Community Compass
Community Compass is a service of OITM. GLBT organizations from around the state are invited to provide brief — 200 words or less — descriptions of recent or upcoming activities and events. Send your submissions to us by email by the 15th of the month.
Barony of
All Vermont Presents Monarch’s Ball
“An Evening on Broadway” is the theme for the September 2nd
show at the Holiday Inn Rutland/Killington on Route 7. Call 1-800-462
4810 for reservations. Come enjoy performers from the Imperial Court System
Drag Show to benefit SafeSpace and the Rutland Humane Society. Please
bring items for donation including bedding and toys for animals at the
shelter. Bid on items in our Silent and Chinese Auctions.
See BaronyofAllVermont.org
for more information.
Friends of Recovery Annual Meeting
Friends of Recovery-Vermont will hold their annual meeting from 9 am to
1 pm, Wednesday, September 6th at Bethany Church in Montpelier.
This meeting is part of the annual
observance of National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. Recovery
month is a nationwide celebration of people in recovery from substance
use disorders and the treatment providers who help them reclaim their
lives. Contact Patty McCarthy at 802-229-6103 or email recoveryvt@aol.com
Alison Bechdel and Phranc Launch Art Show
Alison Bechdel, author of the critically acclaimed and national bestseller
FUN HOME, will team up with Phranc, (aka the Jewish Lesbian Folksinger
and The Cardboard Cobbler) for an exhibit of drawings and paper sculpture
at pine street art works, in Burlington.
Alison is a long-time contributor
to OITM of her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, and Phranc
has recorded five solo albums and appeared in award-winning films.
Their collaborative art show “Paper
Play” will be on display at pine street art works at 404 Pine Street,
Burlington, from September 8 to October 31, Tues-Sat from 11-5. Opening:
Art Hop, Friday Sept. 8, from 5- 10 pm. FMI go to pinestreetartworks.com
or call 863-8100.
Small Farms Food Fest
Celebrate Vermont farms, the apple harvest, and local musicians at the
5th Annual Vermont Small Farms Food Fest! On Sunday, September 10 from
11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. at Shelburne Orchards in Shelburne, Vermont farmers
and food producers will create and sell specially prepared foods while
musicians perform all day long.
Performance times include 11 am, Hammer
and Saw (all-girl, old time music with clawhammer, banjo, and fiddle);
12 pm, Red Thread (Latin, gypsy, jazz); 1 pm, Meat Packers (bluegrass
and country); 2 pm, Blue Norther (bluegrass); 3 pm, Barbara Wager and
Robert Resnik (Shoo-fly pie and Apple Pan Dowdy); 4 pm, Silver Leviathan
(instrumental eclectic brass); 5 pm, Hibernators (bluegrass, swing); and
7 pm, Jugtown Pirates (jug, washboard, etc.) For more information, call
864-7528 or 985-2753.
WomenSafe Annual Volunteer Training
Each year WomenSafe provides more than 3,400 units of service in Addison
County and Rochester, Vermont.
To do this, WomenSafe relies greatly
on its wonderful volunteers, which it needs more of. WomenSafe will be
holding it’s annual Volunteer Training beginning September 19th
and we are looking for at least 25 new people to volunteer. The 32-hour
training will prepare community members to: provide direct service over
the 24-hour hotline, at court hearings and in the WomenSafe office; work
in our Supervised Visitation Program; coordinate public awareness and
community outreach events; provide childcare and perform administrative
assistance tasks.
We look forward to hearing from
you! For more information and an application, call WomenSafe at 388-9180.
WomenSafe works toward the elimination
of physical, sexual and emotional violence against women and their children
through direct service, education and social change.
Sisters by Heart - Partners in Aging
Kay Amsden and Mary Lou Fuller talk about living in retirement at Havenwood-Heritage
Heights Retirement Community in Concord, New Hampshire. The couple says
they have a peaceful and safe life at the facility that serves more than
700 people age 62 and older.
Hear Kay and Mary Lou talk about their
journey as a same-sex couple at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 21. The
talk and brunch will be held at the Barrows Activity Center on the Heritage
Heights Campus, 149 East Side Drive, Concord, NH. To learn more, call
1-800- 457-6833.
LezCruise
Launches New Travel Service
LezCruise is a Portland, Oregon based travel agency. The new website at
lezcruise.com has two main features to try to help lesbians find each
other before sailing. The first feature is a listing of cruises on which
lesbians are either booked or interested in booking.
Thus, a lesbian woman interested in
sailing to Alaska, for instance, can check the website for Alaska sailings
which other lesbian women are booked on or simply interested in. The second
feature is discussion boards specific to each posted sailing, so that
women can choose to get acquainted before the cruise. There are also general
discussion boards.
