photo by enpen
mouseover photo by enpen

This is a teaser calendar: today and tomorrow. For the month of July.

For a closer view of any given poster, left Mouse-click the poster. Sometimes there are mouseovers, so if you're into that sort of thing just kind of sloooowleeee move your mouse pointer over the pictures. If you're interested in movie or Theater times their posters are (usually) hyperlinked to their respective schedules.

If your event is not on here I apologize. I do not always see every flyer and sometimes the pictures fuzz up and are illegible. I look preferentially upon flyer distribution at places which are not your store. I encourage mingling, or hiring a distro team. Hiring local artists to design eye catching posters and flyers is good.

If you find yourself inclined to bliss poetic about some just seen show please feel free to leave a comment (or have discussions) on that show's date. History is nothing without its people.

Sunday:



Monday:

This is a local blog that I hadn't seen before I ran across the following heartbreaking account in the Edmonton Vue:

“I feel like a failure for not holding her hand. For Lisa, who was the love of my life, my soulmate, who I miss every day. But I’m finding the strength to speak out so this does not have to happen to any other family. What happened to us was very wrong. We knew sign language, we could have at least signed in her hand while she could have felt it. And we didn’t get to do that.”

Janice Langbehn was speaking about the immeasurable pain she felt after her partner died in a Florida hospital room that she and the couple’s three kids weren’t allowed to enter. Lisa Pond suffered a brain aneurysm while the family was on a cruise ship and was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. The family was denied visitation even after having legal and medical documents faxed from their home in Olympia, Washington.

Langbehn was denied entry immediately after arriving at the hospital when a social worker approached to tell her she was in an “anti-gay city and state” and had no rights there. She pleaded with staff for hours and was only allowed entry for a few minutes when she and a chaplain gave Pond her last rites. She tried to gain access for her children so they could also say their goodbyes, but all were refused. It took five hours for Pond to pass away while her family stood outside. Langbehn was only finally recognized as Pond’s partner when it was time to take Pond off life support.

The couple were together for 17 years and raised 27 foster and adopted children together. A model family who had the misfortune of one mother finding herself gravely ill in the wrong city, Langbehn’s story is a heartbreaking reminder of still-prevalent inequality. She maintains a blog, rwavesofchange.com, about the ordeal.

Arts Walk is Friday October 3rd!

I'm looking for artists that are interested in showing their work at einmaleins.

I have a parking lot out-front as well - so we can do something inside and outside.

Swing by the store no later than July 13th and introduce yourself and show your portfolio, so we can decide what fits to the store and to the other artists showing.

Depending on the size of artwork we are planning on 3-5 artists.

So, if you'd like to show your stuff at Arts Walk - this is you chance!

Feel free to contact me for details or if you have questions.

mathias

einmaleins

As most here know, S6 was banned from Olyblog.  There are varied opinions on whether that should have happened or not, even in the docent ranks.  The good that has come out of S6 being removed from Olyblog is him creating his own forum/blog.  He has some really good ideas, and seems motivated to make them happen. 

S6 wanted me to post about his new page, and encourage you to come visit.  If you decide you want to come to the "dark side", you can get there through this portal.

While love of country is great and everything, isn't love of each other even better -- no matter what country (or species)?

Via BoingBoing.

photo by enpen

Support the Olympia Free Herbal Clinic!

Enjoy live music by June Madrona and other artists over a three-course sit-down dinner featuring cob-oven pizza, locally grown produce and a variety of herbal treats, wild edibles salad, decadent desserts, wine and beverage bar, and raffle/silent auction. Vegan, meat, vegetarian, and gluten-free pizzas and more available!

Saturday, July 12, 5 to 9pm 

Fertile Ground Community Center; 311 9th Ave SE (across from Olympia Timberland Library)

$10 to $20 Donation

Contact: olyfreeherbalclinic@riseup.net

The Olympia Free Herbal Clinic is an umbrella project of Done & Done 501(c)3. We're raising funds to open a free clinic at the Bread & Roses Advocacy Center during the summer of 2008. We hope to have walk-in hours one to two days per week. We'll offer education, personalized health consultations, botanical remedies and other supplies free of charge. We serve to empower anyone and everyone, regardless of financial or other circumstances, to take charge of their own health care.

Ungovernor Gilmore is a major enigma in my parade of might-have-beens. With this man, I just have to cut my research losses and move on. You'll understand why as I unfold the tale.

William Addison Gilmore did not like to be called "Bill." But apparently this life-long staunch Republican had no problem being called a Progressive in 1924. His motives in running for Governor are something of a mystery. Did he really change and evolve his view, or was he a deliberate red herring designed to throw the race into disarray? Unfortunately, there isn't that much data about his political activities between 1916-1924. We do know he returned to the Republican Party after the election. One problem for anyone who attempts to research the life of this character is the abundance of conflicting information concerning where he was when. A slippery subject, this fellow.

William was different than most other ungovernors of his era in that he was a product of the Pacific Northwest. Born in Oakland, California to Irish immigrant parents (A.B. and Anna (Bennett) Gilmore) Jan. 19, 1870, his family moved to Vancouver the following June, a city where A.B. and Anna spent the rest of their lives. The noted historian Clarence Bagley commented on Gilmore's upbringing (1929), "During his boyhood William A. Gilmore saw many Indians and learned much concerning their habits and characteristics. Fish and game were abundant. The family lived in primitive fashion, lacking many things which are now regarded as necessities."

It is possible he had a short-lived career as a teacher in Vancouver starting when he was a teenager, as early as 1887. Possibly at the School for the Deaf.