July GM: Q-Wave Game Night!!
July 11, 2011
Hello Q-wavers,
What: Q-Wave Game Night
When: 22nd July 2011 (Friday) – 7-9pm
Where: Project Reach – 39 Eldridge St. 4th Floor
[Subways: F to East Broadway (Walk west on Canal, cross Allen to Eldridge) or B/D to Grand St. (Walk east to Eldridge, then walk south towards KTV sign)]
Why: Reconnect with old and new friends after pride and swap stories and player cred over party games and snacks.
Scrabble / Table Tennis / Cranium / Charades / Chinese Checkers/ Bananagrams / 7 / Clue / Jenga / Card games and more!
Do you have a favourite board game or interactive party game? Bring your games and ideas to share too!
Note: Q-wave is very grateful for the space that Project Reach has loaned us for this event and hope to contribute a small donation towards this end.
Celebrate 2011 NYC Pride w/ Q-wave!!!!
June 17, 2011
Hello Q-wavers.
It is that fabulous time of the year again and we’re all super excited to be celebrating PRIDE with numerous events during pride weekend. See below and mark your calendars as this plans to be the best pride yet for Q-wave!!!
Friday June 17, 2011: General Meeting: Pride Prep Party 7 pm – 9pm CUNY Graduate Center
Friday, June 24, 2011: Trans Day of Action, 3 pm to 6 pm Foley Square
Saturday, June 25, 2011: Dyke March, 5 pm to 8 pm Bryant Park
Sunday, June 26, 2011: Heritage of Pride March 10 am Location TBD but will be near Bryant Park
GM: Pride Prep Party
Come support Q-Wave & GAPIMNY by making some awesome posters for the 2011 NYC Pride Parade! Meet some fun-loving people! Come show us your writing and drawing skills (or just talking skills)!
* bring your smart slogans *
* bring your art class talent *
* bring your asian pride to support our annual pride prep party! *
When: Friday, June 17th, 2011, 7pm – 9pm
Where: CUNY Center on 5th Ave between 34th and 35th Streets, Room C197 (in the basement level)
**all sign-making materials will be provided, however, if you would like to bring your own stuff to share, you are the most welcome!**
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Trans Day of Action
Q-wave will be part of an API contingent, including our friends from SALGA, GAPIMNY and APICHA. Bring signs if you have them! Join us on Friday as we march through the streets of New York demanding dignity for ourselves an for our friends and loved ones. All allies, friends and family are strongly urged to attend. WE’RE HERE, WE’RE QUEER, GET USED TO IT!
When: Friday, June 24, 2011 – 3:00pm – 7:00pm
Where: Foley Square (Worth Street between Centre St & Lafayette St), Manhattan, NY. Nearest Transit: Chambers St (J,Z), Brooklyn Bridge – City Hall (4,5,6,6X), Canal St (J,Z)
Time: Rally & March 3:00 pm, Closing Rally 6:00pm
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The Dyke March is on *Saturday, June 25th at 5PM SHARP*. Starting in Bryant Park (42nd St & 6th Ave), the March goes along 5th Ave until Washington Square Park. Q-Wave and SALGA will be marching together this year.We will meet on the steps on the NW corner of Bryant Park (6th Ave & 42nd St) by 4:45 PM AT THE LATEST! If you cannot find us, please call Aileen at 718.290.5904*
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Heritage of Pride March 2011
Q-wave will once again be marching in the Heritage of Pride parade down 5th Ave on Sunday, June 26th, 2011 and we welcome you all to join us as we make visible the Queer API community. As you may already know, we will be marching with GAPIMNY this year and we would love to have a very large joint contingent. Please help us make this the best Manhattan pride march yet!!!
We’ll have the poongul (Korean drumming), `Asian Pride’ letters, signs, postcards, and colorful parasols… Should be a lot of fun and a very positive anduplifting march for everyone !!
We’re still awaiting location details from the organizers but we’ll update soon. Feel free to contact Param 312.543.9637 should you have any questions.
