Info on Iowa Women's Music Festival

By Lisa M Schreihar

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 http://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 http://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 http://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 http://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 http://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 http://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! Presale starts on the Ticketmaster
website, at http://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