Update to Iowa Women's Music & Events (June/july)

Hi folks!

I have several updates to the Iowa Women’s Music and Events list since last week’s posting. I won’t repeat the July list here; this is just the new stuff. For the July list, please go to my blogs at http://iowalisa.blogster.com or www.myspace.com/iowalisa. Please read all the way through this one – there’s big, BIG news at the bottom!

A BIG THANKS…

…to all who came out and supported the Iowa Women’s Music Festival on Sunday, June 24 at the Mill in Iowa City. The Grrrlz with Guitars concert ROCKED, and we raised some much needed dollars for this year’s festival (which will happen on Sept. 15 in Iowa City’s Upper City Park). Thanks to BEJAE FLEMING, LAURIE HAAG, KELLY RENEA, and LOJO RUSSO for playing a great show for us! Thanks to our on-the-spot live auctioneer, Naomi Foshe, who pepped things up for us at the break with her professional auctioneering. If you liked what you heard and saw, Naomi does this for her business ALLTASK AUCTIONS & ESTATE SALES. Visit her new website at www.alltaskauctions.com. Her next auction is July 1. Mucho thanks to the IC Pride Committee and Connections for sponsoring this event and to Bridget Malone for setting it all up. Thanks also to the Mill for their ongoing support of these shows. It’s a great venue and Iowa City tradition! The Iowa Women’s Music Festival website now has all the basic info for this year’s festival, thanks to Kelly C. Go to www.prairievoices.net.

A REMINDER:

On Friday, June 29, I am helping my very hip and welcoming church, Faith United Methodist in Cedar Rapids, host another Coffeehouse, this one with one of Iowa City’s best and most beloved voices: DEB TIEMENS. This is a Pride Coffeehouse, which means it’s in honor of Pride Month. We will be showing a GLBT film before the show, starting at 6 p.m. I will also order some pizza to arrive at 6 p.m. So come early! We will continue with short music films during the break. After the show, those who want to stick around will watch another great film. The fun is at Faith UMC, 1000 30th St. NE, Cedar Rapids. Suggested donation is $5-10 for the artist. For more info or directions, please call me at 319-431-0982 or e-mail iowalisa@juno.com. Everything is family friendly!

Here’s the schedule:

6:00 p.m.: Pizza and film “I Can’t Marry You” (about same-sex marriage, narrated by Betty DeGeneres, documenting the lives of 20 long-term gay and lesbian couples) in the Fellowship Room

7:00 p.m.: Concert with DEB TIEMENS (1st set) in the Sanctuary

7:40 p.m.: Break with refreshments and two film shorts: Suzanna Mallow’s “One World” (an ever-evolving project towards peace) and “One Fine Day” (the short and inspirational women’s history film that kicks off every National Women’s Music Festival)

8:00 p.m.: Concert with DEB TIEMENS (2nd set) in the Sanctuary

9:00 p.m.: The ground-breaking film “Radical Harmonies” (Woodstock meets women’s liberation in a very cool film about a movement that exploded the gender barriers in music)

We’ll have popcorn during the films too! Come one, come all!

NEW EVENTS (since last posting):

Friday, June 29, 7 p.m., film showing of "The Peace Patriots" (Cedar Rapids premiere) at the Peace Center, 1029 3rd Avenue SE, Cedar Rapids. Free Film & Discussion. Presented by Art Cinema: Free Friday Night Flicks, "A 4th of July Peace Patriot event." THE PEACE PATRIOTS is an intimate portrait of American dissenters reflecting on their personal participation as engaged citizens in a time of war. Narrated by actress and Air America Radio host, Janeane Garofalo, this feature-length documentary film follows a diverse group of individuals, ranging in age from 14 to 75, including middle and high school students, college students, teachers, clergy, and war veterans from Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, as they take part in vigils, marches, theater performances, and civil disobedience sit-ins to protest the U.S. war in Iraq. For more info, call John at 319-247-2612.

Sunday, July 1, 6 p.m. Potluck, 7:15 p.m. Concert, DINNER AND HOUSE CONCERT by singer-songwriter Sharon Bousquet with David Hurlin on percussion. Call 512-393-4400 or e-mail HC@sharonbousquet.com for info, reservations, and directions. $10 cover. Bring a dish to share for the potluck. Post-concert party! Visit www.sharonbousquet.com.

Tuesday, July 10, 7-8:30 p.m., IN HER OWN WORDS, a reading group centered on women’s autobiography and memoir, at the Women’s Resource and Action Center, 130 N. Madison St., Iowa City (across from the Iowa Memorial Union on the campus of U. of Iowa). This evening’s reading group will discuss “Autobiography of a Geisha” by Sayo Mashuda. For more info, call 319-335-1486 or visit www.uiowa.edu/~wrac.

Saturday, July 21, 8 p.m., GAYLA DRAKE PAUL with Eric Douglas on percussion, at Café Paradiso in Fairfield. $8 cover. For more info, e-mail gdpaul1@juno.com. That very morning, Gayla and Eric will be live on KRUU at 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, July 24, 7-8:30 p.m., IN HER OWN WORDS, a reading group centered on women’s autobiography and memoir, at the Women’s Resource and Action Center, 130 N. Madison St., Iowa City (across from the Iowa Memorial Union on the campus of U. of Iowa). This evening’s reading group will discuss “Unbowed: A Memoir” by Wangori Maathai. For more info, call 319-335-1486 or visit www.uiowa.edu/~wrac.

A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!

Iowa Women’s Music Festival is very proud to announce that Hancher Auditorium, on the campus of the U. of Iowa in Iowa City, is bringing the one and only ANI DIFRANCO to Iowa City on Tuesday, September 18 (three days after the IWMF). If that isn’t cool enough, MELISSA FERRICK will be joining her! Either you heard it here, or you heard it from Ani herself, cuz I haven’t seen it advertised elsewhere yet. Presale starts on the Ticketmaster website, at www.ticketmaster.com, on July 10 at 10 a.m. CDT. The Password is canon. Presale ends on Thursday, July 12 at 10 p.m. CDT. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, July 20 at 10 a.m. CDT.

Thanks for supporting live music, women in the arts, and your community!
Lisa