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This weekend at SMYRC! Bowling, Carnival and BBQ!

We’re kicking off August with a BBQ and carnival here at SMYRC, put on by Molly’s fabulous PSU class!

TOMORROW NIGHT Friday, August 6th from 5-8pm

Games include bowling, henna & face paint, cake walk, a build-yr-own-barbie deconstruction craft table, bean bag toss, fishing for prizes, & weather pending, a water balloon toss!

We’ll have veggie and meat BBQ options so come out for dinner and some fun tomorrow.

Then get ready for karaoke night at SMYRC next weekend, Satuday, August 14th from 6-8pm. A free raffle, vegan and non-vegan pizza and ice cream and a chance to sing your favorite songs! Send any song requests to us this weekend.

See you tomorrow!

Hiring Committee and Community Outreach!

Hello folks,

I hope everyone is keeping hydrated, cool and slathered in sunscreen now that the temperature is rising. We’re in our first full summer at our space on MLK and we’ve never been so happy to have air conditioning at SMYRC! Drop in is busy and I, for one, am ready for a picnic in our beautiful back garden space. (With tasty veggies from our garden!)

We’ve got a few things coming up at SMYRC and WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Community Outreach Walk
July 9th 2010

The first official community outreach walk with SMYRC volunteer Lyndsey and Jess will be this Friday, July 9th, leaving SMYRC at 3pm. During the walk we will explore the Boise-Eliot neighborhood by taking photos, video, notes, drawing pictures, and interviewing people we meet. Ultimately this is an opportunity for people in the neighborhood to learn a bit more about SMYRC and for us to learn a bit more about the neighborhood. We’ll finish our walk with popsicles and zine making!

Also, Monday, July 12th we’ll be doing interviews to hire some new on-call drop in staff at SMYRC now that Sunshine and Kerst’s Americorps terms are up. If you want to be on the hiring committee, send me an email at jess.herbach@smyrc.org or call 503.969.2266.

And, as I mentioned above, last Wednesday was Kerst and Sunshine’s last day as rad SMYRC Americorps members. We had a lovely goodbye for them in drop in, complete with delicious cake and beautifully made cards by SMYRC youth and a bit of SMYRC-style teasing involving Kerst wearing their fancy gardening hat around drop in and everyone reminiscing their favorite funny Sunshine free-pile moments. SMYRC is so lucky to have had them all around for as long as we did! THANK YOU Kerst and Sunshine for all the time and passion you put into SMYRC!!

Enjoy the sun, take care of each other and we’ll see you this weekend!

And now, your SMYRC weekend forecast: Sunny!

Greetings from sunny(!!!) northeast Portland!

I'm sure you thought that with Pride weekend over, SMYRC would be stretched out, relaxing in the sun and takin' a break... but we've got a weekend line up that will convince you to come in from all the adventures that Portland summer has to offer and head on over to SMYRC.

Friday, June 25th

5pm Mr. Oregon Leather 2009 and friends will be facilitating a safer sex conversation in drop in. Bring questions or conversation topics about safer sex, BDSM, and the complexity of queer relationships or just come to listen. And as always, we've got free condoms and lube so that the education doesn't have to stop at SMYRC!

6pm Alex, the founder of Q Poetry will be leading our new monthly writing workshop. Bring stuff to get feedback on, your writing brains, your favorite pen and notepad, your laptop or just yourself and we'll take care of the rest!

8pm Open Mic #103! Ready to perform that drag number you've been working on? Want to share what you wrote in writing group? Want to dance, sing, do a monologue, a puppet show or some other rad performance that you've been waiting to do at SMYRC? Sign up starts at 7pm and the show starts at 8pm!

Saturday, June 26th

5-8pm Come to SEX CHAT with Nili from Outside In's Guerilla Theatre program! SEX CHAT is a three session workshop on sexual health. Nili will be facilitating two of these workshops here at SMYRC. Attend these two back to back workshops and become eligible as a PAID media intern in July in a collaborative project with Portland Community Media (SMYRC's neighbors just down the street!). Pizza and snacks will be provided. See attachments for more details on the internship and on the SEX CHAT workshops.

6pm For folks interested in community outreach in SMYRC's neighborhood, volunteer Lyndsey will be facilitating a conversation about working with cameras, tips for interviewing and interviewing folks around drop in for a "Welcome to SMYRC Drop In" zine that the community outreach group is working on.

There you have it, folks! See you at drop in this weekend. And thanks again to all the amazing SMYRCer's who came out to march in the parade, helped out at the Teen Oasis and SMYRC booths and performed at Pride!

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Pride Weekend with SMYRC!

Portland Pride 2010 is upon us!

Saturday, June 19th
It’s the first annual Gayest Day of the Year Bike Ride, a neighborhood bike ride and community celebration! This event is free!

Join us for donuts and ice cream and snacks and music and performers and glitter and fun. Bike decorating starts at noon, the ride starts around one. Ice cream social at the QCenter around 2ish! You don’t need to have a bike to attend! All forms of non-motor transportation welcomed, as well as folks who just want to cheer the ride on from the sidelines.

Then, stick around for regular drop in from 4pm-9pm where we’ll be making signs and banners to carry with us in the Pride Parade on Sunday.

Sunday, June 20th
Parade Day! March with SMYRC and show Portland your pride!

Meet us at the Northwest Park Blocks on NW 13th between Flanders and Everett. Meet up beween 9am and 11am. The parade kicks off at 11:30 and we’ll be dancin’ it up in the streets all the way to Pride Fest on the Waterfront. Once there, don’t forget to stop by the SMYRC booth and the Teen Oasis booth (a youth run, youth only booth with games, free food, safer sex supplies and more!) And cheer on your friends on the Cafe Stage from 5-6pm for our SMYRC youth open mic. There are still some slots available if you’d like to perform.

So much to do! More queerfabulous fun than you can shake a glitter stick at! Come by drop in Friday and Saturday and help us get ready for the excitement by making SMYRC buttons, screenprinting t-shirts, and making signs and banners!

See you this weekend!