In Brief

Moveable Feast will host Ride for the Feast, an Ocean to Harbor, bike ride, Saturday and Sunday, May 17 and 18, 2003, from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware to Baltimore, Maryland. Participants in the approximately 150 mile journey will help to meet (and hopefully surpass) the $250,000 goal to help feed homebound Maryland residents living with HIV/AIDS.

“Our objective is to attract 200+ riders, each raising $1,200 in pledges,” commented David Andrews, Ride for the Feast chair. “We hope to have corporate and underwriting support to ensure that 100% of the pledge dollars goes to support the programs and projects of Moveable Feast, namely feeding our clients throughout Maryland. Participants will be assigned a coach (a volunteer with Moveable Feast) to assist in meeting training and fundraising goals.”

Departing from the Bandstand (oceanfront and Rehoboth Avenue) in Rehoboth Beach, Ride for the Feast will traverse a 100-mile flat course through farmland and small towns in Delaware and Maryland, with an overnight stay in Stevensville on the East Side of the Bay Bridge. Day two’s 50-mile component concludes at Ravens’ Stadium for lunch followed by a short ride to Baltimore’s War Memorial Plaza for a closing ceremony.

Ride for the Feast will feature a fully supported itinerary with pit stops every 15 to 20 miles where food, restroom facilities, water, ice, medical care, and bike maintenance services will be available.

Moveable Feast provides daily delivered meals (three meals a day) and nutritional services important to the entire spectrum of homebound HIV-infected individuals (and their families) living in Maryland. In addition, the Moveable Feast program packs and distributes meals for a week to over 600 Groceries to Go clients.

For further information on the 2003 Ocean to Harbor Ride for the Feast, including sponsorship opportunities, registration details, or on becoming a volunteer, please contact Rod Clark at rclark@mfeast.org. Moveable Feast’s website is www.mfeast.org.

Channelor Relocates to Rehoboth Beach

Windflower Woman, psychic clairvoyant and channelor, has relocated to the Rehoboth/Lewes area. Windflower’s goal is to help bring balance and harmony to as many people as possible. To achieve this goal, she has studied with a wide variety of teachers to assist her with the gifts that she brought with her into this life.

Windflower will offer classes and workshops covering such topics as: How to balance and protect yourself by working with Light Energy; Learning to meditate, smudge, self-heal and be psychically aware; Making Native American tools for balance; Learn to create and work with a Medicine Wheel.Call at 302-644-1748 for an in-person or telephone reading.

Action Alert on Domestic Partnership

Senator Mark Dayton (D-MN) will soon introduce the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (DPBO), a companion bill to H.R. 638 that would extend domestic partner benefits to federal employees.

Please send a fax urging your Senator(s) to become an original co-sponsor of the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act. We have prepared a free fax, which you can edit to make more personal if you wish.

You can also call 202-224-3121 and ask to be connected to your Senator’s office.

To send your free fax and for background information on the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act, please visit www.hrc.org/actioncenter.
Alert your friends and family and ask each of them to take action in the fight for equality.

Larger than Life Show at Peninsula Gallery

In Living Color is the title of the new show at the Peninsula Gallery in Lewes starting August 1, 2002. The artist, David Daniels, from Silver Spring, has had a lifelong affair with the medium of watercolor. Originally trained in botany and biology, the scientific and the artistic are united in his works. “My paintings celebrate a passion for color, a reverence for nature, and a love for the medium of watercolor. In my work, common plants and animals take on a new spirit and are animated by the larger-than-life format that I often use.”

Gallery owners, Carol and Tony Boyd-Heron, are excited at the thought of the show, not only because of the nature of the work but because for the first time clients will be able to experience the application of watercolor on canvas. “In his pursuit of being able to display his paintings without the reflective surface of glass and (for him) distracting mats and frames, David found a product called White Absorbent Ground which, when applied to a gessoed canvas takes on a paper-like quality and accepts watercolor. To protect the finished canvas he then applies a layer of mineral spirit-solution acrylic varnish. The results are inspiring. The large scale invites the viewer to embark on a color journey through nature that often is larger than life and would make a major statement in any cathedral ceilinged home.

