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Issue 8, Volume 44, February 19, 2016

Arts & Entertainment

The 2016 Seattle Fringe Festival Why has no openly Gay serves up the freshest live man ever won the best performance!

actor Oscar?

Sir Ian McKellen – Rex Features/Sipa Press via theguardian.com

by Shaun Knittel SGN Associate Editor

What: Seattle Fringe Festival When: February 25-28 & March 3-5 Where: Annex Theatre, Eclectic Theater, TPS Center Theatre, TPS Studio, TPS Black Box More info: seattlefringefestival.org

This month, twenty-one performance groups will shine in shows across the city.

For two weekends, in two Seattle neighborhoods, you can see some of the best new see fringe festival page 6

Taylor Swift, Alabama Shakes win big at Grammys; Seattle Symphony conductor and soloist also victorious

This year is the second in succession that the Oscars have produced an all-white acting shortlist. The growing condemnation of what some people claim is discrimination towards actors of color prompted the Academy to announce a “sweeping series of substantive change” with the number of “women and diverse members” of the

Academy doubled by 2020.

On January 18, filmmaker Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett Smith posted separate messages on social media saying they would not be attending the February 28 ceremony for the Oscars.

“We cannot support it and [I] mean no disrespect ... But, how is it possible for the second consecutive year all 20 contenders see oscars page 5

Unsettling Witch a timeless shocker

Anya Taylor-Joy in The Witch – thehollywoodreporter.com

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer THE WITCH Now playing Taylor Swift – The Recording Academy

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer “58TH GRAMMY AWARDS” CBS-TV February 15

What was supposed to be a truly momentous event filled with superstar entertainers and blockbuster performances turned into an all-around disappointing, lackluster three hours of television. The 58th Grammy Awards fell flat from beginsee grammys page 4

There is something in the woods. Devout 1630 colonial farmer William (Ralph Ineson), under the threat of banishment by the leaders of his New England community, has moved his family to a remote clearing bordering the edge of an ancient forest. At first, he, his wife Katherine (Kate Dickie) and their small gaggle of five children feel they have been blessed from on high, delivered to this spot of earth in order to praise

God and live piously following his teachings with every piece of their immortal souls.

Then the crop shows signs of failure.

The animals stop producing milk. Food runs short. Worst of all, William and Katherine’s newborn baby boy is taken from them while under the supposedly watchful eye of eldest daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy), making her feel like she has failed the family in a way impossible to recover from. Eldest son Caleb (Harvey Scrimshaw) knows it is not her fault, eager to stand up for his older sister while also hoping to show his father he’s ready see THe witch page 13

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Celebrating 41 Years!

Men In Dance 2016 Festival Call for Choreographers Against the Grain/MEN IN DANCE is seeking proposals for new works for its upcoming Festival September 30-October 2 and October 7-9 at the Broadway Performance Hall in Seattle. The deadline for submission is April 30, 2016; chosen choreographers will be notified by May 31, 2016. The organization is looking for group pieces, but will consider solos and duets no more than 10 minutes in length. Choreographers may be male or female, but all performers must be male. Proposals must include the following:

• A written proposal for the work, describing the content and concept of the piece, including any special technical needs.

• The number of male dancers – please include names of performers, if known.

• The choreographer’s resume, including references with contact phone numbers.

• A DVD or online sample of 3-5 unedited minutes of choreography, with at least two pieces represented in the sample.

• If the piece proposed is a remount, please include a performance history and reviews, if available.

Proposals can be submitted electronically to: menindance@hotmail.com OR by mail to: MEN IN DANCE, c/o Ray Houle, 728 N. 83rd St., Seattle, WA 98103. (Please include a self-addressed and stamped envelope to have materials returned.) For more information and application, visit www. menindance.org.

Bette Midler, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Stipe sign on for David Bowie memorial concerts

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer If you were as disappointed as I was watching Lady GaGa’s tribute to David Bowie on the Grammy Awards telecast – she tried, but ultimately didn’t do his music justice – then rejoice in knowing that a batch of eclectic artists will soon gather at Carnegie Hall to pay tribute to the rock icon. The two-night event will feature Bette Midler, Cyndi Lauper, Ann & Nancy Wilson (of Heart), Michael Stipe (of R.E.M.), The Roots, Mumford and Sons, the Pixies, Laurie Anderson, Cat Power, Perry Farrell, Bettye LaVette, Jakob Dylan, The Mountain Goats and Debbie Harry, who will perform solo and with Blondie. In total, about two-dozen performers are slated for the New York City shows, happening March 31 and April 1. No word yet on whether the memorial concerts will be televised or streamed.

Big Freedia, who has a cameo appearance in Beyonce’s “Formation” music video, was forced to cancel a recent concert after the venue owner was threatened with potential code violations. The openly Gay male artist, preferring the pronoun “she,” was to have performed February 12 at The Dollar Box Showroom in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, but instead told fans via social media that the performance was axed when the club proprietor Ben Shemper received a phone call from a State Alcohol Beverage Control officer that had watched Big Freedia’s videos on YouTube and determined that her show could potentially be in violation of Mississippi codes that prohibit certain sexual conduct where there is alcohol served. The “conduct” they’re referring to is twerking, something the Queen of Bounce, as she’s referred to, does freely as part of her act, though until now hasn’t faced any conflicts. In a statement released

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to the press, Big Freedia and her legal team are researching possible violation of her rights with the city of Hattiesburg.

hillblockparty.com.

The lineup for this year’s Capitol Hill Block Party was revealed this week.

Odesza, Chvrches and Crystal Castles will headline the street festival, happening July 22-24 at a barricaded multi-block area at the south end of Capitol Hill. Other artists scheduled to perform include The Cave Singers, Thundercat, The Joy Formidable, STRFKR, MØ, Goldlink and Tourist. The Block Party celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2016. Three-day passes are on sale now, priced between $135 and $300, at capitol-

Finally, a sad note. My heart goes out to the family of Ayham Hussein, a 15 yearold boy in Mosul, Iraq who was executed this week by ISIS extremists for listening to pop music on a portable CD player.

My parents imposed minor restrictions on the music I listened to growing up, but the worst punishment I ever received for listening to something I shouldn’t have – a heavy metal album – was a scolding. This kid, just a teenager and schoolboy, had his whole life taken away. Please don’t take for granted the freedoms we enjoy in our everyday lives.

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continued from cover ning to end, save for a few highlights – B.B. King and Eagles tributes, Kendrick Lamar and Alabama Shakes performances, Hamilton cast live appearance via satellite.

Sound problems, mismatched collaborations, overhyped segments and unworthy award recipients were just some of the things that tainted what should’ve been an incomparable show. It had all the makings of great, next-day water-cooler talk, but instead it earned mixed reviews at best by the media and viewers, many of whom chimed in on social media while simultaneously watching the telecast, aired live on the West Coast on Monday, February 15.

If you happened to miss the extravaganza, here’s a summation of what transpired on the Grammys.

Seattle Symphony claims the city’s lone Grammy The Emerald City has proudly welcomed back many Grammy winners in past years, including Quincy Jones, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, to name a few. This time around, it’s Seattle Symphony conductor, Ludovic Morlot, and soloist, Augustin Hadelich, who returned home with golden gramophones, winning Best Classical Instrumental Solo for “Dutilleux: Violin Concerto, L’Arbre Des Songes,” a track off the album Dutilleux: Métaboles; L’Arbre Des Songes; Augustin Hadelich, Violin; Symphony No. 2, “Le Double” – both Morlot and Hadelich were awarded in the classical category. Brandi Carlile and Death Cab for Cutie were also nominated for Best Americana Album and Best Rock Album, respectively, but lost to Jason Isbell and Muse.

Lady GaGa’s tribute to David Bowie deserved to be better She wowed us two weeks ago when she belted out the National Anthem at the start of the Super Bowl, though Lady GaGa’s tribute to the late David Bowie was just soso. For starters, it crammed too many of the legendary rocker’s songs into a six minute segment, but it was also overly campy and centered more on costume changes than on his actual music. It felt like something you’d see at a fringe festival, likeable and semi-artistic, yet in need of a lot of tweaking for a major audience. Lady GaGa isn’t really to blame for the poorly executed tribute, she did what she could, but a more visionary (and less pop) performer would’ve produced a better outcome; and the musical arrangement by Nile Rodgers was a total mess. Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, wasn’t impressed either, stating on social media that it was “overexcited or irrational, typically as a result of infatuation or excessive enthusiasm.”

Best in Show: Alabama Shakes, Kendrick Lamar, B.B. King and Eagles tributes, Hamilton cast, James Bay with Tori Kelly In any year, these performances would’ve stood out from the rest, but especially this year they really peaked above the others. Alabama Shakes, who collected three gramophones on Monday’s combined Premiere Ceremony and main telecast, played an electrifying version of “Don’t Wanna Fight” featuring lead singer Brittany Howard in a dove white dress with matching cape. Kendrick Lamar fused spoken word, hip hop and jazz for a unique, explosive appearance that earned him a deserved standing ovation. A superb tribute to blues maestro B.B. King blended the talents

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of Bonnie Raitt, Gary Clark, Jr. and Chris Stapleton, while another posthumous acknowledgement to Glenn Frey was turned in marvelously by fellow Eagles band members, plus singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, who performed “Take It Easy.” On the opposite coast, the cast of Broadway’s hit musical Hamilton performed the open-

hits; Bryan sounded like he was blind auditioning for “The Voice” when he sang “Penny Lover,” while Lovato slaughtered “Hello” from start to finish, and then Trainor was so bad that I muted the TV and can’t remember what she warbled.

Justin Bieber’s highly anticipated collaboration with Skrillex and Diplo, which

Ludovic Morlot – Seattle Symphony

ing number of their production via satellite inside the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York. Later in the telecast, the musical’s creator and lead star Lin-Manuel Miranda accepted the award live for Best Musical Theater Album with a rap. British heartthrob James Bay and American sweetheart Tori Kelly jointly performed each other’s songs during a short acoustic session that spotlighted their vocal and guitar chops; sadly, both lost to Meghan Trainor for Best New Artist.

Worst in Show: Nearly everybody and everything The real trainwreck on Monday night was the Lionel Richie tribute, who, unlike

won the trio a Grammy (insert: eyes rolling), started out okay with an unplugged rendition of “Love Yourself,” but then it became a noisy, hyper punk-dance piece with The Biebs running around like an uncontrollable, spoiled kid (sound familiar?).

