RECEPTIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS Friday January 22 Freedom for All Americans Reception Freedom for All Americans is the campaign dedicated to ensuring every LGBT American is fully protected from discrimination under the law, no matter where they live. Join our team for drinks, snacks, and to learn more about how we can work together to make the case for comprehensive nondiscrimination protections that ensure everyone is treated fairly and equally. Breathe & Reflect with Rockwood Leadership Institute Make some time for radical self-care! As deeply caring activists and organizers, we often forget to make time to breathe and reflect. Join Darlene Nipper and Rockwood Leadership Institute for delicious food, tasty drinks (alcoholic and non), and space to connect with yourself and your community. Everyone is welcome, even those who have never attended a Rockwood training! Unitarian Universalist Interweave Reception Join a gathering of Unitarian Universalists sponsored by Interweave Continental and the UUA’s LGBTQ and Multicultural Program! Meet Interweave Continental board members Maryka Bhattacharyya and Nisco Junkins, and UUA’s intern, Shaya French. Learn what Interweave and the UUA’s LGBTQ and Multicultural Program are doing. Learn how you and your congregation can get involved! Enjoy light refreshments and camaraderie. Fiesta Chicago Chicago LGBTQ Latin@ activists have pounded the pavement with great success and continue to work in coalition to bring justice to our communities! Let’s celebrate Chicago’s vibrant LGBTQ Latin@ community with A.C.E. at CALOR, Association of Latin@s Motivating Action (ALMA), TransLatin@ Coalition: Chicago, United Latin@ Pride, and other partners of Unión = Fuerza Latin@ Institute. This reception is made possible by the support of LULAC, Lambda Legal, and Latino Outreach and Understanding Division (L.O.U.D) of AHF.
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NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE • CREATING CHANGE 2016
The Academy for Leadership and Action Reception SPONSOR Meet, mingle and mull over all that is on our plates this coming year. Across the movement, organizers confronted enormous challenges this year--from the unacceptable injustice and violence that people of color continue to face each day to the onslaught of religious exemption attacks in state legislatures. We will hear from folk working on the ground challenge and disrupt the false narrative that faith is against LGBTQ people and that LGBTQ people are not people of faith. We’ll lift up an agenda of racial and gender justice and recommit ourselves to the important work ahead. Come for REUNION+ REFLECTION+REDEDICATION+REVELRY!
David Bohnett CyberCenter Reception Paris Room at the Brasserie by LM
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(Inside the Essex Inn, across the street from the Hilton)
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Join our fun and casual reception to chat about the David Bohnett CyberCenters - there are over 60 at LGBT Centers from coast to coast. This event is for LGBT Community Center leaders who already host a David Bohnett CyberCenter or for LGBT Community Center leaders who want to learn more. Student Mixer at Columbia College Chicago Columbia College, 33 E. Congress Way Room 101 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Creating Change high school and college student attendees interested in connecting with each other and Chicago area colleges are cordially invited to Columbia College Chicago for snacks, drinks and a live DJ! For more information or questions contact Lex Lawson at llawson@colum.edu Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics Exhibition Reception 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., Glass Curtain Gallery Please join Columbia College Chicago for a private reception for Creating Change attendees co-hosted by the Transgender Hospitality Suite. “Bring Your Own Body” presents the work of transgender artists and archives, from the institutional and sexological