January 27, 2006
GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE 11
charlie's calendar
To list your non-profit group or club's events, send the date, time, location and contact phone to P.O. Box 5426, Cleveland, Ohio 44101, or fax to 216631-1052, or e-mail to calendars @chronohio.com. Each week's calendar shows events in the upcoming week, plus selected later events. But it's never too early to send in a calendar item; listings for months into the future are posted on our web site, www.gaypeoples chronicle.com. Deadline for each week's calendar is noon on Thursday of the previous week.
Friday, January 27
Swoon, film by gay director Tom Kalin about the Leopold and Loeb case, in which two lovers in 1924 kill a child to prove their Dostoevskian superiority, 7 pm, $6, $4 Wexner Center members, students and seniors, Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater, 1871 North High Street, Columbus, 614292-3535, www.wexarts.org.
Postcards from America, profile of artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz, 8:35 pm, $6, $4 Wexner Center members, students and seniors, Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater, 1871 North High Street, Columbus, 614-292-3535, www.wexarts.org.
Friday and Saturday, Jan. 27 and 28 The Conformist, Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 film about a man in pre-World War II Italy dealing with Fascism and his own latent homosexuality, 7:30 pm Fri, 9:30 pm Sat, $8, $5 members and CIA students, Cleveland Institute of Arts Cinematheque, 11141 East Blvd, Cleveland, 216-421-7450, www.cia.edu/ cinematheque.
Saturday, January 28
Pre-Apprenticeship Training Orientation and Testing, for women seeking employment in skilled trades and technical fields, 9 am, Hard Hatted Women, 3043 Superior, Cleveland, 216861-6500 ext. 254.
Côte D'Azur, pansexual French sex farce, 5:45 pm, $8, $5 members and CIA students, Cleveland Institute of Arts Cinematheque, 11141 East Blvd, Cleveland, 216-421-7450, www.cia.edu/cinematheque.
Asians and Friends Chinese New Year, banquet and show, 6 pm, $35 members, $45 nonmembers until January 24, $50 Jan. 25 to 28, C&Y Restaurant, 2222 St. Clair Ave, Cleveland, www.members.aol.com/AFCleveland,
cy_butterfly@hotmail.com.
Marvelous Motown, Friends Together For Life's annual fundraiser for AIDS, 6:30 pm cocktails, 7:30 pm dinner, 8:30 pm show, $50, Canton McKinley Grand Hotel, 320 North Market St, Canton, 330-477-0806.
Saturday to Sunday, Jan. 28 to Feb. 19
The Colored Museum, play by gay writerdirector George C. Wolfe, directed by Caroline Jackson-Smith, Karamu Performing Arts Theater, 2355 East 89th St, Cleveland; 216795-7070, www.karamu.com.
Sunday, January 29
Frozen Waterfall Hike at Bedford Reservation, organized by Cleveland Out and About,
1 pm, 216-556-8209, www.clevelandout andabout.org.
Monday, January 30
AIDS Walk Thank-You Event, session for past, present and future AIDS Walk Cleveland volunteers, information on upcoming volunteer opportunities, 5:30 pm, AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland, 3210 Euclid Ave, RSVP to David Fearn, 216-621-0766 x275, dfearn@atfgc.org.
Thursday, February 2
You Can Lie with Another Man: Leviticus 18:22, A Reform Jewish Perspective, panel discussion organized by Keshet of Temple Sholom, an LGBT and allied group for Jews and their partners, time and location to be announced, 513-207-9547, mcomforti@fuse.net.
Friday, February 3
Illusions of the Stars, featuring West Virginia's finest female impersonators, special guest Ace Hendrix from La Cage in Las Vegas, hosted by Amanda Love and Denise Alex, $5, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Dils Center, 521 Market St, Parkersburg, W.V., 304-424-3457 ext. 138, www.caritashouse.org, www.partyat
utopia.com.
Friday to Sunday, February 3 to 5 Family Outing: A Dance Play, Joe Booth's explanation to his father of everything about gay sex, presented in dance, part of Cleveland Public Theater's Big Box Series, Fri and Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm, Cleveland Public Theater, 6415 Detroit Ave, 216-631-2727, www.cptonline.org.
Saturday, February 4
Trash and Treasure, artist reception for exhibition of new works by Christopher Sweiger and Diogenes Basileos, pm, Bela Dubby Gallery, 13321 Madison Ave, Lakewood (Cleveland), 216-221-4479. Image/Sound/Image, concert concluding Red (an orchestra)'s fourth season featuring music from and inspired by movies and other visual arts, led by out conductor Jonathan Sheffer, $15-$110, 8 pm, Masonic Auditorium, 3615 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 440-519-1733, www.redanorchestra.org.
Oven Productions Variety Show Benefit, concert featuring Burning Sage acoustic duo, Alexis Antes, and Joyce Scoglietti, $5,9 pm1 am, the Nickel, 4365 State Road, Cleveland, 216-661-1314.
