Lavender Womyn Lesbian Group Blog

Cruise Control Speed Dating & Singles Dance

Featuring DJ Wildfire
Sunday, November 15th

Speed Dating 2:00pm – 4:00pm at Invasion Cafe, 412 SW 4th (between Washington and Stark) in downtown Portland.

Singles Dance 4:00pm – 8:00pm at Invasion Cafe, 412 SW 4th (between Washington and Stark) in downtown Portland. Featuring a Cruise and Schmooze Dating Game to break the ice and get you ready for the dance floor!

Admission: $25 for Speed Dating & Dance; $10 for Dance Only

Pre-registration for Speed Dating Required
Registration Deadline is Noon on Friday 11/13/09

Don't dally - limited Spaces available for Speed Dating !!

E-mail pauline@hotflashdances.com to get your registration form.

New Lavender Womyn's Chapter

A new Lavender Womyn's chapter has opened up in Astoria.  This chapter will serve the North coast of Oregon and SW Washington area, and is lead by Colette.  Please help spread the word about this new chapter to anyone you know who might be interested.  To find out more about the Astoria Chapter, you can visit their website at http://astoria.lavenderwomyn.com

Ronnda Cadle Performing in Eugene

Acoustic Instrumentalist/String Poet, Ronnda Cadle, will be performing in Eugene at the Eugene Coffee Company on Saturday, November 28th from 7:00pm - 9:00pm.  

 

This is her first time performing in Eugene.

 

“Ronnda Cadle’s music offers purity that is breath-taking. The sincerity of her expression leaves no room for anything but the essential.  Though a very accomplished guitarist, there is an innocence to her music in which beauty, grace and open emotion are un-obscured by ego and unencumbered by gratuitous flourish. When you listen to Ronnda Cadle you believe her unconditionally.”  - Will Ackerman, Windham County, VT

 

Pre-order the next CD to be produced by Will Ackerman NOW!!
details at:

http://www.ronndacadle.com
http://www.myspace.com/ronndacadle

 

Samples/press at:

http://www.cdbaby.com/all/ronnda
http://www.sonicbids.com/ronndacadle

 

Transgender Awareness Week at OSU

Oregon State University
Transgender Awareness Week 2009 - Who Pulls Your Strings?

Organized by members of the OSU campus community, “Transgender Awareness Week 2009: Who Pulls Your Strings?” is an effort to educate and inform the public’s understanding about transgender/gender issues. “Who Pulls Your Strings?” asks us all to pose the question: who controls my gender? Is it 100% me or was I raised to be how I am today?

Through the week of events we hope people will learn about their gender and how gender is constructed in our lives. While many of us will struggle to find out who pulls our gender strings others living a gender-queer life will also wonder how to pull all the parts together.

We are very excited to host our keynote presenter: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, a queer writer and activist, who will tell us the story of how she ended up where she is. The week culminates in the eleventh international Transgender Day of Remembrance when we remember all the lives that have been ended or harmed due to transphobia and hate.

Click on "continue reading..." for the schedule of events all week

Rainbow Youth Fundraiser

Rainbow Youth and Friends would be honored by your presence at the 1st Annual Dessert / Coffee Finale Fundraiser to benefit the Rainbow Youth Organization of Salem, Oregon on Saturday, December 5th, 2009 at 8:30 p.m. at the YWCA located at 1255 Broadway Street NE Salem, Oregon

Please RSVP to: Pam Trezevant at 503-304-3537 by  November, 21, 2009

To find out more about Rainbow Youth, please visit their website at:

http://www.salemrainbowyouth.org/Home_Page.php

Wine Tasting Event - Lavender Womyn

 
On Saturday, November 14th, Jean of Avalon Wine, is graciously offering to host our next Lavender Womyn's event at her wine shop in Corvallis for a private wine tasting event.  Come taste wine with talented young winemaker Remy Drabkin. She's from Corvallis and makes some delicious reds and whites. She's one of the few lesbian winemakers in Oregon - come learn about her winery and taste her wines.

Where: Avalon Wine
201 SW 2nd Street
Corvallis
541-752-7418
When: 5:00-7:00pm on Saturday, November 14th

Bread and a few munchies will be served.

Charge: $5 donation to Lavender Womyn is requested, but not required.

 

It's a private tasting, so either look for someone at the front door to let you in or go around the side of the building and come in the side door.

 

For more details, visit our website at:  http://www.salemlavenderwomyn.com/november-event.html

Pride Corvallis Planning Meeting

Pride Corvallis is having their 2010 planning meeting on Saturday, November 7th from 1:00pm - 2:30pm at the First Methodist Church (Martha Room) on 11th and Monroe in Corvallis.  The purpose of this community-wide meeting is to discuss what they want to see from PRIDE in 2010 and assign chairs to different planning committees. Some snacks will be provided. For more info contact Chelsea Whitlow at pridecorvallis@gmail.com

Truly an Inspiration to All of Us!!!

via www.youtube.com

If you are struggling in life right now (or even if you aren't), I want you to take just a couple of minutes of your time to watch this. I guarantee it will inspire you!

Olivia Cruises & Hot Flash Partner Up in Eugene

Hot Flash Dances is in a partnership with Olivia Cruises & you get to win a trip for two to the Olivia Ixtapa Resort in Mexico in Jan. 2010. Winner tba in mid-December & chosen from entries from all Hot Flash and Inferno dance parties.

Besides that, DJ Lauren is back to wow you with a full blend of retro and current music so get your dancing shoes on and come out to:

Hot Flash Dance, Saturday, November 14, 2009, 5-9p at Diablo's, 959 Pearl St. in downtown Eugene!

For more information about Hot Flash Dances, visit their website at:  http://www.hotflashdances.com