Seventeen men attended April’s brunch at Harry Greenberg’s in St. Paul and 12 men attended May’s hosted by Rick Gravrok. The next brunches will be: Sunday, June 16th (Father’s Day – children welcome) at Jim Lovestar’s backyard picnic table, 2626 Upton Ave N, Minneapolis (just east of Victory Memorial Parkway), 612/588-8984, and Sunday, July21st at Paul Busch’s, 4421 43rd Ave S, Minneapolis, 612/721-4043. Eat and socialize at the next Monthly Men’s Sunday Brunches (bring something to share/cook up). Men hang out together and enjoy good food with no agenda whatsoever. These brunches are open to all men from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m; plan to come and chat and eat for a 1/2-hour to 2-hour period anytime – inevitably some men stay on until 2 p.m. – Andy Mickel, 2002-05-19.

The Gay and Bi-sexual Father’s Group reports these events: June 8th: Cookboyz Potluck 6 pm (Saturday)Warren LeVake, 2925 Cherokee Place, Golden Valley, MN,763-521-4389; June 10th: (Monday) Rainbow Families Kids Picnic & Concert, 6-9pm at Como Park Lakeside Pavilion in St. Paul; June 12th: Fathers Group Support Meeting Wednesday at Denny Siemers,7-9 pm at 7631 Edinborough Way, Unit 5220, Edina, MN , 952-897-1281; June 22nd: Fathers Group Support Meeting 10 a.m. (Saturday) at David Eckholdt’s 4820 Wellington Lane North, Plymouth, MN, 763-553-1086; June 22nd: Curt Peterson cordially invites men from the Gay Fathers Group to his 9th Annual Summer Solstice Garden Party Saturday 7-midnight, 2815 Toledo Avenue in St. Louis Park (1 block east of 100 and 2 blocks north of Minnetonka Blvd.); Steve Dobberstein is having a open house each afternoon Pride Weekend June 29th and 30th at 2324 East 37th Street Minneapolis, MN Phone is 612-729-9416. Mid afternoon both days. To get more info about the group: <http://www.gayfathersmn.com/>– Denny Siemers, 2002-05-19.

OurFamilyWizard.com is an innovative approach to help families experiencing the difficulties of divorce communicate more effectively. We came up with the idea of a website where we could go to exchange information, schedule activities, and maintain a defined access schedule for our children. The site is intended to reduce stress by allowing divorced couples to exchange information on the Internet to relieve the conflict that is often associated with verbal communication. Not using the children as messengers. Information is exchanged dependably, accurately and confidentially, taking the child out of the role as messenger. The site has databases for childcare contacts, medical information, insurance information, religious information, educational information, financial data and other elective information. The site allows for document scanning for retention and transmittal. <www.ourfamilywizard.com> E-mail: <jkissoon@ourfamilywizard.com> 612/804-4478, FAX: 952/896-1132. – Jai Kissoon, 2002-05-01.

River’s Edge Playback Theatre is an original form of improvisational theatre in which audience members tell stories from their lives and watch them enacted on-the-spot. They find the emotional core of the story and bring it to life, and they don’t compete with each other to see who is the quickest. The Friday, June 7th performance, “An Evening with Father,” will celebrate fathers. Brian Brooks, Christine Crider, Carolyn Campfield, Harry Greenberg, Susan Holladay, Claire DeCoster, Michael Leverentz, Jay McManus, & Charlotte Milstead are the actors. 8:00 pm $8, Walker Community Church ,3104 16th Avenue S, Minneapolis – Harry Greenberg <harry@scc.net>, 2002-05-13.

Minnesota Boys to Men (BTM) Keeps Rolling Beginning with the first BTM Weekend last September, 14 mentors and 14 journeymen (the BTM term for boys aged 12 to 16 who have gone through the initiation rites) have been walking together on the path to manhood. Every other week they meet as a community, and during the off weeks meet 1-on-1. The success has been phenomenal. Many of the young journeymen have eagerly stepped up into positions of responsibility, even travelling to other BTM centers throughout the country to staff the rites of passage weekends for other communities. This August marks the Second annual BTM weekend for Minnesota. Boys to Men is hosting an open house to share their program with boys and their parents. If you have a boy who might be ready for the program, then you are invited! Please come at noon on Saturday June 15th to 9 W. Delos St. in St. Paul. Interested folks will have a chance to hear about Boys to Men, ask questions, and even get a small taste of the adventure weekend itself. Free food, snacks, and beverages will be provided. The community is also looking for interested men and boys who would like to get involved in mentoring a young man. Charlie Borden is the contact for any interested man. You may call him at 651/230-8002 or 651/222 2551. – Eric Mann, 2002-05-17.

GAZE-TV re-appears on local cable TV beginning Saturday June 1 in Minneapolis Ch 16 at 10pm. For complete channel info: <www.gazetv.net> Submit news by E-mail to <gaze@gazetv.net>, as text or with word.doc attachment(s), .jpg or .tif photos and .gif graphics, or link to your web site. Or, mail to GAZE, PO Box 19307, Minneapolis, MN 55419. News is used in both GAZE Guide and GAZE-TV. – 2002-05-18.
The National Coalition of Free Men-Twin Cities Chapter is sponsoring a forum and lecture entitled “Gender Feminism and the Voices Not Heard: Has America Gone Deaf In One Ear?” Participants include: Wendy McElroy, author, lecturer, foxnews.com columnist and <ifeminists.com> website editor, who will speak on the topic “Scrapping NOW: Time to Redefine Feminism” <www.zetetics.com/mac>, Trudy Schuett, publisher of The DesertLight Journal <www.desertlightjournal.homestead.com>, &Warren Farrell author of the best-selling book The Myth of Male Power and former board member of New York City Chapter of NOW <www.warrenfarrell.com>. The event free and open to the public Friday evening, June 21, 7-9 pm in the Ramsey County Room (Rm 317) of Landmark Center, at 75 W 5th S, downtown St. Paul. – Kyle Knutson, <kknutson@tcinternet.net>, 2002-05-17.

The next Minnesota Men’s Conference is September 10-15 at Sturgeon Lake, MN. Among the teachers are Robert Bly and Martin Prechtel. Contact: Craig Ungerman, 1-877/333-3136 (toll-free) <www.hiddenwine.com>, E-mail: <hiddenwine@earthlink.net> - Mark Stanley, 2002-04-05.

The next Minnesota New Warrior Weekend will be held by Mankind Project Minnesota, October 4-6. Cost $595. FFI, Glen Stone: <mnenrollment@ix.netcom.com>, 612/827-6514 - Glen Stone, 2002-05-21.

Our web site, <www.tcmc.org> has been restored after a 3-week outage at the Twin Cities Freenet, and we have plans to move it to more reliable hosting soon. E-mail: <tcmc@tcmc.org> - Andy Mickel. - 2002-04-16.