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O R E G O N S LE S BIAN/GAY/B l/TRAN S/QUE E R NEW SM AG AZINE JANUARY 7 2011 7 „ f# ! NW NEWS IN BRIEF BY RYAN J. PRADO proved on December 15 following an exten sive peer review process involving 58 volun teers on 16 different panels. The intensive recommendation process for the disbursement of grants makes the award ing of funds to artists like Kaj-Anne Pepper all the more rewarding. Pepper’s grant was given to help fund the project Genderfantasy—a choreographed movement installation exploring queer iden tity, gender fluidity and sound collage. Pepper is working with a multi-instrumentalist and composer to develop an original sound score, and is putting together a team of dancers, musicians, singers and makeup artists to cre ate an entertaining and compelling evening of performance art. “RACC grants are important because they offer an incentive for artists to level up,” ex plained Pepper. “For first-time grant recipi ents like myself, it’s an opportunity to be rec ognized publicly.” Don Horn’s Triangle Productions! received two grants from RACC—one for an upcoming produc tion, and also a professional development grant that will help Horn travel to a theater conference. “In the past 21 years I have not been able to go to one as I couldn’t afford it,” said Horn. “This allows me to do that! I am truly grate ful to RACC and to the other organizations that have given to Triangle. It has been an amazing year.” In other grant news, Confluence—the Willamette Valley LGBTQ_ Chorus—was a recent recipient of an Arts Build Communities (ABC) grant awarded by the Oregon Arts Commission. The $3,500 award will support the chorus’ mission of outreach to members of the LGBTQ_and al lied communities in the Willamette Valley. set to hold the first of a three-part series of discussions and feedback in a free event dubbed “Continuing the Conversation: Providing Safe Learning Environments for LGB TQ_ Children, Teens, Adults and Allies.” The first of these events takes place Sat urday, January 15 from 9 a.m. to noon on the L&C graduate campus, room SCCC101. Workshop 1 will tackle the question, “Should Teachers Say It’s Okay to be Gay?” by examining norms in the educational sys tem that prevent administration from creat ing safe spaces for LGBTQ_students, staff and parents or family members. Scott Fletcher—dean of the Graduate School of Education and Counseling at L&C—explained that due to the school’s position as advocates for the preparation of educators and counselors who understand and can effectively address the discrimina tion that LGBTQ_people experience in and outside of schools, L&C is firm in its commitment to making efforts like the workshop series a part of its professional programs. “This requires an un derstanding of the com plex ways that institutions erect barriers and obsta cles to equality, and the subtle ways that discrimi nation operates to dimin ish opportunity,"explained Fletcher. “We believe there is an enormous need to work more intentional ly and collaboratively to create a shared understanding of what it means to seek equity and fight intolerance in the classrooms, clinics and communities where our graduates will work.” The first workshop is designed to explore the norm of heterosexuality in schools and communities and how that impacts students, family and staff—as well as the issue of ex For more information about RACC grants and a amining what it means to be safe as an LG- full list of recipients, visit racc.org. 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