Item Data
- Collection Title: Aradia Susan Wiseheart Collection
- Item Title: Alix Dobkin with Susan Burns
- ID Number: ASW-009
- Date Range: 5-1-1982
- Description: One of four reels recording Alix Dobkin's performance at "celebrating ARADIA," Davenport College, Grand Rapids. Michigan. Susan Burns, sign language interpreter.
- Biographical/Historical Note:
- Genres: Concert
- Places: Grand Rapids, MI; Davenport College, Grand Rapids, MI;
- Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission. LHMP must contact donor Susan Wiseheart with regard to any re-use.
- Color or B&W: B&W
- Related Versions: Reels 1, 9, 11 & 12 all record the same concert.
- Running Time: 33:23,00
- Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) shares rights with Susan Wiseheart during her lifetime. Participants also have the right to approve uses of material they appear in during their lifetimes.
- Sound: Sound
- Subjects: Women's music
- Creators: Aradia Collective
- Collaborators & Participants: Susan Burns
Alix Dobkin
If you or friends were present for this event, we hope you'll email us at info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org & let us know. We'll share your input if that's okay, or just preserve it.
- Source Format: 1/2" open reel tape
- Format: 1/2" open reel
- Viewing Log: Alix Dobkin with sign interpreter Susan Burns. Macedonian love song. Mountain song. "Living with Contradictions." On monogamy.
On great lesbians all throughout history....
3:02-12:32 Song about her European tour with Monica Hess ck and her band Which is Which.
12:35 or so to Song written by Karen Beth? Meth? Mountain I Own Sometimes I feel like I have no home, I love these mountains but they aren't my own. Camera goes to the signer in the last few words of the song.
16:36 - 21:33 introduces & then sings "Living with Contradictions"
On NPR program on science being really boring, Most men when they hear women talking think it's just nonsense.
23:45-25: 51 Just like a woman. Then talks more about differences between men & women.
27:56 On monogamy & non-monogamy What we're doing is revolutionary work in relationships. Very important political work to figure out how to break up - we make mistakes, that's our main activity these days. Adrienne Rich Task Force. You Aradians know what I mean. Sings "I'm not monogamous anymore"