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Upcoming Actions & Community Events

Friday 4/15 @ 7 PM: Pride (2014) - A film based on a true story of solidarity

Pride at Work RI will be holding a film screening and discussion of Pride (2014) at Red Ink this Friday. A $5 donation is recommended, but no one will be turned away. Snacks and good company will be provided! Location: Red Ink Community Library, 130 Cypress St., Providence

Sunday 4/17 @ 12 - 3 PM: Queer Archive Work Open Library Hours

The QAW’s Open Library Hours are back. The library is free and open to anyone for drop in browsing, reading, chatting, resting, etc etc etc. Open every other Sunday this Spring! Location: 400 Harris Ave, Unit F, Providence

Saturday 4/23 @ 3 PM - 5 PM: Adult Ally Open House - Spring Break Edition

The Providence Student Union will be hosting an Adult Ally Open House—come tour the office, meet and greet their youth leaders + staff, learn about ongoing campaigns, enjoy food from Small Format, and more! RSVP at: https://tinyurl.com/psuadultally Location: Providence Student Union Office, 769 Westminster Street, Providence

Saturday 4/30 @ 8 - 2AM: Ocean State A$$ Birthday Fundraiser

Celebrate O$A’s 2nd birthday and spend some cash on your local sex worker organizing group. Featuring local DJs, a dance party, and hot merch. Studio 54 theme - dress to impress! Location: The Salon, 57 Eddy St, Providence

Mutual Aid* & Community Fundraisers

*Mutual aid is “survival pending on revolution,” as described by the Black Panthers. Join in redistributing wealth to create an ecosystem of care in response to a system of institutions that have failed or harmed our communities.

+ Community Support Needed

Donate at https://givebutter.com/amor4sol

AMOR is fundraising for Sulayman, “Sol”, a Gambian father to an 8-year old boy from Providence. Sol was detained by ICE in late 2018, and ultimately deported to Gambia in March of 2019. Now, his family are beginning the process of getting Sol back to the US to reunite with his wife and son. Any help would be appreciated.

+ Support a Black mom who is grieving

Donate at tinyurl.com/Black-mom-grieving

This fundraiser is intended to raise money for a Providence community member who has faced several trials this past year: assaults on her family at the hands of police, traumatizing DCYF raids, and the passing of close family members and friends, including her father. While battling cancer, she is also the primary caretaker of several grandchildren, and needs the funds to provide for them and pay for her father’s service.

+ Queer and Trans Mutual Aid PVD

Venmo @qtmapvd, PayPal.me/qtmapvd

Support mutual aid for LGBTQIA people in Rhode Island! There are currently 16 outstanding requests for aid, equal to $1600. Help QTMA fill this need!

+ Kennedy Plaza Survival Drive (by Wide Awake Collective)

Venmo WideAwakes-PVD, Cashapp: $MutualAidMondays

Support weekly survival drives on Saturdays at Kennedy Plaza! This drive distributes food, water, hygiene materials, warm clothing and other important items to folks in need. The railroad fund provides sustainable support to people currently incarcerated in Rhode Island. Please donate and help Railroad support a friend who is in need of continued survival and support this winter.

+ Ocean State A$$ Mutual Aid Fund 2022

Venmo: OSA-funds

Support local sex workers by donating to the venmo above and consider buying an Ocean State A$$ calendar, on sale at Fortnight Wine Bar, Hungry Ghost

Press, Symposium Books, Mister Sister Erotica, and RiffRaff.

+ COYOTE RI Closet (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics RI)

Now accepting donations of hygiene products and new or used clothing at the

Love and Compassion Day Health Center; 92 East Avenue, Pawtucket RI, 02904. Contact Sheila Brown (401) 548-3756 to donate or collect items.

A message from Sock & Buskin:

Calling all writers and actors! Interested in trying playwriting for the first (or hundredth) time? In the iron grip of writer’s block and in desperate need of a prompt and a deadline to get your creative juices flowing? Then sign up for Sock & Buskin’s Writing is Live Bakeoff!

WHAT IS WRITING IS LIVE?

A festival of new plays by the playwrights in Brown’s MFA Playwriting program! Six fantastic new works are being performed April 21-May 1. Check out http://www.browntaps.org/writing-is-live-2022/ for more details.

AND WHAT IS A BAKEOFF?!

A bakeoff is an event created by the playwright Paula Vogel whose goal is to join writers in community to create new plays based on a single prompt. The prompt looks like a list of “ingredients” that you must “bake” into your play, as well as a narrative structure in which to bake these ingredients.

For this bakeoff, we will use “ingredients” drawn from the six plays being presented in the Writing is Live festival!

You are more than welcome to participate even if you don’t identify as someone who writes plays. This will be a great opportunity to try out writing words for other people to read out loud!

Acting more your vibe? You can also sign up to read other people’s work. And if you’re not interested in acting or writing but still want to be in the room to hear everyone’s amazing writing, please feel free to sign up to be an audience member.

Sign up using this Google form by TUESDAY, APRIL 19TH at 11:59PM: https://forms.gle/wznHfhf6D6LrtHvEA.

*Fill out the form if you plan to attend in any capacity so we can get a head count!*

If you are writing for the event, we will send you a prompt on Wednesday, April 20th. You’ll carve out a bit of time to write on Thursday and Friday, and send us your writing by Friday evening. Then we’ll gather on SUNDAY, APRIL 24TH from 11AM-1:30PM in Lyman Hall (on Brown’s campus) Room 005 to share and celebrate our work in an informal, relaxed environment.

Questions? Concerns? Email sockbuskinbrown@gmail.com. We can’t wait to see you there!

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