I feel bad for Galantis, who were robbed of the Best Dance Recording by the mediocre club smash “Where Are Ü Now.” Adele’s performance was plagued with sound issues, but even then she struggled to hit a couple of notes. Ditto for Taylor Swift, who opened the show with “Out of the Woods,” as well as an underwhelming duet from Sam Hunt and Carrie Underwood. Similarly, the first ever appearance by the Hollywood Vampires – Alice Coo-

Augustin Hadelich – Photo by RosalieO’Connor via sulivansweetland.co.uk

the other artists feted with tributes during the awards, is still alive. Richie is the 2016 MusicCares Person of the Year and took part in a musical segment featuring an awful mishmash of performers – John Legend, Demi Lovato, Luke Bryan and Meghan Trainor. Legend was decent, but the other three completely butchered The Commodores frontman and solo act’s top

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per, Johnny Depp, Joe Perry – was just plain frightening and made me wonder if Cooper is a real vampire; that would explain his blood-stained shirt. The finale, teaming Latin rapper Pitbull with Travis Barker, Robin Thicke, Sofia Vergara and Perry, again, was a total bomb, as if they put it all together backstage minutes before.

Worth noting is that Rihanna and Lauryn

Hill canceled separate performances hours before the telecast.

Sexiest eye-candy: Sam Hunt, Jidenna, Mark Ronson, Diplo, Ciara Part of the fun of any awards show is seeing what everybody looks like. Among the hottest was country newbie Sam Hunt, who despite wearing wrinkled trousers appeared sophisticated and handsome in a rose-colored two-piece suit. Jidenna, a presenter on the Premiere Ceremony, was ever so dapper in an orange-toffee, plaidpatterned three-piece ensemble with a trimmed beard, but changed into an ocean blue three-piece suit for the red carpet entrance into the main telecast. Another tall drink of water was Mark Ronson, the DJproducer behind “Uptown Funk,” who looked gorgeous in skinny black trousers with matching tee-shirt and a black-blue pinstriped blazer with fluffed up hair.

Speaking of DJ-producers, Diplo was all about the sexy in a classy grayish-blue suit with a white dress shirt underneath and his blond locks neatly combed; the EDM superstar said in a 2014 interview that “everyone is a lil gay,” including himself. Finally, I don’t find myself fawning over women much, but there was one hot mama at the Grammys that deserves a shout-out, Ciara.

Escorted by Seattle’s own Russell Wilson, the R&B beauty was ravishing in a revealing black gown with a slit up one leg.

Top 4 categories split between Swift, Ronson/Mars, Sheeran and Trainor Kendrick Lamar went into the Grammys with 11 nominations and came away with just 5 wins, though as usual the Recording Academy (NARAS) denied hip hop artists any of the major categories.

Swift took home her second Album of the Year award for 1989, Ronson and Bruno Mars scored Record of the Year for “Uptown Funk,” Ed Sheeran captured Song of the Year for “Thinking Out Loud,” and Trainor stole Best New Artist from four worthier contenders.

Not that Swift’s AOTY win wasn’t deserving – 1989 was my pick for Best Album of 2014 – but Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly was a defining record for the times, a rap masterpiece with social and political commentary folded beautifully into layers of soul, jazz, funk and contemporary R&B/ urban sounds; it felt more important of an album than Swift’s.

Lamar also lost Song of the Year. Besides Lamar, Eminem, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj are some of the musicians who’ve lost in the general categories over the years. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were the last to win, for Best New Artist, in 2014.

And the Grammy goes to....in 2017 Why not look ahead to 2017. Adele was already a contender before 25 dropped late last year. At this point, she’s a shoo-in for Album, Record and Song of the Year, which she’s already won before. Radiohead has a new album coming out and Grammy voters have consistently loved them, so expect the English group to be somewhere in the mix; definitely in the Best Alternative Album category. Behind a new album and world tour, Beyonce figures well into next year’s Grammys, if not in the major categories, then she’ll at least dominate the R&B field. The Lumineers are coming out with a new record and are serious hopefuls in either the folk or Americana genres. Best New Artist contenders can pop up out of nowhere, though a few of them looking good right now are Charlie Puth, Leon Bridges, Troye Sivan and Joey Alexander.

Celebrating 41 Years!

Want to introduce a friend to opera? Try this!

by Rod Parke SGN A&E Writer

VINCENZO BELLINI I PURITANI THE MET OPERA IN HD Blu-ray Once in a while you find an opera video in which all the elements come together to make something that approaches perfection. This Blu-ray disc of Bellini’s I Puritani from The Met Opera in HD series is such a treasure. The singers, conductor, camera people, and recording engineers are all at the top of their game.

Anyone playing this disc through a good surround-sound system will appreciate the purity (no pun intended) of its sound. Instruments and voices have “air” around them; they don’t mess up each other’s space, and there’s no “traffic jam” to muddy the louder passages. And the video could hardly be better. An added plus is a feature employed only in some of the very early Met Live in HD shows, namely some brief camera angles from BEHIND the singers, looking out at the conductor and audience.

Sadly, the Met dropped this practice, which I found unusually involving and exciting.

(We first experienced this fabulous performance as broadcast live in a cinema on January 6, 2007. It was later telecast on PBS.) The stage production is an old one, designed thirty-some years ago for soprano Joan Sutherland by Ming Cho Lee, and it serves very well, with elaborate costumes

by Peter J. Hall. (In one of the wonderful bonus features, the obviously ill Beverly Sills chuckles, pointing out that these char-

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continued from cover under the acting category are white? And let’s not even get into the other branches,” Lee wrote on Instagram. “Forty white actors in two years and no flava at all. We can’t act?! WTF!!”

In a video posted to Facebook, Pinkett Smith said she would not even watch the Oscars on TV this year. Her husband, Will Smith, had been considered an Oscar contender for his role in Concussion but was not nominated.

“Today is Martin Luther King’s birthday, and I can’t help but ask the question: Is it time that people of color recognize how much power, influence, that we have amassed, that we no longer need to ask to be invited anywhere?” she said.

“Begging for acknowledgement, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power. And we are a dignified people, and we are powerful,” she said. “So let’s let the Academy do them, with all grace and love.

And let’s do us, differently.” #OscarsSoWhite trended on social media after a number of black Oscar hopefuls, including Beasts of No Nation’s Idris Elba; Creed star Michael B. Jordan; that movie’s writer-director, Ryan Coogler; and the cast of N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton were overlooked by Academy voters.

But women and people of color aren’t the only ones left out of nominations – or wins for that matter – says openly Gay actor

acters were Puritans and should realistically be wearing some simple “wool itchy thing.”) The video production is very upto-date and excellent in every way.

Without a superb soprano to sing Elvira, you don’t have a successful I Puritani. The opera, with a somewhat silly story, is about “bel canto” singing. The plot, such as it is, merely provides opportunities for the singers to pour out beautifully connected streams of continuous sound in the most impressive way they can. In other words, to show off, by sounding effortlessly beautiful and sometimes dramatic. In Beverly Sills’ day, at moments of vocal challenges, one could, as she says, “Go to the center of the stage, put your hands at your side, and just sing.”

With Anna Netrebko as Elvira, you get far more. Although she cannot claim to possess the perfect coloratura of a Sills or Joan Sutherland, Netrebko more than makes up for lack of perfect trills and flawless agility by her very appearance and acting ability.

To begin with, she is spectacularly beautiful. Her face conveys a large range of emotion, almost never distorting its appearance

with effortful vocal technique. And her command of the stage literally spills over the lip of the stage, as she throws herself down on her back with her head hanging over the orchestra during the most difficult part of her half-hour mad scene! (Being temporarily insane allows a soprano to do crazy things. Ms. Netrebko says she was an acrobat for five years!) Even fans like me of Ms. Sills and Ms. Sutherland cannot be less than wowed by such technical and dramatic command. I would use this half-hour to demonstrate to any opera newbie just how exciting and beautiful opera can be.

Fortunately, the rest of the cast is of a very high caliber. Tenor Eric Cutler had missed all earlier performances of this production because of the flu, but he seems fine for this show. He is attractive, has a beautiful voice with confident high notes above high C, and is more than competent dramatically. His lovely singing is greatly enhanced by effective soft singing when appropriate. His sense of “bel canto” style is flawless.

A favorite at Seattle Opera, bass John Relyea’s singing is flawed only by facial contortions when he indulges a habit of singing out of the left side of his large mouth. On video close ups this can be distracting and certainly detracts from his otherwise impressive appearance. Baritone Franco Vassallo displays a gorgeous, evenly produced sound with perfect legato.

His only limitation is that he sings at full volume almost all the time.

The bonus features on this disc (22 minutes) are special. First are two charming interviews of Ms. Netrebko with soprano Renée Fleming. As Sills points out, it is surprising that a singer would do interviews between acts, especially immediately after singing the big mad scene. But Ms. Netrebko is so pumped up with energy that the interviews seem a nice outlet for her excitement. The other features are the conversations between acts in the broadcast booth between Beverly Sills and Margaret Juntwait, both of whom have since died of cancer. What a joy to see them both as they banter about this show and about Sills’ own experience singing Elvira!

One could hardly find a better disc with which to introduce a friend to opera, especially if that friend might find the wild sexuality of the great Carmen disc with Jonas Kaufmann too intense. The art of opera on video has really matured and provides at its best experiences sometimes better than being there live.

Ian McKellen.

The veteran British actor who found global fame through the Lord of the Rings movies has signaled that homophobia is as much of an issue among Academy voters as racism.

Commenting on the lack of diversity among both Oscar voters and this year’s nominees, McKellen suggested prejudice was the reason no publicly out Gay man had ever received an Academy Award for best actor and expressed sympathy with black actors angry that they were “being ill-treated and underestimated.” However, he said the issue was a wider one.

“No openly Gay man has ever won the Oscar; I wonder if that is prejudice or chance,” he said, implying that he felt it was prejudice as he continued to comment.

Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Sean Penn have all won best actor Oscars for playing Gay men.

“How clever, how clever,” said McKellen. “What about giving me one for playing a straight man?

“My speech has been in two jackets …

‘I’m proud to be the first openly Gay man to win the Oscar.’ I’ve had to put it back in my pocket twice,” he said.

McKellen was first nominated for the best actor award in 1999 for his role in God and Monsters, missing out to Roberto Benigni for Life is Beautiful; and for best supporting actor as Gandalf in the first Lord of the Rings film (Jim Broadbent won for Iris).

