Welcome
to the Saint Paul/Minneapolis Chapter of
Parents, Families, Friends of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered
persons (PFLAG).
Check out the PFLAG-TC'S
current April 2008 Newsletter.
The March 2008 Newsletter is also available on-line. (See our Newsletter Archives for earlier issues.)
Also, be sure to check out PFLAG-TC's Calendar of Events
to see what is happening this month.
www.rareproductionsmpls.com
calling DJ's, Visual, Literary, and Performance Artists
RARE Productions to produce POWER to the PEOPLE 2008
At the 36th Annual Twin Cities Pride Festival, Loring Park, June 28th & 29th, 2008
Power to the People 2008 produced by RARE Productions
In collaboration with Twin Cities Pride, PFund, and Color CoordiNATION. Twin Cities Pride, the organizer of the 36th Annual Twin Cities Pride Festival, Free Your Mind, accepted a proposal from RARE Productions, a newly forming arts agency serving emerging LGBT artists of color. RARE Productions is happy to announce its acceptance for fiscal sponsorship by Springboard for the Arts.
No newcomers to community organizing and event production, the co-directors of RARE Productions have many years of leadership in LGBT and the HIV prevention communities. They have played vital roles in agencies like Parents Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), District 202, African American AIDS Task Force (AAATF), Minnesota Men of Color (MMOC), Womyn of Color Building Project (WOCBP), Black Pride, Commissioner’s Task Force on HIV/AIDS, and Community Solutions Fund (now Community Shares). They have also helped produced events such as LOGO’s booth at T.C. Pride 2007, Black Pride 1999-2004, Power to the People I-III, Sugar, Foreplay, Afterglow, Women’s 4th of July BBQ I-IV, Celebrating our Communities, and the Lesbian Health Fair.
RARE Productions works to provide a platform for greater visibility to LGBT artist of color through the promotion and production of artistic opportunities and events. Rochelle James and Roxanne Anderson have been building RARE Productions for a little over a year. During that time they have accomplished internal structuring and assisted with the creation of events, including both Latina and Soul nights at Pi, being the Minneapolis Field Representative for LOGO 2007 and developing a program for PFLAG to connect with communities of color. Most recently, they booked the entertainment for the Heroes Conference in St. Paul.
RARE Productions will be acting on their commitment to sustainability of the earth by raising awareness and ensuring on-site recycling in the Power to the People area. In addition, the Executive Director of Twin Cities Pride, Dr. Cheryl A. Maloney will also be promoting this combined recycling effort in all her presentations in the community. Twin Cities Pride staff will also encourage vendors, sponsors and participants to help promote recycling. Finally, there will also be announcements from the stages in key areas to encourage people to recycle.
En Vogue headlines the Twin Cities Pride Show on the evening of Saturday, June 28 in Loring Park. "Free your Mind" from the FUNKY DIVAS album gives name to this year's pride celebration:
"Why oh why must it be this way? Before you can read me you gotta learn how to see me, I said…Free your mind and the rest will follow…
Be color blind, don't be so shallow! FREE YOUR MIND!"
RARE Productions is excited to be producing Power to the People, a community building event BY and FOR people of color at pride this year!
Contact: RARE Productions ~ info@rareproductionmpls.com ~ www.rareproductionsmpls.com Mailing Address: 2751 Hennepin Ave. South Suite 237 Minneapolis, MN 55408
Great News!
PFLAG has come to St. Paul!
A new off site PFLAG support group has started meeting in St. Paul on the first Monday of each month. The group is sponsored by the St. Paul Jewish Community Center (JCC) and Jewish Family Service of St. Paul (JFS). PFLAG literature and information about educational programs at the Minneapolis PFLAG meetings will be available at all meetings at the JCC.
Please note that PFLAG has no religious affilliation.
Date: 3rd Monday of Each Month (Started Sept. 17, 2007)
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30PM
Location: St. Paul Jewish Community Center
1375 St. Paul Avenue
St. Paul, MN (see map for directions)
651-698-0751
Facilitator: Marjorie Sigel, parent, PFLAG board member and counseling staff member at Jewish Family Service of
St. Paul.
For information: Call Marjorie at JFS,651-698-0767.
Download 8.5x11 Poster (.pdf) to advertise this group.
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PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgendered persons, their families and friends through:
- Support to cope
with an adverse society
- Education to enlighten an ill-informed public
- Advocacy to
end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights
PFLAG also provides opportunity
for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and
acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human
diversity.
We
are a volunteer organization with over 80,000 members and supporters.
With local affiliates in more than 460 communities across the
United States and abroad, PFLAG is the largest grassroots-based
family organization of its kind. PFLAG is a nonprofit organization
and is not affiliated with any religious or political institutions.
Visit PFLAG
National, our Washington, DC based parent organization for
further information about PFLAG.
PFLAG is funded entirely by members'
dues and donations from concerned individuals, corporations,
and foundations. Contributions are tax deductible and should be
sent to:
PFLAG St.Paul/Minneapolis;
PO Box 19290;
Minneapolis, MN 55419
support@pflagtc.org
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