GLBT Happenings from The Dish

The following events were taken from The Dish newsletter. The Dish is a free, grassroots service to provide information about things of interest for queer women, especially queer women of color and friends, and to build community and connections:


LGBT Family Faith Curriculum -
From Family Equality Council.
May 19, 2009

Dear Families and Friends,

Over the last few years, we've asked you what areas of family life you want Family Equality Council to focus our work on. Time and again, making faith communities more welcoming and affirming of LGBT families has topped your lists. That's why I'm very excited to share with you the release of a new LGBT family-inclusive faith curriculum, All in God's Family: Creating Allies for Our LGBT Families.

Developed by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Institute for Welcoming Resources, Family Equality Council and COLAGE, this multimedia resource engages faith communities and faith leaders in conversation on how best to embrace our families.
Faith is an important part of many of our lives. All in God's Family provides a guiding hand to those who seek to make their faith communities more knowledgeable about and inclusive of LGBT families, from lessons on scripture to activity suggestions and more.
In the months and years to come, we will expand on this work. To do that, and to encourage faith communities to adopt the curriculum now, we need to hear from you. Tell us how your faith community makes your family feel welcomed and included and/or what makes you feel less included. Click here to read a sample story and get started.

I look forward to hearing from you and your family as you share your stories and provide feedback on this new resource for LGBT families.

All my best,
　
Jennifer Chrisler
Executive Director
Family Equality Council
　
　



Hip Hop Against Homophobia 2 - 　

Queers in/and Hip Hop: Open Discussion Forum
Saturday June 13th
7-9p.m. (Before the show!)
　
Bedlam Theater, Back Room

Grab dinner and a drink from the Bedlam's delicious menu, and pull up a chair at the table. The Twin Cities has massive, intertwined, and beautiful progressive hip hop, political, queer communities. We'll use this time and space to eat together and talk together. Conversation starters will be provided to discuss the issues of queers in/and/with hip hop, how hip hop can make social change, how to be a hip hop ally, and about queer movements for liberation and justice, anything we want! Bring your own questions, thoughts, ideas, and start your own discussions.
　
　
June Twilight Events 　
　
Twilight is the second Friday in June at the Kitty Cat Klub!! This event is the first of two June Twilight events and will be on the second Friday of the month. DJ Shiek will be on the decks spinning the hottest music all night long.

$7 21+ Drink Specials until 10pm

Pride Twilight will be at KARMA Nightclub on Friday, June 26th! We are changing up venues this year so be sure to tell your friends! Karma is the one of the hottest venues in town and has a fantastic patio! You will not want to miss this party!

We will be selling a limited # of VIP tickets/tables. All proceeds will benefit Foundation IX which enables low-income girls to participate in team sports and athletics. They do this by granting money for equipment, paying for athletic fees, etc. This is a REALLY important way in which we impact the lives of young girls in our own community and support the upcoming generation of women! I will be sending out details on how to purchase VIP tickets soon!

Check out the link to Foundation IX below:
http://www.foundationix.org/
$10 21+ Drink Specials until midnight!
　
"Buddy, can you spare an evening?" at Patrick’s Cabaret, June 5-6 -
Patrick's Cabaret presents
　
The Buddy, can you spare an evening?
　
goodtime, trip to faraway minds

Cabaret! at Patrick's Cabaret
　
Friday June 5th and Saturday June 6th
3010 Minnehaha Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55406
　
Tickets $10 at the door
Celebrate the beginning of summer at Patrick's Cabaret, enjoy a new and eclectic mix of performances by Erin Sheppard, Philip Low, David Amdur, Khary Jackson, Tom Steffan and Cathy Wright.

Erin Sheppard performs The Undead Can Dance! an exploration of popular dance and tuneszombified! Erin Sheppard is a choreographer/theatre artist from Minneapolis. Her current dance project, Inimitable Feets strives to project the idiosyncratic worlds in her head onto the stage with a sense of humor and an appreciation for each dancer's unique style of movement and rhythm.

Philip Low, the found of Maximum Verbosity, co-founder and Chair of the Rockstar Storytellers, performs The Rise of General Arthur, a retelling of the early years of King Arthur, set during the first Gulf War, told from the point of view of Pellinore as a Lance-Corporal in the Marine Corps.

David Amdur, as Professor Damon Rudman, performs: THE PROBLEM OF THE BODY: How did our society arrive at the conviction that bodily urges are debased? Combining the deportment of Sir Kenneth Clark with subject matter redolent of John Waters, Prof. Damon Rudman deconstructs contemporary American attitudes concerning bodily urges by juxtaposing recent media coverage with imagery from history and diverse cultures.

