In this issue of GSA Network News, you'll find:
GSA Network Highlight
Free Zone Retrospective
GSA Network Announcements
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Free Zone Retrospective
Come and check out the amazing work done by Free Zone youth artists over the last three years!
Free Zone is a collaborative youth arts activism project through GSA Network and LYRIC. This year at LYRIC's Queer Youth Art Show, Free Zone will be honored with a retrospective exhibit. The three-year Free Zone retrospective includes: 2002 Liberation Ink posters, 2001 As If It Matters video, 2000 High Contrast photo/text exhibit.
* * * LYRIC's 3rd Annual Queer Youth Art Show * * *
Friday, January 10, 2003, 7-9pm
at the San Francisco LGBT Center - 1800 Market Street at Octavia
FREE
Please join us for an evening of art and performance by LGBTQQI youth.
spoken word * multi-media * rants * photography * painting * dance * performance art * video * drawing * sculpture * and featuring a three-year Free Zone retrospective!
The Queer Youth Art Show will be up for the whole month of January. For more info, please contact Linn at LYRIC: 415-703+6150 x24, linn@lyric.org.
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1. Upcoming Leadership Training - Fresno
Leadership Training In Fresno This Saturday, January 11th!
Come to Fresno and learn everything you ever wanted to know about starting, running or being a part of a GSA. Individual activists are also welcome. You don't have to be a part of a GSA to benefit from this fun experience that will build your skill as a leader and comes complete with pizza!
10am - 4pm
Central California GSA Network office (985 N. Van Ness) in Fresno.
FREE!
Contact Diana for details or directions (559)442-4777, diana@gsanetwork.org.
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Description
2. JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: GSA Network Program Director
Gay-Straight Alliance Network seeks to hire its first Program Director. We are looking for someone with leadership skills who can manage a team of organizers and project staff as part of a dynamic youth-led organization. The Program Director should have the ability to coordinate and lead a team to achieve program goals with creativity and resourcefulness. The Program Director will be responsible for coordinating, implementing and evaluating youth organizing, leadership development, and technical assistance programs; supervising staff and interns; managing campaign development; representing GSA Network in coalitions and in the community; securing strategic community collaborations; managing grant objectives; and assisting with fundraising by writing portions of grants and preparing reports. This position is based in our San Francisco office and will require travel within California, particularly to Southern California.
Gay-Straight Alliance Network is a statewide social justice organization that empowers youth activists to fight homophobia in California schools. For more information, visit http://www.gsanetwork.org.
Qualifications
Salary: $32,500-$37,500 plus benefits
To apply: Send resume and cover letter to Carolyn Laub, GSA Network, 160 14th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 or email your application to: jobsearch@gsanetwork.org
GSA Network, a project of the Tides Center, is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from people of color, LGBTQQI people, and people with disabilities.
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3. SFMT Youth Theater Project (Bay Area)
Got Issues? Got Dreams? Make Theater! Get Heard! Get Paid!
Dates: February 18 - April 13, 2003
Time: M/W or T/TH 4-7pm
Location: SF LGBT Community Center
Cost: Free, stipend and meal provided
Ages: 14-18
Our Queer Youth Theater Group will meet twice weekly for two months to improvise, write, and create an original play on a topic that both scandalizes and inspires us. We will then join the other Youth Theater Groups and perform our show in a fully professionally supported (sets, costumes, live band!) Youth Theater Festival at the Diego Rivera Theater at City College of SF.
WE ARE NOT SILENT! The San Francisco Mime Troupe is America's foremost theater of political comedy. The Tony-award winning company has been creating and performing theater around the Bay Area, the nation, and the world since 1959. MIME: The exaggeration of everyday life in story and song.
The workshops will be taught by teaching teams consisting of a Master Mime Troupe teacher and college student interns. Participants will receive acting, comedy, and playwriting training, and participate in all aspects of the creation process. Plus, a $10 stipend and meal are provided for every class attended. The workshop is produced in community partnership with the SF Mime Troupe, HMI, and high school Gay Straight Alliances.
