community compass

There are feature films
from the U.S., Turkey, lran, West
Africa, Japan, Russian, France, Italy
and Switzerland, and documen-
taries on important social issues.
Films are shown in two locations;
Feature films in the Savoy Theater,
26 Main St., and documentaries in
the City Hall Arts Center, 39 Main
St. New this year will be advance
ticket sales and reservations. '

A number of related
events have been scheduled. Stuart
Klawans, The Nation's film critic and
New York Daily Newscolumnist, will
give a talk Sunday, March 23, at 10
a.m. in the Kellogg-Hubbard Library,
135 Main St. Five filmmakers will
discuss their work immediately after
screenings of their films, including
John O'Brien, Judith Helfand (Blue
Vinyl), Bess O'Brien (Here Today),
Mirra Bank (Last Dance) and Lucia
Small (My Father the Genius).

Discussions of two other
films are scheduled. On Monday,
March, in City Hall, Reed Brody of
Human rights Watch and professor

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of international law at Columbia
University will talk about The
Pinochet Case. On Sunday, March
23, in City Hall, Robert Meeropol
will discuss “Strange Fruit."
Meeropol is the son of Abel
Meeropol who wrote the famous
protest song.

For details consult the
Festival website wvvw.savoythe-
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Festival's E-mail is
savoydv@together.net.

Marching on to Gaypril
As you anticipate the coming

months of slowly-but-surely rising
temperatures, add “Gaypril” to your
list of events to look forward to. The
University of Vermont LGBTQA has
joined forces with the student group
"Free to Be: GLBTA," UVM’s
ALANA (Asian, Latino, African,
Native American) program, the
Student Life office, and community
groups R.U.12?, Safe Space, the
Women's Rape.Crisis Center and
Outright Vermont to organize a

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month-long‘Gaypril celebration dur-

ing the month of April. Though other

campuses across the country have
hosted Gaypril events in the past,
this is the first time campus and
community organizations have
come together at UVM for a month
of musical performances, films,
guest speakers, poetry, art exhibits,
conversation and queer visibility.
Gaypril actually begins a
little early — on March 27th — with a
concert by Pamela Means at the
Fireplace Lounge in the Living I
Learning Building. On March 28th,
Maya Angelou speaks at the Patrick
Gymnasium as part of the Senior
Class Speaker Series. The Allen
House Gallery at 461 Main Street
will host Linda Hollingda|e’s photo
exhibition, Creating Civil Union:
Opening Hearts and Minds. Other
campus events later in the month
include poetry and music perform-
ances by Buddy Wakefield and
Arjuna Greist, a concert by local
singer/songwriter Gregory _
Douglass, and presentations about

0 religion and queer identity by

Reverend Marilyn McCord Adams
and UVM alumna and children's
book author Leslea Newman. These
events are free and open to the
public — check the Calendar for
times and locations.

As Dot Brauer, coordinator
of UVM’s LGBTQA Services points
out, “Other community events are
tying into our month of celebration."
As part of Gaypril, UVM’s LGBTQA
group is collaborating with the

' Women's Rape Crisis Center,

Safespace and RU12? to ensure
that this year's Take Back the Night
march is "taking back the‘ night” not
only from violence targeting gender,
but also from violence that targets
“non-normative gender expression.”
The Gaypril calendar
extends beyond the campus to
include community events like
RU12?'s annual Community Dinner
and Silent Auction on April 14th. In
addition, Gaypril includes a Flynn
Center performance by Dave
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Mountain Pride Media), a National
Public Radio commentator and
author of the popular books, Barrel
Fever, Naked, and Me Talk Pretty
One Day. Singer-songwriter Dar
Williams will also pay a visit to per-
form a benefit concert. For informa-
tion about these two events, visit
wvvw.flynncenter.org.

The Gaypril calendar
stretches on to include even more
campus and community events to
anticipate, but perhaps the overar-
ching reason for excitement about
Gaypril is that it will be the culmina-
tion of cooperative efforts between
students, faculty, alumnae and com-

munity members who are working

together to recognize and celebrate
diversity in both the university and
the wider community. According to
Brauer, "Even though April is still
months away, this aspect, of our first
Gaypril is already a success.”

For more information
about Gaypril events, contact the
University of Vermont LGBTQA
servicesat 656-8637. V

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