We connect young people with the speakers, films, and resources they need to set up engaging panels, film screenings, spoken word performances, rallies, and more.
Our events stimulate discussion about current issues and generate publicity and interest in the work of young progressive groups and publications.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Student Union, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd
Orlando, FL, 32817
Campus Progress and Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority are screening “The Black List Volume 1,” a film presenting dramatic portraits of some of today’s most fascinating and influential African-Americans who share their stories and insights into the struggles, triumphs and joys of black life in the United States.
Sponsored by Campus Progress and Sigma Lambda Gamma.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please email speakers@campusprogress.org
Saturday, February 20, 2010, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Ballroom B, 1 John Nolen Drive, Madison, WI 53703
This training lays out strategies for finding volunteers, growing the membership of your group, and ensuring that these volunteers and members stick around for the long haul. Topics include volunteer motivation, recruitment tactics, and practices like creating leader ladders and scheduling one-on-ones, that help to make sure that new members stick around and become more involved. Participants also get to take a quiz to measure their level of burnout, and discuss how to prevent it.
You must register for the conference to attend.
Sponsored by Campus Progress.
For more information, please email speakers@campusprogress.org.
Saturday, February 20, 2010, 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, 1 John Nolen Drive, Madison, WI 53703 (Room TBA)
Few people have thought about the ongoing challenges LGBT students face in securing access to higher education. Financial aid, and college admissions forms have failed to keep up with America’s changing demographics, particularly affecting transgender students, and queer students of color. Students who choose to finance their college education through the Reserve Office Training Corp (ROTC) must either serve in the closet, or face the potential cost of repaying their scholarship award. This panel explores the ways in which LGBT students are impacted by the college admissions and financial aid process, and offer direction to students on how to organize for inclusion. The panel will also discuss issues on the horizon for higher education inclusion, recruitment, and retention of LGBT students.
You must register for the conference to attend.
Sponsored by Campus Progress.
For more information, please email speakers@campusprogress.org.
Saturday, February 6, 2010, 8:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.
Sheraton Dallas Ball Room, 400 North Olive Street, Dallas, TX 75201
The 2010 Creating Change Youth Hospitality Subcommittee Presents Mas-Queer-Ade Ball headlining Vidur Kapur and Kit Yan. OUTmedia honors your activism and brings you: international comedy sensation, Vidur Kapur and internationally renowned trans slam poet Kit Yan. The event will also feature local queer youth artists, singers, and dancers. This is an alcohol and drug free event for all ages. A dance party for guests under age 24 will follow the performance.
This event is free and open to the public. RSVPherefor the event.
Sponsored by Campus Progress, Youth First Texas, OUTmedia, Campus Pride, the National Youth Advocacy Coalition, and the National LGBT Tobacco Control Network.
For more information, please email speakers@campusprogress.org.
Saturday, February 6, 2010, 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m., Sheraton Dallas, 400 North Olive Street, Dallas, TX 75201 (Room TBA)
Young people often feel left outside of the mainstream lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) movement, while seasoned activists experience their own set of challenges aging in a youth-centric LGBTQI community. This session aims to bridge that generation gap through personal storytelling. Participants will improve their abilities to build effective coalitions and communities by cultivating meaningful relationships across generations – relationship that hinge not on ageist assumptions, but rather on common ground as explored through dialogue.
You must register for the conference to attend.
Sponsored by Campus Progress, the National Youth Advocacy Coalition, Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, and the Mentor Group.
For more information, please email speakers@campusprogress.org.
Saturday, February 6, 2010, 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., Sheraton Dallas Ballroom A3, 400 North Olive Street, Dallas, TX 75201
This discussion-based workshop will address the conflicts and barriers created by the “downer-than-thou” mentality that often leads to feelings of exclusion and grudges in social justice organizing. Speaking specifically to youth and student organizers, this session will discuss and then outline strategies to build communities of strong organizers, instead of alienating one another with destructive judgments. In an effort to create sustainable activism, we will develop real methods for confronting the effects of judgmental conflict.
You must register for the conference to attend.
Sponsored by Campus Progress, and the National Youth Advocacy Coalition.
For more information, please email speakers@campusprogress.org.
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