Episode 13 - The Weekly Pride Cast with Kaos

Intro [Music] [Music] in the spirit of respect reciprocity and truth we at calgary pride wish to honor and acknowledge mokinsis and the traditional treaty seven territory and oral practices of the blackfoot confederacy kainai bikani and yarhae nakota and sutina first nations we acknowledge that the territory we inhabit is home to the metis nation of alberta region 3 within the historical northwest metis homeland [Music] Welcome good morning afternoon and evening calgary welcome back to pridecast i'm your host chaos and i use they and them pronouns i'm here to give you a quick recap of our community's hottest upcoming events plus is a good thing it means more it means limitless it means we're connecting and moving forward together beau valley college is committed to providing a safe space where lgbtq2s plus staff and students can learn work and socialize with dignity and pride and we are committed to doing more to continue the conversation about inclusiveness allyship and compassion we're adding we're growing and we're proud to support calgary pride and our lgbtq 2s community if you haven't already Calgary Pride Learning Series heard of calorie pride learning series you are about to calgary pride as well as many other fabulous organizations across the community have been hosting a ton of workshops webinars and sessions to help us broaden our understanding of the lgbtq2s plus community and beyond for the next several weeks there will be an abundance of learning series sessions available to all who wish to attend some sessions that are coming up include gross indecency the everett clipper story on august 15th at 7 p.m join director laura o'grady kevin allen and laura brian crane to discuss everett clipper the last canadian to be jailed on homosexuality with an update on the case to expunge his record another session coming up is fem invisibility on august 17th at noon join ruby slicker in exploring the power and struggles of the identity as well as better understanding the similarities and differences in femme lived experience Upcoming Learning Series there are so many other workshops coming your way soon including ones on financial literacy and resume building as well as more from the calgary gay history project you really need to check out this list there are so many you can find all the upcoming learning series events on calorie pride's show pass page Showpass and speaking of show pass show pass is the official ticketing partner for calgary pride established in calgary in 2014 show pass has become one of the largest ticketing and event managing companies in north america check out all their YYC Pop events listing at chillpass.com former calgary poet laureate sherry d wilson is excited to announce the expansion of her legacy project yyc pop portraits of people ywc pop is a multi-aspect project a published book online exhibit and poetry in transit carrie d wilson is excited at this time to announce a new aspect of this project poetry by the students of calgary they are inviting the students of calgary to submit poems of a portrait of someone they know students of all ages are welcome to write a portrait in a form of a poem prose poem or snapshot about a calgarian cash prizes will be awarded to the top three poems first place a hundred dollars second place fifty dollars and third place twenty five dollars a panel of illustrious judges will be announced to decide the winners this is a wonderful opportunity for students to showcase their talents with an added potential to have their writing published alongside professional writers the deadline for submissions is august 16 2020 that's this sunday submissions can be made through www.sherrydwilson.com Coming Out Monologues if you've got a story we've got a stage calgary queer art society is hosting the coming l monologues from august 20th to august 22nd and you can tune in from the comfort of your own home the coming out monologues yyc are a celebration of community that bring the diverse selection of spoken word movement and musical pieces to the stage every season beginning in 2011 the coming out monologues yyc provides a stage for queer and ally stories to be shared whether attending as an audience member or as a storyteller from a stage they're coming on monologues provide the entire community an opportunity to celebrate diversity in our city the power around lgbtq2s plus people telling their stories in person creates a special bond between storyteller and the audience that we want to preserve each evening's performances will be available for one week after the initial performance date and time for all event details for the coming out monologues be sure to check out calorie queerartsociety.com all right Outro i'm chaos thanks everyone for tuning in to this week's pridecast there will be no new pridecast next week the team of calgary pride is working hard to finish the final touches on executing this year's pride festival celebrating 30 years of calgary pride because we all know pride cannot be cancelled tune in to our next broadcast which will be kicking off pride week on friday august 28th at 4 pm mdt hosted by the amazing felicia bonnet and no baloney you can catch the stream on facebook youtube twitter and twitch be sure to follow calgary pride on social media to keep up with all the amazing events coming your way for calgary pride's 30th anniversary all right are you all excited for pride weekend cause i am can i get a ho yeah have a wonderful week in calgary and take care and stay safe [Music] you