For more information, check out http://www.sfmt.org/youththeaterproject.html or contact Leah (415)285-1717 or Leah@sfmt.org.
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4. Creative Writing Workshop for LGBTQQ Youth (Bay Area)
ON THE PAGE & ON THE STAGE: CREATIVE WRITING FOR LGBTQQ YOUTH
Chad Lange
7 Thursdays, Jan 16-Feb 27; 6:30-9:30 pm
Location: SF LGBT Center, 1800 Market St @ Octavia
FREE, open to LGBTQQ youth 23 and under
This class focuses on developing serious work by committed writers. On The Page & On The Stage focuses on all genres: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama. Students receive exciting combinations of thoughtful readings and critiques by the class and instructor; hands-on help for developing craft elements such as point of view, characterization, plot, and setting; attend other writers' literary and spoken word events; guest speakers from the teaching, publishing, writing, and performance fields; tips on how to live as a writer and artist; and the chance for to perform at literary events including the June 2003 National Queer Arts Festival.
On the Page & On the Stage also offers one-on-one sessions with the instructor so that students develop their writing both individually and in a group setting. Because class participation is vital to the success of a workshop, students are asked to attend each session. The class is fun and supportive while providing a space for constructive criticism and intense discussion. Students may join after the first session on a space-available basis. This class will continue to meet for another 7 weeks, March 6-April 24.
Chad Lange is the California Arts Council artist-in-residence at Harvey Milk Institute for November 2002-August 2003. A graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary's College, Chad divides his time between writing and teaching. He wants his students to become rich and successful so they can support him in his old age. For four years he copublished a literary and art journal called asspants, and his fiction has appeared in Fourteen Hills and Modern Words.
More questions? Feel free to contact Chad at chadlange84@hotmail.com.
To register, contact HMI: http://www.harveymilk.org, 415.865.5633
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5. GLAAD Online Media Reference Guide
The GLAAD Media Reference Guide, now in its 5th edition, offers reporters, editors, producers and other media professionals resources they can use for fair, accurate and inclusive reporting on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) lives and issues.
Among the guide's key features:
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6. New Video About LGBT Youth Activism in Schools
New video: "SPEAK UP! Improving the Lives of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered Youth"
30 minute video. Explores what gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) students and their allies have done to transform their schools into safer and more welcoming environments. Interviews with students, parents, teachers, administrators and national activists (Judy Shepard, Danny and Julie from MTV's Real World New Orleans and actor/musician Anthonly Rapp). Media Education Foundation: 1-800-897-0089; http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaGenderAndDiversity/SpeakUp/
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REVOLUTION 101
7. Revolution 101 Class (Bay Area)
Revolution 101 is a 10-session class, one session a week designed to introduce young organizers - young organizers of color, young working class organizers, young LGBTQ organizers and young women organizers - to the basics of revolutionary theory and practice. This years class will run between the months of February and April.
Revolution 101 meets the young generation of movement leaders need for relevant revolutionary training- helping us to learn the lessons and models developed by our revolutionary ancestors and giving us the space to apply those models to our organizing work today. Revolution 101 is broken down into three major pieces:
Structures OF OPPRESSION will help you to deepen your understanding of the oppressive structures that face our people: dicuss intersections, origions, econimic and community impacts... We study some of the "classics" - Marx, Malcolm X, and Audre Lorde - and talk about how their ideas and theories apply to our lives today.
Histories OF RESISTANCE learning from the histories that came before us. We focus on revolutionary struggles in working-class communities of color in the united states. We study these histories to be inspired by their victories and critically analyze their mistakes.
Tools FOR REVOLUTION we will learn about tools we can use to tear this system down. We study theories and tools developed by revolutionary movements around the world, focusing on movements in the Third World. We break down difficult theoretical concepts using accessible methods, and we learn to apply these theories to our daily work as weapons for our liberation struggle.
SO HOW DO YOU GET INTO REVOLUTION 101 ?
Send in the following application form.
