Out Boulder  
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For the week of September 12, 2012
CALENDAR         OUT BOULDER PROGRAMS          RESOURCES          ABOUT
In this issue..
OUT and ABOUT in Boulder County
4 Days Til Pride!
Mile High Freedom Band
Women's Support Group
Auditions for 8 the Play
Boulder Trans SOFFA Group
CU Office of Victim Assistance
Dancin' Divas
Win Tickets to Bolder Life Film Festival
Community Calendar
Pride House Office Hours
Volunteer Opportunities

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Ongoing Events

 

Saturdays: Yoga  

 

Saturdays (bi-weekly) 6/30: Gay Men's Knitting  

 

Sundays: Frontrunners 

 

Sundays (bi-weekly) 6/24: Queer Meditation Group 

 

Mondays: Yoga 

 

Tuesdays: Youth Creative Writing Group  

 

Wednesdays: Boulder Trans & Genderqueer Support Group 

     

Thursdays: 

18-25 LGBTQ Group, Extra BOLD! 

  

Thank you to our Pridefest Supporters! 

Sponsors:

ADL

AM 760 

Amgen

BAD

Barefoot

Boulder Beer

City of Boulder HRC

CU GLBTQ Resource Center

Curve

First United Methodist Church (FUMC)

Google

Green Streets

Hapa Sushi

IsupportU

KGNU

Liquor Mart

Mark H. Carson and Associates

Mountain Sun

Naropa University

Out Front
Prop Gay 

Proto Pizza

PULSE 

Rappleye
Topo Ranch 

Twisted Pine

Yellow Scene

 

Vendors:

ATL Foundation

BolderLife Festival

Boulder ADAPT

Boulder Center for Conscious Community

Boulder County Area

Boulder Trans & Genderqueer Support
Agency on Aging

Boulder County AIDS Project (BCAP)
Boulder County Democratic Party

Boulder County HHS - Foster Care

Boulder County Independent Business Alliance (BIBA) 

Boulder Trans and Genderqueer Support

Boulder Valley Women's Health

Bread and Roses Workers' Cultural Center

Center for Sex-Positive Culture - Colorado

Colorado Frontrunners

Community Cycles

Crazy Good Food

CU GLBTQ Resource Center

Curve Magazine

Dragon Wave Designs

Eco Handyman
Eldorado Natural Spring Water
Endless Possibilities, LLC

Fanciful Faces
Fascinations

First Congregational Church, UCC, Boulder

Gay and Lesbian Sierrans (GLS)

Get Your Gay On!!!

GLBT Community Center of CO

Helen L. Wagner

Homewatch Caregivers of Boulder 

Human Rights Campaign

Iliff School of Theology

iSupportU

Miami Bodyworks

Mile High Freedom Band

Naropa University
New Era Colorado 

Northern Colorado OLOC

OASOS
One Colorado

One in Ten (Heaven Sent Me)

Organizing for America - Colorado 

PFLAG Boulder County

Planned Parenthood

RMPJC & AARF Community Networks

Safe Shelter of St. Vrain Valley

Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence

SAFER (Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation

The Gender Identity Center of Colorado

The Queen's Dreams & Bryan's Family Jewels

Top of the Hill Grill West

Unitarian Universalists, Boulder County
Walgreens

Wax On Spa 

Whole Body Balance  

Visit Longmont 

 

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Countdown: 4 Days Til Pride!  

 

Hi lovely community, 

Last week on Facebook we asked what you are most excited about for Boulder Pride? Here were some of your responses:

"The talent on the stage and the MC, sharing laughs with friends old and new" 

"Helping to host the Naropa tent and being with the community!" 

"Meeting some new people and feeling the strength and love of the Boulder community" 

"Spending the day with Atlas peeps promoting HIV awareness, prevention, and testing" 

"Yoga in the park! Woohoo! (and being Out and Fancy with my partner!)"

"Seeing all kinds of people coming together celebrating each other" 

And here are some MORE reasons to be excited!
Pridefest Boulder Hey, Lady

Hope to see you all there!

Cheers,
Jen Spolnik, Out Boulder  

Mile High Freedom Band to Play at Pridefest 2012!    


Mile High Freedom Band Boulder Pride

 

We have the greatest lineup EVER for the entertainment stage this year at Pride, including the Mile High Freedom Band at 4:30 p.m.!      

 

 

New Women's Support Group - Saturdays   

Auditions for 8 the Play - Sept 28-29     


Out Boulder and guest director Colleen Mylott are thrilled to announce auditions for a staged reading of "8," a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8, written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk & J. Edgar).

8 the play    

We are casting 21 roles and looking for passionate actors, students and community members of various ages and genders to participate in this exclusive staged reading event being held in Boulder on Friday December 6th at 7PM.

 

Rehearsals will take place periodically between mid-October through December (approx. 8 total).  Proceeds from the event will benefit American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and their ongoing fight to secure full federal marriage equality.

 

AUDITIONS WILL BE HELD: Fri. Sept. 28, 3-6pm and Sat. Sept., 29 1-4pm. All are welcome to audition. No advanced preparation required. Auditions will be cold reads from the script in 30 minute time slots. 

