Queerposium is in need of a few croquet sets for the game of queer croquet at the Inner Harbour on Saturday. Can anyone lend us a set or two?
please email: hello@queerposium.org Big Appreciation
Queerposium is in need of a few croquet sets for the game of queer croquet at the Inner Harbour on Saturday. Can anyone lend us a set or two?
please email: hello@queerposium.org Big Appreciation
We are happy to announce that the following businesses are offering deals on bike rentals for Queerposium:
Recylistas one of our proud sponsors, will turn your one day rental into a long weekend rental if you mention Queerposium. Rent it on Saturday and don’t bring it back till Tuesday!! They are at 25 Crease Ave, off Harriet near the Trans Canada, close to the Galloping Goose Trail.
And
Cycle BC Rentals and Tours is offering a 10% discount on bike rentals that day if you mention Queerposium. Cycle BC is the closest location to the heart of our event at Douglas and Humboldt. They are expecting a sell out day so if you want to rent a bike from here, call ahead and reserve one.
An inclusive event for all LGBTTIQQ2SAP folk and the people that love us.
Tickets are available online and in person (cash only). See our Ticket Page for locations.
Check out The Schedule for a full description of the day and The Map for a glimpse at the Bike Route. We’re starting the workshops at 10am at the New Horizons Centre 234 Menzies St.(Victoria, BC) Coast Salish Territories, Lekwungen and Songhees Homelands. Lunch is included and The Queering The Streets Bike Ride and a game of Queer Croquet at the Inner Harbour starts at 1:30pm!! Please join us! Come for the whole day or just for the Bike Ride.
Please wear a helmet!! We don’t want anyone getting a ticket!
(Don’t give them a reason)
• Tix are $15 sliding scale, no one turned away.
• Prizes for the best dressed bike!!!
• The workshop space is wheelchair accessible and will have gender neutral washrooms.
• Contact: hello@queerposium.org for accessibility and transportation alternatives.
PS: This is not the naked bike ride, please wear some clothes 🙂 thx.
After party at The Ledge from 5pm
Save the date, May 18 for an interactive, all day event for queer and trans* folk and the people who love us. xo
The Queerposium experience is underway. We’ve met a couple of times and know a bit more about what is going to happen on the day. But more importantly we’re engaged in the ongoing discussion about what we want to see happen, how we want to function as a group, and how we go about making sure that everyone feels recognized and welcome at our meetings and at our events. It’s a learning curve for all of us in our own different ways and I think we’re all up for it and happy for the experience to learn about each other and our collective needs/wants/goals/ways of working. There’s still room for your input. If you were hesitant before but still want to join us please do. We’re a pretty friendly group and we’re always open to new ideas. In fact, that’s what makes us tick. Our meeting times will be posted on the website, or you can email us for an update.
And we’ve just started our facebook group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/309908162470160/ for now it’s an open group.
So far we’ve decided to go on a big bike ride and don’t worry, we’re trying to come up with some fun alternatives for those of you who don’t ride bikes 🙂
There will be some discussions/offerings/workshop type events in the morning, the bike ride with a surprise destination/happening in the afternoon, and some kind of group acknowledgment, wrap up – likely a heart circle at the end of the day. There will be lots of opportunity to dress up and take our proud selves out in public on our bikes!!
And in the works is the possibility of an evening event on the Friday night prior (May 17th) in honour of International Day Against Homophobia. We have programmed our event for the day after (May 18) and see it as a celebratory day for us and our communities. We are working on gaining an official affiliation with the Day Against Homophobia organization.
• We acknowledge that we are on unceded Coast Salish Territories and we’re hoping to have one of our offerings at this Queerposium be about decolonization and what it means for all of us.
• As a group we encourage inclusive, cross-community engagement with a ‘play while learning’ attitude.
• We’ve committed to functioning under the safer spaces guidelines which can be found on our website: https://queerposium.org/home/safer-spaces-guidelines/ – The most important of which are;
-to assume positive intent,
-to be aware of and respect your own boundaries and those of others,
-to be gentle with your reminders and ‘corrections’ and
-to participate in creating and maintaining an open and engaging environment.
• We are pro-accessibility: The space for the morning events is wheelchair accessible and we have someone on our crew that will be acting as a mobility point person to assist people in arranging transportation alternatives before hand, and providing assistance for other mobility issues that may arise on the day.
• Our meetings are held in accessible spaces with gender-neutral single use washrooms.
If you’d like to help out, but can’t come to the meetings consider pitching in by;
-Forwarding our information and our poster when it’s ready to your contact circles.
-Maybe you’d like to volunteer on the day, selling tickets, being a ‘Vibe Watcher’, or doing any number of other tasks that will undoubtedly come up.
-If you have a great idea then email it to us at: hello@queerposium.org
-If you are part of an organization that you think our audience would benefit from consider bringing your information materials to the event for our info table.
-If you think up some other way that you’d like to participate then drop us an email and let us know.
And there’s always future events…..
Maybe we’ll see you/ hear from you soon,
Queerposium
Our next organizational meeting will be on March 14th at 7pm at AVI, 713 Johnson St. 3rd Floor.
Hope to see you there. Bring your brilliant ideas for Queerposium 2013.
This is your official invite to collaborate with us in creating the next Queerposium, set to take place in May of 2013. Please fill out the form (use Adobe Reader or Preview) save it and send it in to us at: hello@queerposium.org. We’d love to hear your great ideas at our next meeting. You can download the interactive form here: QP Invite
Note: After the invite opens in a new tab you have to download and open it in preview or Acrobat to fill it in; In Firefox there is a button on the top right to download the file, in Safari right click and open in Preview)
It looks like this:
Well, how do we follow an event like Bussed Out!?#% ? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. : )
First of all, I’ve archived all the Bussed Out stuff here just in case you loved the poster and hadn’t downloaded it yet!!
And here’s the big news…We’ve started to organize for the next Queerposium on May 4th 2013!!! Yay!!
So, if you have fabulous ideas about what you want to see happen, drop us a line and we’ll hook you up with all the info for our meetings.
email us at: hello@queerposium.org
We’re fielding ideas from everyone to start in on making the May 4th Queerposium so totally awesome!!!