have two hours to kill 30 of their coworkers, otherwise 60 will die in the same manner, Mike and Barry suddenly on opposite ends of the moral and ethical spectrum as the majority of the remaining staff turns to them for guidance.

Made up of a cast of familiar faces, including the likes of Gallagher, Goldwyn, Michael Rooker, John C. McGinley, Melonie Diaz, Brent Sexton, David Del Rio, Rusty Schwimmer and Gregg Henry, and featuring “True Detective” and “Emerald City” newcomer Adria Arjona in a key supporting role, writer James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) and director

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(l) Bud (Michael Rooker) and Lonny (David Dastmalchian) in The Belko Experiment – Photo by Hector Alvarez

Greg McLean (The Darkness) join forces to bring to life a dirty, adrenaline-filled exploitation thriller that takes corporate malfeasance to a whole new level. It’s the most dangerous game, only played by players who are tasked with being hunter and prey at the same time whether they want to be or not, each individual coming to grips with the fact they’re going to have to get their hands a little dirty if they ever hope to survive.

It’s incredibly straightforward, which isn’t a huge surprise where it comes to McLean, his most well-regarded films, Aussie horror-thrillers Wolf Creek and Rogue, stating right up front what kind of story they were going to tell and then never wavering to do just that all the way through to the bitter end. Same time, the fact there aren’t a lot of unexpected twists or turns as it pertains to Gunn’s script is something of a shock, especially when one looks at the filmmaker’s own pre-Marvel work churn-

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ing out deliriously original, comedic-tinged shockers like Slither and Super. His surrealistic approach appears to have been mostly held in check, however, McLean’s frank, sadistically nihilistic style emerging victorious as far as this film is concerned.

Thankfully, even as unoriginal as the central premise might be, the tension the filmmakers are able to generate utilizing it is still unnervingly high. Once the first head explodes suspense skyrockets into the stratosphere as the stakes continue to get raised, and watching Gallagher do his best to navigate through this bloody corporate morass while attempting to maintain his moral center is a delectably grisly treat. Additionally, Goldwyn and McGinley prove to be fearsome adversaries, their growing psychotic malevolence as the situation continues to spiral out of control delivered with suitably intense relish. Arjona also makes a significant impact upon the proceedings, and while her character arc isn’t always sat-

isfying, she has a couple of moments that are undeniably strong, a toxic showdown with McGinley in particular.

Thing is, as well as all of this is staged and acted, as strong as many individual sequences are, much like Wolf Creek McLean states exactly what this movie is going to do and where things are going to go and then doesn’t do a single thing to subvert those objectives at any time. Gunn’s screenplay, while filled with interesting characters, many of whom manage to steal a moment or two to make themselves more memorable, never offers up a twist or plays any of its cards out of order. Thus, all of this ends up becoming far more predictable than it needed to be, everything building to a rather benign final scene that left me vaguely underwhelmed.

Still, when it is hitting on all cylinders this is one terrifying jolt to the system that had me squirming in my seat yelping in concern as if the cushions were made out of razor blades. My anxiety level through the majority of this was off the charts, a few of the more grisly deaths provoking an emotional response that had me choking back a small handful of authentically generated tears. A number of the actors, most notably Schwimmer, Rooker and Diaz, manage to do a lot with so very little, the look on their faces at any given moment enough to make me want to hold my breath in the hope they’d find a way to survive this carnage and emerge victorious.

If the movie doesn’t always do the same, that does not mean I ever wanted to look away from the screen or to exit the theatre.

While Gunn and McLean don’t rewrite the company handbook, they still do a good enough job bullet pointing the important stuff to make reading it worthwhile, The Belko Experiment a corporate retreat of butchery and slaughter that takes team building to a heretofore unexplored level of a skull-crushing commitment.

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Meetings Events Activities

FOR A CALENDAR LISTING: Send details to: SGN, Attn: Community Calendar, 1707 23rd Ave., Seattle, WA 98122. SGN phone: 324-4297. 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 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.

SATURDAY - March 25

Washington State Leather Pride Week (3/17-3/26). www.wsmlo.org 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.