You can return this application by email to malachi@youthec.org
You can print this out and fax it back at (510) 451-5866
You can mail an application back to SOUL @ 1357 5th Street, Oakland CA 94607
This is a free class. With a class manual sold at sliding scale 0-10 dollars, to cover cost of production.
Get your application in by January 15th, and we'll let know by the 22nd.
Here's the deal: YOU NEED TO MAKE A REAL COMMITMENT TO THE CLASS! We're only accepting 23 people to the class (for real this time).
What is your political background?
Why do you want to participate in Revolution 101?
What impact will Revolution 101 have on your work?
What specifically do you want to learn in Revolution 101?
What day could you NOT POSSIBLY do:
_____ Monday 6-9pm
_____ Tuesday 6-9pm
_____ Wednesday 6-9pm
_____ Thursday 6-9pm
_____ Sun 12-3pm
_____ Sun 3-6pm
Would you be needing:
_____ spanish translation
_____ childcare
- Revolution 101 is a project of SOUL (the school of unity and liberation -
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KarMel Scholarship - Best Written/Artistic GLBT Themed Work
8. Scholarships!
The KarMel Scholarship will award individuals who show creativity and originality in expressing their views on the Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Transgender (GLBT) topic. The two award categories are: Best "Written" GLBT Themed Work ($300) [i.e. personal stories, fictional stories, poem, editorial] and Best "Artistic"
GLBT Themed Work($400) [i.e. drawing, song, painting, video, photo, comic
strip]. The deadline is Feb 8, 2003. For more info and application, go to: http://www.karenandmelody.com/KarMelScholarship.html
eQuality Scholarships, app. deadline March 10
In 2003, the eQuality Scholarship Collaborative will award eight or more scholarships of at least $1000 to assist with post-secondary educational expenses. Applicants must be graduating from a high school in northern or central California; be in good academic standing; have applied to a two- or four-year post-secondary institution, including trade schools; and have promoted understanding of and equality for the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender community. Applicants for the Kaiser Permanente scholarship must also be planning a career in health care. For more info and applications: http://www.glsen-sfeb.org/eindex.htm
Third Wave Foundation scholarships, app. deadline April 1
Scholarships for young women of color age 30 and under who are enrolled in, or have been accepted to, an accredited university, college, vocational/technical school or community college. Students applying for grants should also be involved as activists, artists, or cultural workers working on issues such as racism, homophobia, sexism, or other forms of inequality. From $1,000 and $5,000 each. Applications are available on-line now. Phone: 212-388-1898 ; Email: infor@thirdwavefoundation.org;; Web site: http://www.thirdwavefoundation.org/programs/scholarships.html
Family Pride Coalition & Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE) Scholarships, app. deadline Apr 18
Scholarships of up to $1000 for postsecondary (college) students who have LGBT parents and have a demonstrated ability in and commitment to affecting change in society. The application is available online now. Phone: 415-861-5437; Email: colage@colage.org ; Web site: http://www.colage.org/scholarship.html
The Audre Lorde Scholarship applications available February 15, app. deadline to apply May 15
$1,000 scholarships for out gay men and lesbians of African descent (including adults) attending or planning to attend technical, undergraduate or graduate school in the U.S. full- or part-time. Requires a 2.5 grade-point average. Phone: 404-370-0911; Email: zami@zami.org; Web site: http://www.zami.org. The 2003 scholarship applications http://www.zami.org/scholarship.htm will be posted and ready for download no later than February 15, 2003! The deadline is May 15, 2003.
An Uncommon Legacy Foundation scholarships, app. deadline July 1
$2,500 lesbian leadership scholarships to undergraduate and graduate lesbian students who demonstrate a commitment or contribution to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community. Consideration will be given to academic performance, honors, personal or financial hardship, and especially service to the LGBT community. Phone: 212-366-6507; Web site: http://www.uncommonlegacy.org/grants/scholarships.htm
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empowering youth activists to fight homophobia in schools
Carolyn Laub
Executive Director
Gay-Straight Alliance Network
160 14th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
ph: 415.552.4229
fax: 415.552.4729
carolyn@gsanetwork.org
http://www.gsanetwork.org/
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