 

AUDITION LOCATION: Auditions will be held in Lincoln Studio at Naropa University's Main Campus, 2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302 (Lincoln Studio is in the same building as the Performing Arts Center - just look for signs)

 

Click HERE to sign up for a 30 minute audition slot. 

    

READING PERFORMANCE DATE: December 6, 2012 | 7PM

 If you have any questions, feel free to email Colleen Mylott at:  cmylott@gmail.com

 

Boulder Trans SOFFA Group - Alternate Fridays      


First meeting: September 21!   

 

The Boulder Trans* SOFFA group provides a safe & supportive space for Significant Others, Family, Friends, and Allies of those who are trans* or genderqueer.  It is an opportunity for us to come together as a community and to provide support for each other.  Our hope is that you will find the emotional support, insight, or information that you are seeking while mutually providing validation and support for your feelings.


Please join us if you want support in your experience, want to hear from others about their experience, or just spend time in a group of people who may understand where you're at.
 

 

 
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT:  CU Office of Victim Assistance (OVA)    
     
The Office of Victim Assistance (OVA) works towards a safer, more socially just and supportive campus community by providing culturally relevant trauma response and prevention services. The office is a free and confidential counseling and advocacy center for the CU Boulder community.


OVA Office of Victim Assistance CU Out Boulder  

Not everyone who comes to our office needs to be or think of themselves as a victim. OVA supports people who may be impacted by grief and loss, physical assault, hazing, sexual harassment, intimate partner abuse, serious accidents, disasters, sexual assault, stalking, discrimination and harassment, bias motivated incidents, as well as other potentially traumatic situations. We want to highlight that experiencing bias, in general, can take a toll on ones day to day life. Incidents of bias can take many different forms and the impact can vary. Regardless of the form, if you feel that you have experienced bias OVA can be a resource for you.

Please check out our website at for more information.

  

Call 303-492-8855 or email OVA at assist@colorado.edu for questions or appointments. We welcome walk-ins and are located on the Boulder campus, in the Center for Community (C4C) room S440.

Thank you,
Office of Victim Assistance Staff:
Jessica Ladd-Webert, LPC

Ruchi Malhotra, LPC

Sarah Williams, LSW 

 

Don Your Dancin' Shoes, It's Dancin' Divas this Friday the 14th!   

 

Dancin Divas
Now that the days are "almost" getting cooler, and everyone's "just about" back from their summer plans, I'm thinking... what's not to celebrate?  Ladies, let's dance!  Hence, the perfect timing of the Dancin' Divas Mid-September-Come-One-Come-All Boot Scoot & End-of-Summer Dance Event; call it 2nd Friday if you like. Susie will review Baby Likes to Rock It and Cowboy Cha Cha by popular demand, and DJ Baby Ruth is back with her very special spin on our evening.  Doors open at 6:30 pm, with Susie's Beginner Two-Step Review at 6:45 pm, directly followed by the evening's Line Dance lessons at 7:15 pm. You pretty much won't want to miss anything, so unless you're dropping down from Fort Collins or driving up from the Springs (yes, some divas do this every month), don't be late! It's gonna be a lot of fun to see everybody, huh?
 
There isn't a one of you that doesn't make our Dancin' Divas community extra great. So, naturally, we always hope to see you there.  And thanks.
 
Light refreshments provided.  (Its OK to BYO.)  $10 at the door - or volunteer for 1/2 hr and get in free!    Avalon Dance Hall in Boulder - the biggest and best dance hall in Colorado!  over 4000 sq. ft. dance floor, and always a welcoming, safe environment.  Doors open at 6:30 pm, optional lessons start at 6:45 pm. GLBTQ community and friend of - all welcome!

 

Win tickets to the Bolder Life Film Festival!  

- Sept 19-23   

 

Bolder Life Film Fest    

Just a few days after Boulder Pride, come join us at BolderLife! This arts/film/education festival takes place in North Boulder September 19-23. Our festival topics and settings empower our community to question paradigms and explore new ways of thinking, communicating....and living.  Of particular interest may be LGBT-themed films such as Tomboy and Gun Hill Road (introduced by Rose Garcia of "The Real L Word"), but that's just the tip of the iceberg.  Check out everything at www.bolderlifefestival.com and enter this contest to win one of two VIP festival passes!!!    

 

Community Calendar           


Community

That's not all! Check out these other upcoming events in our community, click on the links below and find out more. 

 


Save these dates!
 
 

 

Pride House Office Hours            


The following are Out Boulderthe Pride House's regular office hours. If you need to visit us outside of these hours please contact

jspolnik@outboulder.org for an appointment. Hope to see you soon!   

 

Tue, Thu, Fri - 9 am - 1 pm  

Wed - 12 - 4 pm  

Sat, Sun, and Mon - by appointment 

 
Some of the events, views and opinions expressed in the eNewsletter are solely those of their authors and/or organizations, and do not necessarily reflect an endorsement by Out Boulder. We encourage you to contact the event sponsor for more information.