McKellen was considered by many to be

a potential contender this year for his acclaimed role as an aging Sherlock Holmes in Bill Condon’s Mr. Holmes; but he did not receive a nomination.

The Oscars voting system is not fit for purpose says McKellen.

“If you are trying to have a career, as a black or Hispanic actor in a state – California – where white people are now the minority, and you are being judged by an Academy where the vast majority are white, male, middle-aged and old … well, perhaps that is the wrong yardstick,” he said.

Oscar-nominated films and actors over the last decade reveals a lack of LGBTthemed films in the best picture category, as well as a total lack, as McKellen said, of out-Gay artists in the acting categories.

Of the 78 films nominated for best picture since 2007, only 5 percent had an LGBTQ character, 95 percent had a heterosexual character.

On television black and LGBT characters of variety and nuance are celebrated these days. In fact, it has become quite common to see out characters cast in roles that television audiences seem to crave and adore. The mainstream no longer kills off these characters, they don’t all have AIDS, and many of the characters are treated as normal functioning humans in society instead of type-cast as the “sissy” or the “freak.” While there are some exceptions, most of the characters are portrayed in a

positive light or at the very least, realistically. However, mainstream film’s view of the world remains white and straight in comparison.

“Movie-making Hollywood is an industry and likes films to make money, and the feeling is, simply, that gay-themed movies, with gay lead characters – and, the statistics would seem to imply, gay lead actors – will not make money,” says Tim Teeman at TheDailyBeast. “The audience will be nervous of them and, thus, reject them. If the audience does not go to a movie, that film will not make money.”

“And so, Hollywood – a place not exactly empty of LGBT people – fights shy of doing right by LGBTs,” Teeman continues.

“Being complicit in this odd circle of silence and ignorance surely must be strange for LGBT people working in Hollywood, unless their venality and ambition cancel out their entire sense of political and cultural engagement.”

The Daily Beast points out that there should be black and LGBT heroes and villains; there should be black and LGBT lead characters, secondary characters – and, when possible, black- and LGBT-focused stories themselves. There should be openly Gay actors playing straight, and straight playing Gay. “Hollywood will nod along vigorously,” says Teeman, “return to their offices, and ask: How can we make these films if no one will come to watch them? But audiences will, if the stories are compellingly told.”

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work from veteran producers and emerging artists. From serious drama to familyfriendly fare, from burlesque to sketch to dance duets, from highbrow to lowbrow to no-brow, Seattle Fringe Festival has something for everyone.

The Festival returns to historic Fringe venues Annex Theatre (1100 E. Pike St.) and Eclectic Theater (1214 10th Ave.) on Capitol Hill. And this year, we have also expanded to Queen Anne! Seattle Fringe Festival is partnering with Theatre Puget Sound to present performances in three venues at Seattle Center: TPS Center Theatre at the Armory, TPS Studio, and TPS Black Box. Seattle Fringe Festival opens Thursday, February 25, and runs through Saturday, March 5. Tickets and festival passes are available at click4tix.com or seattlefringefestival.org. Tickets will also be available at the door.

Three mainstage shows (on the Center Theatre stage) run 90 minutes; all other shows run an hour or less. Single tickets are priced affordably at $10 and 5-show passes are $40.

Up to the minute information about the Seattle Fringe Festival can be found on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/seattlefringefestival. Check in frequently to find news about our artist, events, and the Seattle fringe community. You can also go to our website at www.seattlefringefestival. org A complete list of productions follows: An Oak Tree – Produced by Radial Theater Project – 75 minutes | Rated 13+ TPS Center Theatre: Feb 26 @ 7pm | Feb 27 @ 7pm | Mar 4 @ 7pm | Mar 5 @ 7pm An absurdly comic play for two actors, one of whom has never seen the play or read the script. An Oak Tree explores the power of human imagination, and our ability to transform our world and ourselves. David Gassner performs with a different guest actor at each performance. “A play about theatre, a magic trick, a laugh and a vivid experience of grief, and it spoils you for a while for other plays.” – Caryl Churchill Summary: A play for two actors, one whom has never seen the play or read the script.

Keywords: Theater, Comedy

This year, Seattle Fringe Festival is trying something new. In addition to the 18 shows selected in the traditional lottery drawing, the Steering Committee curated three stellar acts for our TPS Center Theatre mainstage: • An Oak Tree, produced by Radial Theater Project (producers of previous Seattle Fringe Festival hits Aisle 9 and Profile), is an absurd comic play for two actors – one of whom has never read the script.

David Gassner, former Artistic Director of Theater Schmeater, performs with a rotating cast of guest artists.

• Paper Angels, produced by SIS Productions, tells the gripping true stories of Chinese immigrants indefinitely detained at the Angel Island immigration center in 1915. This production enjoyed sold-out runs at the Dukesbay Theater in Tacoma and INScape in Seattle.

• Uncle Seagull, produced by The Libertinis – Seattle’s sexiest inter-arts gang brings their signature mash-up of burlesque, clown, dance, drama, and indescribable pleasures to the Seattle Fringe Festival stage, dressing down and dressing up Chekov’s most famous works.

The Seattle Fringe also brings you a host of other delights, including: • Stellar solo work: Further adventures with Sara Porkalob’s THE DRAGON LADY; a multi-media comedy show with Portland wunder-adult Phil Schallberger; and Shawnmarie Stanton performing Anna and the Sea by playwright Scot Augustson.

• Live music: The Worry Machine; In Love with Chekov; and dance exploration Concerto Concerto bring the musicians onstage • Veteran producers: Fringe Fan favorite Cindy Giese returns with a new slate of shorts, and theater:INFLUENCE digs into a neglected classic play By Special Request • New faces: Brand new work by playwrights Lyssandra Norton (Self-Composed) and Tre Calhoun (Dirt+Dew) • Bring the kids: Leah Adcock-Starr reexamines The Life and Many Deaths of Peter Pan and Bards, Bands, and Bravura finds the comedy in In Love With Chekov • Leave the kids at home: Danielle K.L. Gregroire brings dark storytelling to the Fringe in A Necessary Sadness and A Little Burlesque presents a John Watersflavored extravaganza of filth in DUMP

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Paper Angels – Produced by SIS Productions – 90 minutes | All Ages TPS Center Theatre: Feb 27 @ 5pm | Mar 5 @ 5pm In 1915, eager and hopeful Chinese immigrants await permission to enter the United States at the West Coast immigration center located at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. In sharing the stories of sojourners aspiring to find a home in the America of their dreams, Paper Angels creates a moving depiction of issues still relevant today.

Summary: An intimate portrait of the Asian immigrant experience, revealing the universal desires and haunting realities of those coming to America.

Keywords: Theater, Drama, Asian/ Asian American Uncle Seagull – Produced by The Libertinis – 90 minutes | Rated 13+ TPS Center Theatre: Feb 26 @ 9pm | Feb 27 @ 9pm | Mar 4 @ 9pm | Mar 5 @ 9pm

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Stuck in a cherry orchard with no way back to the sea, three seagull sisters insist on a life of propriety, adventure, and toil amidst endless cherry pits and the bleak antics of the humans below. But when the orchard of their childhood changes right beneath their webbed feet, will Katya, Vera, and Sasha summon the courage to fly?

Summary: The Libertinis, Seattle’s sexiest interarts gang, present equal parts love letter and ransom note to your favorite Russian Anton Chekhov. Everybirdy hurts.

Keywords: Theater, Dance, Music, Burlesque, Comedy, Drama, LGBT, Clown DUMP – Produced by A Little Burlesque – 55 minutes | Rated Mature Annex Theatre: Feb 27 @ 7:30pm | Feb 28 @ 5:30pm | Mar 3 @ 9pm | Mar 5 @ 7:30pm The ladies of A Little Burlesque bring you another mesmerizing, genre blending, theatrical burlesque performance. This time, they’ll push the boundaries of beauty and travel to the city DUMP, where we find its inhabitants threatened by demolition and constant scrutiny of the way they live their lives. Can these rag-tag ruffians of the DUMP join forces to fight the shiny prospect of the filth-less future?!

Summary: DUMP is a depraved, John

Waters-inspired, Sex and Garbage Extravaganza, that will make audiences wish they brought a moist towelette.

Keywords: Theater, Dance, Burlesque, Comedy Illuminati: the Musical – Produced by Love Snack – 50 minutes | Rated 13+ Annex Theatre: Feb 26 @ 7:30pm | Feb 28 @ 3:30pm | Mar 4 @ 9pm | Mar 5 @ 5:30pm Baylie Freeman and Caitlin Obom are Love Snack, a musical sketch comedy duo with one goal – get into the upper echelon of the Illuminati at all costs. Join them on a journey of unsettling discoveries and unflagging enthusiasm. Finally, a multimedia theater presentation that asks and then swiftly answers that age-old question: Can any omnipresent and unspeakably influential secret society ever match the power of friendship?

Summary: A musical sketch comedy duo takes on the most powerful organization in human history. Things are going great.

Keywords: Theater, Music, Film, Comedy Mad Scientist Cabaret – Produced by DANGERSWITCH! – 55 minutes | Rated 13+ Annex Theatre: Feb 25 @ 9pm | Feb 27 @ 9pm | Feb 28 @ 2pm | Mar 3 @ 7:30pm Seven nightmarish creatures embark on a madcap adventure into the weird and wonderful world of Mad Science! Bound by their own bizarreness, they toil through titillating torments, physical feats, and extended experiments on each other as they seek to discover the truth to their own monstrosity… and humanity. Through a special blend of comic mayhem and visual spectacle they take the audience on a jam-packed journey into insanity that walks the line of horror and humor. Clowning, dance, puppetry, and more come together in this playfully audacious piece.

Summary: Nightmarish creatures create mayhem and spectacle in the weird and wonderful world of Mad Science! Clowning, dance, puppetry, and more come together in this playfully audacious piece.

Keywords: Theater, Dance, Music, Comedy, Puppetry, Clowning, Horror Phil Schallberger Full Showberger – Produced by Clayton Weller – 50 minutes | Rated 13+ Annex Theatre: Feb 26 @ 9pm | Feb 27 @ 4pm | Mar 4 @ 7:30pm | Mar 5 @ 9pm A hyper-absurd solo-semi-sketch comedy performance written and built by Portland wunder-adult Phil Schallberger featuring educational chimney-sweeps, pizza, guardian angels, questionable puppetry, and powerpoint-t.v.

Described by many as a very unique, wonderful comedic experience, this show is unlike most one-man shows in that it isn’t heart-breaking-ly personal and has very little in the way of cathartic triumph or overcoming alcoholic dads. It’s just fun.

