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PiNk
iNk
Check out the Pink Ink zine, 10
Reasons to Riot, voted best zine in Toronto by NOW Magazine. Get
your copy at the
Toronto Women's Bookstore (73 Harbord Street) or This Ain't the
Rosedale Library (483 Church Street).
Look out for Pink Ink at
Fruit Loopz
2008! The Pink Ink 2007-2008 season is now over.
Details on the next season will be posted soon
A writing group for queer/trans
youth. Pink Ink is a conscious, multi-disciplinary,
for-youth-by-youth writing program for queer, transgender, Two
Spirit and questioning youth writers in Toronto aged 14-26.
Everybody's story is important.
Nobody can tell your story but you.
Come MEET other queer and trans artists
from Toronto and all over the country!
Come LEARN solid writing, editing, performance and publication
skills!
Come have FUN, CREATE, WRITE, LEARN and CHILL!
Facilitator bio:
Karine Silverwoman is a playwright, video
maker, spoken work artist dancer boxer, counsellor and community
activist. She was recently a participant in the Queer Youth
Digital Arts Project through The Inside Out Gay & Lesbian Film
Festival. Her video, 'Hello, My Name is Herman' won "best-liked
video
by the audience"
award, and received
an honorable mention for jury selected best
short videos,
and has also been shortlisted for the Iris Prize (www.irisprize.org).
Karine has worked with Nightwood Theatre and performed her
poetry at many different events in Toronto such as Mayworks
festival. She works as a crisis referral councilor at Women's
Counseling Education Referral Centre (WREC). She has
co-facilitated workshops on anti-oppression and has had many
years of frontline outreach experience with youth, homeless
people and marginalized communities. She is currently taking her
degree in social work at Ryerson University.
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