east bay

Country Nights Dance
Women's Partner Dancing-

Come on out and enjoy a night of Two-step, Waltz, Swing, Latin, & Line dancing

First Fridays every month!

Lesson: Beginning Waltz from 7:30 to 8:15, Intermediate from 8:15-8:45pm.

Lake Merritt Dance Center *a fully disabled accessible venue*
200 Grand Avenue , Oakland , CA

Instruction 7:30-8:45; open dancing 8:45-11 pm

Cost is $10 * Includes Lesson & Non-stop dancing until 11pm

Walk in, dance out!

NO EXPERIENCE OR PARTNER NECESSARY!

* All ages Welcome!
* Excellent Teachers
* Warm and Inviting Atmosphere

Femme2010: No Restrictions - August 20-22, 2010

Oakland Marriott City Center
1001 Broadway
Oakland, California 94607
August 20th – 22nd, 2010
http://femmecollective.com

Femme2010: No Restrictions is a multi-threaded conference and forum for those who think about, talk about, and create Femme as a queer gender and identity.

COPWATCH CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY IN BAY AREA

Benefit concert on Thursday, March 11 with SISTAS IN THE PIT

WHO:
COPWATCH " Founded in Berkeley in March 1990 to monitor police actions
SISTAS IN THE PIT "sexy rock, black-girl style
PLUS other special guests, poets and speakers

WHEN:
Thursday, March 11
7:30 p.m.

WHERE:
Ashkenaz
1317 San Pablo Avenue (near Gilman) in Berkeley

WHAT:
Join Us In The Spirit Of International Women's Day to celebrate women on the
frontline of resistance and change

WHY:

Friday March 5th
New Parish in Oakland:
579 18th St
(between San Pablo Ave & Jefferson St)
Oakland, CA 94612
http://www.thenewparish.com

$12 tickets in advance at inticketing.com
$15 at the door
18+ venue
doors open at 9pm

Not your usual Hella Gay Dance party we are doing in LIVE this time. Hella Gay at The Uptown is still the 3rd Saturday of the month! Dance all night to LIVE performances and finish off the night with JD Samson from LeTigre as headlining DJ!!

THE LINE-UP:

Juiceboxxx -
http://www.myspace.com/officialjuiceboxxx

Queer Contra Dance
Saturday, March 6
Dance 7-10 pm
Contra Cafe 10-11 pm
Tom Toomey calls to Fear of Commitment
Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street in Oakland
$10 (or pay what you can)

Queer Contra Dance Camp is April 9-11. Registrations will be taken at the March 6 dance. Join us for a weekend of contra joy in the redwood forest! More info: http://www.camp.queercontra.org

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Kit Kennedy & Judy Wells will read their poetry at 7 pm on Friday, March 12th, at Nefeli Caffe, 1854 Euclid Avenue, a little north of Hearst, in Berkeley, as part of the Last Word Reading Series. Cafe phone (510) 841-6374.There is also an open reading.

Kit Kennedy's poems appear in Runes, Van Gogh's Ear, Bombay Gin, Gay & Lesbian Review, Comstock Review, and many other magazines, anthologies, and journals. She hosts the monthly reading series at Gallery Cafe in San Francisco and is a columnist for the online journal Betty's List. An extremely versatile poet, whose work ranges