Summary: A multi-media comedy explosion rupturing forth from the head of Phil Schallberger Keywords: Comedy The Worry Machine – Produced by Sasha Bailey – 55 minutes | Rated 13+ Annex Theatre: Feb 25 @ 7:30pm | Feb 27 @ 5:30pm | Feb 28 @ 7pm | Mar 5 @ 4pm In a town that exists without worries, one girl seeks out the fears and anxiety that the Worry Machine, an invention of a clever tinkerer, has done away with. But her persistent search for answers lead to a major breakdown of the machine, releasing twenty years of worry onto a previously worry free town. When the town calls for her to set things right, she discovers through her journey that a world without fear also lacks love. And a life without duality can deceive an entire town.

Summary: What are you so worried about? Toss your cares and fears away! The Worry Machine is here to stay.

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By Special Request ­– Produced by theater: INFLUENCE – 45 minutes | Rated 13+ Eclectic Theater: Feb 26 @ 9pm | Feb 27 @ 5:30pm | Mar 3 @ 7:30pm | Mar 5 @ 9pm Franz Xaver Kroetz’ play Request Concert, controversial at the time (1981) of its composition, portrayed the human cost of relentless capitalist expansion.

In 2016 Seattle, who are the millers, and what of those who are grist for the mill?

Capitalism has its distinct pleasures. But the bills will always come due.

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Summary: The dark side of the Seattle Boom. With a playlist. From the scenario of Franz Xaver Kroetz’ “Request Concert.”

Keywords: Theater, Music, Drama Dirt + Dew – Produced by Tré Calhoun – 55 minutes | Rated 13+ Eclectic Theater: Feb 26 @ 7:30pm | Feb 28 @ 5:30pm | Mar 3 @ 9pm | Mar 5 @ 5:30pm John Smith is an average guy who wants what average guys want: companionship; Memory is haunted by the memories of her past. As John covers himself from head to toe in mud – and other forest elements – his lust and her fear meet. The result is something a little messy and a little sweet, in this existential, one-act camp dramedy.

Summary: A college grad fears for her life in the woods, as her co-camp counselor masks himself in mud and seduces her.

Keywords: Theater, Comedy, Drama Lazarus and His Girlfriend – Produced by Jim Moran – 55 minutes | Rated 13+ Eclectic Theater: Feb 25 @ 7:30pm | Feb 27 @ 9pm | Feb 28 @ 3:30pm | Mar 4 @ 7:30pm An expressionist tale of young love inspired by a story from the Gospel of John.

Lazarus lived a poor and sickly life in the dusty Judea town of Bethany. After dying, he encounters the free-spirited Paige who introduces him to some of the ways in the after-life. But death and his time with Paige may be temporary for Lazarus because a miraculous destiny awaits.

Summary: An expressionist, youngadult retelling of the Biblical story of Lazarus.

Keywords: Theater, Drama Self-Composed – Produced by Lyssandra Norton – 55 minutes | Rated 13+ Eclectic Theater: Feb 25 @ 9pm | Feb 27 @ 4pm | Feb 28 @ 7pm | Mar 5 @ 7:30pm Tucker wants nothing more than for his OCD to disappear and for his best friend to stop making such a big deal about all this “self definition” crap. Charlie wants nothing more than to have been born in the right body and for his best friend to stop trying to clean up his life for him.

Summary: Adolescence is hard enough without having OCD and a best friend who is clearly keeping a giant secret from you.

Keywords: Theater, Comedy, Drama, LGBT Totally Solid Gold! – Produced by Busted Ankle Dancers – 55 minutes | Rated Mature Eclectic Theater: Feb 27 @ 7:30pm | Feb 28 @ 2pm | Mar 4 @ 9pm | Mar 5 @ 4pm The New York Times described the hit TV series “Solid Gold” as “mini-dramas... of covetousness, lust and aerobic toning.”

Fans of Solid Gold will get to see touchstones of the 70s/80s TV show live: flashy costumes, circular set pieces, and glittery

flop sweat! They will hear cheesy hits from the past, full-throated lip syncing, and the panting of the dancers! They will feel the energy, and also feel that they could become Solid Gold dancers themselves, in fact, pretty much anyone could!

Summary: A live parody of the classic TV show, with an amateur comedy dance troupe dancing to 80s radio hits!

Keywords: Theater, Dance, Music, Comedy, LGBT Blue Paint – Produced by Copious Love Productions – 30 minutes | Rated 13+ TPS Black Box: Feb 26 @ 8:30pm | Feb 27 @ 5pm | Mar 3 @ 8:30pm | Mar 5 @ 7pm Opposites attract. That’s science. Relationships take work. That’s life. Maggie is all heart and Thomas is all brain.

We look in on this odd yet appropriately matched couple during two different stages of their relationship as they try to teach each other how to grow. But are they growing apart in the process? Blue Paint asks its audience what does love look, feel, sound like to you?

Summary: Thomas and Maggie feel trapped by each other’s world, both have to lose something in themselves to find each other.

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Concerto Concerto – Produced by Liz Houlton – 30 minutes | All ages TPS Black Box: Feb 25 @ 8:30pm | Feb 27 @ 7pm | Mar 3 @ 7pm | Mar 5 @ 3:30pm Dancers rarely have control of the soundscape in a performance. With the challenge of prerecorded classical scores, ones that have set rhythms, syncopations, crescendos and endings, the dancer is like the worker-bee; always keeping up with this higher power. I want to challenge that notion and have the dancer create the sound as they perform. A new version of classical concertos evolve on stage in front of our eyes!

Summary: A compilation of solos and duets interacting with live sound design

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and prerecorded classical works.

Keywords: Dance, Music In Love With Chekhov – Produced by Bards, Bands and Bravura – 55 minutes | All Ages TPS Black Box: Feb 26 @ 7pm | Feb 27 @ 8:30pm | Mar 4 @ 7pm Chekhov was the soap opera, blockbusting, storytelling, popular entertainment provider of his time. Join our congregation of Deya Ozburn, James Lyle, Mark Waldstein, Cassie Fastabend, and Stanislove for a vaudeville inspired Tent Revival Meeting, that does not quite go as expected. The order of service includes a sermon on “The Harmful Effects of Tobacco” and “The Bear,” a morality play on the fidelity of marriage (even after death). Some audience participation may be required.

Summary: Come have fun as we take Chekhov and his romantic comedy writings off the pedestal and out to play.

Keywords: Theater, Comedy, Drama The Life And Many Deaths of Peter Pan – Produced by Rough Magic Productions – 55 minutes | Rated 13+ (adult themes and material) TPS Black Box: Feb 25 @ 7pm | Feb 27 @ 3:30pm | Mar 4 @ 8:30pm | Mar 5 @ 5pm

As his light wanes and the tick-tock of the clock winds down, the man who made Peter Pan is confronted by shadows of his past. Eclipsed by his greatest creation and burdened with devastating loss, J.M. Barrie has forgotten how to fly. Dark and whimsical, tragic and joyful, silly and profound, this shadow play romps through the borders between true and make-believe, journeys back to Neverland, and invites us to remember all we have forgotten.

Summary: As his light wanes, Peter Pan’s creator J.M. Barrie confronts the shadows of his past. Will he remember how to fly?

Keywords: Theater, Drama, Shadow Puppetry, Literary Adaption

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A Necessary Sadness – Produced by Danielle K.L. Gregoire – 55 minutes | Rated Mature TPS Black Studio: Feb 25 @ 9pm | Feb 26 @ 7:30pm | Feb 27 @ 5:30pm | Mar 5 @ 7:30pm A Necessary Sadness explores the sorrows that exist and connects us. A variety show with storytellers, improv artists, sketch performers, musicians and a stand up comedian, originally inspired by the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

Summary: A celebration of vulnerability and sadness inspired by the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows and life.

Keywords: Storytelling, Music Anna and the Sea – Produced by [N] one Co. – 45 minutes | Rated 13+ TPS Black Studio: Feb 26 @ 9pm | Feb 27 @ 7:30pm | Mar 4 @ 9pm | Mar 5 @ 5:30pm The fantastical mind of Scot Augustson meets the musical world of Shawnmarie Stanton in this lyrical search for the meaning of our brief lives. Anna, her Aunt Octavia, and a cadre of characters put the question to evolutionary biology, but they might not be prepared for the answer.

Summary: A lyrical search for the meaning of our brief lives using the guideposts of vertebrate and invertebrate evolutionary biology.

Keywords: Theater, Music, Comedy, Solo DRAGON LADY: I’m Going To Kill You ­– Produced by Sara Porkalob – 45 minutes | Rated 13+ TPS Black Studio: Feb 25 @ 7:30pm | Mar 3 @ 9pm | Mar 4 @ 7:30pm | Mar 5 @ 4pm It is the year of the Water Dragon and the eve of Grandma Maria’s 60th birthday.

By the light of karaoke machine, fueled by lumpia and resentment, her five children discover a dark family secret hidden within the stories of their childhood dystopia.

Traveling back and forth through 30 years of faulty memories, Sara Porkalob embodies the 2nd generation of her family to weave a tale about their past that seems too grandiose to be true.

Summary: Filipina gangsters, possible murder, lotsa white rice, 1 actor, 15+ characters, 45 minutes. DRAGON LADY is gonna kill ya’ll.

Keywords: Theater, Comedy, Drama, Solo, Asian/Asian American Eat My Shorts – A Tasty Bit of Theater – Produced by Bohemian Dream – 40 minutes | Rated Mature TPS Black Studio: Feb 27 @ 2pm | Feb 27 @ 9pm | Mar 3 @ 7:30pm | Mar 5 @ 9pm Summary: A fresh collection of tantalizing short plays Keywords: Comedy, Drama, New Work, Short Plays Courtesy of Seattle Fringe Festival

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Amusing Single a humorously slight affair

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer HOW TO BE SINGLE Now playing Dakota Johnson is a star. Leslie Mann is as talented an actress as there is working today deserving of a movie to call her own.

Rebel Wilson, when used correctly, can produce belly laughs better than just about anyone. Those are the three things I took away from watching the amenable, generally amusing if moderately forgettable comedy How to Be Single, the movie never quite coming into its own, yet hardly what I’d call a waste of time.

