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- From: avery@netcom.com (Avery Ray Colter)
- Subject: Fat Lip "TNG", Sat Aug 1, 8pm, Laney College Oakland
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 04:44:33 GMT
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- Fat Lip Readers' Theatre just passed out some flyers for what they
- describe as their first performance with a new generation of players.
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- The performance date given is August 1, Saturday night at 8pm, at
- Laney College in Oakland right next door to the Lake Merritt BART station.
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- Open to All
- Sliding Scale $8-15
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- No one turned away for lack of funds
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- They request no scents or perfumes for the benefit of those allergic.
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- The performance is ASL interpreted and is wheelchair accessible.
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- Child care is available, (510) 653-6468 is given as the contact number,
- to be arranged no later than July 28.
-
- The FLiRT (my own acronym for them) has had a place in my heart since
- the first contact I had with the fat-positive faction. They have an
- expert way of putting their experiences to words: the tears, the anger,
- the rising up, the joy, the beauty - which struck deep into my soul the
- first time I heard them. For myself, it was like getting a whole intensive
- education about what I was getting myself into, in the course of a couple of
- hours (after which I stumbled out mentally exhausted, but with a feeling that
- I was at least starting to get the picture on a lot of questions which had
- piled up in my mind during the teen years). The fat people I know who are
- loyal fans tell me it is a wonderful affirmation that they are not alone
- with the feelings, the bad ones or the good ones, and that every once in
- a while even a veteran of the wars needs to hear the words of revolution
- that got them out in the trenches in the first place.
-
- Billed on the flyer as "Fat, feisty women singing, dancing, and speaking
- out about being fat in America, provoking you to laughter, tears, and anger!"
-
- --
- Avery Ray Colter ("Elfcat") - avery@netcom.netcom.com (IP 192.100.81.100)
- (510) 656-1902 "A R Colter" on America Online
- "Heaviness is the root of lightness; calmness is the controller of haste"
-