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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. For more on BTQjidentified student, staff member or
Confluence Chorus, visit confluencechorus.org.
parent and to create a safe school
environment.
“This is an opportunity for all of us to teach
Lewis 8 C la rk to Host W ork
and learn from each other,” said Fletcher.
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