Homospun Collective Events is currently on a bit of a hiatus, while we get our act together for another season of queer parties.
Are you interested in helping to make these events happen? Then please consider getting involved in the organizing collective! Email homospun@gmail.com with your contact info, and we’ll get in touch regarding upcoming meetings.
Stay tuned to this space for updates!
We, the members of the Homospun organizing collective, thought we were taking on too much: How could we organize not one but TWO parties during this year’s Pride week, as well as tabling at the Pride festival for the first time…?!!
And maybe it was too much… But we did it anyway, and it was fabulous!
More importantly, YOU are fabulous!
We want to take this opportunity to thank all of you who attended our dance parties, all of you who joined us for button-making at Pride, and especially our beloved volunteers: You went above and beyond to ensure the success of both Stonewall Was A RIOT TOO and the Queer Youth Pride Dance Party. We could not have done it with you: THANK YOU!
Stay tuned for future community collaborations, coming up this autumn…
With love and gratitude,
The Homospun Organizing Collective
Calling all GLBT2SQQQ teens and their friends… Here’s a Pride Week event just for you! Join us in celebrating our queer community with a DJ dance party, button-making, snacks, drinks, and complimentary bus tickets.
Friday, July 8th, 2011
7 pm to 12 midnight
Norway House
1110 Hillside Avenue
Coast Salish Territory
Venue is all one level (including large single-use washroom with handrails), accessed from compacted-gravel parking lot via long wooden ramp.
Youth Age 18 and Under Only, Please!
FREE
Click here to see the event page on Facebook
Please, no drugs or alcohol. Intoxicated people will be asked to leave.
See you there!
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Please note that this is a public event and while Homospun has done its best to check out volunteers, provide security, and prevent people with drugs/alcohol from entering, we ask that you exercise the same caution regarding your personal safety that you would use at any similar public event. Also, please see our Safer Spaces Guidelines regarding community expectations: http://homospun.wordpress.com/about/safer-spaces-guidelines/
If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at homospun@gmail.com or call 250-661-6818.
Homospun Collective Events presents our second annual dance party to celebrate queer resistance: Stonewall was a RIOT TOO!
Friday, July 1st, 2011
8 pm to 12 midnight
Norway House
1110 Hillside Avenue
Coast Salish Territory
Venue is all one level (including large single-use washroom with handrails), accessed from compacted-gravel parking lot via long wooden ramp.
This event is 19+: Please bring ID.
$5-10 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Click here to see then event page on Facebook
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Pride is about more than just a party.
Pride is about more than just the right to marry and adopt and blend into the mainstream.
Pride is about more than just laws protecting queers from discrimination.
Pride is about having the courage, strength, and awareness to challenge all forms of oppression in our daily lives, and to stand in solidarity with the diverse individuals that make up the “queer community.”
Pride means challenging each other and others to “riot” in all sorts of ways: When we come together against the transphobia that pervades many GLBT spaces. When we acknowledge the fatphobia, the fear of people with disabilities, and the silence around mental health issues that destroys our ability to connect with one another. When we truly question what it means to live our lives on this colonized land.
Stonewall was a riot that changed history in North America, leading to many of the laws aimed to protect our “rights” and a change in the general public’s “acceptance” and support of queers. What are we doing to change history now?
We dance to remember those that came before us, those that stand beside us and the future generations to come!
Please join us in honouring our continued struggle.
SEE YOU THERE!!!
The organizing collective of Homospun will now be meeting every second WEDNESDAY @ 7 PM, at the Fernwood Community Centre (1240 Gladstone Avenue, 250.381.1552 – Click here for map). Please join us! We’d love to hear your ideas and have your help in making our events successful and fun.
The meeting space is level with the street, no stairs, and includes an accessible washroom. For exact dates of upcoming meetings, please see list on right sidebar of this page.
A Fundraiser for Out of the Closet Renew Boutique
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Clothing Swap – 7 pm to 9 pm
Dance Party – 9 pm to 12 midnight
Norway House
1110 Hillside Avenue
Coast Salish Territory
Venue is all one level (including large single-use washroom with handrails), accessed from compacted-gravel parking lot via long wooden ramp.
This event is 19+: Please bring ID.
$5-10 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Click here to RSVP on Facebook
If you’ve got any spare clothing in respectful reuse condition, please bring it to share during the Clothing Swap, from 7-9 pm… And if you’d simply like to grab some free clothes, that’s great too! All leftover articles will be donated to Out of the Closet.
SEE YOU THERE!!!
For more information about Out of the Closet Renew Boutique, please check out their Facebook group or simply drop by the store, at 1736 Douglas Street, in downtown Victoria!
Friday, March 11th, 2011
7 pm – 10 pm
Solstice Cafe
529 Pandora Avenue
Coast Salish Territory
Youth Age 18 and Under Only, Please!
FREE
Venue is all one level, no stairs, and includes an accessible washroom
Calling all GLBT2SQQQ teens and their teen allies… Here’s an event just for you! Board games, rad crafts, open mic… Bring your instruments! We’ll provide everything else, including snacks, drinks, and bus tickets!
Click here to go to the Facebook page for this event
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We strive to create space that is safer for folks. We do recognize that it is impossible to create a completely safe space. We envision events that are pro-queer, pro-trans, pro-gender-queer, pro-ethnic, cultural, and racial diversity, spaces that are welcoming and friendly for folks with different body types, ways of presenting, different abilities/different ways of moving, folks who are poor and low-income, and different belief systems. We oppose all forms of oppression, and work towards being as accessible and inclusive as we are able. We hope to be constantly challenged to continue learning and developing our anti-oppressive policies and practices and encourage those in our communities to do the same. We aim to deal with any concerns raised in a productive and respectful manner.
