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Week 2 of Philadelphia QFest: Films, Awards, Special Events, and more!
The 18th Philadelphia QFest train keeps roll- ing this week with a host of 50+ LGBT films from around the world and a smorgasbord of parties and events to keep the senses stimulated! Check out some of this week’s highlights:
• Tennessee Queer: A scheming politician and holier than thou minister set out to thwart a town’s first pride parade. Tack- ling LGBT rights in an en- trenched Southern culture of homophobia for your first film is a tall order, but director Earl Goshorn has done it – and made it a hi- larious comedy! This film will screen on Tuesday, July 17, 6:00p.m., at the Ritz at the Bourse. Producer and screenwriter Mark Jones will be in attendance to dis- cuss the film with the audi- ence and take questions. • Mommy is Coming; Pioneer filmmaker Cheryl Dunye returns with a sassy, raunchy, romantic sex com-
edy set in the edgy under- ground of Berlin where love and taboo affairs collide! The film screens Wednesday, July 18 at 8:15p.m. and Fri- day, July 20 at 9:30p.m., at the Ritz at the Bourse. Lead star, Papi Coxxx, will be in attendance at the screening on July 20th to answer your questions. • I Stand Corrected: This award-winning true life story follows the meteoric rise and internal struggles of King of Prussia native, Jen- nifer (then John) Leitham, an exceptionally talented, left-handed, upright bassist and recording artist. The film screens on Thursday, July 19 at 7:15p.m. and Friday, July 20 at 5:00p.m., at the Ritz East. Jennifer Leitham will be in atten- dance to discuss the film with the audience and take questions. • Nate & Margaret: Nate (Tyler Ross) is a super-cute, gay 19-year-old college student studying film. Margaret (Natalie West- Crystal from the TV series “Roseanne”) is a 52-year-old coffee shop waitress, and
aspiring stand-up come- dian. Described as a gay Harold and Maude (without the sex) this adorable Indie feature proves that age is a state of mind and it’s not the numbers that count; it’s the person inside. The film screens on Thursday, July 19 at 5:00p.m. at the Ritz East. Director Nathan Adloff will be in attendance to discuss the film with the audience and answer ques- tions.
• On Saturday, July 21, 4:
45p.m.at the Ritz East The- ater 2, QFest will recognize Rose Troche for Artistic Achievement in Directing. Troche is an award winning writer-director-producer whose first feature Go Fish premiered to critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festi- val in 1994. Made on a shoe- string budget and shot in black-and-white, the story line orbited around a group of lesbian friends searching for love in all the right and wrong places and was a shining example of the New Queer Cinema movement.
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sumptuous format of music and visuals. 8:30 p.m. Fairmount Park, 52nd and Parkside. 215- 893-1999. • Acting Without Bound- aries, whose mission is to enhance the lives of chil- dren, youth and young adults with physical dis- abilties through theater arts programs, comes to the Arden Theatre on July 22 at 4 p.m. in a showcase performance of “AWB Goes Broad- way: Some Enchanted Evening” set to the songs of Rodgers and Ham- merstein. 40 N. 2nd. In- formation and tickets at 215-922-1122. • The newly re-opened Rodin Museum presents Concerts in the Garden, “Spectral Impressions” performed by the Ar- gento Chamber Ensemble featuring the works of two French pioneer com- posers of spectral music inspired by the works
of Rodin. On July 22, the honors go to Tristan Murail and on July 28, the music is by Philippe Hurel, both events from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. 22nd and the Parkway. 215- 235- 7469. •
The much-admired
free Shakespeare in Clark Park is back in its favorite bucolic haunt from July 25 through 29 in “The Merry Wives of Windsor” with its rambunctious tale of Falstaff and his not-so- winning ways with the local wives. Rebecca Wright stages this frothy comedy with a horde of popular local performers, among them Jess Conda, Mary Tuomanen, Robert DaPonte, John Jarboe, Matthew Mastronardi, Reuben Mitchell, Isa St. Clair and Wendy Staton, highlighted by Andrew Nelson’s original music for guitar, banjo, fiddle and washtub. Theatrego- ers, who average some
700 each evening, many getting their first taste of live theater, are suggeted to bring chairs, blankets, bug spray and a picnic to “The Bowl” inside the park at 43rd and Chester. Performance times and other information at 215- 462-2115 or shakespearein-
clarkpark.org. Donations will be accepted. • The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia presents “Big Sing/Schubert” on July 25 under Artistic Director Alan Harler, fea- turing the Phila. Master Chorale and the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas Chancel Choir as well as the combined voices of all in the audi- ence who wish to join in for Schubert’s mag- nificent Mass in G. This third Big Sing will be followed by an ice cream social sponsored by Tur- key Hill Dairy. 7 p.m., First Baptist Church, 123 S. 17th at Sansom. 215- 735-9922
www.mcchorus. org . •
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