Best of the Northwest Art & Fine Craft Show (3/25 & 3/26). Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 10am-5pm. Magnuson Park Hangar 30, 7400 Sand Point Way NE. nwartalliance.org Master Calligrapher Sultan Ali Mashadi: The Art & Culture of Herat in the Late 15th Century. 10am.

Piggott Auditorium, Seattle University. Harvard professor David Roxburgh lectures on Islamic art. For tickets visit www.seattleartmuseum.org Crystal Meth Anonymous. 10:30am. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Mon @ 6:30pm, Thurs @ 6:30pm, Sun @ 6:30pm. More info: crystalmeth.org.

HRC Bowling for Equality: Striking Down Hate.

3-5pm; 6-8pm; 9-11pm. West Seattle Bowl, 4505 39th Ave SW. After Party: OutWest Bar, 5401 California Ave SW. Tickets $40 per person (18 & under $20) or $320 for a lane of 8. Includes 2 hours of bowling, shoe rental, appetizers & annual HRC membership. www.hrc.org 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.)

Prom Night. 6pm. Showbox SODO, 1700 1st Ave S. Three Dollar Bill Cinema’s 10th annual dinner & auction.

Hosted by Robbie Turner of Ru Paul’s Drag Race with special guest Cookie Corsette. Tickets: $150 individual, $250 VIP. www.threedollarbillcinema.org [SOLD OUT] 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 Peter Bagge: Fire!! The Zora Neal Hurston Story.

7pm. Elliott Bay Books, 1521 10th Ave. Graphic novelist Peter Bagge talks about his second biographical work.

FREE. www.elliottbaybook.com How I Learned to Be a Particular Kind of Lady (3/233/26). 7pm. Gay City Calamus Auditorium, 517 E Pike St. An intersectional Fem burlesque documentary exploring The Lady B’s journey in claiming & celebrating Black Trans-Fem identity as positioned in Seattle. General admission $15-$20, students & seniors $12. gaycity. org/arts-season Washington State Mr & Ms Leather Contest & Washington State Bootblack Contest. Door 6pm, Contest 7pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. Donation $10. www.wsmlo.org

SUNDAY - March 26

For information on GLBT-friendly religious/spiritual organizations in the Greater Seattle area, call or email Rick at the SGN office: 206-324-4297; sgn2@ sgn.org.

Washington State Leather Pride Week (3/17-3/26). www.wsmlo.org Center for Spiritual Living. Services 8:25, 9:45, 11:30am. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we hope to see you soon! Info 527-8801 ext 203, www. cslseattle.org Ravenna United Methodist Church. 5751 33rd Ave NE. 8:30am “Seattle’s most dangerous Sunday school;” 9:45am worship. A reconciling congregation, fully inclusive and affirming of LGBTQ persons. 525-7988.

Seattle Unity Church. 9am & 11am-Sunday Services.

200 8th Ave N. “Come join our Gay & Lesbian-friendly, spiritual family at Seattle Unity Church. Our mission is to bring love, miracles & spiritual awakening into everyday life!” 622-8475; www.seattleunity.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 Lynnwood. 9:30am. Brunswick Majestics Lane, Lynnwood. 9:30am 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; www.gaysnohomish.org Tacoma First United Methodist Church. 9:30amWorship, 11am-Adult Education. 423 Martin Luther King

March 25 thru April 2 No Safeword Writers Group. 1pm. Meets 4th Sunday each month. NSWG exists to provide mutual support for members’ efforts. Support is in the form of critique & commentary on each other’s work, information about publishing opportunities, & discussion of issues facing writers. For info & location, NSWG@sexpositive culture. org; www.nosafewordwritersgroup.org (Also meets 2nd Tuesday, 7pm.)

Pet Adoption. 1-4pm. Ponder, 2413 E Union St. Meet the warm, wiggly bunch of four-legged friends from Emerald City Pet Rescue who are looking for safe, secure & loving homes. ponderseattle.com, emeraldcitypetrescue.org Seattle Prime Timers Rap Group. 1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Subjetc: enduring relationships as Gay men. Metro routes 8, 10, 12, 49 & 60.

