TRANSLIFE needs volunteers for their April 29 conference. Allies are welcome and encouraged to volunteer, folks should have a general understanding of what it means to be affirming to the trans community. We have two shifts: 9:00 am-1:00 pm and 1:00 pm-5:00 pm. You are also welcome to volunteer for the whole day. There are two types of volunteers, general volunteers and safety volunteers. General volunteers do various tasks which can include things like registration, welcomers, hall monitors, food set up and break down, room clean up, and assisting committee members, staff, and facilitators. Safety volunteers will work the parameters, engage in bag checks, and communicate with staff and committee. The conference is at Finley Center in Santa Rosa.
Please consider supporting the transgender community during this important event. If you are part of an organization please check in with others and spread the word. The trans community is facing an onslaught of discrimination at all levels and we need to ban together to encourage resiliency in our community.
Join Sonoma County Pride as we fundraise to update downtown Santa Rosa’s rainbow flags to be more inclusive! Sonoma County Pride is looking for community support to update the county’s largest rainbow flag that we raise every year on top of the Rosenberg Building in downtown Santa Rosa to officially kick off pride month for Sonoma County.
Since 2018 we’ve been raising a 10ft by 6th 6 strips classic LGBT Pride flag. This year we ask for your help for us to update this flag as well as all the street flags in downtown Santa Rosa.
The new design is not widely made at the moment and Sonoma County Pride would like your help to commission a flag manufacturer (based in San Diego California & which is LGBT owned) to make a 10ft by 6th marine nylon and hand-sewn. Hence why we need your help, the new flag is going to cost approximately $800.00 – We thank you in advance for your support!
NOTE: at the time we started this GoFundMe we were also going to ask for your help to also update all the street pole banners in downtown Santa Rosa. However, our friends and annual sponsor FastSigns of Sonoma County has committed to updating all the pole flags as part of their 2023 Sponsorship! THANK YOU FASTSIGNS! – Please remember them when you need your banners and decorations for your parade float!!
About the new Intersex Inclusive Progress Pride Flag – The new design builds on Daniel Quasar’s instantly iconic 2018 Progress Pride flag, which added a five-striped chevron to the left side of the flag representing LGBTQ+ people of color and the trans community. (Quasar’s design, in turn, was an update to the city of Philadelphia’s 2017 Pride flag, which added black and brown stripes above the six rainbow stripes.)
Intersex columnist and media personality Valentino Vecchietti designed a new rendition of the rainbow Pride flag in 2021. The flag was officially unveiled by the advocacy group Intersex Equality Rights UK in late May 2021 but has since spread virally on social media.
In Vecchietti’s rendition, a purple circle superimposed over a yellow triangle has been added to the chevron on the left half of Quasar’s design — an homage to the popular 2013 intersex flag designed by Australian bioethicist and researcher Morgan Carpenter.
LGBTQI History: A Sonoma County Timeline 1947-2000. Wednesdays 1:30-3pm. Online via Zoom. On March 15, we will be discussing several historical efforts at creating
LGBTQI Community Centers in Sonoma County. Looking
forward to seeing you there! Please contact me to enroll
Their activism is a love unlike any other. Art and Pep are the owners of Chicago’s iconic bar, Sidetrack. As civil rights leaders who have been fighting for LGBTQ+ equality for decades, their activism is the focus of their struggle to live and love freely.Filmmakers Attending for post-screening Q&A.
Donna Personna first hit the stage with the legendary Cockettes. Ecstatic lip-synching in San Francisco’s downtown bars was a far cry from Donna’s Baptist upbringing in San Jose. Her story proves: it’s never too late to find your métier and truly blossom. Filmmaker Attending, Post-Screening Q&A.
Set in Sebastopol, Bonnie and Jai own Hope Acre Farm where they grow organic tomatoes and beans. With a flock of animals and a new baby, they bring on more hands with the help of volunteers. Filmmakers Attending, Post-Screening Q&A.
From Black Power in late-60s Boston, to AIDS activism in mid-80s New York, to Marriage Equality in early-10s San Francisco, this profile shines a hope-filled spotlight on Lambda Award-winning novelist, activist and philanthropist Jewelle Gomez. Filmmaker Attending, Post-Screening Q&A.
Enter The Beauty Bubble Salon & Museum, a pastel dreamland of 3,000 vintage beauty artifacts in the desert community of Joshua Tree, California and meet its owner, proprietor, and “America’s hairstorian” Jeff Hafler. Filmmakers Attending, Post-Screening Q&A for live event.
Theirs is the unlikely love story between two women who fell in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbruck concentration camp, a German camp exclusively for women. Despite being separated in the last months of the war, they manage to reunite and spend the rest of their life together.
Retired food-service worker, Ruth Brinker, became a pioneer of HIV care in her community and would become a legend among San Franciscans. Along with her team of volunteers, Ruth founded Project Open Hand, the largest provider of nutrition to the HIV/AIDS community. Filmmakers Attending, Post-Screening Q&A for live event.
