Keep Colorado Springs Queer Open Mic Featuring Matthew Brown
Jul
19

Keep Colorado Springs Queer Open Mic Featuring Matthew Brown

Join Keep Colorado Springs Queer for an evening of queer art and community at July's queer open mic featuring acclaimed poet Matthew Brown!

Feature: Matthew L. Brown is a queer Afro-Latino author, entrepreneur, and multimedia artist from Albuquerque, New Mexico currently residing in Denver, Colorado. Matthew’s writing is an open soapbox that questions faith, addiction, mental health, love and forgiveness.

Open Mic: LGBTQIA2+ performers of all disciplines are welcome to perform on the open mic! If it can be performed into a microphone, we want to hear it. To sign up, add your name to the list at the event. Performers usually get an 8 minute window to perform, though this can vary depending on the list size.

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Workshop: Zines for Personal and Social Revolution
May
16

Workshop: Zines for Personal and Social Revolution

In a time of algorithms, censorship, and shadow-banning this workshop seeks to bring back limitless possibility and joy to creating. Participants who have never even heard of a zine before will be captivated with the joy that comes with total creative freedom of expression — freedom that is at the heart of the zine medium!

Participants will come away with a mini-zine, as well as the knowledge on how to continue their zine-making journey. Materials provided.

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[Free youth workshop!] Unlocking Your Story Through Poetry
May
7
Classes, Poetry, Workshop

[Free youth workshop!] Unlocking Your Story Through Poetry

In this workshop, youth attendees will learn how to utilize metaphor to better understand and craft their internal worlds through poetry. They will also learn a method to craft persona poems to see the world from other points of view. Participants will be guided through a brainstorming stage, before writing and sharing their poems with the group. At the end of the workshop, participants will have written two poems.

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Unlocking Your Story Through Poetry at Shutter and Strum Colorado Springs
May
1
Classes, Poetry

Unlocking Your Story Through Poetry at Shutter and Strum Colorado Springs

In this workshop, participants will learn how to utilize metaphor to better understand and craft their internal worlds through poetry. They will also learn a method to craft persona poems to see the world from other points of view. Participants will be guided through a brainstorming stage, before writing and sharing their poems with the group. At the end of the workshop, participants will have written two poems.

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Performance at Club Q Memorial Project Art Unveling at Kraemer Library UCCS
Apr
23
Poetry, Performance

Performance at Club Q Memorial Project Art Unveling at Kraemer Library UCCS

I will be reading poetry at the Club Q Memorial Project Art Unveiling.

About the Project and Event:

Join the UCCS Kraemer Family Library and MOSAIC & LGBTQ+ Resource Center for the unveiling event of the UCCS Club Q Memorial Artwork on Tuesday, 4/23/24. The reception begins at 5:30pm followed by programing from 6:00 to 8:00pm. We will gather to recognize the tragedy that struck the Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ community on the night of November 19th, 2022, while unveiling an exhibit that symbolizes a permanent recognition of the need for justice for the LGBTQ+ community. We encourage you to join us in memorializing the lives lost.

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PRIDE Week - Queer Authorship: Using Your Words as Power
Apr
23
Panel, Workshop

PRIDE Week - Queer Authorship: Using Your Words as Power

I’ll be speaking and hosting a workshop during UCCS’ Pride Week Queer Authorship Panel!

About the panel:

Join us to discuss the power and influence Queerness can have over your writing and creative process. We will have a panel of established writers and creatives from our community to discuss their process, and then hold individual workshops focusing on these different aspects and how to help your own writing journey.

Some of the panelists include local poet, performer, teaching artist, and organizer of the Keep Colorado Springs Queer open mic, Nico Wilkinson, and Alpha the Musical.

This event aims to be accessible. For reasonable accommodations, please contact us at (719) 255-3319 or mosaic@uccs.edu no later than 72 hours before the event.

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Intro to Linocut Printmaking at Ladyfingers Letterpress April 20+27
Apr
20
Classes, Linocut, Printmaking

Intro to Linocut Printmaking at Ladyfingers Letterpress April 20+27

Great For:

  • People brand new to printmaking — beginner/non-artist friendly!

  • Printmakers who want a refresher & some printin’ fun on the press

  • Anyone who wants to take a future intermediate workshop with us and access the letterpress to print

The Class

  • Learn about the tools and materials needed for this method of printing

  • Share print inspiration, favorite mark making tools, and provide other materials for printmaking

  • Practice the safe usage of carving tools and how to know when they need sharpening

  • Overview + print demonstration of how to use a letterpress to print

  • Introduction to methods of printing linocut that do not require a press (barren, stamping, and more) that can be used after the workshop at home or in your own studio

  • Create & print an edition of 1 color prints to share with the class & take home! Size of print TBD: _____

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