What's Happenin'

What's Happenin'

THE INVITATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE is a temporary aggregation of approximately 20 theatre, mime, and dance troupes primarily from other college campuses. The 5 day event started Wednesday, May 7 but there's still 3 more days of shows and workshops. Most of the remaining activities, (iL. Friends Road Show, Living Theatre) are happening near or in the Michigan Union. Waterman Gym and Trueblood Auditorium. Events start at 9:30 am and continue through to midnight or so. For more precise information on performance/workshop times, see the calendar, call 764-0452 or stop by the Professional Theatre Program Office in the Michigan Union.

GLF AND LOCAL MOTION are sponsoring a gay dance at Barbour Gym. intended to raise funds for the Lexington Legal Defense Fund. The fun starts at 9pm, Saturday May 10... it's time once again for the fund-raising 5th Annual Ecology Center Bike-a-thon. Sunday May 18. Want to participate?-call 761-3186. ..Saturday May 17 is the first of a 3 day book sale at the Ann Arbor Public Library. This bargain center offers prices as low as 10 cents per book.... 

DICK GREGORY will speak at Hill Auditorium. Friday May 16, 7pm. The topic will be the world food crisis and the survival of humanity. Donations are $4.00 plus one can of food. Immediately following the Hill Event there will be a reception at the Michigan Union Ballroom, with live entertainment. All profits go to the World Community Food Bank...

LOCAL MOTION BIKE RAFFLE and happening is scheduled for Saturday May 24 on the diag beginning at noon. Bring yourselves, food, music, and poetry.There'll be a magic show and Mescha the Clown. The drawing for the Gitane 10 speed bike is at 3pm. Ruffle tickets are $.50 and available from the Local Motion office at 225 E. Liberty (upstairs). 

TRIBE AND THE SILVERTONES, are on the same bill for a tasty combo of jazz and r&b at the Schwaben Inn (above the old Primo showbar) on Saturday May 24. Kick off time is 8pm. admission is $2.00 and beer is available for consumption...But don't wait till then to experience Tribe. They'll be playing the weekend of May 1 (at the Blind Pig... Earlier in the week there's some Chicago blues at Chances Are, with the Jim Schwall Blues Band for 2 nights, May 11 & 12; later that week at the same location will be Orleans, May 17, 18, & 19... The Rabbits up and coming rock n' rollers are at Ypsi Bimbo's for a week beginning May 14... The Lyman Woodard Organization has been held over at the Huron Hotel and Lounge through the weekend of May 24... Leo Kotke and Jesse Colin Young will be at Hill Auditorium, courtesy of UAC, Wednesday May 21 . Tickets are available at the Michigan Union Box Office . . .

DETROIT DITTIES: Lonnie Liston-Smith and his Cosmic Echoes finish up a stay al Baker's Keyboard Lounge with their last performance being Sunday May 11... Robin Tyner's Fireworks, a new band spearheaded by the former MC5 lead singer, will be at the Red Carpet through Sunday April 11... Lou Reed will present himself at Masonic Auditorium Thursday May 15... Jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo comes to Baker's Friday May 16 through Wednesday May 21 (excluding Monday). . . . The O'Jays are at Cobo May 17, and the next night for all those Zappa fans. he'll be at Cobo Hall May 18 with none other than his old running mate Captain Beefheart.

OTHER AREA MUSIC: Primarily East Lansing . . . singer-guitarist-songwriter Sonnie Raitt and the definitively subtle composer Mose Allison "l'm not talking, that's what got to say" will perform 2 shows at the Men's IM Arena on MSU's campus, Saturday May 10. General admission price is $4.00, shows are at 8 and 11 pm . . . Freddie Hubbard blows his horn at the Stables, Monday May 12 through Saturday May 17... Weather Report comes to the Silver Dollar (formerly the Brewery) on Tuesday May 13... And Saturday May 17 is a special treat when the Creative Arts Collection at MSU present s ABCD, a musical extravaganza featuring musicians the likes of Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors, Joseph Jarman, Richard Abrams, and scores of others. The program starts at 1 pm at the Wonders Kiva, admission is $3.00 in advance, $3.50 at the door.

CLOCKWORK ORANGE, Stanley Kubrick's production of the frighteningly close realities of an urban technocratic future, will be shown by the New World Film Co-op in the Natural Science Auditorium at 7 & 9:30, Friday May 16 through Sunday the 18th. . . And if you re heading to Detroit, a most powerful and educational movie is The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to be shown the basement of he Trinity Methodist Church at 13100 Woodward, Highland Park, 8pm. . . . T-shirts are the cultural artifacts of our time and worthy of an exhibit at the Detroit Art Institute, Gallery 256 until May 18. Compiled in conjunction with WWWW, the exhibit offers over 200 varieties of the most funky, fashionable and creative t-shirts around.

TUBE TIME: David Susskind's show on Monday May 12 focuses on the Inside Story of the Academy Award Movie Hearts and Minds at 9pm on Channel 9 . . . And for a bit of modern media madness, there's the Rolling Stones, Kool & the Gang and Waylon Jennings on Rock Concert, Channel 7, 1:30am Friday May 16.

Compiled by Dianne Ripley and Elaine Wright