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pie day

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National Affirming/PIE Day 2025

Join us for the next National Affirming/PIE Day on March 14, 2025!

Why PIE? PIE = Public. Intentional. Explicit. Those are the standards we hold ourselves and our welcome to when we seek to live into being Affirming, Welcoming, or Inclusive people and communities.

PIE Day Song Contest Submissions!

Affirming Connections and Affirm United/S’affirmer Ensemble are excited to announce the first-ever National Affirming/PIE Day song contest!

There are two categories:

  • Original Song (music + lyrics)

  • Filmed Performance (existing song performed by an ensemble or choir)

Cash prizes for 1st ($500) and 2nd ($250) place!

In both categories, we’re looking for entrants to bring something new, fresh, or unique to the canon of Affirming songs. Does your song contain tangible examples of what being Affirming can look and feel like? What does it look and feel like to be PIE: Publicly, Intentionally and Explicitly inclusive and Affirming of all 2SLGBTQIA+ people? We’re challenging you to think “beyond the rainbow,” and get creative and specific in your embodiment of PIE!

The submission deadline is November 15, 2024. Dust off your ukulele’s and get your singing group together - we want to hear from you!
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Affirming Connections is supported through Fish Creek Shared Ministries, Chinook Winds Region, and Pacific Mountain Region. Our efforts are both local and national. We are based in Southern Alberta, and acknowledge the lands that we inhabit known as Mohkínstsis, Wîchispa-Oyade, Guts’ists’I, Otôskwanihk (ᐅᑑᐢᑿᓂᕽ), or Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on Turtle Island. We honour and value the culture, spirituality, and traditions of the first peoples of Treaty 7; and acknowledge the ancestral stewards of the land, and our shared stewardship as treaty people: the Niitsitapi (the Blackfoot Confederacy, including the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations); the Îyârhe Nakoda of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations; and the Dene of the Tsuut’ina First Nation. Southern Alberta is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Calgary Elbow District.