Due to technical difficulties...this GSA Network News is coming to you very late! We apologize! -- GSA Network staff
In this issue of GSA Network News, you will find:
Let us know how the Day of Silence went for you and your school!
Tell us:
what did you do for the Day of Silence?
how many people participated?
how was it received by other students, staff, and administration?
what it was like for those who participated?
how effective was it? what impact did it have on people in your school?
what would you change in the future?
Please email, call, or send us answers to these questions and other comments you might have:
GSA Network
160 14th St. San Francisco, CA 94103
415.552.4229
taryn@gsanetwork.org
We look forward to hearing all of your experiences!
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2. Upcoming East Bay GSA Leadership Trainings
Wanna meet other people fighting homophobia?
Wanna learn how to improve your GSA?
Wanna become a leader?
Come to the East Bay GSA Leadership Training!!!
Who:GSA members, advisors, and all others interested in GSAs
When:Sat, May 5, 2001
9:30AM-4PM (breakfast and lunch provided)
Where:SMAAC Youth Center 1738 Telegraph Ave. Oakland
Co-sponsored by GSA Network and the Pacific Center
If you can't make it to the East Bay training, try and attend one of our other upcoming trainings: San Francisco/Marin:May 20, Peninsula training:May 26
For more information, contact Taryn at GSA Network:
415.552.4229
taryn@gsanetwork.org
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3. Easter Party for Kid-O's and Families!
SISTERS CELEBRATE 22ND ANNIVERSARY WITH INDULGENCE IN THE PARK, AN EASTER PICNIC FOR ALL FAMILIES
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. invite families of all shapes and sizes to pack their picnic baskets full of goodies and celebrate 22 years of fundraising and social activism with a fun-filled afternoon in Dolores Park on Sunday, April 15th from 12 pm - 4 pm. Indulgence in the Park, a picnic for all kinds of families, is cosponsored by All Our Families Coalition, COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere), Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) San Francisco, Marriage Equality California, My Best Friend Pet Supply, Pulp and the Eureka Valley Teen Program.
Activities for kids will include an Easter egg hunt, a cupcake walk, and glamorous face-painting. The Sisters will host Easter costume contests for children of both the human and canine varieties, as well as the traditional Easter Bonnet and Hunky Jesus contests for adults later in the afternoon. Prizes will be awarded for the best costume in each category. The entertainment line-up includes the happy sounds of Djay Clay, the sultry music of Connie Champagne, poetry by Arias and Aragon, sketch comedy by Please Leave the Bronx, and Trauma Flintstone performing selections from ODC Theater's new production of Queer.
*WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO HELP RUN ACTIVITIES FOR THE KIDS!!!
If you would like to volunteer at this event contact COLAGE:
Tel. 415-861-KIDS or Email. jude@colage.org
For details about the event Contact:Sister Bea Attitude
Chairnun of the Board SPI, Inc.
Tel. 415-826-6003 or Email. sisterbea@gay.com
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4. Jewish Family and Children's Services of the East Bay is offering a new
Support Group for LGBTQQ Youth.
The group is open to high school age youth who are lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer and those questioning their sexual and/or gender identity. This seven-week group is offered at no cost and no parental consent is required. It is a SAFE and CONFIDENTIAL group that meets at our offices in Berkeley. It will meet Mondays at 4:00 pm beginning on Monday April 23rd.
For more information please call Kathy Langsam, MFT (510) 704-7475 x. 229
or Marc Wallis, LCSW (510) 704-7475 x. 232.
Marc Wallis, LCSW
Mental Health Consultant
UCSF AIDS Health Project
tel:502-7234/fax:476-3655
e-mail:mwallis@itsa.ucsf.edu
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5. Call for Support for Santa Clara High School
EVERYONE is showing support by sending, cards, letters, balloons, flowers, etc. ...the more the better.
The problem:The GSA display at the international week event was vandalized and the rainbow flag was stolen. Some students are harassing the GSA and the school newspaper is not sympathetic.
The solution (we hope) is to show that hundreds are watching in support.
Send to:
The GSA Club
Santa Clara High School
3000 Benton Street
Santa Clara, CA 95051
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6. Youth Speakers Bureau Training for LGBTQQ youth 4/21
CUAV & LYRIC are holding our annual YOUTH SPEAKERS BUREAU TRAINING for LGBTQQ youth 24yrs & under Saturday & Sunday April 21st & 22nd, @ LYRIC 123 Collingwood San Francisco (between 18th & 19th St. in the Castro) 10 AM-6 PM. This will be a fun, free training with Free Food! Please join us & let your voice be heard! Call Connie (415) 777-5500 ext. 303 to sign up today.
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7. Intergeneration upcoming meeting, performance series, exhibition, call to art, and cast call about Turning, a short play about ageism
NEXT INTERGENERATION MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
DATE: THURSDAY, April 12, 2001
TIME: 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Location:Eureka Valley Recreation Ctr., 100 Collingwood Street.,
2nd Floor (at 18th Street); Creative Encounter and activities
coordinated by Mitcho Thompson and the members of LYRIC's after school
program.
INTERGENERATION:Free Public Performance Series and Exhibition
INTERGENERATION PERFORMANCE SERIES I
June 3, 2001, 2:00 PM (Confirmed)
San Francisco Public Library
Lower Level, Latino Hispanic Community Room L58B
The Intergeneration project will be launched as a part of the National Queer Arts Festival 2001, with the presentation of the 1st Intergeneration Performance Series. This program will offer new works in poetry, performance, improvisation, psychodrama and short digital videos created by the artists of Intergeneration. The series will continue in September of 2001 and will be expanded to include an exhibition of photography, paintings, digital works and the launch of the Intergeneration Website. Intergeneration hopes to offer some solutions for helping deconstruct some of the negative impacts ageing has on the quality of Queer lives and in some small part help contribute to fostering a richer sense of community regardless, of what age we find ourselves. All programs are free to the public.
