Toronto - HOUSE CALL - Sparking the movement for an LGBT2Q Youth Shelter
Date: December 9
Time: 7-9pm EST
Location: Harbord Collegiate Institute (286 Harbord St., Toronto ON)
HOUSE CALL is a series of community conversations that will travel to different parts of Toronto in an effort to build a diverse movement to create a shelter for homeless LGBT youth in Toronto. Some of these conversation will be hard. Some of these conversations will be full of joy, full of pain, full of memory and full of hope. Some of these conversations will be historic.
All of these conversations are conversations we need to have.
The HOUSE CALL conversations have three purposes: Record, Relate & Renovate.
Record
We come together to build a record of our histories & hopes.
Relate
We come together to build a movement and make new friends and allies. We respect and listen to each other, even if it’s uncomfortable or scary.
Renovate
We come together to build a new shelter that reflects the needs and dreams of lesbian, gay, bi, trans, transsexual, transgender, two-spirit and queer youth.
This event will be the first in a series of conversations that we will have in different parts of Toronto in the coming months.
This HOUSE CALL looks like this:
7:00 Welcome
7:05 Short film & presentation on why we need an LGBT shelter in Toronto by Alex Abramovich, with some brief examples of some American shelter examples
7:25 Record & Relate Round 1 (see details below)
7:55 Record & Relate Round 2 (see details below)
8:20 Whole Group Open Mic
8:40 Wrap-up & What You Can Do To Stay Involved
9:00 End
Record & Relate Options
We really want to give people different ways to Record & Relate their experiences, their passion, their fears and their hopes. You can choose to do any of the below options:
Art & Craft Area (hosted by The People Project)
Video Booth (hosted by Deviant Productions: Lali Mohammed & Vivek Menon with Leo Zuniga)
Audio & Podcasting Corner
Blogging, Endorsing, Writing and/or Online Surveys
Focus Group Discussion: Why we need an LGBT youth shelter (facilitated by Aniska Ali)
Focus Group Discussion: Dreaming & Prioritizing Possibilities (facilitated by CC Sapp)
Focus Group Discussion: Logistics like Location, Size, Partnerships and More (facilitated by Curtis Norman)
For more information: SYNCtoronto@gmail.com
FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159749064066355
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The G8/G20 meetings took place in Ontario from June 25-27, 2010. Toronto-based organizations of women, people of colour, indigenous peoples, the poor, the working class, queer and trans people and disabled people organized a peoples convergence with 40,000 people taking to the streets, standing up for justice in collaboration and solidarity!
Activists, community members, inspired and outraged individuals came together as a movement to demand justice for people and the planet. Over a week of mobilizations, events, workshops and direct actions took place in the face of state and police repression, violence and infringements on rights and freedoms.
We must continue to mobilize and build greater solidarity among our communities- an important part of this is supporting all those arrested during the G20 summit, including our allies still in detention, and those released on bail.