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Workshop List
If you are interested in doing a workshop or helping with an existing workshop please email
This is a TENTATIVE calendar! Please keep checking the site for schedule changes.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
| Time | Workshop | Facilitator | Details |
| 11 - 1 PM | Nature Identification | Jeremy (vancouver) and Heron (Olympia) | workshop/discussion on local natural history, conservation |
| Project Share | Kylie and Sophie (Sydney) |
It’s such a beautiful thing to have a bunch of rad queer peeps from all over the world converged in one place, so it would seem like a missed opportunity if we didn't get to network, swap ideas and tactics, and hopefully build our networks and make our communities stronger and more connected. We can talk about who we are, we're we from, and what projects we're involved in. |
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| queerbrewing | Derek (Seattle) | bring a 4 liter container and a kilo of sugar I'll bring brewing herbs (legal, wild collected) and some samples at various stages of fermentation. a 4 day old fermentation will taste good, but not be terribly strong. | |
| 2 - 4 PM | Romance for rebels | joe lemay (vancouver) | Make sweet talk and group art about our struggles for and insights about revolutionary matters of the heart and body and not-so-revolutionary matters of the heart and body. What we make together can be printed in the zine that goes by the same name. You can bring supplies and ideas that you want to use and also there will be supplies and ideas there to play with. |
| Writing | Portland creative writing group | ongoing creative writing workshop throughout the week resulting in a performance or reading at the end. Daily workshop times to be discussed. | |
| Theatre games | Glenn and Marla (Portland) |
Finding your voice, and creating performance pieces, the workshop would have theatre games, improv, and writing. | |
| Co-ops and Collectives |
Sunny Duck | Open discussion | |
| Accessibility in our communities | open discussion | This forum is a great place for change to occur within our international communities and to build solidarity. | |
| Queer spaces | Madame Fancy | ||
| 4 - 6 PM | Conflict Resolution Team | Facilitators Bini (London) and Jeremy (Vancouver) | This group needs to meet up to determine how they will resolve conflict if it occurs over the course of the gathering. |
Indigenous |
Sunny | A brief history of invasion in Australia followed by some reflection from a person of white English/Irish decent on possible roles for non-Indigenous people in challenging racism, white privalege and working in solidarity with Indigenous communities. This workshop will be very informal - all welcome to contribute. | |
| Single Mingle | Julie Matson (Vancouver) |
ll singles will get to know each other with a wonderfully warm and goofy hostess. | |
| queering responses to violence in our community | Nikki (vancouver) |
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| Structures for the Decolonization of Activist Space | billy (san franscisco) and durward | A space to talk about and learn from our experiences with structures we've used to maintain functional anti-racist, anti-sexist and non-heirarchal activist groups or other similar spaces. How did they work and how did they not work? How can we avoid and address the toxic group dynamics that poison our organizing? |
Friday, August 3, 2007
| Time | Workshop | Facilitator | Details |
| 11 - 1 PM | Yoga | Seven (Portland) |
Seven will lead the group in yoga. |
| Social justice and change, visibility - through written and spoken word |
Hava (Olympia) |
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| Gender Fucking Workshop | Philipe Lonestar (Seattle) |
Activist/organizer/artist, has presented this workshop at the Queering Femme conference in Seattle in 2005. | |
mental health in radical communities |
Serena and Magnolia |
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| 3 hour event planning workshop | AK (Toronto) | In depth definition, ins and outs of event planning. planning for pride parties, etc. |
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| 2 - 4 PM | Queer haircutting | JJ Levine (montreal) | Level 60 gaylord haircuts from revolution bike shops hottest haircutter. |
| Survivors/ Healing | Mike Hickey (Montréal) |
Sexual assault survivor healing/ spirituality workshop or discussion for coping strategies, tactics for our communities |