Shame to Grace Sunday SAA. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. 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 Crystal Meth Anonymous. 6:30pm. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Mon @ 6:30pm, Thurs @ 6:30pm, Sat @ 10:30am. More info: crystalmeth.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.

How I Learned to Be a Particular Kind of Lady (3/233/26). 7pm. Gay City Calamus Auditorium, 517 E Pike St. An intersectional Fem burlesque documentary exploring The Lady B’s journey in claiming & celebrating Black Trans-Fem identity as positioned in Seattle. General admission $15-$20, students & seniors $12. gaycity. org/arts-season Integrity/Puget Sound. 7pm-Worship & Fellowship. St. Mark’s Cathedral, Thomson Chapel, 1245 10th Ave E. Integrity is an international ministry of Gay & Lesbian Episcopalians, their friends & families, dedicated to education, support & service within the Church & the GLBT community. (425) 226-2746.

Haters Roast: The Shady Tour. 8pm. Moore Theatre, 1932 2nd Ave. Adult comedy, stingers & zingers.

Tickets on sale at Ticketmaster, 800-745-3000. www. dragfans.com Noche Latina - Latino Night. 10pm. Neighbours, 1509 Broadway. Every Sunday.

MONDAY - March 27

Way, Tacoma. This reconciling congregation welcomes with warm hands, warm hearts & open minds GLBT persons seeking a spiritual home. (253) 627-0129, www. fumctacoma.org Best of the Northwest Art & Fine Craft Show (3/25 & 3/26). Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 10am-5pm. Magnuson Park Hangar 30, 7400 Sand Point Way NE. nwartalliance.org Central Lutheran Church. 10am-Worship. 1710 11th Ave (just north of E Pine St). An open & affirming church, which in Lutheran churches is called “Reconciled in Christ.” “We seek to share God’s love with all people regardless of race, age, gender or sexual orientation.”

All are welcome. 322-7500.

East Shore Unitarian Church. 10am-Sunday Service.

12700 SE 32nd St, Bellevue. An open & affirming congregation. (425) 747-3780.

Gethsemane Lutheran Church. 10am-Worship. 911 Stewart St. A downtown faith community centered in justice. An open & affirming congregation. 682-3620.

Unity Church of Kent. 10am. 218 State Ave S, Kent.

A welcoming congregation open to people of all races, religions, creeds & lifestyles. Join us any Sunday for an inspirational message, joyful fellowship & a fresh spiritual outlook. 253-854-9747.

University Congregational United Church of Christ.

All ages education 9am, Worship 10am. 4515 16th Ave NE. UCUCC is an open & affirming congregation. 5242322; www.universityucc.org.

Wallingford United Methodist Church. 10am-Worship.

2115 N 42nd St. A progressive congregation. In 1984 Wallingford UMC became the 9th reconciling Methodist church in the U.S. 547-6945 (office); 285-5077 (George).

All Pilgrims Christian Church. 10:30am-Worship.

500 Broadway E. Come as you are. All are welcome.

A congregation of the Disciples of Christ & the United Church of Christ. 322-0487, www.allpilgrims.org Living Water Fellowship. 10:30am-Worship. 7204 NE 175th St, Kenmore. All GLBT welcome. Pastor Susan George. 963-0807. www.livingwaterwa. com 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 + $3 shoe rental. (425) 785-4729.

Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation.

10:30am. 7141 California Ave SW. 935-0418, office@ wsuu.org, www.wsuu.org Emerald City Metropolitan Community Church Seattle. 11am-Worship. Chapel at University Temple

Visit us online www.sgn.org

United Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd St. MCC is a progressive Christ-centered faith community committed to providing a nurturing environment for individual & community growth thru Jesus Christ while celebrating unity in diversity. MCC is Seattle’s oldest Gay-friendly church. 325-2421, www.mccseattle.org.

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.)

St Paul’s United Church of Christ. 11am-Worship.

6512 12th Ave NW. An “open & affirming” congregation.

“We celebrate our diversity in religious background, sexual orientation, race, age & abilities.” 783-6733; www. stpauluccseattle.com.