Annual Picnic June 4, 2011
May 29, 2011
Hey Q-Wavers!
This is the event you’ve all been waiting for! On June 4, come to the annual Q-Wave potluck picnic to:
- Meet great people
- See old friends
- AND relax!!!
This time we are going to have it at Rockafeller Park near the entrance at River Terrace and Warren St, it’s a quaint little space with paved walkways and even a playground for little kids.
Q-Wave will bring the basics (napkins, cups, plates, utensils, etc). You should bring yourself and things/food to share, here are a few suggestions:
- picnic blanket *
- homemade goodies, fruits, veggies, deli goods, snacks *
- games, basketball or handball (there are courts at the park), frisbee, volleyball
- children, asian ally friends, non-asian ally friends, family
- skateboard, bike, roller skates
Also we’ll be meeting around noon at the bottom of the Stuyvesant HS/Tribeca Bridge, east side of the West St and Chambers St corner to head over and camp out a spot together. If you are heading from New Jersey, you may be able to catch a boat to World Financial Center, the pier is right in the park! Or you can also take the PATH to World Trade Center. If you are catching the MTA trains, take the trains to Chambers St.
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=205396539152115339958.0004a3f32c31f032269aa
Just in case you still can’t find us, you can also call Ryan at (570) 798-7436
5/20 GM: “Our Queer & Asian Voices” w/ rockstar guests Helen Zia & Lia Shigemura
May 11, 2011
Hello Q-Wavers!
Mark your calendar for our next General Meeting on Friday May 20th from 7-9pm: “Our Queer & Asian Voices!”
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! It’s a time we celebrate our Asian identities …but how about our queer identities as well?
- What do you say when your grandma asks, “so do you have a boyfriend yet?”
- Do you avoid bringing your pungent fish / kimchee / curry / pickled daikon leftovers for lunch at work?
- Do you feel more comfortable talking to a stranger about LGBT rights than with your own cousins?
Sometimes, we are forced to check our identities at the door. We make decisions, conscious or not, about when to raise our voices or hold’em back.
Come share your stories or listen to other Q-Waver’s talk about how we handle these situations and environments. We’ll have some fun activities/games and discuss how to support ourselves and each other in our different identities and voices. We’ll also talk about how we, as a community, choose to get involved with larger issues like “marriage equality” on a personal or political basis.
**You DO NOT WANT TO MISS this GENERAL MEETING because we will ALSO be joined by two very special rockstar guests from San Francisco: Helen Zia and Lia Shigemura, two inspirational Asian American leaders and activists. They have been a couple since 1992, were married twice (in 2004 and 2008) and have been heavily involved with the marriage equality movement and anti-prop 8 lawsuits in California.
Friday, May 20, 7-9 pm
CUNY Graduate Center, 34th St. and 5th Ave.
Room C197
Drinks and light snacks will be provided and, as always, we will go out for a fun group dinner afterwards.
Directions: (via subway): – B, D, F, V, N, R, Q, W to 34th Street/Broadway – 6 to 33rd Street/Park Avenue and walk 2 blocks west – 1, 2, 3, 9 to 34th Street/7th Avenue (Madison Square Garden) and walk 2-3 blocks east – A, C, E to 34th Street/8th Avenue and walk 3-4 blocks east.
Bios
Lia Shigemura has worked for the past 20 years in the public, private and independent sectors focusing on civil rights, affirmative action and diversity. She now heads a private diversity consulting firm, DragonVision Media, and sits on the Profiles in Diversity Journal advisory board. Lia was a founder of the Asian Women’s Shelter, and serves as Vice Chair of the Horizons Foundation Board of Directors. She was formerly Director of Corporate Diversity for Pacific Gas and Electric and National Program Director for the Japanese American Citizens League.
An award-winning journalist, Helen Zia is the author of Asian-American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, and coauthor with Wen Ho Lee of My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused. She was executive editor of Ms. Magazine and the book, