TQH is proud to sponsor the Closing Performance of MERGE with Mathew Janczewski's ARENA DANCES & Taja Will. Come experience the dance-theater-magic along with a Post-Show Experience/Conversation on March 24th at 2pm. Tickets required to attend.
Join our annual February art+love-themed gathering, a trauma-informed experience where we’ll hear from an artist who has been through difficult relationship times- they will lead us in being creative and making art from our own stories. We’ll also hear from the OutFront Minnesota anti-violence team, who will share reflective questions and information about how power dynamics show up within all kinds of relationships.
DATE AND TIME
Sat, January 27, 2024
1:00 PM – 3:30 PM CST
LOCATION
Dendros Group
2642 University Ave. West
#140
St. Paul, Minnesota 55114
Tickets here: https://tellingqueerhistory-bloom.kindful.com/e/jan-27
QUEER HISTORY LOVERS, UNITE!
Bring your love of LGBTQIA+ history and your friends, and let's play TRIVIA!
GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY AT: https://tellingqueerhistory-bloom.kindful.com/e/dec-06
Here's the thing- whether you're a bonafide queer history nerd or you don't know any LGBTQIA+ history, you are WELCOME to attend this all-levels event.
We're taking a fun, educational and engaging approach to sharing history with you.
We'll have three rounds, plus a bonus round, for you to play:
1. General, nation-wide history (like queer history 101)
2. Upper Midwest history (MN, ND, SD, WI, MI, IA)
3. Minnesota-specific history
4. Bonus round: Telling Queer History history!
You're competing for the joy of broadening your queer knowledge and finding your place in our shared queer histories.
Create a Team of 4 people & register your team.
Don't have a team? NO PROBLEM, register as an individual and we'll assign you to a new team. :)
We'll be providing light food and N/A beverages, and there will be fun prizes available for competing teams!
Here are the FACTS:
*WHEN: Wednesday, December 6, 6:30-8:30 PM
*IN PERSON & VIRTUAL
*WHERE: United Theological Seminary (767 Eustis Street, St. Paul, 55114)
(virtual attendees will receive the link on trivia day)
*ASL Interpreted
*Childcare Available
*Sliding-scale Tickets Available
GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY AT: https://tellingqueerhistory-bloom.kindful.com/e/dec-06
Upcoming storytelling and community-building gatherings:
January 27, 2024: Queer Connections- Collaboration with the LGBTQ+, BIPOC & Deaf, Deaf-Blind and Hard of Hearing Communities (Curated by MN Deaf Queers)
February 18, 2024: Art of Healthier Relationships
April 2024 (date TBD): Queer Roles in the Twin Cities Uprising
June 1, 2024: LGBTQ+ History Icons Drag Show & Fundraiser
Partake in opportunities for belonging and connection that are still aligned with our practices of providing intergenerational, all-ages, substance-free spaces that center accessibility, with these additional events:
March 24, 2024: MERGES in March at the Cowles Center: Mathew Janczeski’s Arena Dance & Taja Will + TQH post-show conversation and community movement (TQH sponsorship)
How do we create spaces to joyfully connect and explore each other while avoiding the harms that unchecked substance use can cause?
What’s our vision for a future that prioritizes connection and the thriving of our communities, AND emphasizes healing benefits and harm reduction for people who choose to use substances?
This conversation is nuanced, contradictory and challenging- and we’re here for it!
Get your tickets today
https://tellingqueerhistory-bloom.kindful.com/e/october-14
There’s a history here- drugs and alcohol have both helped us to connect and have been a source of harm.
FACTS:
The use of drugs and alcohol is not inherently bad.
Queer people have found each other in bar spaces for a long time.
Drugs and alcohol use have directly and indirectly harmed so many LGBTQIA+ folks.
The alcohol industry and forces of substance legalization are such powerful influences. Balance with substance use can be helpful and healing, leading to freedom on dance floors, deep conversations, and mental health improvement. There are so many considerations, and no one right way to address these issues.
Folks who choose to use and those who choose sobriety can both become isolated, for different reasons. Queer people have higher substance use rates because of mental health issues arising from social trauma, family and religious trauma, panicky / phobic laws and politicians, and cultural stigma. Substances can be helpful when healing from depression, anxiety, PTSD and trauma symptoms; they can also be the cause of harm and some of these symptoms.
We see hope in the increasing trend (despite bans!) of drag brunches, library drag story hours, drag shows on TV and more. The euphoric feeling of finding your people is now accessible globally, intergenerationally, and outside of bar culture.
We don’t want the bars or the substances to go away, and we want there to be other options for folks. More than ever- given that queer culture is getting so commodified- we need to build deeper connections with each other. That’s why TQH gatherings are and will continue to be intergenerational connection and deep healing spaces and they will remain substance free.
Join us on October 14 as we learn from our past, shape our collective experiences, and share our visions for a connected and thriving community, with and without substances.
Get your tickets today at: https://tellingqueerhistory-bloom.kindful.com/e/october-14
This Telling Queer History Gathering:
is ASL Interpreted and held in an ADA-compliant building
will have food and non-alcoholic beverages available
has restrooms near the conference room where the event will take place
Is open to all ages of people
Is a substance-free space
tickets are free but you are invited to make a donation to TQH to cover the event costs (suggested donation of $25/person)
will have childcare available during the gathering
Join Telling Queer History for pre and post show discussions around the Northern Starz production of the Laramie Project on Sept 6th and Sept 30th at the White Bear Lake Center for the Arts.
https://northernstarz.networkforgood.com/events/59799-the-laramie-project-tickets
Join Telling Queer History and the MN Humanities Center for a walking historical tour of LGBTQ+ sites in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 8th, 2023.