Loosely based on the best-selling book

by Liz Tuccillo (it took three screenwriters to flesh out the adaptation), the story revolves around Alice (Johnson), a young college graduate who tells her longtime boyfriend Josh (Nicholas Braun) they need to take a break from their relationship in hopes she’ll learn more about herself by being single. Living with her physician sister Meg (Mann), she gets a job at a prestigious Manhattan law firm as a paralegal, making the acquaintance of the outgoing Robin (Wilson). The two hit it off right away, Alice’s party-loving coworker making it her mission to teach her new friend the glories of the single life and all the fun that comes along with it.

There’s not a lot more to it. Alice comes into contact with a variety of men, including sexy bar owner Tom (Anders Holm) and industrious single father David (Damon Wayans Jr.), while at the same time her big sis decides to get herself artificially inseminated while also starting up a romantic relationship with the younger Ken (Jake Lacy).

Meanwhile, book-smart Lucy (Alison Brie) uses Tom’s bar for both its Wi-Fi as well as for testing out her dating algorithms, certain that if she doesn’t approach love and romance clinically she’ll never find another to share her life with.

Director Christian Ditter (Love, Rosie) does a pretty decent job crafting a pleasing tone, the pace never faltering as this year (or so) in Alice’s life runs its course.

She’ll have a few flings, get unsettled when she discovers Josh is engaged to another and learn a number of life lessons by the time she realizes what she wants from life.

While nothing the character discovers is particularly profound, it’s still authentically presented, the emotional actualizations suitably heartfelt.

Johnson, the only good thing about last year’s smash Fifty Shades of Grey, proves she is no flash in the pan, the young actress delivering an enchanting, suitably magnetic performance that’s as complex as it is appealing. She’s the driving force, the one that keeps things interesting no matter what; and as superfluous or achingly banal as events might become, there’s something about her I found positively magnetic come what may. I particularly loved her chemistry with Wayans Jr., the pair sharing some of the film’s stronger scenes as they try to navigate the complexities of a relationship that includes a small child yearning to know more about a mother tragically taken from her much too soon.

But the real joy is Mann. Oscar-worthy in the otherwise regrettably unremarkable This is 40, she’s as wonderful as Meg as she has almost ever been, a sheer multifaceted delight every second she is up there on the screen. There is a delicate balance to her performance that’s heavenly, her

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scenes with Lacy hinting at a sublime MayDecember romance I really wish the film could have taken the time to explore in a heck of a lot more depth.

Wilson is Wilson, meaning that while she doesn’t do anything we haven’t seen before, she’s utilized well enough that the fact she’s doing her patented shtick isn’t an issue. Ditter doesn’t allow her to dominate to the point she could become annoying, instead filtering her in and out of the film only when it needs a jolt of juvenile electricity.

There’s a third act revelation in regards to Robin that’s not handled particularly well, but both Wilson and Johnson are so charismatically naturalistic it ends up working much better than it has any right to, the two actresses proving to be a swell pair of teammates whose friendship rings merrily true.

The subplot involving Brie is frankly not very good, the film never utilizing the talented actress as well as it potentially could have. Also, while Holm is smolder-

ingly hot and easy on the eyes, the way he weaves in and out of things is more sophomoric than it is anything else, his whole demeanor and arc like something out of a second-tier sitcom than it is anything substantive. It should also be said that the script only hints at depth without ever achieving it, making the final payoff, as natural and as unforced as it might be, feel a little underwhelming because of this.

Even so, I found How to Be Single difficult to dislike. Wilson generates a number of heartfelt laughs, Johnson is a magnetically compelling lead and Mann is just plain spectacular, stealing every scene she’s in with an effortlessness that’s just plain super. As slight as it all proves to be, the positives make the negatives worthy of enduring, and it’s highly plausible when I look back at this one again in a few months my feelings towards many of its misgivings and more obvious shortcomings could potentially disappear entirely.

Biblical epic Risen a respectable tale of the Christ

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by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer RISEN Now playing

After the body of a man referred to as Yeshua (Cliff Curtis), whom many believe to be the Son of God, disappears from its tomb three days after his crucifixion and death, Roman military tribune Clavius (Joseph Fiennes) is tasked by Pontius Pilate (Peter Firth) to discover what happened.

With his new aide Lucius (Tom Felton) by his side and eager to prove himself, Lucius wearing his ambitions as if they were a badge of honor, this task proves to be more complicated and perplexing than any either of them could have imagined. Could it be possible? Could this Yeshua really have risen from his grave as was foretold? And, if so, are all of Clavius’ religious beliefs nothing but a lie?

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The first half of the Biblical mystery Risen plays a lot like a 2,000-year-old episode of “C.S.I.,” Clavius and Lucius running all over Judea interrogating suspects, paying off snitches and having their centurions bust down doors. They follow clues and put pieces together, adding all the elements of the supposed crime together in hopes of making sense of what has transpired. They banter back and forth, but all the while in the back of both their minds is the thought that something extraordinary has happened that will transform the world in ways they can barely fathom.

The second half, where Clavius has his eyes fully opened by Mary Magdalene (María Botto) and the rest of the Apostates (including a wonderful Stewart Scudamore as the fisherman Peter), is where this nonbeliever begins an internal transformation, making the journey from Jerusalem to the Sea of Galilee alongside the men. In its own way, this portion of the film is as straight-

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forward as all that preceded it, only now the central mystery involves one of faith and the human spirit and no longer the practical concept of grave robbers run amok. It’s fairly obvious what Clavius is intended to learn here, everything building to a single seaside moment between him and Yeshua where simple truths are uttered in as nondescript and as unassuming a manner as possible.

With a screenplay co-written by the film’s director Kevin Reynolds, a name most will know from his collaborations with Kevin Costner on Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, the television miniseries “Hatfields & McCoys” and, of course, Waterworld, there’s a lot more economical artistry and sturdy craftsmanship involved here than I anticipated. It’s also nowhere near as didactic as most of the so-called “faith-based” entertainments that have been released these past few years, allowing for a more nuanced, practical take on this story revolving around Jesus’ resurrection, referred to here as “Yeshua,” than I’m guessing most are going to anticipate.

If anything, the whole thing feels a bit like something that would have been made in the 1950s, the kind of Biblical epic poked fun at in the Coen brothers Hail, Caesar!, and in all honesty that’s just fine.

But not terrific. As solid as all of this proves to be, there’s something that keeps Risen from achieving greatness. Reynolds paints a pretty picture, but not one that is possible to get lost within. The movie is efficient. It’s handsomely crafted. It’s exceedingly well cast (especially as it pertains to Firth, Fiennes and Curtis). But it’s also not especially deep, Reynolds’ script (cowritten with newcomer Paul Aiello), for all its notable restraint, presenting things with a matter-of-fact simplicity that can

grow somewhat tiresome at times. It also has trouble when it infuses bits of comedic excess into the drama, a pair of bumbling, dimwitted soldiers responsible for guarding Yeshua’s tomb particularly annoying. There are also some Jewish characterizations during the first act that are unavoidably uncomforting, bordering on anti-Semitic, that come perilously close to derailing things before the story even has a chance to get rolling, the fact the film is able to overcome this misstep somewhat remarkable.

Still, the delicacy of Reynolds’ approach is impressive. I liked that he doesn’t stuff dogma down the viewer’s throat, that he allows each step of Clavius’ journey to speak for itself. He and his cinematographer Lorenzo Senatore (The Fourth Kind) use their Spain and Malta locations spectacularly, while composer Roque Baños’s (In the Heart of the Sea) beautifully unobtrusive score augments the inherent emotions of the tale nicely. The film is also a nice reminder of just how dynamic, psychologically-focused an actor Fiennes can be, the Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth heartthrob delivering as nuanced and as complex a performance as any he has in quite some time.

If Risen isn’t transcendent, if it doesn’t, well, rise to the occasion, it’s arguably not for the lack of trying. With so many horrible faith-based features littering the multiplex ranging from the ho-hum (Heaven Is for Real), to the inept (God’s Not Dead) to the perfectly dreadful (War Room), it’s nice to have one that treats its audience with respect. That, all on its own, makes Reynolds’ labor of love worthy of a look, and while maybe not a long one, the fact it’s deserving of it all is something of a minor miracle in and of itself.

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The Witch : An interview with director Robert Eggers

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer THE WITCH Now playing Roughly a year ago, Robert Eggers took home the Best Director prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival for his historical horror-thriller The Witch. The story of a colonial New England family beset by a strange, supernatural force intent on tearing them apart from within, the movie is a cagy stunner that dissects religious fundamentalism and familial dysfunction in terrifically unsettling ways. Shockingly complex, uniquely character-driven, this motion picture defies easy categorization as it makes its way to its explosively terrifying conclusion, more than living up to the hype that’s been following it around since last January.

A native New Englander, the filmmaker dove right into the research as he started to piece together his ideas for the film, many of the historical nuggets he discovered letting him know he was heading in the right direction. “I think what the biggest lightning bolt, which is the crux of the film, is that the understanding that the real world and the fairytale world were the same for everyone save the extreme intelligentsia,” explains Eggers. “In the court records, the Elizabethan and Jacobean witch pamphlets that are like the historical accounts, it’s the same as these fairy tales and folk tales.”

“I think, in a post The Crucible world, the way we talk about witch hunts, we very much think those who were called witches, the people didn’t believe that. Maybe the people who were peasants did, but the religious leaders they were just trying to get rid of women who bothered them. It’s all about the fear of female power. Absolutely. But it was so extreme, this fear, that many really believed that these were fairy tale witches capable of doing all the horrible, bestial, primal things that the witch does in my film. That really put it all together.”

This research fed ideas and feelings Eggers had been pondering since childhood.

“I had witch nightmares ever since I was a little kid,” he says with an uneasy chuckle.

“Very archetypal and intense nightmares.

So I always had my own ideas of the mythic past of New England. Somehow, the understanding [that] the overall general cultural consensus of the 17th century was closer to my understanding of witches as a kid was kind of interesting.”

All of which played into a feeling that

THe witch

continued from cover to take the next step towards adulthood.

As for twins Mercy (Ellie Grainger) and Jonas (Lucas Dawson), they claim to know what happened to their infant brother, but as their information comes apparently from the mouth of Black Phillip, the farm’s goat, neither Thomasin nor Caleb take them seriously.

