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Folk League makes debut at Waterioo Community Arts Centre The Folk League‘s conâ€" cert series‘ exhibition games include six performâ€" ers and 12 concerts in six cities. F I The Folk League will be debuting its unique style of performing at the Waterloo Community Arts Centre, 25 Regina St. S., this Saturday at 8 p.m. There will be two artists for each concert, one in his home town and the other a visitor. At the end of the concert it will all be repeatâ€" ed in the other performer‘s home town. The two artists will be playing music they‘ve previâ€" ously recorded, as well as material not heard anyâ€" where else. The concerts will be organized in a gameâ€"like format,. with penalties awarded for excessive tunâ€" ing unnecessary modulaâ€" tion. Thv Rainbow Reels Queer Film Festival is coming to Waterloo. The festival will be held March 11â€"14. starting with a presentation of "Girl King", a Canadian production, March 11 at 4:15 pan. at the Princess Cinema. The 2004 festival is the fourth annual Queer Film Festival, dedicated to explorâ€" ing queer issues and experiâ€" ences on film by reflecting on a diverse setection of films and videos that will challenge the audiences‘ perception of queer people; while providing an entertainâ€" ing view into queer commuâ€" nities. Princess Cinema hosts film festival &7 _ ,__~=~~Disney * 4{1;1Kâ€".\1 I?//\‘_/‘-’%C:::p C WIIl) 4 k Py w The two performers for NC Teb PEu Chis yvear‘s festival is IN THC RFD w THE RER + www debtfreedom en the concert in Waterloo are Jack Cooper, native of Waterloo. and Don Bray, a visitor from Barrie. Bray is a fiery guitarist with a knack for finding the human heart in a song. He has won awards for his songwriting. and will also soon be releasing his third 33 Fickets for the first of the exhibition shows, playing in Waterloo, can be purchased for $12 in advance at WordsWorth Books, Old Goat Books. or by phone at 578â€"2942. Cooper‘s long involveâ€" ment with the community‘s music scene makes him a natural choice to serve as KWs home team. The full season of conâ€" certs will begin in Septemâ€" ber, with the exhibition schedule beginning in March. Tickets can also be pur chased at the door for $15. focusing on films that tell queer stories often marginalâ€" ized even by the queer comâ€" munity," explained festival organizer Ryan Weston. Seven films from Canada and the U.S. will be shown aver four days at the Princess Cinema and on campus at the University of Waterlao. "Taday. Hellywoeod is embracing queer characters and stories," said Raj Gill, staff at WPIRG IN THE RED Queer content has steadiâ€" ty been increasing in mainâ€" stream movies and television over ecent vears. "Fitteen years ago a Queer tilm bestival was radical in itself. 1â€"866â€"FORâ€"DEBT Organizers considet the ARPTS FPOCUS festival an opportunity for the queer community and the broader community to learn about important issues that are addressed in an eduâ€" cational and humourous manner. & Waterloo native Jack Cooper will represent the home team, Kitchenerâ€"Waterlo0, during the Folk League concert series, this Saturday at the Waterloo Community Arts Centre. A highlight of this year‘s festival will be a visit by celeâ€" brated comic and filmmaker Greg Walloch. His film. "Fâ€"CK the 1hsâ€" abled", chronicled Walloct‘s daily life in Harlem and his standâ€"up comedy perforâ€" manees which are based on his being openly gay and dis abled. His film will be shown Friâ€" day at l5 p.m. at the Uniâ€" versity of Waterloo‘s Davis Centre, in toom 1302 The film will be followed by a question and answer period with Walloch. The Rainbow Reel testival began three years ago in order to bring a wider selecâ€" tion of queerâ€"themed films to the area. The festival is sponsored by WPIRG, the Waterloo Pubâ€" Jic Interest Research Group, a studentâ€"funded organization at the University of Waterloo working on social an enviâ€" ronmental issues, and coâ€" sponsored by the TW beder ation of Students. The opening sereening will take place at the Princess Cinema; while the others will take place at the University of Waterloo Whatever your mood! Lisette Chameleon vinyt banded slide on a EJ brusbed gold wedge Changing every step you take. by Stuart Weitzman Courses will be halfâ€"day segments and can be taken throughout the week. Two levels are available, for children ages five to nine or nine to 13. The differâ€" ent programs will include a drama course focusing on storytelling, rhythm and rhymes and an art course focusing on printmaking, acrylic painting. mono printing, drawing, tâ€"shirt painting and more. From March 15â€"19 the Waterloo Community Ans Centre will be offering students an opportunity to Take an Art Break during the March Break. The fee courses are $14 for members and $17 for nonâ€"members for twoâ€"day courses. All courses will take place at the Waterloo Comâ€" munity Arts Centre, 25 Regina St. S., Waterloo. For more information. contact the centre at 886â€"4577. First United Church in Waterloo will hold a conâ€" cert. March 17 at 8 p.m. The concert will feature Dan Warren and Larry Larson on trumpets, and Jan Overduin on the organ. Tickets can be purchased for $15, and all proceeds will be going towards the church‘s Pipe Organ Fund. For moare information or to purchase tickets, call 745â€"1205. Artist Juan Manuel Vasquez will exhibit his most recent paintings, March 16 from 7â€"9 p.m. at the Jane Bond café in Waterloo. The name of the exhibition is "25 million reasons". This exhibition talks about refugees. It talks about the depriving of the most valuable gift of life that 25 million refugees have suffered in the world: that is the right to have an individual and collective history, a family, a land, a country. Through images full of personal experiences., Vasquez makes memories of days and nights lived far from Guatemala, where he was born. At the same time, he tries to be the voiee of those who cant say that solidarity is so important, like air. water and food. The high commissioner of United Nations for refugees recognized Vasquez as a relugee in Mexico, in 1982. He has been living in Canada simce 1987. Artist‘s works shown at Jane Bond café WCAC offers March Break fun with art Concert supports pipe organ fund