If you write, paint, make films, take photos, spit poetry, teach, or want to just try—API Equality is seeking participants for a new arts leadership and advocacy program.Do you identify as QUEER & ASIAN/ PACIFIC ISLANDER?
Are you an artist? Activist? Artivist? Would you like to be? If you write, paint, make films, take photos, spit poetry, teach, or want to just try—API Equality is seeking participants for a new arts leadership and advocacy program.
Project Q is a new and developing community arts project that seeks to foster the creative and political development of Asian Pacific Islander Queer community members and to share the queer API experience through creative story-telling, visual art, dancing, theater performance, and more.
Over the course of 10 weeks, participants will:
- participate in a series of creative and political education workshops
- develop and participate in a multimedia showcase of visual, literary, and performance art
- help plan to extend the project to take to schools, community organizations, events, etc.
*REQUIREMENTS*
Participants must be able to attend the weekly workshops on Sunday afternoons from July 11 - Sept 12, with a showcase concluding the program on September 18.
Participants must self-identify as Asian-Pacific Islander and LGBTQ—lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer .
*APPLICATION* Please email apiequality@caasf.org with the answers to the following questions:
Name, first, last:
Email:
Phone:
Age:
Ethnicity:
Sexual Identity:
Please answer these questions in 200 words each or less:
1. Why do you want to be a part of Project Q?
2. What background or experiences can you bring to this project?
3. What do you hope to gain from participating in Project Q?
*ABOUT APIEQUALITY*
API Equality is committed to working in the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community in California and nationally for equal marriage rights, fair treatment, and overall acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Working in collaboration with our local partners, API Equality-LA and API Equality-SF, we engage in public education, community organizing, and legal and legislative advocacy to achieve our goals.
For more information on API Equality, please visit http://apiequality.org/
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