Maybe they should have, because the events that transpire in Robert Egger’s magnificent, unsettlingly macabre debut The Witch are decidedly supernatural. But while the presence coming from the neighboring forest is very real, the real dangers lie within, the colonial family’s own religious dogmatism the true key to their potential undoing. William and Katherine, their psychological upheaval, their refusal to believe forces outside the confines of the farm are to blame for their misfortune, as mistakes go this is a big one. More, it is their growing distrust of Thomasin, confusing her explosion into puberty for something evil, something in league with the

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the audiences as it pertains is an interesting topic, especially considering that, for as ephemeral and indistinct as The Witch can be, it also states upfront that there is a supernatural presence in the forest, and that she is hungering for the souls of the family who’ve taken up residence next to its borders. “Maybe I’m giving myself too much credit, but I think with the film that I made that you can look at things literally or not even with the amount I show the witch,” explains the director. “If that doesn’t work for you, I guess all I can say is, I’m sorry.”

“But it was always my intention from the beginning to show the witch right away. Most people don’t know what a 17thcentury witch is. I needed people to know what were the stakes, what everyone was up against immediately. There was a lot of deliberation whether this was a good idea or not, but it was always important to me. I think it was Jung who said, and if it wasn’t Jung it might have been Anthony Hopkins in a bad horror movie, just because you don’t believe in the devil doesn’t mean you are safe from him.”

All of which could lead one to think Eggers is using this tale of 17th century terror in order to engage in a broader form of commentary, one talking about religious fundamentalism, not just of the colonial period of U.S. history, but also of right this very second in the modern world as we know it now. “I don’t want to be the snobby, erudite, toolbag director and say I was trying to do any of this without any sort of judgment,” he says with a shrug, “but I wasn’t. I’m certainly not trying to condemn religion.”

“I love my Puritan family. Doing the research, Christianity? Having read the Bible so many times? It’s not hard to understand why people like Jesus Christ. It was, however, hard for me to see what people saw in extreme Calvinism. It was impossible to see how Predestination could have been helpful for anyone. This is heavyduty stuff! Reading diaries and journals, though, you see these people as people. You see people struggling. It’s hard not to care about them.”

And what does Eggers want people talking about after they’ve watched the film? “I think what A24 gets is that I was trying to make a pre-Disney fairy tale,” he states unequivocally. “These pre-Disney fairy tales, they aren’t moralistic. They are not simple.

It’s not about what’s the point of it all, it’s how it makes you feel. These older fairy tales, they’re closer to myth.”

The Witch needed to be a period piece, that the only way this story could be a success was to have it live and evolve within the same era of history Eggers had been researching. “For me, [this] kind of witch – maybe there is a good way to do this story set today – but for me it was essential to go back to a time where everyone just believed in the idea of an evil witch,” he explains.

“This wasn’t even a belief. It was a given. A tree was a tree. A rock was a rock. Was just how it was.”

“It was fun, also, to go back to the very, very beginning of the Great Migration because this was a brief period of North American history where it was almost like the Middle Ages. More, to think about the parents in this film, they would have grown up under the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and that’s so weird in a way to think about.

These were English people, who didn’t know how to do anything, totally vulnerable, and they were these extreme religious refugees who became obsessed with this idea of living in a new world.”

Not all of the inspiration for the film came straight out of New England folklore and fairy tales, however. “I know a lot of this witch stuff is thanks to Margaret Hamilton,” states Eggers, name-dropping The Wizard of Oz actress who created one of the great cinematic villains of all-time with a happily mischievous grin. “Today, it’s maybe laughable, but at 4-years-old, when Dorothy is in the witch’s castle and she sees Auntie Em in the glass ball and then the face of the Wicked Witch appears, I was like, F-that. It was terrifying.”

“But I also watched Hammer horror films and stuff like that, because, films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween and

Friday the 13th? They always scared me too much as a kid. I mean, Pinhead? He scared me way too much. I couldn’t handle it.”

There are other influences that can be felt inside the film as well, ranging from The Crucible writer himself Arthur Miller, to Pan’s Labyrinth lyricist Guillermo del Toro, to Stanley Kubrick and Ingmar Bergman, two legendary auteurs who both knew how to twist an audience’s emotions into pretzel-like knots. “Ingmar Bergman and Carl Theodor Dreyer, I bow down to them every day,” proclaims the filmmaker. “Bergman is my big hero, but I do also think this movie is very The Shining scented. When it works for people, I think those associations might be a part of that.”

“But The Shining was one of those films I watched a ton in my early to mid-twenties to understand how to make a good film, how you learn to sustain tension for so long.

I think some of that was bound to rub off in big ways.”

What is good horror? “It all depends,” says Eggers with a shrug. “I’ve had journalists tell me that this isn’t a horror film, that it’s a psychological suspense thriller with supernatural elements, and I’m like, okay, that’s cool, I guess. Certainly, what’s interesting to me, and what I call horror, one thing is to explore what is dark in human nature, shining a flashlight on that and then run away giggling. That’s paramount to me.”

“As the filmmaking goes, it’s about having restraint. I can’t look into your soul. I don’t know what is the most scary to you, so I have to hope that I can depict what is most personal and scary to me and then hold back and let the last bit be something that you fill in yourself. That’s the idea.”

The idea of restraint and what it does to

Devil, that puts all of them in the most lethal danger, the potential seeds of destruction being sown from within.

The beauty, and the terror, of this film is its simplicity. Eggers reveals early on that the threat is real, not made up, but he just as readily doesn’t dwell on it. He allows William and Katherine to do the most egregious stuff to themselves, while at the same time painting Thomasin and her interactions with her remaining siblings with naturalistic efficiency. In fact, the dynamic between the children is refreshingly authentic, and I loved how the young woman could show such unforced tenderness one second and the very next treat them – especially the twins – with an acidic sense of whimsy and wit bordering on shameful. It’s how children, especially siblings, act with one another, the way the most innocuous and playful of moments can suddenly turn into something unintentionally monstrous one of the story’s most strikingly personal attributes.

There is a Bergman-esque quality to much of this that is eerie and undeniable, echoes of the Swedish master’s Hour of the Wolf, The Seventh Seal and The Vir-

gin Spring present throughout. One can also feel the filmmaker is paying homage to both Kubrick and del Toro, comparisons to The Shining and Pan’s Labyrinth easy to make. But there are elements of The Brothers Grimm, Shakespeare and Miller, as well, a literary quality that reminded me of Snow White, The Tempest, Macbeth and, it goes without saying, the similarly set, tragically heartbreaking The Crucible. Somehow, Eggers is able to meld all of this into one cohesive narrative, the pieces fitting together so well the seams binding one idea to the next is practically invisible.

Not to say The Witch isn’t its own thing.

Inspired by stories, myths, diaries and accounts of the day, Eggers’ script is a model of chilling, character-driven efficiency, Thomasin’s battles against the forces of darkness inadvertently undermined by the two people she needs the most help from, her parents. As such, the filmmaker has managed to produce a story of religious fundamentalism that transcends the historical setting, the sad truth being some people are so wrapped up within its embrace they proudly, and destructively, fail to see the forest for the trees. The film is just as much

about now as it is about the colonial era of New England history, adding an insidious depth to the story that is unnerving as it is prescient.

Much like The Babadook or It Follows, I cannot say this is the scariest modern horror film. Also like them, I’m fairly positive scares are not the point. Eggers takes things to a place that’s far more disconcerting, showing how human nature can be the most destructive of all forces, even when something legitimately supernatural threatens to devour its prey body and soul. This is a magnificently composed motion picture, spectacularly shot, scored and edited, while Taylor-Joy, Ineson and Scrimshaw deliver bravura performances, elements of which stuck with me long after the bold, balefully bewildering final sequence came to its shattering conclusion. A superlative achievement that transcends genre conventions to become something unique and timeless, The Witch is destined to be a movie I’m going to be pondering, dissecting and extolling the virtues of for the remainder of 2016.

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The Lady B takes the stage at Gay City / 3 Dollar Bill Cinema’s 11th Annual Academy Awards Party

on Sunday, February 28 starting at 4 p.m.

Guests will enjoy the Academy Awards broadcast on the Cinerama’s giant screen in their well appointed theater. The party will provide a glamorous Hollywood experience, with savory hors d’oeuvres, a no-host bar, an Oscar Ballot contest with door prize entries, and, of course, a fabulous Oscar raffle.

There will also be an exclusive VIP experience, with the best seats in the house reserved just for VIP guests! VIP tickets include a special VIP bar featuring complimentary champagne service (while supplies last), VIP only hors d’oeuvres, and complimentary coat check. Only 100 VIP tickets will be sold.

Tickets are $25 general admission and $95 VIP. Visit the event’s Stranger Tickets page to purchase tickets, or find more information: https://www.strangertickets.com/ events/30651636/11th-annual-academyawards-party This is a 21+ event. www.gaycity.org

by Robert Roth Gay City Health Project GAY CITY/ THREE DOLLAR BILL CINEMA 11TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS PARTY SEATTLE CINERAMA February 28 The organizers of the 11th Annual Academy Awards Party are pleased to announce that The Lady B, a Seattle drag and dance sensation, will be taking over as host of the upcoming event. The party, a benefit for Gay City and Three Dollar Bill Cinema, was recently forced to find a new host due to the cancellation of their original host, Robbie Turner.

Turner, a star in the upcoming season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” was apologetic about the need to cancel. It was necessary, however, due to unforeseen obligations as a result of Turner’s contract with LOGO TV, the home of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”

But the show must go on, and this show will go on thanks to The Lady B. Story-teller, performance artist, community organizer, and activist, The Lady B uses burlesque, dance, drag, and spoken work to portray how the politics of race, sexuality, gender, and ability are projected onto us.

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City and Three Dollar Bill Cinema are important to support because of their ongoing dedication to Seattle’s diverse queer communities as our needs evolve.”

“It is truly an honor,” she added, “stand-

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The 11th Annual Academy Awards Party will take place at the amazing Seattle Cinerama (2100 4th Ave. at Blanchard St.)

Don’t forget to take a moment and cast your vote for Gay City and Three Dollar Bill Cinema’s 2nd Annual Rainbow Cinema awards, recognizing and honoring the incredibly diverse talents of actors and filmmakers from 2015.

The winners will be announced at the event. Votes can be cast at: http://www.threedollarbillcinema.org/news/entry/vote-for-the-2016-rainbow-cinema-awards

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

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

SATURDAY - February 20

Northwest Flower & Garden Show (2/17-2/21). Washington State Convention Center, 8th Ave & Pike St. www. gardenshow.com 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.

Yoga With Andrew Conner. 9:30-11am. Amor Spiritual Center, 2528 Beacon Ave, Suite B. Meets every Saturday. A love offering is suggested but no one will be turned away.

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.