Honoring queers & transcestors providing reproductive care, abortions, education & family support as the next generation of LGBTQ+ families emerge.
How do we create circles of care around us & live in circles of love that feel abundant? Join us to explore community, care, connection, & chosen love.
Get your tickets today to our December event! We’re heating things up. We’ll have conversation with storytellers from across the LGBTQ+ sex & pleasure spectrum, from asexual to sexologists, about reclaiming our sexual power, our desire and pleasure, and deepening our abilities to be embodied.
End of Life Paperwork: a legal workshop with Telling Queer History on Monday Oct 10th, 6-7:30pm. Get your ticket in order to join the virtual event. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/424138608997
Join Telling Queer History and Minnesota Humanities Center for a walking tour of LGBTQ+ history with live storytelling. on Saturday Oct 8th, 2022.
https://114699a.blackbaudhosting.com/114699a/Learning-in-Community-LGBTQ-History-in-Downtown-Minneapolis
Join us for community-building, storytelling, and singing for our first event of our 2022-2023 program year: on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2-4 p.m. we will hear stories from LGBTQ+ people on death, grief, and remembering. This event will be IN-PERSON at the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association(outside, weather permitting) and live-streamed to our Facebook page.
A natural part of the cycle of life, death, loss and endings are powerful moments of transformation. You don’t have to grieve or remember alone. The collective stories we shape around death, loss, and remembering offer us support, relief and connection. Come be a part of TQH’s community-supported container holding our collective grief.
After the featured storytellers share (with ASL interpretations), we will break up into small groups or self guided activities and reflection. Activities may include karaoke, labyrinth, art making, conversation, or community alter making.
Substance free, family friendly, ASL interpreted event. Tickets are sliding scale/ pay-what-you-can ($0-$35). The livestream will be recorded.
Learn more and get your tickets now!
Join us for food, storytelling, and a farm tour for our fifth and final event of our 2021-22 program year: Food & Economic Justice on Sunday, June 12 @ 2:00-4:00 pm CT. This will be our first IN-PERSON (and online) event since the beginning of the pandemic!
This is our last event of our program year exploring the intersections of queerness and justice.
We will be live-streaming the event and gathering in-person at the Feminist Book Club patio for storytelling, then moving to the Growing Lots Urban Farm for food from the Elevate Chef Aubrey and a farm tour! You will have the opportunity to mingle with LGBTQ2S+ community members in small group discussions, as well!
Substance free, family friendly, ASL interpreted event. Tickets are sliding scale/ pay-what-you-can. The livestream will be recorded.
Accessibility information: The Feminist Book Club patio where storytelling will happen is ADA accessible. The farm tour may not be accessible for some mobility devices, but there is a sidewalk around the farm you can look in from. If needed, we will bring you food to the Feminist Book Club patio and will host some discussion groups there as well (as opposed to on the farm). While The Feminist Book Club bathroom will be available, it is not ADA accessible. We are working to find an alternative option.
Livestream information will be sent to attendees closer to the event, and the day of.
Get your ticket now!
Live performances, storytelling, speed-friending, and online auction. Hosted by Tane Danger
Zoom link will be emailed to ticket holders 2 hours and again 10 minutes before the event starts.
Get your ticket today!
Join us at Fast Friends on April 10th for a virtual fundraiser to support Telling Queer History which connects Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer + people across generations and identities through storytelling gatherings; bringing communities together to foster compassion, empathy, and healing.
Live performers TBA
ASL interpreted, live captioned, all ages, substance free event. The stories and performances in the first hour of the event will be recorded.
Invite your friends and future friends to join you at Fast Friends and/or make a donation in advance. https://www.givemn.org/organization/Telling-Queer-History-1
What is speed-friending? A guided opportunity to connect. The last 20 minutes of our fundraiser is dedicated to "speed-friending", giving space to act out our mission of connecting LGBTQ+ and allied people across generations and identities. If you choose to stay for that portion, you will be put in small groups of 4-5 people to get to know.
Here are the question prompts so you can reflect on them in advance.
Have you been to a Telling Queer History event before? If yes, which one(s)?
If you could have any super power, what would it be and why?
Do you have any animal or plant companions? If so, tell us about them.
What is a unique part of you that you would like to share with this group?
What is something you want to add to your life this year? What is something you are leaving behind?
If you were offered the following three beverages, which one would you choose? Iced coffee, hot coffee or tea.
Why our events are sliding scale: There is no difference in access, weather you pay $20 or $250. Each person pays what they can for this fundraiser (and our other events). We intentionally don’t replicate the capitalistic hierarchy of more money = more access.
We believe every gift is a gift, you give what you can. Thanks for supporting us in all the ways you can.
Join us Sunday, February 13 @ 2-4 pm for our third gathering of the 2021-22 program year exploring the intersections of queerness and justice.
“Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.” ― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
All ages, live captioned, ASL interpreted, substance free event, and sliding scale tickets.
This Zoom event will be recorded. ZOOM LINK IS ONLY SENT TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE REGISTERED ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT.
Racial Justice Stories will take place on Sunday, December 12th @ 2-4:00 pm. This is the second event of our 2021-22 program year exploring the intersections of queer experience and justice!
hclou with Voices for Racial Justice is curating and facilitating this event. Featured storytellers will continue to be announced. See the event registration page (click the RSVP button below) for the most updated storyteller roster.
Zoom link only sent to ticket holders on day of event.
Join Telling Queer History for the first event of our 2021/22 program year, Virtual Housing Justice Stories on Sunday, October 10 @ 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Save your spot here https://housingjusticestoriesoct102021.eventbrite.com/?aff=Web
June event cancelled so we can focus on internal development and healing. See you all in October for LGBTQ+ history month.