Daniels earned his Masters at Central Michigan University and after 15 years of teaching he moved to Washington, DC to pursue his art career. He has earned “Best of Show” in the Capital Hill Art League, the Cultural Society of Coral Springs, Florida and the Washington Watercolor Association. He has been published several times and his work can be found in numerous public and private collections. A reception to meet the artist will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Saturday, August 3. The gallery is located just across the canal on Savannah Rd in Lewes and is open 7 days a week. For more information visit www.delawarebeachresorts.com and click on Peninsula Gallery or call 302-645-0551.

Hit Comedy Comes to Rehoboth Beach

The Henlopen Theater Project will present the hit comedy Fully Committed by Becky Mode July 26-28 and July 31-August 3. The play, which has been produced around the country to great acclaim, deals with a day in the life of a reservations clerk at a very ritzy restaurant and everyone trying to get a reservation. The twist of the evening is that all the characters, and there are over 40 of them, are played by one actor.

The very versatile actor is James Beaman, who appeared at HTP last year as Marlene Dietrich in his acclaimed cabaret Black Market Marlene. James Beaman most recently won the 2002 MAC award for his original show Crazy World: The Songs of Leslie Bricusse. He has appeared Off-Broadway in the hit revues Whoop-Dee-Doo!, and When Pigs Fly. As well as the lead in Charles Busch’s Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. His regional credits include The Mystery of Irma Vep, Sylvia, The Comedy of Errors and most recently Arsenic and Old Lace.

Dennis Delaney who has directed more than eighty-five productions throughout the United States directs Fully Committed. Some of his credits include Midsummer Night’s Dream (Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival), A View From the Bridge (Theaterfest) The Heiress and Noises Off and Side Man. His production of The Man Who Could See Through Time at Seven Angels Theater was cited by the Connecticut Critics Circle as one of the best productions of last season.

An added special attraction to this HTP production will be its Red Carpet Receptions featured at each performance, which will feature food from some of Lewes and Rehoboth’s best restaurants. Some of the participating restaurants are The Buttery, Blue Moon, Stoney Lonen, Celsius, Eden Café, La La Land, Yum Yum, Third Edition, Planet X, Café Solé and Beautiful Foods.

Sign-up to Support CAMP’s Annual Sundance Benefit

The approach of August means one thing to the staff and volunteers of CAMP Rehoboth-Sundance! The annual Labor Day Weekend fundraiser is one of the largest in the state. Last year’s event cleared over $165,000, and made a tremendous difference to the budgets of both Sussex County AIDS Committee and CAMP Rehoboth.

In recent weeks Sponsor and Host letters were mailed, and the countdown to sign up Sponsors, Supporters and Hosts for this year’s Sundance 2002 has begun. Last year over 450 people and businesses signed up to make it the most successful Sundance in its fourteen year history.

“The Sponsors, Supporters, and Hosts make the event possible,” says CAMP Rehoboth’s Kathy Weir. They more than pay for the event, and allow 100% of auction and ticket sales to go to Sundance.”

There are three sponsorship levels for Sundance-Sponsor, Supporter, and Host-and each of those can be upgraded to a Gold level. Host benefits are available for $100 per individual or business, or $300 for Gold Host. The Host level includes listing on the invitations and posters, one ticket for each night and a Sundance t-shirt. Supporter benefits-$500 and $700 (Gold Supporter)-include the print listings, two tickets and two t-shirts, listing on the Web page and in the lobby during the events, and coupons or items in the gift bag. Sponsor benefits add logo placement on all printed materials and banners, four tickets and t-shirts, Web banner ads and a link to your Web site. Sponsor levels are $1,000 and $5,000 for Gold. The Gold levels add premier listing on all materials.

This year’s Sundance 2002: In The Celestial Circle of the Sunburst Rainbow will take place at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center on Saturday and Sunday August 31 and September

1. The first night is the Sundance Live and Silent Auction and Cocktail Party, with a buffet by the Blue Moon Restaurant. The second night is the dance, featuring DJ Mark Thomas and a dazzling light show by Paul Turner. Tickets for the events are $40 per night or $60 for the entire package, and can be purchased on the Sundance Website at www.sundancebenefit.com.

For more information about signing up to be a part of Sundance 2002 call or come by the CAMP Rehoboth office, or check out the Website.