Lambert House Queer Rec. 1pm. 1818 15th Ave. 3rd Saturday each month. Outdoor & indoor adventures for youth ages 22 & under. www.lamberthouse.org PNW G/B/Q Longhaired Men. 2pm. Locations vary.

Check the website or call for details. An informal social group for longhairs, growers, longhair admirers & their friends. We gather for brunch on the 3rd Saturday each month to socialize, chat & often go out afterwards for coffee or some activity. Please join us! For information & to RSVP, 309-0510 or www.longhair.shorturl.com Oasis Youth Center in Tacoma - For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth, Ages 14-25. 6pm-12 midnight. Call for location & details. Every Saturday. (253) 671-2838. www.oasisyouth center.org.

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

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

For more information visit www.rainbowbridgeclub.org or email rainbowbridgeclub@gmail.com FIUTS CulturalFest. 7pm. Meany Hall, University of Washington. Discover music and dance performances from around the world! Doors open at 5pm for interactive cultural booths and lobby entertainment. Tickets: $15.

Kids under 10 FREE! www.fiuts.org/culturalfest.

Earth Tomes: Celebrating the Earth. 8pm. Taoist Studies Institute, 225 N 70th St. A welcome revelation of the body as earth, revealing the changing landscape of the body. First performed as a site-specific solo in a greenhouse in Malmo, Sweden, as part of a symposium on body & memory in February 2015. $10-$15 sliding scale. laagekogut@fastmail.com

SUNDAY - February 21

Northwest Flower & Garden Show (2/17-2/21). Washington State Convention Center, 8th Ave & Pike St. www. gardenshow.com 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 Ethyl Forever Car Club, Pacific NW Region Lambda Car Club Monthly Tire Kick/Social. 10:30am. Randy’s Restaurant, 10016 E Marginal Way S (south of the Museum of Flight). Meets the 3rd Sunday each month.

This monthly informal auto enthusiasts event starts with breakfast at this location with a show & tell and continues to a chosen point of interest. Open to all LGBTQ persons & friends who have an interest in the automobile, not just collector or performance vehicles. ethylforever@ hotmail.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 + $2 shoe rental. (425) 785-4725.

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

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

Just for Today. 12-1:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Sunday. Drop-in 12-step (Narcotics Anonymous) group open to anyone in recovery. 3222437; www.sasgcc.org One Love Wedding Showcase. 12noon-5pm. Fremont Foundry, 154 N 35th St. The premier West Coast wed-

February 20 thru February 28 Orca Swim Team Workout. 7-8:15pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

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 - February 23

ding showcase that celebrates ALL couples in love.

Grab a cocktail & make the rounds meeting the most elite & talented Northwest experts, venues, caterers & more. Couples can trust they will be treated with respect & professionalism during this exciting time. oneloveseattle.com 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. Perfect for individuals looking for more relaxed play, who are just getting back into soccer, just learning the game and/or want to supplement their competitive play with a recreational team. To sign up visit www.raincitysoccer.org Panel Discussion: Shakespeare in America. 2-4pm.

Central Library, 1000 4th Ave. Expert panelists explore how & why the Bard became so important to Americans.

FREE. In celebration of “First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare,” a nationally touring exhibit which will be hosted at the Central Library, March 21-April 17. www.spl.org Seattle Prime Timers Monthly Potluck Social & General Meeting. 2-4pm. Seattle First Baptist Church Recreation Hall, 1111 Harvard Ave (at E Seneca St - enter thru glass doors on Harvard Ave.) Meets 3rd Sunday most months. Bring a dish to serve 6-8 people. $4 door fee covers hall rental. SPT is a social club for Gay men & their friends. www.seattleprimetimers.org.

Lunar New Year Concert. 3-4pm. Central Library, 1000 4th Ave. A chamber music concert featuring violinist Andrew Bushnell & musicians from the Northwest Symphony. The performance will feature “Chinese Folk Songs for String Quartet” by Zhou Long and “The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto” by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang. FREE. www.spl.org Orca Swim Team Workout. Sun: 5-6:15pm; Mon/Weds/ Fri: 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. Every Sun, Mon, Wed & Fri. Pre-registration required. Orca Swim Team workouts are for both competitive & recreational swimmers. www.orcaswimteam.org

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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.

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

Freely Speaking Toastmasters. 7pm. FredLind Manor, 1802 17th Ave. Every Monday (except holidays & the last Mondays in August & December). Seattle’s only LGBT speaking club. www.FreelySpeaking.org

Community Conversation: Help Shape Library Services Around Seattle Culture & History. 11am12noon. Central Library, 10000 4th Ave. Features City Librarian Marcellus Turner & Special Collections Manager Jodee Fenton. This conversation is co-sponsored with the Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO). “Our Library system has a special responsibility to preserve and build collections, programs and services that reflect our city’s unique history and culture,” Turner said. “I’m looking forward to discussing some of our exciting new projects and hearing what resources and programs are most important to our patrons.” www.spl.org Lesbian & Gay Child Care Task Force Monthly Meeting. 12 noon-2pm. Call for location. Meets 4th Tuesday each month. The Task Force, in conjunction with Child Care Resources of King County, offers referrals to GLBT-welcoming child care centers & provides training, support & curriculum materials to child care providers. (To access this, call 329-1011 & ask for the “Gay-welcoming” child care programs in your zip code area.) The task force meets monthly to assess their progress in achieving their goals.

Medieval Women’s Choir.12noon-1pm. Central Library, 1000 4th Ave. The Medieval Women’s Choir performs a preview of their upcoming concert “The Songs of Angels.” Beginning in the 11th century, wordless song was seen as a way to approximate the language of “Paradise.” FREE. www.spl.org Amor Open Meditation. 5-6pm. Amor Spiritual Center, 2528 Beacon Ave, Suite B. Meets every Tuesday.

2015 GSBA Business & Humanitarian Awards.

5:30pm. Seattle Marriott Waterfront. Features MC Sally Clark & keynote speaker Gaymer X Vice President Gina Gahame. Special recognition as a voice for social justice: UW President Ana Mari Cauce. thegsba.org LGBTQ Questioning & Allied Youth Drop-in Group in Renton. 6-8pm. Renton Area Youth Services (RAYS), 1025 S 3rd St, Renton. Meets every Tuesday. Confidential. Snacks provided. Bring friends or come alone - anyone 12-18 is welcome. Questions? Call Sarah Hardin, 425-271-5600 ext 155, or email sarahh@rays.org Strength Over Speed. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 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 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/South King County Monthly Meeting. 7pm.

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

Meets 4th Monday each month. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724.

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

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Seattle Poly Potluck & Discussion Group. 5-8pm.

Center for Sex Positive Culture (Main Space), 602 15th Ave W. Meets 3rd Sunday each month. For people interested in polyamorous, open, and ethically nonmonogamous relationships. $5 donation; please bring a potluck dish. This event is open to the public. Look for us on Facebook or Meetup.

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.

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

MONDAY - February 22

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.

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

Hand drumming classes for Gay men. Learn traditional African & Afro-Caribbean rhythms & basic hand drumming techniques. 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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WEDNESDAY - February 24

LGBTQ Support Group in Renton. 10am-12noon.

Renton Senior Activity Center, 211 Burnett Ave N. Meets the last Wednesday of every month. This newly-formed group will address issues while providing support & information that may be unique to the LGBTQ community. Topics of discussion may be legal issues, housing, medical needs, bereavement, acceptance & other topics of your choice. 425-430-6633, rentonwa.gov Mature Friends Morning Exercise/Health & Fitness Get-Together. 10am. Ballard Odd Fellows Hall Bldg, 1706 NW Market St. Every Wednesday. An hour of health-related activities, followed by a walk around Greenlake & lunch at a local restaurant. MF is a social group for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.org Mature Friends Dining Out Luncheon. 12:30pm. Call for details, location & to make reservations. Meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday most months. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www. maturefriends.org True Colors: Connecting LGBTQ Teens in Shoreline.

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

Sponsored by PFLAG Everett chapter. David/Brenda, (425) 263-2908. globeleaders@hotmail.com POZSeattle Second Monthly Social. 6-8pm. CC Attle’s, 1701 E Olive Way. Meet us in the Olive Room for drinks, a light fare of tasty food provided by CC’s kitchen, socializing & a whole lot of fun. This event is offered at no cost, but to help with overhead costs we ask for a $5 donation. It is for all HIV+ men & their friends regardless of age, shape, size, color, or gender identity. www.pozseattle.com The Rowing Team Peer Recovery Group. 6-7:30pm.

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

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

Seattle Gay & Lesbian Book Club. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Wednesday. Discuss the best LGBT novels with other book-lovers in a safe, comfortable conversation. Come once or come every week. Check our website for this month’s book. http:// faculty.washington.edu/swittet/SGLBookClub/ SASG 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Lotus Sisters Meditation & Dharma Discussion North. 6:15-8pm. Ravenna Bryant neighborhood. Meets every Wednesday. Call 525-7295 for location. www.

LotusSisters.org.

Seattle Frontrunners Fun Run. 6:30pm. Volunteer Park (in front of Black Sun across for museum). Every Wednesday. (See Saturday at 9am.)

HIV/AIDS Support Group. 7-8:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Wednesday. Please arrive by 7:00pm. FREE peer-facilitated emotional support group for HIV+ men who are newly diagnosed or newly dealing.

322-2437; www.sasgcc.org Hermanos Trans Latino & Foreign-Born Support Group. 7pm. Entre Hermanos, 1105 23rd Ave. Bilingual (Spanish/English) Transsexual support group meets 2nd & 4th Wednesday each month to provide information, counseling, healthcare, sisterhood & social activities

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FRIDAY - February 26

2016 Seattle Fringe Festival (2/25-3/5). A project of Theatre Puget Sound featuring 22 locally sourced plays.

For plays, venues & tickets visit seattlefringefestival.org 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 (Also Thursdays 4-10pm & Saturdays 6pm-12 midnight.)

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 Rain Country Dance Night. 7-11pm, lessons at 7:15pm.

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

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

(253) 474-8897.

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

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

Seattle Counseling Service, Rainbow Room, 1216 Pine St at Melrose Ave. Every Friday. 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 GaYme Night 4 the LGBT Community. 8pm-1am.

SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Meets the 3rd & 4th Friday of every month. Board games, cards & fun. www.sasgcc.org

SATURDAY - February 27

for Latino & foreign-born people in their transition. For more information contact Abby 322-7700, www.entre hermanos.org Ingersoll All-Trans Drop-In Support Group. 7-9pm.