LezCruise can also be reached by phone at
503-419-6248 or toll free at 1-888-649-2879, or by email at cruise@lezcruise.com
Transcending Boundaries Conference
On October 27-29, 2006, Transcending Boundaries will hold its fifth conference
for bisexual/pansexual, trans/genderqueer, and intersex people and our
allies at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts (formerly known as
the Worcester Centrum). This year’s conference will be held in conjunction
with the PFLAG Northeast Regional Conference for family, friends, and
allies from across the region. For more information on the conference,
please visit our website at transcendingboundaries.org
Transcending Boundaries is entirely
run by volunteers and won’t happen without your help! Volunteer
opportunities include media calls and emails, sponsorship calls (we really
need help on this!), workshop administration (can be done via email),
and more.
Near future: plan Friday reception/coffee
house, plan Saturday Halloween party, visit GSAs and college queer groups
(September), printing (for the registration confirmation mailing), and
mass flyer distribution (end September/October). Day of: collect surveys
community housing, registration table, audio/ visual, and errand running.
If you’re interested in volunteering,
contact Jesse at transcendingboundaries@gmail.com
Family Pride Launches “Back to School” Tools
Family Pride announced the launch of a Back to School pamphlet, titled,
“Building Family Equality in Every Classroom.” The materials
give concrete, easy to execute strategies to educate school communities
about the unique needs of children of LGBT parents in the classroom.
To obtain a copy, go to www.familypride.org
or call (202) 331-5015.
Queer Social Space to Meet This Month
Organizers will meet at 7 pm, Thursday, September 14th at the Blue Star,
28 Main Street in Winooski (next door to Sneakers Bistro). The Blue Star
is wheelchair accessible. Coffee and light refreshment will be provided,
more substantial fare available for purchase. The Blue Star will host
a free performance by local sing-songwriter Brett Hughes after the meeting.
Interested? Contact qssvermont@gmail.com
FrightFest
to Hold Nights of Terror
FrightFest, New Hampshire’s newest home for pure terror, welcomes
film star Kane Hodder for two special nights of fear on October 27th and
28th in Nashua to benefit Terry Pendt, one of the artists and designers
who brought FrightFest to life in 2005.
Proceeds benefit non-insured expenses
associated with Terry’s treatments related to a kidney transplant.
Contact FrightFestEvents@gmail.com
GLAD Names Spirit of Justice Honoree
GLAD has announced that Mandy Carter, grassroots organizer for the past
37 years and self-described “southern out black lesbian social justice
activist” will received the 2006 Spirit of Justice award at a dinner
this fall.
The annual Spirit of Justice Award
Dinner will be held on Friday, October 27th in Boston. To learn more,
see glad.org/events
Out in Scripture
The Human Rights Campaign last month announced the launching of Out in
Scripture (www.hrc.org/scripture), a free weekly online resource for clergy
and lay people of faith.
The website will provide distinct
insights into the Bible from a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
straight-supportive perspective. It will be especially valuable in building
welcoming and inclusive congregations around the country.
Rainbow Babies Website
TheRainbowBabies.com is a new website that was launched in June to provide
space for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people to share stories
of their respective paths to parenthood. The website provides information,
features, book and movie reviews and stories from moms and dads themselves.
Writers are welcome. Contact angela@therainbowbabies.com
Call for
Submissions
For all of you lesbians who have contributed already and have been wondering,
the Lee Lynch/ Renee LaChance Butch Cookbook is still alive and well except
for one small thing. We need more recipes.
So, this is a second call to all you
butches who do - or don’t like to cook - to send us up to three
of your favorite recipes. Or any of you femmes who know bashful butches
partners, exes, gay Aunt Maud, or others, and would like to send their
recipes, we welcome them. We want to hear about who you cooked it for,
how people liked it, if it’s one of a gazillion or one that only
the great butch chef knows, where it came from - any background you can
provide.
We’re looking for diversity
from the fine chefs among us to the kitchen-challenged who think all those
wonderful utensils in the kitchen work great only in the garage and elsewhere
as some tool or the other. So do all the butches in the world a big favor:
sit down and e-mail those recipes and stories. Oh, and a short bio, too.
And how about any special treat recipes you have for your pets? Please
submit by December 1st, 2006 to greenhat66@gmail.com
Womyn’s
Night Features Pamela Means
This month’s Womyn’s Night will be happening at Higher Ground
in South Burlington on Friday, September 1st at 8 pm.
Pamela Means is a Boston-based Out
(spoken), Biracial indie folk artist whose “kamikaze guitar style”
and punchy provocative songs have worn a hole in her guitar. Armed with
razor wit poetry and irresistible charm, her “stark, defiant songs”
(New York Times Magazine) set the status quo and the stage afire. She
will be followed by DJ Llu and DJ Precious.