Hello wonderful SMYRCers,
As many of you know, change is buzzing around SMYRC these days. We’ve got some exciting things on the horizon, but in order to get there we’ve got to shift our programming back a bit. Since October we’ve been open about 25 hours a week, Tuesday through Saturday, and have had so many fantastic groups along with Friday night drop in hours, thanks to many fantastic volunteers and the facilitation and organization of youth and Steering Committee. We found out recently that we have to cut our hours back to just 15 hours a week. Steering Committee has decided to move back to a three nights a week schedule, so SMYRC will be open Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, from 4-9pm again, starting on February 1st.
Attached is the updated calender for February!
Some other changes that they made were this:
-Steering Committee will be moved from Wednesdays at 6pm to Wednesdays from 7-9pm. The space will be closed to anything but Steering Committee.
-Saturdays will always be an informal Dinner and a Movie.
-GenderCrash (a group for trans and gendervariant youth) will still exist as it does on the second Wednesday of the month from 4-6pm but will be held in the art room for confidentiality.
-Many of the groups you saw the past few months will continue to happen informally for the next few months, during drop in hours—so if you need your fix of art group, creative writing group, feminism, etc, keep an eye on our Facebook page for updates!
More emails and Facebook updates will be sent out in the next few weeks as things continue to transition at SMYRC. Please feel free to send any questions you might have about what is going on, or come by Steering Committee for more regular, in depth updates. Coming to Steering Committee also means that YOU have influence over some of the changes that are happening at SMYRC through this organizational transition.
Other upcoming events:
The Oregon Queer Youth Summit is happening again this spring and it’s up to you all to help plan it! They’ve been meeting Monday early in the evening downtown at Pivot. Contact 1988edominguez or call/text 503.780.5521 for more details.
This Monday, January 30th is Outside the Frame: films produced by young filmmakers who have experienced homelessness: "For the second year in a row Outside In’s Guerilla Theatre youth have created films about issues that are important to them. Young filmmakers first participated in a three-week intensive film internship. Interns learned to use filmmaking equipment and wrote, storyboarded, recorded, directed, acted in and edited their pieces. Youth worked from pre-production to post-production with support from Portland Youth Media to create films based on their experiences, in an effort to inspire and educate their peers and the community."http://www.pcs.org/blog/item/outside-in-screening-original-films-by-homeless-youth/ Doors open at 6:30pm, screening is at 7pm at The Armory– 128 NW 11th Ave. Portland, OR (Voodoo Doughnuts and hot chocolate will be served!)
This event is free and open to the public but please reserve your seat at brownpapertickets.com
See you all in February!
feb 2012 calender.docx
program descriptions.docx
