Empower: Youth, Arts, and HIV/AIDS Activism Launch Party!

Check out Drag Performances, Interactive Panel Discussions, Fashion,
Visual Art Exhibitions, Discussion Panels, and Sexy Safer Sex Information! Come out to
an interactive, action-packed World AIDS Day event with performances,
exhibitions and discussions by local youth activists and educators,
service providers and community organizers. This is a Queer Positive
space.

This FREE interactive symposium will launch “Empower: Youth, Arts and
Activism: An HIV/AIDS Activism Manual for Youth by Youth.” For more
information on the manual, see below.

Everyone is welcome. Snacks & Refreshments Provided. Guests will
receive a free copy of the manual upon arrival.

For questions or more information, please contact cuhi.admin@utoronto.ca

EVENT DETAILS:

Date: November, 26, 2009
Time: 6:00 - 9:00pm
Place: William Doo Auditorium*,
New College, University of Toronto.
45 Willcocks
(SW Corner of Willcocks and Spadina. Closest Subway Station: Spadina)

* Wheelchair accessible.

*** The launch will be preceded by a talk by Dr. Jessica Fields
(Sociology, City University of New York), “Under Lock and Key: Sex
Education and the Effort to Prevent and Protect”, as well as a
networking reception. These events are organized as part of the Youth
Sexual Health RIG.

Event date/time: November 26, 2009
4:00 - 5:30: Dr. Jessica Fields talk - Women and Gender Studies
Lounge, 2nd Floor Wilson Hall Residence (20 Willcocks)
5:30 - 6:00: Networking Reception
6:00-9:00: Manual Launch & Symposium - William Doo Auditorium (45 Willcocks)

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Empower: Youth, Arts, and Activism

The manual, Empower: Youth, Arts, and Activism, is designed for youth
by youth, and features a diverse range of projects put forward by
passionate, inspiring and fired-up individuals committed to social
change. Each individual, group and project is committed to challenging
social and structural issues around HIV and AIDS. From HIV positive
youth fighting stigma to peer education projects and safer sex
parties, this manual honours the work of communities creating spaces
to talk about the issues that matter most.  And? each project is
accomplished with the use of art!

Partners of Empower: Youth, Arts, and Activism:

Youth Action Network
www.youthactionnetwork.org/

Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention (GAAP)
www.utgaap.com

Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI)
www.cuhi.utoronto.ca

Printing of the manual has been generously supported by CATIE.

To order a FREE copy of the manual after the launch, please visit the
CATIE Ordering Centre at www.catie.com after the launch. CATIE Centre
Catalogue Number ATI-26158.

More details about online availability of the manual will be available
after the launch.

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                                               Hello Everyone!

My name is Sandra Vides Martinez and I am the new RUCKUS conference coordinator.

Preparation for RUCKUS! has started! Young activists, community leaders, students, youth groups and youth-led initiatives are invited to submit proposals for engaging, interactive and critical workshops.

This year we hope to show youth that there are a number of ways that they can be activists by using their talents, gifts and passions to fight social injustice. We encourage workshop proposals from young people and groups who can demonstrate that they have been able to affect change in very unconventional but effective ways. Workshops should challenge youth to be attentive to issues that are important to them and then creative about the ways they can mobilize around those issues. This years theme is “ Act it Out, Sing it Out, Dance it Out, Just GET OUT!”, and it focuses on youth activism through the arts.

To submit workshop proposals please email Sandra Vides Martinez at

Sandra@youthactionnetwork.org

I hope to hear from your group/organization soon !

Best regards,

Sandra Vides Martinez

Ruckus Conference Coordinator.