Back to Our Roots: Breaking New Ground
The 519 Church Street Community Centre & Park
FREE
ASL Interpretation provided
Presented (collaboratively) by Blackness Yes!, Ontario Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf, Ill Nana, Colour Me Dragg, Fruitloopz, Asian Arts Freedom School, Mata Danze, ASAAP, BlackCAP, Pride Coalition for Free Speech, Proud pg Toronto and other local community groups,...
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Back to Our Roots: Breaking New Ground
The 519 Church Street Community Centre & Park
FREE
ASL Interpretation provided
Presented (collaboratively) by Blackness Yes!, Ontario Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf, Ill Nana, Colour Me Dragg, Fruitloopz, Asian Arts Freedom School, Mata Danze, ASAAP, BlackCAP, Pride Coalition for Free Speech, Proud pg Toronto and other local community groups, activists and rabble rousers!
Taking inspiration from the Stonewall riots and other LGBTTI2QQ activism, we have created a day-long celebration of resistance and activism through creativity in Toronto’s LGBTTI2QQ communities.
Join us for a day of art-making, workshops, activism, performance, dance and community mobilizing!
++ Community Acupuncture by Six Degrees!
12-3pm
workshops:
How TO DJ,
ASL storytelling, Right to Dance, Ballroom 1o1
Picnic in Cawthra Park
Community Acupuncture
film screenings
3-10pm
Dragging ASL to PRIDE
+ performances by ill nana,
colour me dragg, mata danze
asian arts freedom school,
KIKI Ball by House of Monroe & Pink Lady
djs Nik Red, Craig Dominic,and more!
++ film screenings & a sneak peak at some of the archival materials being mounted in the upcoming Blockorama Retrospective (slated for late summer, 2011).
FOR FULL SCHEDULE VISIT:
http://www.wix.com/backtoourroots/back-to-our-roots
Stonewall TO (
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133919933352469 ) will be marching directly to us and will meet us in the park at 2/2:30!!
This creative political event led by our many voices, will celebrate our differences and grow the beautiful spirit of resistance and love that brings us all together.
Please join us!
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About Blackness Yes!
Blackness Yes! is a community-based committee that works year-round to celebrate Black queer and Trans history, creativity and resistance. Our mandate is to create a space for LGBTIQQ folks of African decent and their friends, loved ones and supporters. We work to affirm, celebrate and ensure visible Black LGBTTIQQ communities within Pride; to create a Black cultural space within Pride that any Black or Black affirming person can be a part of; and to create a vehicle for HIV/AIDS information dissemination. We create spaces of resistance and celebration at Toronto’s Pride festival and at other community-based events year-round in Toronto.
We are committed to anti-oppression, (self) love freedom and justice. We are a space of resistance and actively fight systemic racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, classism and colonialism. We are anti- imperialism and are against the occupation of Palestine and Turtle Island.
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Get back to U - Six Degrees Community Acupuncture
All living things generate magnetic and electrical energy. Acupuncture increases the flow of these energies, which aid in healing. By receiving acupuncture in a group you share a grounding experience together. A group experience of nourishment and revitalization of mind, body, and spirit.
We invite you to experience acupuncture in a safe environment. This treatment helps to de-stress and relax you. There will be an introduction to acupuncture and then a 1 hour acupuncture session to follow.
For the last 15 years, Susanda Yee has helped individuals with a range of heath concerns as and Acupuncturist and bodyworker. In addition to working with individuals, she has worked as a community health researcher to increase awareness and change in social health issues in Canada.
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Thank you to BlackCAP and Rainbow Health Ontario for their support.
Rainbow Health Ontario is a province-wide program that works to improve the health and well-being of LGBT people through education, research, outreach and public policy advocacy. For more information visit,
www.rainbowhealthontario.ca
