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"Queer Asterisk Voices" will feature writing from QA staff and community members to amplify our unique and valuable perspectives. These writings reflect the opinions and experiences of the writer and do not necessarily speak for Queer Asterisk as an organization. We value diversity in perspective, expression and life and hope to offer a platform for queer and trans folks to share their experiences and insights with the larger community.
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Queer Embodiment with Madë Beautiful
Friday, 3/22
6-8pm
Kakes Studios 2115 Pearl St. Boulder, CO 80302
This is a facilitated dance/movement space to support embodiment in a queer/trans informed setting.
The dance is a unique container to explore a variety of rhythms and expressive styles with encouragement and opportunity for self-discovery through movement.
Madë is a queer creator and performer. They have been teaching dance to queer folks for many years and are passionate about creating spaces for queer and trans folks to express themselves fully through movement and radical performance.
We begin the dance as a collective and it is held with an opening and closing circle, so please arrive on time.
All ages and levels of dance experience are welcome!
$10 suggested donation (no one turned away)
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Queer Art Studio
1st & 3rd Mondays (thru April)
7-9pm
Queer Asterisk Boulder - 2027 Broadway, Suite E. Boulder, CO 80302
Queer Asterisk is excited to offer Queer Art Studio starting in February!
Join us for a drop-in therapeutic art group facilitated by art therapist Maddie Schlick, MA.This is a container for creative exploration and engagement with art materials in a queer/trans informed community setting. Attendees are invited to participate in the suggested art activity or bring their own project to work on.
Group begins with introductions and an art-based check-in so please be on time if you intend to come.
Doors close promptly at 7:10pm
All skill-levels welcome!
$10 suggested donation (no one turned away)
This group is scheduled to be held at Queer Asterisk’s Boulder office. Unfortunately, this space is not accessible to wheelchairs. If you would like to attend and have specific accessibility needs please e-mail info@queerasterisk.com and we will make arrangements to address your specific needs.
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Queer Writing Group
2nd & 4th Sundays (thru April)
11-1pm
Queer Asterisk Boulder - 2027 Broadway, Suite E, Boulder
Queer Writing Group is a space for queer & trans folks to share dedicated time for writing together. Whether you are a published writer, or brand new to writing, you are welcome in this group.
This is not a space for critique, or a place to workshop pieces you've already written. It's an opportunity to create new work, be impacted by one another's words, and hone the uniqueness of each of our writing voices.
"Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or education level. A writer is someone who writes."
-- Pat Schneider
For more information on the method, visit AmherstWriters.org
$15 suggested donation (no one turned away)
This group is scheduled to be held at Queer Asterisk’s Boulder office. Unfortunately, this space is not accessible to wheelchairs. If you would like to attend and have specific accessibility needs please e-mail info@queerasterisk.com and we will make arrangements to address your specific needs.
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Neurodiversity University
Fridays (Feb-April)
4-6pm
Queer Asterisk Boulder - 2027 Broadway, Suite E. Boulder, CO 80302
Neurodiversity University is a supportive and educational drop-in group for those that identify as queer/trans and neuro-diverse.
This group will focus on topics brought up during introductions and check ins and serve as a teaching place for life skills, social skills, independent living skills, transitioning skills for both life and gender, relationships, becoming work ready, becoming college ready, maintaining employment and more. The group will primarily serve as an intersection of neurodiversity and queer identity.
Neurodiversity University is facilitated by practicum student Shana Boutte and peer mentor Shen Hollcraft. Both navigate life at the intersection of queerness and neurodiversity and are excited to explore and support others who share this experience.
This group is scheduled to be held at Queer Asterisk’s Boulder office. Unfortunately, this space is not accessible to wheelchairs. If you would like to attend and have specific accessibility needs please e-mail info@queerasterisk.com and we will make arrangements to address your specific needs.
By donation
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Queer Conversation Denver
2nd & 4th Thursdays
6-8pm
Queer Asterisk Denver -1155 Sherman St. Suite 311
Denver, CO 80203
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Queer Conversation Boulder
1st & 3rd Tuesdays
6-8pm
Queer Asterisk Boulder - 2027 Broadway, Suite E
Boulder, CO 80302
Queer Conversation is an open discussion group for queer folks to meet and share ideas, thoughts, struggles, concepts, theory, lived experiences, and everything under the rainbow of queer.
The building is locked after hours in Denver so please call or text Timmy at 816-529-1432 for access if the building is locked.
By donation
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Food, Bodies & Liberation
April 6th, 2019
10-2pm
Queer Asterisk Boulder - 2027 Broadway, Suite E. Boulder, CO 80302
Do you long to feel free — every day — in your body?
Just as our social relationships can become toxic and harmful, so can our connection to food. To survive, we need each other and need to eat. This workshop will share energetic healing practices that help to shift and reweave these relationships in our bodies.
This workshop is open to all bodies and all genders and will provide a confidential space to explore how our bodies navigate eating and food for survival, using energy healing, storytelling and guided meditation. As we move towards greater liberation in our bodies, we are freed up to more joyfully create connections that feed and nurture us deeply.
This workshop is led by Syd Yang, who will also be pulling stories from their latest memoir: Release: A Bulimia Story, to highlight the importance of our intersections for designing a path forward in recovery. The work is rooted in a liberation, social justice + anti-oppression framework.
The retreat space will provide a variety of healing practice that will offer up rest and contemplation — as well as movement and action, in both individual + group spaces.
Lunch provided.
Cost: sliding scale (see registration for details)
more info + to sign up: http://bit.ly/FBLreg
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Energy Healing for Eating Disorder Recovery
April 7th, 2019
11-1pm
Queer Asterisk Boulder - 2027 Broadway, Suite E. Boulder, CO 80302
Syd Yang of Blue Jaguar Healing Arts will share holistic healing practices that support practitioners in bringing balance and spaciousness to clients' embodied experience.
A bulimia survivor herself, Syd will speak to how working with energy healing modalities transformed her eating disorder recovery, and how she uses them now to create powerful healing experiences for her clients.
This event will consist of a talk and an interactive practice space. Syd will share transformative energy healing techniques to:
- Clear and ground one’s energy when holding space with and for others.
- Sense, interpret and transform energetic blocks within and around the body.
- Better understand the energetic resonance of eating disorders in the physical body
- Generate more balance and feelings of possibility.
Participants will receive a copy of the booklet: 9 Practices for Eating Disorder Recovery by Syd Yang / Blue Jaguar Healing Arts.
Student pricing available.
CEUs available for mental health professionals.
About Syd:
Syd is a mixed race/Taiwanese American queer healer, intuitive counselor and writer who weaves together magic, possibility and intention as an energy healer in the world through their practice, Blue Jaguar Healing Arts. Syd has been a group facilitator for over two decades, with a specific focus on grief, healing ancestral trauma, sexuality + spirituality, body liberation and eating disorder recovery. More at bluejaguarlove.com + releasebulimia.com
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