Seattle Counseling Services, 1216 Pine St, Suite 300.

All Transgender, Gender Variant, Gender Queer, Gender Questioning, allies, family & friends are welcome. This is a drop in group to get & give support, social interaction & information for the whole Gender community. No fee, donations welcome. www.ingersoll center.org Mature Friends Weekly Bridge Group. 7:30pm. Call for location. Every Wednesday. All levels welcome. MF is a social organization for Gay men & women, 40 years & over. www.maturefriends.org Orca Swim Team Workout. 7:30-8:45pm. Seattle University, Connolly Athletic Center, 14th Ave & E Cherry St. (See Sunday listing at 5pm.)

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

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

THURSDAY - February 25

2016 Seattle Fringe Festival (2/25-3/5). A project of Theatre Puget Sound featuring 22 locally sourced plays.

For plays, venues & tickets visit seattlefringefestival.org Alcoholics Anonymous “Safe & Sober Group.”

12noon-1pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Open meeting of AA. 322-2437; www.sasgcc.org.

BABES Women’s Support Group/Lunch Meeting.

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

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

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

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Shifting Gears. 6-7:30pm. SASG, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Every Thursday. Drop-in support group (non 12-step) for anyone of any orientation or gender who desires recovery from drugs or alcohol. www.sasgcc.org B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group). 6:30-8pm. Call for location. Every Thursday. Sponsored by Youth Eastside Services, which offers many programs for GLBT youth.

(425) 747-4937.

Crystal Meth Anonymous. 6:30pm. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 1729 Harvard Ave. Also meets Mon @ 6:30pm, Sat @ 10:30am, Sun @ 6:30pm. More info: crystalmeth.org.

Boys’ Group - For Male-Identified Youth, Ages 1422. 7-8:30pm. Lambert House, 1818 15th Ave. Every Thursday. Youth take the opportunity to talk about issues that relate to their everyday lives, with the facilitation of a male volunteer. 322-2515 ext 16. www.lamberthouse.org PFLAG/Tacoma Monthly Meeting. 7pm. St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 7410 S 12th (at Jackson), Tacoma.

Meets 4th Thursday each month. PFLAG/Tacoma: (253) 383-2318. PFLAG/Puget Sound: 325-7724.

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 Amor Chorale Rehearsal. 8-9pm. Amor Spiritual Center, 2528 Beacon Ave, Suite B. Meets every Thursday.

Calling all sopranos, altos, tenors & basses. The Amor Spiritual Center currently has openings for singers in its Chorale group.

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.)

(See previous Saturday for ongoing activities.)

2016 Seattle Fringe Festival (2/25-3/5). A project of Theatre Puget Sound featuring 22 locally sourced plays.

For plays, venues & tickets visit seattlefringefestival.org Rose Pruning Demonstration. 10am-2pm. Woodland Park Zoo Rose Garden, N 50th St & Fremont Ave N. Learn where & how to cut & how to use your tools properly. Discover the variety of roses & pruning techniques.

FREE. Rain or shine. www.zoo.org

SUNDAY - February 28

(See previous Sunday for ongoing activities.)

2016 Seattle Fringe Festival (2/25-3/5). A project of Theatre Puget Sound featuring 22 locally sourced plays.

For plays, venues & tickets visit seattlefringefestival.org 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. NSWG’s primary focus is erotic writing - but they welcome anyone who writes. The only requirements are to write, to attend, & to be respectful. For info & location, NSWG@sexpositiveculture.org; www.nosafeword writersgroup.org (Also meets 2nd Tuesday, 7pm.)

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

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

Seattle Prime Timers Monthly Rap Group. 2-4pm.

NEW SASG House, 115 15th Ave E, Suite 201. Topic: “How did ‘Gay’ become LGBTQIA?” Metro routes 8, 10, 43.

11th Annual Academy Awards Party. Seattle Cinerama, 2100 4th Ave at Blanchard St. Presented by Gay City & Three Dollar Bill Cinema. Hosted by Seattle drag sensation The Lady B. Tickets: $25 general; $95 VIP. For tickets & information visit gaycity.org/oscars 21+ only!

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

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

American Veterans for Equal Rights - www.aver.us Another Gay Social Club! - www.meetup.com/AnotherGay-Social-Club/ Bellingham/Whatcom County - www.theslowlane. com/guide.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Visit us online www.sgn.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 Police Department Sexual Minorities Community Advisory Council: kim.bogucki@seattle.gov Seattle PrideFest - www.seattlepridefest.org Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) E-zine is an electronic resource distributed to people affected

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

(425) 339-5298.

Social Outreach Seattle (SOSea) - www.facebook. com/socialoutreachseattle South Sound Q Calendar - LGBTQ events in Tacoma, Olympia & Sound Puget Sound area; www.South SoundQCal.com 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.emerald citysoftball.org, www.eteamz.com/womensecsa; Ethyl Forever Car Club: ethylforever@hotmail.com; Festival of the Babes: www.festivalofthebabes.com; Olympic Yacht Club: www.oycnw.org; OutVentures: outdoor education & recreation activities, www.outventures.org; Pacific Northwest Gay Rodeo Association: www.pacificnwgra.org; Puddletown Squares: www.puddletownsquares.org; Rain City Soccer: www.raincitysoccer.org; Rain Country Dance Association: a country-western dance organization catering to the LGBTQ community

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but open to all, www.raincountrydance.org; Sea Dawgs: LGBT ice hockey - SkateSeaDawgs@gmail.com and on Facebook; Seattle Frontrunners: 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.

Yakima: First Fridays - (509) 576-0276. www.gayakima.com/1stfridays.html YOUTH: B-GLAD (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans & Questioning Adolescent Drop-In Group): Youth Eastside Services offers many programs for GLBT youth, including B-GLAD, (425) 747-4937; Diverse Harmony: www.diverseharmony. org; GLSEN/Washington State (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) & Washington State GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Network: GLSEN works to create safe schools for LGBT students. WA GSA Network supports youth-led GSA’s to fight harassment & homophobia in Washington state schools. 330-2099; www.glsenwa. org; www.wagsa. org. GLOBE (GLBTQ Loving Ourselves, Becoming Empowered): a support group & HIV/STD prevention program for GLBTQ youth, 14-20, in Everett, (425) 263-2908, www.globeyouth.org; 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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• SEATTLE COUNSELING SERVICE FOR SEXUAL MINORITIES MELROSE AVE.

• JULIAʼS

DENNY WAY

E. OLIVE ST. GLSEN ONYX LEATHER • SEAMEC

• STOUT • PURR

• UNICORN • POST OPTIONS •WILDROSE • HOT HOUSE

BATHS

CLUB Z - (men) 1117 Pike near Boren - 622-9958 HOT HOUSE SPA & SAUNA - (women) SW corner of Pike & 11th (stairs behind Wildrose) - 568-3240 STEAM WORKS - (men) 1520 Summit - 388-4818

RESTAURANTS & BARS

88 KEYS - 315 2nd Ave. S. - 839-1300 BALTIC ROOM - 1207 Pine St. - 625-4444 THE BOTTLENECK LOUNGE 2328 E. Madison St. - 323-1098 C.C. ATTLE’S BAR & GRILLE 1701 E. Olive Way - 726-0565

THE CANTERBURY - 534 15th Ave. E. - 322-3130 CHANGES IN WALLINGFORD 2103 N. 45th - 545-8363 THE CRESCENT - 1413 E. Olive Way - 720-8188 THE CUFF COMPLEX 1533 13th Ave. - 323-1525 DIESEL BAR - 1413 14th Ave. - 322-1080 GLO’S - 1621 E. Olive Way - 324-2577 GNOCCHI BAR - 1542 12th Ave - 328-4285 HOT MAMA’S PIZZA - 700 E. Pine St. - 322-6444 JAZZ ALLEY - 2033 6th Ave. E. - 441-9729 JULIA’S - 300 Broadway Ave. E. - 860-1818 KREMWERK - 1809 Minor Ave. #10 - 682-2935 MAE’S CAFE 6412 Phinney Ave. N. - 782-1222 MADISON PUB - 1315 E. Madison - 325-6537 NEIGHBOURS - 1509 Broadway - 324-5358 OUT WEST - 5401California Ave. SW POCO WINE ROOM 1408 E. Pine St. - 322-9463

RETAIL SHOPS

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

BELLINGHAM

LOVER’S 193 Telegraph Road - (360) 752-1862 RUMORS CABARET 1119 Railroad - (306) 671-1849

BAR MYX - 1212 California St. - 425-610-4071 LOVER’S - 112 SE Everett - (425) 353-3607 LOVER’S - 3402 Broadway - (425) 252-8754

KENT

LOVER’S 25801 104th Ave. S.E. - (253) 852-1720 THE FANTASY SHOP 604 Central Ave. S. - (253) 850-8428 NASHVILLE’S SPORTS BAR (Drag Shows) 114 - Railroad Ave. N. - (253) 852 - 0909

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• DOGHOUSE LEATHERS

E. PIKE ST. • CHOP SUEY • MADISON PUB • DIESEL BAR • PONY

PONY - 1221 E. Madison St. - 324-2854 PURR - 1518 11th Ave. - 325-3112 R PLACE - 619 E. Pine - 322-8828 RE-BAR - 1114 Howell at Boren - 233-9873 SEATTLE EAGLE - 314 E. Pike - 621-7591 SHORTY’S 2222 2nd Ave - 441-5449 STOUT -1530 11th Ave - 397-3825 TOULOUSE PETIT 601 Queen Anne Ave N - 432-9069 UNICORN - 1118 E Pike - 325-6492 WILDROSE - 1021 E. Pike - 324-9210 ZIPPY’S GIANT BURGERS 5633 Airport Way S - 466-5954 9614 14th Ave SW - 763-1347

EVERETT

• THE GASLIGHT INN

• POCO WINE ROOM

• THE CUFF COMPLEX • GNOCCHI BAR

E. UNION ST.

SEATTLE

• RUCKUS

E. UNION ST.

LA CONNER

THE HERON INN & WATERGRASS DAY SPA 117 Maple Ave. - (877) 883-8899 info@theheron.com

OLYMPIA

DARBY’S CAFE 211 5th Ave. S.E. - (360) 357-6229 LOVER’S 3959 Martin Way E. Suite D - (360) 456-7300 JAKES - 311 4th Ave. E. - (360) 956-3247 URBAN ONION 116 Legion Way - (360) 943-9242

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

SPOKANE

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

TACOMA

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

TUKWILA

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

WENATCHEE

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

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