March 7, 2008
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.GayPeoplesChronicle.com. Deadline for each week's calendar is noon on Thursday of the previous week.
To Sunday, March 9
Take Me Out, play by Richard Greenberg about the aftermath of a star baseball player's coming out, 17 and over due to nudity and adult situations, Fri and Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm, $21.25, New Stage Collective, 1140 Main St, Cincinnati; www.newstagecollective.com, 513-621-3700. Transgender and Ally Symposium, sponsored by Trans Ohio, open to all, Stonewall Center, 1160 North High St., Columbus; 614299-7764, www.transohio.org, transohio @wowway.com.
To Sunday, March 16
Well, discussion of mother-daughter relationships, racism and the writing process by out playwright and performer Lisa Kron, $10, $8 students and seniors, $6 children and Kent State students and staff, Kent Trumbull Theater, 4314 Mahoning Ave NW, Warren; 330675-8887, trumbullboxoffice@kent.edu. Cleveland International Film Festival, 32nd annual event presented by the Cleveland Film Society includes Ten Percent Cinema of LGBT films, Tower City Cinemas; www.cleveland film.org, 216-623-3456.
Friday to Saturday, to March 22
The Breakup Notebook: The Lesbian Musical, directed by Victoria Bussert, Studio Theater, Beck Center for the Arts, 17801 Detroit Ave, Lakewood (Cleveland); 216-521-2540, www.beckcenter.org.
Friday to Sunday, to March 30
The History Boys, play about a group of young men in a boys' school in Britain, directed by Sarah May, Mackey Main Stage, Beck Center for the Arts, 17801 Detroit Ave, Lakewood (Cleveland); 216-521-2540, www.beckcenter.org.
Friday, March 7
Free Income Tax Preparation offered by the Cleveland LGBT Center, appointment required, 5:30 to 8 pm at the center, 6600 Detroit Ave, Cleveland; www.lgbtcleveland.org, 216651-5428 ext. 11.
Water Lilies and No Bikini, lesbian film set in the Paris suburbs and a Canadian short, part of the Out@Wex LGBT film festival, 7 pm, $7, $5 members, students and seniors, Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater, 1871 North High St, Columbus; www.wexarts.org, 614292-3535.
Remember Who Made You, one-man play by Jeffrey Barnes exploring being gay and Christian, followed by conversation with the playwright, 8 pm, First Baptist Church of Cleveland, 3630 Fairmount Blvd, Shaker Heights; 216-932-7480.
Saturday, March 8
Tearoom, documentary using secret police camera footage of a public restroom in Mansfield, Ohio in 1962, starts at noon and screens continuously throughout the day, part of the Out@Wex LGBT film festival, Wexner Center for the Arts In the Box screening area, 1871 North High St, Columbus; www.wexarts.org, 614-292-3535.
Swine Creek Reservation Hike, organized by Cleveland Out and About, 1:30 pm, enter off of Hayes Rd, meet at Woods Edge Shelter, Middlefield (east of Cleveland); 216-556-4832, www.clevelandoutandabout.org. Before I Forget, a look at the life of an aging French hustler, 3 pm, part of the Out@Wex LGBT film festival, 7 pm, $7, $5 members, students and seniors, Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater, 1871 North High St, Columbus; www.wexarts.org, 614-292-3535.
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Michigan Lesbian and Gay Comedy Fest, a swashbuckling night of comedy featuring Ohio native Dana Austin, Roxanna Ward, Richard Ryder and Vickie Shaw, $30 advance, $35 door if available, 6 and 9:30 pm, Ford Community and Performing Arts Center, 15801 Michigan Ave, Dearborn (Detroit); www.comedyfest.org, 313-537-7000.
Games Night Potluck, presented by Cleveland Women's Network, 6 pm, $6, $3 for members, at a private home in Hinckley (south of Cleveland); RSVP to 440-962-3662, www.clevelandwomensnetwork.org. Lagerfeld Confidential, documentary about fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld, followed by reception, 7 pm, part of the Out@Wex LGBT film festival, $7, $5 members, students and seniors, Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater, 1871 North High St, Columbus; www.wexarts.org, 614-292-3535.
Spring Fling: Under Construction, opening party for the Dayton LGBT Center's capital campaign, cash bar, hors d'ouevres, program on new services, performances, $10 tax-deductible donation, 7 pm, Dayton LGBT Center, 117-119 East Third St, enter lot from Jefferson, right door adjacent to MJ's Café, Dayton; 937274-1776, www.daytonlgbtcenter.com. Corissa, singer-songwriter, performing as part of the Home Grown night, 7 pm, Suspect Thoughts Books, 4903 Clark Ave, Cleveland; 216631-2665 (631-BOOK), www.myspace.com/ suspectthoughtsbooks.
More Than the Movies, finale of the sixth season of Red (an orchestra), featuring music for films composed by Bernard Herrmann and his idol, Arnold Schoenberg, with film clips from movies on which Herrmann worked, $15-$110, Masonic Auditorium, 3615 Euclid Ave, Cleveland; 216-361-1733, www.redanorchestra.org. Itty Bitty Titty Committee, film by Ohio native Jamie Babbit (But I'm A Cheerleader) deadling with the evolution of a wallflower into a guerrilla lesbian activist and artist, part of the Out@Wex LGBT film festival, 9:30 pm, $7, $5 members, students and seniors, Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater, 1871 North High St, Columbus; www.wexarts.org, 614292-3535.