Nationally ranked slam poet Khary Jackson (currently ranked 3rd in the country) will amaze the audience with his words.

Comedian Tom Steffen looks like a sane person, but don't judge a book by its cover. His off-kilter outlook on life keeps audiences laughing for more. After almost two decades as a successful radio personality and total theatre geek, Tom decided to plunge into a new area of show business and began his comedy career in 2002. He has performed in numerous clubs in the upper Midwest, was a semi-finalist in Acme Comedy Company's 2003 Funniest Person in the Twin Cities contest, and more recently, a 2007 regional contender in Comedy Central's Open Mic Fight Contest. On stage, Tom shares the goofy adventures he finds in everyday living, from toiling away in his cubicle at his day job, to the absurd and bizarre things to be found in the seemingly ordinary art of conversation. All the while, Tom always manages to find a fresh take on the world around us that is sure to entertain any audience.

New work by choreographer Cathy Wright, who describes her work as highly emotional and occasionally disturbing work. It has been described as haunting, evocative, vivid, and mythical. My choreographic process is a journey into the darker corners of the mind. I do not shy away from the unspeakable and have used art as a healing process in recovery from incest, domestic violence, drug abuse, suicide, loss and fear. I incorporate technology with dance performance through the means of various media, and I return the human element back into a multimedia theater environment through art as a healing process. My work is rarely literal, but typically dramatic!

Grand Old Day, June 7
Grand Old Day 2009
Sunday, June 7
Summer of Pride
　
Join us at the Lavender Stage featuring:
　
DJ Red Richard
The Roxxy Hall Band
High and Mighty
http://www.grandave.com/

Lavender Green: Thinking Globally, Singing Locally; June 13-14 -
One Voice Mixed Chorus season finale concert.
June 13, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
　
June 14, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
History Theatre
30 East 10th Street, Saint Paul
　
Accessibility, directions and parking Download (pdf)
Tickets prices: $18-25, $10 student and senior
　
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Lavender Green: Thinking Globally, Singing Locally
　
CONCERT FLYER (pdf)
One Voice’s season finale is the Lavender Green: Thinking Globally, Singing Locally concert in June, which explores ways that the GLBT community can take a strong role in environmental movement. The program celebrates the majesty of nature, honors the accomplishments of GLBT environmentalists, fosters understanding of how our actions affect the delicate balance of nature and urges better stewardship of the world around us. As part of our commitment to "thinking globally and acting locally," the concert includes environmentally-themed works by local composers such as Steve Heitzig, Abbie Betinis and Peter Berryman. In a special highlight, three local children’s choruses will join One Voice on stage. Also, Earth-friendly organizations will offer information in the lobby about ways we can all live greener lives.
　
　

Fw: Ten Days Left to Apply for Soulforce Q Camp - Free LGBTQA Activist Training

Dear Friends:

There are just about ten days left to apply for Soulforce Q Camp, a free summer retreat that will assist grassroots LGBTQ and allied activists in their work for justice and collective liberation.

Dates: July 14-23, 2009
Location: Austin, TX at the Alma de Mujer Center for Social Change
Website and Application: www.soulforce.org/q-camp
Application Deadline: May 15, 2009
Cost: Soulforce Q Camp, including travel, is free to its participants

If you are working in a rural or conservative area of the world, this camp is for you. If you are doing underecognized or controversial local activism, this camp is for you. If you have a great idea and want to make it happen with collective support, this camps is for you. If you are outside the mainstream institutional support but have passion to create change, this camp is for you.Our 10-day training course is a time of learning, skill-sharing, studying, practicing and planning.

Topics include:
nonviolent activism from the youth perspectivescriptural skills for doing work with conservative religious communitiesanti-oppression organizing skills with a focus on anti-racist workgender and transgender awareness and involvementmedia and fundraising workfacilitation and community leadershipnetworking and community buildingand more!

Soulforce Q Camp is not only the time we spend together - Soulforce Q will provide a stipend and continued staff support to assist you in leading your local projects and events.

We welcome applicants age 18 to 30 (as of July 14, 2009) of all genders, orientations, faith or non-faith backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, education and class backgrounds, abilities, nationalities, and intersectional interests.

Feel free to forward this information.

Please contact Q@soulforce.org with any questions.

Peace,

Haven Herrin--
Director of Soulforce Q2000
Grand Avenue, #2
Minneapolis, MN 55405469-867-5725
Haven@soulforce.org