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| Useful Plant Walk | Heron (Olympia) | Strolling around the area and look at plants that can be used as food, medicine, or survival materials. We'll talk about identification, how to use it, and maybe do some tasting, but no big harvesting or projects. | |
| Shadow Puppet Jam Improv | Chloe (Gibsons) | Shadow Puppet Jam Improv participatory puppet making workshop for show that night. | |
| copwatch | a comrade (oakland) and maria (portland) | now your rights and the police/how to copwatch workshop. | |
| 4 - 6 PM | Klowning | Bronwyn (sydney/ toronto) |
A hysterical, inclusive & active workshop introducing adult participants to the notions of sexuality and gender within the irresistably hardcore artforms of clown, bouffon and corporeal mime. |
| Poly discussion | frannie boom boom (Portland) and jillian (vancouver) | Co-hosted by poly sexperts from Vancouver and Portland | |
| Witchcraft | Captain | ||
| ‘i wanna fuck like this' | Ane cat (Melbourne) |
about active consent and communication within the 'oh so radical' queer sexual relationships |
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| Making musical instruments out of used materials. | Eli (Portland) | Eli is bringing a bunch of stuff that would work for that and seeing what people come up with. | |
| Decolonization Discussion | Open Discussion | Queeruption is taking place on the Shishalh people's land. This is stolen land- no treaties were ever signed giving this land to the colonial powers of Britain and Canada. Possible topics include: how do struggles against colonization in this area tie in with similar struggles in other places? How do non native people work in solidarity with indigenous sovereignty movements? Educating ourselves on colonialism as it exists today. | |
Saturday, August 4, 2007
| Time | Workshop | Facilitator | Details |
| 11 - 1 PM | Co-councelling | Francesca and Shannon (Portland) |
a peer counseling/co-counseling workshop [covering basic skills of a kind of d.i.y. counseling]. |
| Consent and Substance Use in our communities | Mike Hickey (montreal) |
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| Event Planning | Group Collective | ideas and tactics around queer organizing (Pride Party) | |
| I-69 resistance | Matiga Ulo (Bloomington, Indiana) | Roadblock Earth First!, a group resisting Interstate 69 (the US NAFTA superhighway) based in Bloomington, Indiana and related projects in Canada and Latin America |
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| Vegan Knitting | Jade (Portland) | Knitting with chopsticks. Good times. | |
| 2 - 4 PM | Hitching stories and tips | Sunny duck | Open discussion |
| Queer Zine Archive Project | Milo Miller (seattle) | discussion about queer zines in general, with some history, a bit about the QZAP process, and anything else DIY publishers would like to talk about. | |
| monogamy | eliza | monogamy history/interpretations of it; how it contributes/or doesn't to capitalism; alternatives?! |
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| Empowering Queer Voice- Vocal Improvisation | Mercury (Vancouver) | A safe space for us to explore singing together in a spontaneous, improvised way. Sounding, chanting, growling, vocal percussion. Listening and responding. Supporting, trusting one another. Taking risks. Solo, partner, and group work. |
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| 4 - 6 PM | Female ejaculation | Talka (North Carolina) |
it's history, medical info, composite, feeling, stories, and how to do it. |
| making sex work work | Selina (Melbourne) |
about networking within sex worker communities and finding power and destigmatizing our work |
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| The Healing Circle | jim (vancouver) | The Healing Circle is a place where we can connect with our own healing powers to heal ourselves, one another, our community & the world. Our tools will be energy work (Healing Touch, ReiKi, etc), breath, vocalizations, & movement. No previous experience is required as we all carry innate healing abilities within ourselves. | |
| Hitching stories and tips | Sunny duck | Open discussion | |
| event planning | group collective | ||
| artist trading cards | georgette & mason (Portland) |
artist trading cards were created in the '90s as an alternative to the consumerist art world, meant to only be given away or traded equally amongst artists and crafters. we'll provide all the materials to draw, paint and/or collage your own set for trade with other artists at queeruption. interesting materials to share are always welcome. |
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Pride Day !!!!!