Washington State Mr & Ms Leather Contest & Washington State Bootblack Contest Leather Victory Brunch & Leather Emerald Awards. Brunch 11:30am, Awards 12noon. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. $___. www. wsmlo.org Holy Covenant International Christian Community Church. 12pm. 4525 19th Ave NE. Outreach to the LGBT community. holycovenantccc@gmail.com Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step (Narcotics Anonymous) group open to anyone in recovery. 3222437; 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. Sunday afternoon. Location varies. Ripple Effect soccer team plays an almost weekly recreational scrimmage game for LGBTQ players in Seattle. To sign up visit www. raincitysoccer.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: Afternoon; Mon/Weds/ Fri: Evenings. 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

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SOBER - On Meds. 1-2pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. 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, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. 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 Crystal Meth Anonymous. 6:30pm. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Thurs @ 6:30pm, Sat @ 10:30am, Sun @ 6:30pm. More info: crystalmeth.org.

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. Seattle Unity Church, 200 8th Ave N. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.FreelySpeaking.or Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing.)

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 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 Queers, Crackpots & Fallen Women AA. 8-9pm.

SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Monday. Open women only AA group. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

TUESDAY - March 28

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 GLBTwelcoming 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.)

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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, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. 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 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.

PFLAG/North Seattle. 7-9pm. Haller Lake UMC, 13055 1st Ave NE. Meets 4th Tuesday each month. PFLAG, a national organization founded in 1972, provides support, education and advocacy for families and friends of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer persons, and is committed to moving LGBTQ equality forward.

325-7724, northseattle@pflagseattle.org.

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, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Tuesday. Drop-in social, support & discussion group for Gay & Bi men of all ages. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org 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, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. 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

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Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 1422. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Thursday. Youth 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, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. A meditation/recovery group. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Gay Fathers Association of Seattle. 7:30-9pm. Group Health, 201 16th Ave E, Central Bldg, Lower Atrium.

Every Thursday. Support meetings for Gay fathers & Gay men who are currently or previously married. Safe, anonymous, non-judgmental environment of caring 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/ gayfathersseattle Gay Male Sexuality & Relationships. 7:30-9pm.

SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. 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 Crash the Glass All-Female Music Series. 8-11pm.

Columbia City Theater, 4916 Rainier Ave S. This week: Katrina Kope, Melissa Montalto, Eva Walker & Minami Hughes. No cover.

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 - March 31

AA Ageless in Recovery. 12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets every Friday. A drop in AA group for older & wiser people 55+. www.sasgcc.org Re-Parenting Ourselves. 12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets every Friday. A peer support group for adult children of any addiction. www. sasgcc.org SLAA Road to Recovery. 12noon-1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets every Friday. Ongoing 12 step group for sex & love addicts. www.sasgcc.org 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 Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. 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 Mature Friends Monthly Potluck. 6:30pm-appetizers & socializing; 7:30pm-dinner. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Meets last Friday most months. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org 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 x 8018 or email lbagley@chs-nw.org & expression. All adults are welcomed, including those Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm.

GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Em- who are questioning, allies, or identify as FTM, MTF, The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. An evening of country-western powered): A Support Group & HIV/STD Prevention Transgender, Queer, or Intersex, among others. (360) dancing for the LGBTQ community. FREE. www.raincountrydance.org. for Youth (14-20) in Everett. 6-8pm. CCA Building, 3331 445-2411; www.washingtongenderalliance.com.

Destiny Gay AA Group in Tacoma. 7:30pm. New Broadway - Bottom Floor, Everett. Every Wednesday.

THURSDAY - March 30 Heart MCC, 759 S 45th St, Tacoma. Every Friday.

Sponsored by PFLAG Everett chapter. David/Brenda, (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@hotmail.com Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober Group.” (253) 474-8897.

