Affirming Leaders Day - Purchase Recordings
Video recording package: receive access to all four workshop recordings for 7 days
Until November 10, you can purchase the recording package - click here to buy
Our annual professional development day for leaders of all kinds: advocates, faith leaders, organizers, volunteers, allies and 2SLGBTQIA+ folks. This year’s lineup comes straight from what you told us you need: practical tools for hard times, and a few good reasons to keep going.
Workshops:
PIE in Practice with Pam Rocker
“Affirming” is easy to say and much harder to live. PIE is what gives it teeth.Engaging Vulnerable Persons with Shaundra Bruvall, Alpha House Calgary
Street-level wisdom on homelessness, addiction and how to create positive, safe interactions.Queering Our Sacred Stories Through Emergent Ritual with Ben Dobyns
Drag Communion, Dungeons & Dragons, and how communities shape new sacred stories together.Communal Singing for Justice with Patti Powell
Whatever you believe about your singing voice, it’s your right to raise it with others. And it’s SO fun.
Queer Futures Film Series: The Script
December 8, 6:30pm - 7:45pm BC/ 7:30pm - 8:45pm AB / 8:30pm - 9:45pm ON
Join us for the first screening in our Queer Futures Film Series: The Script, with a special Q&A with director Noah Schamus!
ABOUT THE FILM: Blending personal interviews with dramatized genre recreations, THE SCRIPT explores the troubled relationship between trans communities and medical providers in healthcare settings. With a playful approach toward experimentation, the film offers a vision of how physicians and trans patients can meet one another on equal footing.
ABOUT NOAH: NOAH SCHAMUS (director, they/them) is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker of documentary and narrative films. Their first feature “Summer Solstice” had its World Premiere at Provincetown Film Festival in June 2023. The film was the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Program grant, was included in the 2021 Outfest Screenwriting Lab as a Notable Writer, and was the winner of the Platige Image Award at Us in Progress at the American Film Festival in November 2022. Their short films have been presented at film festivals including BFI Flare, Outfest, Inside Out, NewFest, Indie Memphis, Maryland Film Festival and New Orleans Film Festival (where their short film, “Chemistry of Mood,” garnered an Honourable Mention for Best Performance by Naian Gonzalez Norvind). “Across, Beyond, and Over,” co-directed with Brit Fryer, was featured on NoBudge and is a Vimeo Staff Pick.
Queer Theology Video Series:
Jaye Brix on Deconstructing Bad Theology
Bad theology hurts. It hurts the 2SLGBTQIAP+ community, it hurts our communities of faith, and it hurts folks who feel held down under the thumb of harmful language, tradition, and belief.
This three-week series invites us into a process of deconstructing the theologies that restrict us as we seek to expand our affirming ministry and live out faithful discipleship that celebrates diversity as sacred. Jaye Brix (they/she) joined us live at our third session! Jaye is an ex-pastor who uses their experience, education, and creativity to help folks on their liberation journey, leaving behind ‘church’ that hurts.
Watch all three sessions on our Vimeo channel here.
Hosted by Affirming Connections and Pacific Mountain Region Affirming Ministry.
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Drag FAQ’s Answered
Affirming Connections started the United Against Hate campaign to address the surge in misinformation, disinformation, and violence targeting drag performers and trans people. We compiled a list of the most frequently asked questions we encounter, then asked experts from a variety of fields - including affirming faith leaders, drag performers, educators, academics and researchers - to answer them.