INTERGENERATION:THE EXHIBTION
September-October 2001, (TENTATIVE DATES AS OF 3/28/01)
James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center (TENTATIVE LOCATION AS OF
3/28/01)
San Francisco Public Library, 4th Floor And at another exhibtion
location TBD
INTERGENERATION PERFORMANCE SERIES II,
September 23, 2001, 2:00 PM (Tentative - will be confirmed shortly)
San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium, Lower Level
Intergeneration is an interdisciplinary arts project that is building community between Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender youth, seniors and queers of all ages through the creation of paintings, photography, video narratives, digital works, psychodrama, storytelling, short performances and poetry. Members of the Queer community have joined project founder, Frank Pietronigro, and other professional artists for ongoing Intergeneration Creative Workshops. During these meetings participants engage in dialogue about the issues of aging, generation stereotyping, building community and mentoring. The participants then use such themes to guide them in the creation of new works of art that will be presented free to the public through the Intergeneration Exhibition, Performance Series and Website.
INTERGENERATION FOUNDERS STATEMENT:
"By actualizing Intergeneration, I believe that greater community discussion will be generated on the phenomena of ageism within our community and the gaze of our attention can focused, in part, to something I experience as diminishing rather than fostering community. Such an exhibition and readings will give voice to a topic, which I believe, has significant negative impact on our community for both young and old alike. It seems to be a topic we avoid and relegate to our individual and community shadow, supported in part by personal fears of aging reinforced by the onslaught of ageism advertising. Our community is growing up yet we tend to avoid that which is inevitable for each of us and for our community as a whole.
Hopefully, Intergeneration will offer some solutions for helping deconstruct some of the negative impacts ageism has on the quality of our lives and in some small part help contribute to fostering a richer sense of community regardless at what age we find ourselves."
Frank Pietronigro, Interdisciplinary Artist
San Francisco, California, 2000
To receive information on Intergeneration or to become an Intergeneration Ambassador, please call 415-695-0933, email Frank@Pietronigro.com, or write to: Intergeneration, c/o Frank Pietronigro, P.O. Box 193163, San Francisco, CA 94119-3163.
Intergeneration is supported by a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission's Cultural Equity Grants Program and is funded in part by a Creating Queer Community Grant, a collaborative project of the Jon Sims Center for the Arts, the Harvey Milk Institute and the Queer Cultural Center funded by the Gateway Initiative of the San Francisco Foundation.
http://www.webcastro.com/Pietronigro
CALL TO ART
Queer visual artists, writers, performers, photographers and new media artists are encouraged to add their voice to the upcoming Intergeneration Performance Series, Intergeneration Exhibition (Planned for Fall 2001) and Intergeneration Website. Intergeneration is seeking creative works that build community across generations and respond to the theme of aging as experienced within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community. Intergeneration seeks works that are collaborations by queers of different age groups and/or works that are created by those artists who participate in the ongoing Intergeneration Creative Group Encounters held monthly.
Contact Frank@Pietronigro.com for an application
IMPORTANT DATES:
Exhibit Applications will be reviewed through August 1, 2001 but queer artists are encouraged to submit documentation ASAP.
April 27, 2001
Deadline to submit initial Performance Application for June 3rd
Performance Series 1 to be held as a part of the National Queer Arts
Festival in June 2001. Performance Applications will be reviewed
through August 1, 2001 but queer performers are encouraged to submit
Performance Applications ASAP.
GEORGE BIRIMISA CAST CALL FOR TURNING
April 5, 2001, San Francisco, CA - George Birimisa, founder of the Intergeneration Writing Workshop, is currently casting for Turning, a short play about Ageism in the queer community written by James McColley Eilers. Auditions will be held on Saturday, April 14, 2001 at 12Noon, at the Jon Sims Center For The Performing Arts, 1519 Mission Street, at 11th Street, in San Francisco.
Mr. Birimisa is seeking old, middle-aged and young members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Communities for Turning. The play's World Premiere will be presented on June 3, 2001, at 2:00 p.m., as a part of the National Queer Arts Festival 2001, during a free Intergeneration Performance Series. Held at the San Francisco Public Library in the Latino Hispanic Community Room, Turning and other Intergeneration works will be presented in cooperation with the James C. Hormel Lesbian and Gay Center. The Intergeneration Performance Series will offer new works in poetry, performance, improvisation, psychodrama and short digital videos created by the artists of Intergeneration. The series will continue in September of 2001 and will be expanded to include an exhibition of photography, paintings, digital works and the launch of the Intergeneration Website.
Intergeneration is a collaborative arts project that is building community between youth, seniors and queers of all ages through the creation of paintings, video narratives, photography, written works and poetry. Intergeneration hopes to offer some solutions for helping deconstruct some of the negative impacts aging has on the quality of Queer lives and in some small part help contribute to fostering a richer sense of community regardless, of what age we find ourselves.
Members of the queer community are invited to join us for our next Intergeneration Creative Group Encounter to be held on Thursday, April 12, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. hosted by one of LYRIC's after school programs at the Eureka Valley Recreation Center, 100 Collingwood Street, 2nd floor, at 18th Street, in San Francisco.
To participate, simply attend the next Intergeneration Creative Encounter on April 12th. To receive information on Turning, Intergeneration or to become an Intergeneration Ambassador please call 415-695-0933, email signifun@earthlink.net or write to:Intergeneration, P. O. Box 193163, San Francisco, CA 94119-3163.
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San Francisco, CA 94103
ph:415.552.4229
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