The Rowing Team Peer Recovery Group. 6-7:30pm. 12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Open Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See All Pilgrims Church, 500 Broadway E. Meets every meeting of AA. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

Wednesday. This peer recovery group provides a safe & BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting. Sunday listing.) supportive faith community to share your recovery jour- 12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. The LGBT Friday Night Al-Anon Family Group. 8pm. ney with, God answers our prayers & sends us a boat. BABES Network is a peer led agency; a sisterhood of SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201 in the O’Neill room.

Sometimes rowing furiously for yourself & sometimes women facing HIV together. 720-5566 or 888-292-1912; Every Friday. The Al-Anon Family Groups are a felfor others. All are welcome. www.babesnetwork.org. lowship of relatives & friends of alcoholics who share Lotus Sisters Meditation & Dharma Discussion - Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, their experience, strength & hope in order to solve their North. 6:15-8pm. Ravenna Bryant neighborhood. Meets Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages common problems. We believe alcoholism is a famevery Wednesday. Call 525-7295 for location. www. 14-25. 4-10pm. Call for location & details. Every Thurs- ily illness & that changed attitudes can aid recovery.

LotusSisters.org. day. (253) 671-2838, www.oasisyouthcenter.org (Also Greater Seattle AIS 24-hour number 625-0000; www. seattle-al-anon.org Center for Spiritual Living. 6:30pm-Meditation, 7pm- Fridays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

The Righteous Mothers with Alicia Healey. Doors Service. 5801 Sand Point Way NE. Blessings & we SEX=POWER=FREEDOM hope to see you soon! Info 527-8801 ext 203, www. Andrew Christian and UnderU4Men Booksigning 7pm, Show 8pm. Fremont Abbey, 4272 Fremont Ave N. cslseattle.org and Afterparty Events. Booksigning 5:30-7pm. Unde- A band of mothers, voices raised together in sometimes Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 6:30pm. Volunteer rU4Men, 709 Broadway E. After Party. 9-11pm. R Place, poignant, sometimes piercing social comment. All ages.

Park (in front of Black Sun across for museum). Every 619 E Pine St. Meet and greet and booksigning features Tickets $20-$25. fremontabbey.org Wednesday. (See Saturday at 9am.) designer Andrew Christian & model Arad. Special limited SATURDAY - April 1 Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm. edition gold collector’s edition available at booksigning April Fool’s Day Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300. only. underu4men.com (See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Everett-Snohomish County Friendship Dinner for Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is Persons Living with HIV/AIDS. 6pm. Grace UMC Youth Job Fair for LGBTQ & Allies. 1-3pm. Miller a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction (formerly Firs United Methodist). Meets last Thursday Community Center, 330 19th Ave E. There will be many WEDNESDAY - March 29 & information for the whole Gender community. www. most months. FREE. Everyone welcome. Sponsored by opportunities for high school age (14-19) & young adults LGBTQ Support Group in Renton. 10am-12noon. ingersollcenter.org the Evergreen AIDS Foundation & SNOCO Gay Men’s (19-24). Metro routes 8, 10, 12, 43 & 48. randy.wiger@ Renton Senior Activity Center, 211 Burnett Ave N. Meets Seattle Movie Bears Movie Night. Check website for Task Force. For information call (425) 252-7751. seattle.gov the last Wednesday of every month. This group will details. Every Wednesday night. Gay & Bi men enjoy a Shifting Gears. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, address issues while providing support & information movie at a local theater with opportunity to socialize be- Suite 201. Every Thursday. Drop-in support group Northwest Bears Potluck and Meet & Greet Beer that may be unique to the LGBTQ community. Topics of fore & after movies. More info: http://groups.yahoo.com/ (non 12-step) for anyone of any orientation or gender Bust. 6pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave at E. Pine St. discussion may be legal issues, housing, medical needs, group/seattlemoviebears; or e-mail: seattlemoviebears- who desires recovery from drugs or alcohol. 322-2437; Meets 1st Saturday each month. Northwest Bears is a Gay men’s social and service organization providing a bereavement, acceptance & othe topics of your choice. subscribe@yahoogroups.com www.sasgcc.org focal point within the Gay community for Bears and Bear 425-430-6633, rentonwa.gov Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7:30pm. Call B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Question- admirers. www.nwbears.com.

