Queericulum

QUEERICULUM: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION! Comfort & Joy is proud to announce we are teaming up with GenderBlender and Beaverton to produce the 5th rendition of QUEERiCULUM! on Sunday May 6 at the Center SF, 548 Fillmore, San Francisco. What is QUEERiCULUM? An all-day, queer-centered educational, artistic, and social urban retreat. Queer-focused play-shops in the daytime: think cerebral, social, historic, community building, sexual, physical, artistic, and more. With options to chill, create, and play all day ending with a delicious community dinner theatre. How can you get involved? This educational celebration is a community-built event, from the work of people just like you. This is an opportunity to give back to your community either by sharing your wisdom or supporting this event with hands on help. Many of our playshop hosts are NOT “certified experts” but they have enough knowledge to share with the rest of us. So can you. This is a great channel for you to shine, to cut some teeth in leading a playshop, or for you to promote yourself and even your professional services to your community. Here’s some ideas: * Know massage? Promote your services by teaching others! * Want to feature your jewellery for sale? Host a simple earring making craft table and then direct your students to your Etsy store! * Want to learn more about S&M? Suggest a lead we can invite to host a discussion! * Wish there was more conversation about diversity? Lead a discussion or connect us with a good leader for this discussion! * Would you like your community to better understand a certain issue? Lead a discussion or playshop! There are many ways to plug in, such as: - Host a Playshop: edgy, queer, academic, physical, historical, emotional, sensual, sexual, artistic.... Remember, you can take this opportunity to market those skills, promote yourself honey! - Share Your Craft Skills at the super-popular, all afternoon Crafty Arty Party - Volunteer to help with logistics before and day-of. - LEAD! (we LOVE to mentor new leaders, and this community needs more leaders so step right up) In promotions, PR, website updates, web & paper program creation, door, dinner theatre lead, stagehand, Art Party Lead - Cook and Serve Dinner for our communal dinner. - Flaunt your TALENT - in the dinner theatre (seeking a widely diverse cabaret think: story telling, spoken word, small acts, play the fiddle, dance a jig, etc, etc) - Cross Pollinate - CONNECT US to organizations we should invite to participate - Contribute your vision - new ideas welcome :-) - Invite people and help publicize this event To get inspiration and a better idea of the types of activities in store, see previous years’ programs. (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vX7HkDY8lfdKU1Jz3LgGks78VVrDeSv8 ) Contact Digger by email/FB msg to get involved - you can email him at digger@playajoy.org and let him know what interests you. What are your ideas? Who should we call upon for what and why? ***Deadline for playshop submissions to be considered is March 20, 2018. Sorry, the schedule is limited and not all ideas can necessarily be accepted.*** Thanks! Can't wait to hear from you!