Ginger Beavers is back! See the Gingersnaps (Ginger, Cindy Brillhart-True & Bonnie Jean Shelton), plus Joey Favalora, Ezra Hernandez and Alanna Weatherby. Join us for a night of superb musical numbers from shows past and present. A Stage Left Studio production.
The war in Ukraine continues and we must not forget those who have shown such courageous spirit in the face of such horrendous conditions. What better way to connect than with a yoga class dedicated to the indomitable strength shown by our brothers and sisters in Ukraine. On the anniversary of the initial attack by Russia, we will gather together and send our collective positive energy and compassion across the world, a reminder that we are all connected. Yoga for Peace is the culmination of efforts by Vickie Morse and Brenda Flynn, as they felt the need to do more to connect our community with our sister community of Chyhyryn.
Join us on February 24 2023 at 6:00 PM at Wischemann Hall, 465 Morris Street, Sebastopol or live on Zoom.
The carefully chosen yoga instructors that will guide us on this journey are:
Hediyeh Bell has been teaching yoga since 2008, and later added pilates and personal training to her repertoire. Her genuine spirit and unique style engages everyone she teaches. As in instructor, her intention is to help guide you into a strong body as well as into your own heart! She finds great joy in guiding others into the gift of a healthy body, mind and spirit.
Monica Bravo is not only a yoga instructor but Shamanic Reiki Master and Transformational Coach, sharing her love for yoga and breathwork around the world for 18+ years. She is the founder of Rapid ManifestationToday podcast and youtube where she shares meditations and yoga each week.
Vickie Morse has been practicing yoga for over 40 years, and teaching for 17+ years in the community. What started as something to do with her equestrian friends has expanded to an amazing community of dedicated students who have been playing and practicing yoga for many years together (Sova Yoga Sangha). Vickie recently has expanded her teachings with certifications in Yoga for Osteoporosis, Senior & Chair Yoga, Fusion Fitness, and is a Matter of Balance Coach. The vision for this event started with Vickie, who reached out to the community to help create this unique event.
Our Meditation Guide is Kerry Vyner Brooks. Kerry Vyner-Brooks is an experienced coach, and instructor with a background in Qigong, Yoga, Transpersonal Psychology, and the performing, visual and healing arts. She is a lifelong student; curious, about surrendering to the Divine Feminine; finding Inner peace. Karen enjoys the gift of movement, fellowship, and laughter.
Prior yoga experience is suggested. Please bring a mat and any props you may require. Space is limited, but we are also offering the live zoom option. Please, no small children. Young adults with yoga experience are welcome. Doors opening at 5:30 PM.
There are three ticket (donation) options available, please choose the level of support that you can manage. Additional cash/check donations may be made at the event, or on the Sebastopol World Friends website. This is a donation event, no cancellation or refunds.
Your donation is critical in meeting the needs of our friends in Chyhyryn. While no donation is too small, we challenge you to challenge yourself and think big. If you were displaced from your home, how much would you want your friends to pledge to keep your family warm, clothed, and fed, and to ensure that you could communicate with them? Please donate at whatever level you can manage.
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This event is made possible with support from: Redwood Rainbows Square Dance Club, Inc. Radiate Yoga Studio Brenda Flynn and the rest of the Sova Yoga Gang
lYou are invited to participate in the 15th Annual Sonoma County Student Film Festival. There are many ways to get involved. Choose one or all three!
Submit a film by March 1st. Films submitted must have been made within the last two years, be less than 15 minutes in length and have a Sonoma County student involved in the production. Anyone in the production may submit the film (not just the director) and both fiction and non-fiction works are eligible. The window for submission for the Sonoma County Student Film Festival closes on March 1st, 2023. Film submission will be made via Film Freeway: filmfreeway.com/SCSFF
Volunteer for the Selection and Planning Committee. The committee will meet on March 2nd via Zoom to brainstorm on event planning and receive an orientation to screening the films. Afterward, committee members will have one week to view all the views before meeting again to discuss and select the films for the festival. We also need event volunteers before and during the event. Email us at petalumawelcome@santarosa.edu to volunteer.
Attend the festival. Friday, March 31st, 2023, at 6:00 pm. Select films will be shown to the public and will be followed by a Q & A. General admission to the festival is a suggested $5 donation, but filmmakers and their crew in attendance get in for free.
The Sonoma County Student Film Festival was initiated 15 years ago by the Student Government President, Amanda Swan, and launched at SRJC Petaluma. The Sonoma County Film Festival (SCSFF) encourages students to build academic and professional connections with their peers and community. The goal of the event is to connect and introduce student filmmakers within the community to our own Film Studies and Digital Filmmaking programs here at SRJC. Featured filmmakers receive passes to attend the Film Fest Petaluma, Sonoma County’s Premiere international short films festival. This program is the result of collaboration between the SRJC Student Life and Communication Studies departments.