Mature Friends Morning Exercise/Health & Fitness for location. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome. MF ing Adolescent Drop-In Group). 6:30-8pm. Call for SUNDAY - April 2 Get-Together. 10am. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years location. Every Thursday. Sponsored by Youth Eastside 1706 NW Market St. Every Wednesday. An hour of & over. www.maturefriends.org Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth.

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.) health-related activities, followed by a walk around Orca Swim Team Workout. Evening. Seattle University, (425) 747-4937.

Greenlake & lunch at a local restaurant. MF is a social Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Crystal Meth Anonymous. 6:30pm. Capitol Hill Pres- Border Riders Motorcycle Club First Sunday Ride.

Contact Border Riders for details and rendezvous point. group for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. Sunday listing.) byterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Mon Meets 1st Sunday most months. BRMC provides a somaturefriends.org Washington Gender Alliance Open Support Meeting @ 6:30pm, Sat @ 10:30am, Sun @ 6:30pm. More info: cial & educational fraternity for individuals interested in True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline. in Everett. 7:30-9pm. Everett United Church of Christ, crystalmeth.org. recreational motorcycle touring. www.borderriders.com 4-5pm. Every Wednesday. Discussing your important is- 2624 Rockefeller Ave, Everett. Every Wednesday. Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation - Consues, building a supportive community. For information, Trained peer facilitators lead a structured support meet- templative Service. 6:30pm. 7141 California Ave SW. Knights of Mantra Monthly Meeting. 3pm. The Cuff, 1533 13th Ave. Meets 1st Sunday each month. K of M/ location & to REGISTER call Lindsay Bagley 362-7282 ing helping people deal with issues of gender identity 935-0418, office@wsuu.org, www.wsuu.org Jet Chapter is a fun-loving leather/Levi social &

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charitable organization that raises money for various causes & organizations. 329-0886. www.facebook.com/ kofmjetchapter/ 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.

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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 BiNet Seattle is a mixed gender, social group for Bisexuals, their partners & other Bi-friendly folks - www. binetseattle.org.

Central Washington University GALA Hotline: (509) 963-1994.

DIFFA/Northwest (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS). 763-8885; www.diffanorthwest.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 promotes wellness in LGBTQ communities by providing health services, connecting people to resources, fostering arts, and building community. Gay City Health Project’s Wellness Center provides anonymous & confidential HIV/STD testing. 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.

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.

LGBT MS Connection - 250-5002; LGBTMS Connection@gmail.com. Support group for LGBT persons with MS and their partners and their caregivers.

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: 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.

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.flyinghouse. org.

Northwest Lesbian & Gay History Museum Project - gayhistnw@aol.com Northwest Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - www. nwrad.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. 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.pflag seattle.org; PFLAG Bellevue/Eastside: 425-4836642, info@bellevue-pflag.org, http://community.pflag.

org/PFLAGBellevue; PFLAG Pacific Northwest: www.pnwpflag.org; PFLAG Washington state: www. pflagwsc.org.

PEOPLE OF COLOR: AARTH (African American Reach & Teach Health Ministry), 850-2070, www. aarth.org; Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Network Program at API Chaya, 467-9976; Center for MultiCultural Health, 461-6910, www.multi-culturalhealth.org; Entre Hermanos, GLBT Latinos/as, 322-7700, www. entrehermanos.org; Ile LaiLai, 781-3565, 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, 2558951; Sistah Sinema, www.sistahsinema.com, info@ sistahsinema.com; Trikone-Northwest, GLBT South Asians, (425) 985-4376, www.trikonenw.org; Two-Spirit Honor Project, 1-866-685-0164; 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

Visit us online www.sgn.org

to those affected by HIV/AIDS, the Queer communities, and those who love them. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org 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 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 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 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; 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:

