What's Happen In'

What's Happenin'

Gay Pride Week begins in Detroit Saturday, June 21, and after a number of events winds up on Sunday June 29. The affairs of the nine day designated period include rallies, an art fair, rap groups, and times for people to enjoy themselves together. For more details see the calendar or call 577-3450 or 831-1476.

A People's Bicentennial Festival is going to be held in the 5000 seat International Amphitheatre in Chicago on Sunday June 29. Speakers will include Gus Hull, Angela Davis, and representatives of the UFW, National Students Association, and civil rights movement. A bus will be leaving from Ann Arbor for Chicago Sunday am and tickets, priced at $5, include a round trip bus fare festival admission. Tickets are available at stores around Ann Arbor including David's Books and the Herb David Guitar Studio. 

Women in the Revolutionary Struggle is the theme of the a women studies course offered in the UM's summer session. For those interested in participating in these directed readings, group discussions and active work towards change, the first meeting will be Thursday July 3, at 2202 Modern Languages Building at 2 pm, where class times will be chosen.

A Defense Benefit for Joanne Little and Inez Garcia will be held at Ford Auditorium Wednesday June 25. The benefit for the two women being prosecuted for self defense against rape will include performances by Deadly Nightshade and Florence Ballard Chapman (ex-Supreme). Speakers will include Gloria Steinem, and there'll be a special performance by Lily Tomlin. Tickets are available at Grinnel's, all Hudson's and the Ford Auditorium Box Office. 

Ann Arbor Entertainment Comes Alive with the free concerts in Ypsi and Ann Arbor. Ypsi's Saturday event begins at 2pm at Riverside Park. Ann Arbor's own at Victor Jara Musician's Park this Sunday the 22nd hosts Skip Van Winkle, Melodosio, Lightnin' Red Blues Trio and the Stillhouse String Band. The following Sunday, June 29th features the Lyman Woodard Organization, the Mojo Boogie Band, Rabbits, and Eric Glatz 

EMU is having another Summer Celebration June 22 with Dave Mason and British imports Yes at Rynearson Stadium... Skip Van Winkle will be at Chances Are July 15... As will a new r&b band around town penned Shotgun...

A recent conglomeration in the interweaving bands that Detroit-Ann Arbor jazz musicians put together is Small Change and they'll be at the Blind Pig Thursday July 3... Daddy G's newest group Express also appears at the Blind Pig Friday July 4...

Detroit Music features Lonnie Liston Smith at Baker's Keyboard Lounge Friday June 20 thru 22... The Lyman Woodard Organization begins an indefinite string of weekends at the Pretzel Bowl June 20, with the Ted Lucas Group filling in the weekdays... The legendary Ray Charles appears at Pine Knob June 22... Blood Sweat and Tears and Chick Corea with Return to Forever also appear at Pine Knob Monday June 30... Olympia Stadium host Eric Clapton and Santana July 1... And Detroit's own Yusef Lateef will be at Watts Club Mozambique June 27 thru July 6...

TV or Not TV. Better yes than no when Maynard Ferguson and his 14 piece band are on Channel 56 at 8pm Monday June 23. And then again it's worth your while to turn the dial to Channel 56 Tuesday June 24 for a look at "The End of the Ho Chi Minh Trail". Representatives from many countries involved in the Vietnamese struggle will be interviewed about their perspectives now. 

Cinema in the area: On Friday June 20, the United Farm Workers present " Fighting for our Lives", a documentary of the 1973 Grape Strike. The showing is at Trueblood Auditorium in the Frieze Bldg. and speakers will include Ann Arbor Mayor Al Wheeler, Robert Escutia of the California Grape Strikers and the Chicano Theater Group, El Teatro Estudiante. Admission is $2.00 and the event begins at 7:30pm... 

New World is presenting Mel Brooks' The Producers, Saturday June 21 at MLB 3... The Ann Arbor Film Co-op presents two of Chaplin's finest, Modern Times and The Great Dictator both at MLB 3 & 4, Friday June 27 with 2 showings each

Compiled by Dianne Ripley & Elaine Wright