Alexis Antes, concert with singer-songwriter, $5, the Nickel, 4365 State Road, Cleveland; 216-661-1314, www.myspace.com/
The NickelBar.
Sunday, March 9
Softball Spring Party, presented by the Columbus Lesbian Softball League, new player sign-up, returning players meet with team, appetizers, door prize, 2 pm, Club Diversity, 863 South High St, Columbus; 614-801-4204, CLSLSoftball@aol.com.
Tuesday, March 11
The Breakup Notebook, light refreshments and cash bar on the set of the production at the Beck Center, monthly networking meeting of Plexus, the northeast Ohio LGBT chamber of commerce, 6 pm, Beck Center for the Arts, 17801 Detroit Ave, Lakewood; www.thinkplexus.org.
Wednesday, March 12
Steve Schmidt, director of the Division of Surgical Research for Summa Health System, at the monthly Akron networking meeting of Plexus, the northeast Ohio LGBT chamber of commerce, 6 pm, Buckingham Doolittle & Burroughs, Suite 300, 3800 Embassy Pkwy, Akron; www.thinkplexus.org.
Friday, March 14
Free Income Tax Preparation offered by the Cleveland LGBT Center, appointment required, 5:30 to 8 pm at the center, 6600 Detroit Ave, Cleveland; www.lgbtcleveland.org, 216651-5428 ext. 11.
Saturday, March 15
St. Pats on Parade, bar night for the Unicorn Motorcycle Club, green or uniform attire suggested, $2 benefits charities, 9 pm, Leather Stallion, 2205 St. Clair Ave, Cleveland; 216589-8588.
Hagatha's Bluff, all-woman band from Medina, 9 pm, $5, Bounce, 2814 Detroit Ave, Cleveland; 216-357-2997.
Mary Player and Swank, hot and sexy music, $5, the Nickel, 4365 State Rd, Cleveland; 216661-1314, www.myspace.com/thenickelbar.
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Sunday, March 16
Ritchie Ledges Hike, organized by Cleveland Out and About, 11 am, meet at the Octagon Shelter, Truxell Road between Akron-Cleveland Road and Akron-Peninsula Road, Boston Heights; 216-556-4832, www.clevelandoutandabout.org. St. Patrick's Day Cultural Celebration and Dinner, presented by Asians and Friends Cleveland, 3 pm, $8, $4 members, at a private home in Cleveland Heights; www.afcleveland.org, afcleveland@aol.com.
Wednesday, March 19
For the Bible Tells Me So, film on the misuse
of Scripture against LGBT people, followed by panel discussion, presented by MetroHealth GSA, MH Pastoral Care, MH Department of Nursing, Equality Ohio and P-FLAG Cleveland, 6 pm, Scott Auditorium, MetroHealth Medical Center, 2500 MetroHealth Drive, Cleveland; GSA.MetroHealth@yahoo.com. 1001 Beds, performance by queer writer-actor Tim Miller, 8 pm, Chappelear Drama Center main stage on Ohio Wesleyan campus, 45 Rowland Ave., Delaware (north of Columbus); free but donations accepted to benefit campus LGBT programming; 740-368-3196. Insight Monthly Dinner, Cleveland LGBT personal, social and business networking organization, for location and reservation call 216556-0576.
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Thursday, March 20
Tim Miller and Alistair McCartney, partners who separately wrote 100 Beds and The End of the World Book, 7 pm, Suspect Thoughts Books, 4903 Clark Ave, Cleveland; 216-631-2665 (631-BOOK), www.alternaqueerbooks.com.
It Takes a Shtetl (Village); Purimspiel (play) retelling the biblical Book of Esther in a musical, politically-charged, risqué and humorous way, presented by Chevrei Tikva Chavura, 8:30 pm, Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, 23737 Fairmount Blvd, Beachwood (Cleveland); 216464-1330 ext. 149.
Friday, March 21
Free Income Tax Preparation offered by the Cleveland LGBT Center, appointment required, 5:30 to 8 pm at the center, 6600 Detroit Ave, Cleveland; www.lgbtcleveland.org, 216651-5428 ext. 11.
North Chagrin Reservation Hike, organized by Cleveland Out and About, 6:30 pm, meet at Sanctuary Marsh Nature Center, off of Buttermilk Falls Pkwy, Willoughby Hills (Cleveland); 216556-4832,www.clevelandoutandabout.org.
1001 Beds, performance by Tim Miller, queer writer-actor, sponsored by the Cleveland LGBT Center, 7:30 pm, $15 (sliding scale), at C-Space, 4323 Clark Ave, Cleveland; 216-631-2233.
Saturday, March 22
The Jane Deans, all-woman rock band, $5, the Nickel, 4365 State Road, Cleveland; www.myspace.com/TheNickel Bar, 216-
661-1314.
-Compiled by Anthony Glassman
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