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www.seattlefront runners.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. theprideleague. 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 Diversity: www. genderdiversity.org; Gender Justice League: www. genderjusticeleague.org; Gender Odyssey: www.genderodyssey.com; Hermanos Trans Latino & ForeignBorn Support Group: 322-7700; Ingersoll Gender Center: 329-6651, www.ingersollcenter.org; The New BoyZ Club: www.olympiaftmgroup.webs.com; Olympia Trans Discussion Group: www.facebook.com/pages/ Olympia-Trans-Discussion-Group/262449878114; Washington Gender Alliance: (360) 445-2411, www. washington genderalliance.com WOMEN: Aging Lesbians in South Seattle (ALISS): Fai, 722-0729, alissquestions@gmail.com; BABES: support groups for HIV+ women. 720-5566, 1-888-2921912; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes. com; Lesbians Over 40: 722-0729; 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; Women of West Seattle (WOWS): a fun, member-driven social group for Lesbians, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/womenofwestseattle; 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.

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; It Gets Better Project: www.itgetsbetter.org; Lambert House: an activities & resource center for LGBT youth, 14-22, in Seattle, 3222515, www.lamberthouse.org; Lifelong HEYO (Health Education Youth Outreach): for LGBTQ youth, ages 16-24: 957-1665; www.llaa.org/HEYO; www.Matthews Place.com; The Mockingbird Society: 323-KIDS (5437), www.mockingbirdsociety.org; 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; Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets (PSKS): 7268500; www.psks.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; 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) (nonemergency), 1-877-SAFE-SAFE (1-877-723-3723) (crisis line); Seattle Young People’s Project (Queer Youth Resource Board): 860-9606, www.sypp.org; Street Youth Ministries (SYM): 524-7301 ext 111; www.streetyouthministries.org; Teen Link: 461-4922, 1-888-431-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/ Isis Program (Transitional Living Home for LGBTQ Young Adults, 18-22): 522-8412; YouthCare/Orion Center: 622-5555; Youth in Focus: 723-1479; www. youthinfocus.org; Youth Suicide Prevention Program (OUTLoud-GLBTQ): 297-5922, ext 116, 1-800-273TALK, www.yspp.org

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CASTLE SUPERSTORE #17 1017 E. Pike St - 204-0126 DOGHOUSE LEATHERS 1312 E. Pike St. - 257-0231 EMERSON SALON - 909 E. Pike St. - 323-7437 NEW YORK EXCHANGE 231 Broadway Ave E - 726-7978 ONYX LEATHER - 1605 12th Ave. #8 - 328-1965 PANACHE - 225 Broadway E. - 726-3300 RUCKUS 1465 E Republican St. - 257-4805 STAN’S ADULT SUPERSTORE 9630 16th Ave. SW - 762-3299 TOYS IN BABELAND - 707 E. Pike St. - 328-2914 UNDER U 4 MEN 709 Broadway Ave. E. - 324-6446 WILD AT HEART 1111 NW Leary Way - 782-5538 YOUR CHOICE VIDEO 9811 16TH AVE SW - 768-0711

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PORT ANGELES MAPLE ROSE INN 112 Reservoir Rd - (800) 570-2007

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ANDY’S 1401 W. 1st Ave. - (509) 747 - 0304 IRV’S (Drag Shows) 415 W. Sprague Ave. - (509) 624 - 4450 NYNE BAR AND BISTRO 232 W. Sprague Ave. - (509) 474 -1621 SPOTLIGHT LOUNGE 321 W. Sprague Ave. - (509) 624 - 0722

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CASTLE SUPERSTORE 6015 Tacoma Mall Blvd. - (253) 471-0391 CLUB SILVERSTONE 739½ St. Helens Ave. - (253) 404-0273 THE FANTASY SHOP 2301 6th Ave. - (253) 272-6640 LOVER’S 7002 Tacoma Mall Blvd., #F - (253) 475-2271 THE MIX - 635 St. Helens Ave. - (253) 383-4327 RAINBOW CENTER 2215 Pacific Ave. - (253) 383-2318 SHAKABRAH JAVA CAFE 2618 6th Ave. - (253) 572-2787 TANDEM FOR GEAR, CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES 3019 6th Ave, Ste. B - (253) 301-3026

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LOVER’S 530 Southcenter Blvd. - (206) 248-5085

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THE CELLAR CAFE 240 N. Mission St. - (509) 662-1722

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