Tuesday, February 7
Chris Redfern to speak, Ohio Democratic Party chair, at the Stonewall Democrats of Central Ohio monthly meeting, 6:30 pm, Ohio Democratic Party Headquarters, 271 East State St, Columbus, 614-265-7444, stonewalldemsoh@yahoo.com. Friday and Saturday, February 10-11 The Vagina Monologues, performance of Eve Ensler's play to benefit the V-Day Project to end violence against women and girls, $18 advance, $20 door, $13 students advance, $15 students door, Mocha Maiden, 43 South Main St, Akron, www.flurwild.com/RSVD.htm. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," Valentine's concert by the Columbus Gay Men's Chorus, 8 pm, Studio II Theater, Vern Riffe Center, 77 South High St, Columbus, 614-228-2462, www.cgmc.com.
Saturday, February 11
Pre-Apprenticeship Training Orientation and Testing, for women seeking employment in skilled trades and technical fields, 9 am, Hard Hatted Women, 3043 Superior, Cleveland, 216861-6500 ext. 254.
Valentine's Dance, presented by the Pride Center of Greater Youngstown, 8 pm, First Unitarian Church, 1105 Elm St, Youngstown, 330-747-7433 (74 PRIDE).
"Hearts on Fire," North Coast Men's Chorus Valentine's Day-themed cabaret fundraiser, food, music, silent auction, Cleveland Play House Club, 8500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 216556-0590, www.ncmchorus.org.
Q-Pid, semi-formal Valentine's Day dance for LGBT youth and allies, 9 pm, OSU Hillel, 46 East 16th St, Columbus, http:// multiculturalcenter.osu.edu/glbtss, 614-
688-8449.
Sunday, February 12
Gay Community Endowment Fund Dinner, inaugural event featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz, benefits the GCEF of the Akron Community Foundation, 5 pm cocktails, 6 pm dinner, 7:45 program, $25, Bricco, 1 West Exchange St, Akron, 330376-8522, http://www.gaycommunity fund.org/tickets-gcef.
Full Moon Hike at North Chagrin Reservation, organized by Cleveland Out and About, 7 pm, 216-556-8209, www.clevelandout andabout.org.
Highlights of upcoming weeks
For a detailed list of events extending months into the future, see our web site: www.gaypeopleschronicle.com
Friday to Sunday, February 17 to 19
Painting the Rainbow: Celebrating Unity Through Diversity, annual Midwest Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Ally College Conference, featuring singer Magdalen Hsu-Li, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, www.mblgtacc2006.org.
KARAOKE! Friday January 27
with Singin' Sandy!
nicke
KARAOKE! Friday February 10 with Singin' Sandy!
Saturday, February 18
30th Womyn's Variety Show, doors 6 pm, show 7:30 pm, $20, sliding scale available, limited to 500 tickets, Temple Tifereth Israel, 1855 Ansel Rd. at East 105th St., just north of Chester in University Circle, Cleveland, 216798-0456.
Winter Heat, show by members and select ensembles of the Cincinnati Men's Chorus, $15 advance, $20 door, Hamburger Mary's, 911 Vine St, 513-542-2626, www.cincinnatimenschorus.org. Cosmic Bowling, presented by HRC Cleveland Steering Committee, $30 in advance, $35 door, students with ID $25; 8:30 pm, Ambassador Lanes, 1500 Superior Ave, Cleveland, 800-790-2538, communityevents. cleveland@hrc.org.
Thursday, February 23
Commitment Faire, annual LGBT wedding exposition, presented by Stonewall Columbus, $8 advance, $10 door, Franklin Park Conservatory, 1777 East Broad St, Columbus, 614299-7764, www.stonewallcolumbus.org.
Thursday to Sunday, February 23-26
Winterstar Festival, 23rd annual pagan festival featuring a number of presentations on LGBT people and spirituality, Atwood Lake Resort in Dellroy, southeast of Canton; 216371-1082, www.rosencomet.com/winterstar.
Friday, February 24
Olympic All Star, theme for the 2006 Mr. Capital City All Star and Mr. City Lights All Star competitions, entry fee $40 advance, $45 day of event, registration 4-5 pm, roll call 9 pm, pageant 10 pm, Somewhere Else, 1312 South High St, Columbus, 614-449-7673, nomodrama 43207@yahoo.com,
haroldshatraw@yahoo.com.
Friday to Sunday, February 24 to 26 Mr. Cleveland Leather Competition, new venue, international title holders, preand postcompetition events, main event on Saturday at Twist, 11633 Clifton Blvd, doors at 8 pm, contest at 9 pm, www.mrclevelandleather.com.
-Compiled by Anthony Glassman
Saturday, February 4
Fundraiser for the Womyn's Variety Show Featuring Burning Sage, acoustic duo, Alexis Antes, & Joyce Scoglietti
$5 cover
We have tickets for the Womyn's Variety Show that's held on Saturday, February 18
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