| Queer spaces | Madame Fancy | Stencils/ Spray paining action. | |
| Beach workshop | everyone | We will relaxing in the sun by the ocean. |
Monday, August 6, 2007
| Time | Workshop | Facilitator | Details |
| 11 - 1 PM | Israeli Occupation of Palestine | Uri Ayalon (tel aviv) |
Uri wants to talk about the occupation, queer resistance to the occupation (ie Black Laundry), resistance in general, etc. |
| Returning Home: Queer Identity, Radical Politics and (re)Connection with Nature. |
Heron (Olympia) | ||
| Sexology | Captain (victoria) | ||
| radical community response to sexual assault | Kylie (sydney) |
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| 2 - 4 PM | monsterous femininity | Tuesday (Portland) |
"monsterous femininity" as means of self empowerment for femme and/or female identified people in the face of misogeny and heteronormitivity. |
| Rubber Craft | Eli (Portland) | old bike inner tubes provided to have a rubber stuff making workshop... free for all where we learn from each other... | |
| Everybody Does It, Let's Do it Together | Beth Tub | In the first part of this very intimate and courageous In the second part of the workshop, those who wish to |
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| 4 - 6 PM | What does oppression mean to you? | Rosie (Vancouver) |
a reversed panel where the audience members are the panelist and discussions about featured oppressed places/people |
| Intoxication is a Message: What are we telling ourselves when we get intimate with alcohol and other drugs? | Exploring what we get and what we don’t get from |
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| DIY Kink | Amanda (Vancouver) | Build your own floggers etc | |
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
| Time | Workshop | Facilitator | Details |
| 11 - 1 PM | queers in gentrificaiton | Adam (Ottawa) | |
| bike mechanics for pansies. | jackie davis (Portland), danielle (montreal), Billy (Vancouver) |
basic mechanics seminar and discussion about gender and bike shops (including bike shop attitudes). | |
| Crisis Intervention | Captain (Victoria) | ||
| 2 - 4 PM | HIV | Anna Louise (Montreal), Molly (victoria) | |
| Body/touch massage | Bini (London) |
Non sexual group massage to get energy flowing | |
| Orthomolecular Medicine (Vitamin Therapy) | Megan and Nancy (Vancouver) | Vitamin therapy | |
| 4-6PM | DIY event planning Discussion share |
Laura (Vancouver) | Gay dance parties, film nights, cabaret and events. |
| Wrestling | Nancy/Magnolia (Vancouver) | Event | |
| how to make Q11 more awesome | Daniel (London) | queerupters talk about what works and what doesn’t at queeruptions | |
| Ecovillages | Uri (tel aviv) | eco-communities in Israel, Palestine, Portugal and in your place |
List of Workshops (some to still be confirmed)
1. Nature Identification
2. Coops and collectives
3. Hitching
4. Indigenous solidarity
5. What projects are you working on?
6. Single Mingle
7. making sex work work
8. Gender Fucking Workshop
9. Survivors/ Healing
10. Klowning: queer klown; sexuality, gender and performance.
11. Polyamoury
12. Queer Spaces: queerupting heteronormative spaces with art
13. Witchcraft
14. Consent and Substance Use in our communities
15. Activist burnout
16. Ecovillages
17. Sexology
18. Radical community response to sexual assault
19. Crisis Intervention
20. Anti racism for whites
21. Mental Health in radical communities
22. Orthomolecular Medicine (Vitamin Therapy)
23. What does oppression mean to you?
24. Tactics/ direct action
25. Co-counselling
26. Queering responses to violence in our community
27. Queers in gentrification
28. Bike mechanics for pansies.
29. Queer history 101
30. Ongoing creative writing workshop
31. Anti-Olympics
32. Intimacy and drugs and alcohol
33. A Wrestling event
34. Queer zines http://www.qzap.org
35. Theatre games
36 making musical instruments out of used materials
37. I wanna fuck like this' (active consent/ communication)
38. Yoga
39. body/touch massage
40. Vegan Knitting
41. Female ejaculation
42. D.I.Y. Kink
43. homebrewing (to drink it at Queeruption! )
44. Lake Cowal Campaign
45. drag workshop
46. HIV
47. sexism in the queer community
48 romance for rebels: revolutionary relationships
49. Rubber Craft
50. Direct Action/ Tactics
51. Conflict Resolution Team
52. Useful Plant Walk
53. Returning Home: Queer Identity, Radical Politics
and (re)Connection with Nature.
54. shadow puppet jam
55. monogamy and its alternatives.
56. 3 minute speed dating tbc
57. queer and pregnancy tbc
58. Accessibility in our communities
59. DIY event planning
60. Queer haircutting
61. decolonization discussion
62. how to make Q11 more awesome
