Inclusiveness Events

Zappy Hour is a fun evening with snacks and beverages for club members and anyone interested in learning about Zonta Foothills Club of Boulder County. Check us out in "5280 Magazine"

www.5280.com/magazine/2010/09/inconvenient-truth

Colorado Shakespeare Festival
July 1 – August 15, 2009
Box Office after June 1: 303.492.0554
www.coloradoshakes.org
Location: University of Colorado Campus, Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre and University Theatre
Tickets online or at Box Office Phone: 303-492-0554, beginning June 2nd
Experience classic theatre at its best in the shadow of the majestic Flatiron Mountains. Enjoy gorgeous summer evenings with gourmet picnics, backstage tours, the Shakespeare gardens, free Green Show concerts, and “Prologue,” an introductory discussion with Producing Artistic Director Philip Sneed. The plays this summer are Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Bring a date or bring the family. (Kids 5 -12 can come for just $5.00, and students 13 – 17 get half-priced tickets for Orchestra and Upper Circle seats).

Steven Salaita, author and Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Tech will discuss his new book The Uncultured Wars: Arabs, Muslims and the Poverty of Liberal Thought, a powerful indictment of dominant American liberal-left discourse. Steven Salaita’s core themes are anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia and the inadequacy of critical thought amongst the liberal left. Salaita explores why Arabs are marginalized, and who seeks to benefit from this. Free.

Join grassroots activists, organizations and straight allies from across the nation as we demonstrate at Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell-the site where the Gay Pioneers launched our movement with protests each Fourth of July from 1965 to 1969.
Call on Congress and our new president for:

• Passage of trans-inclusive hate crimes legislation and Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)

• Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)

• Support for GLBT health issues

• Equal benefits for same-sex families

• Same-sex marriage Equality

The walk, one section starting at 9th and following Arapahoe Avenue and one starting at Mapleton, following 13th Street, will end at the Courthouse lawn on the Pearl Street mall where Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi will give a keynote talk at 12:15

To continue providing our services to the community, the Bias Incident Hotline Project (BIHP) is having our first annual Game-a-thon FUNdraiser.

The Game-a-thon serves three purposes: (1) To fund raise for BIH (2) To provide a fun, safe and friendly environment for the community to enjoy (3) To outreach to the Boulder County community about BIHP services.

Black physicians have long faced discrimination in the U.S.A. and African-American students have often been discouraged from pursuing careers in the medical field.  The National Medical Association goal was to have an increase of 12% of blacks and peoples of color as doctors by 1975.

Restoring the Soul: Faith and Community Partnerships will present a free Lunch Time Forum (join us, snacks provided or bring your lunch, vegetarian please as our host site is kosher)

Restoring the Soul: Faith and Community Partnerships will present a free Lunch Time Forum (join us, snacks provided or bring your lunch, vegetarian please as our host site is kosher)

Join Bent Lens Cinema and BMoCA for a special screening of the highly
acclaimed "Black White & Gray" -- the award winning portrayal of famed
photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and his partner, renowned art collector
Sam Wagstaff, and their platonic menage-a-trois with punk poet and
songwriter Patti Smith. Bent Lens Cinema screened this film at Queer
Realities 2008 and our friends at BMoCA liked it so much they wanted to
show it again, and make it an evening of art lovers, queers and queer art
lovers!

Whether you want to catch it a 2nd time or you missed it the first time,
don't miss this chance to see a great film about some of the most cutting
edge glbt artists of our time.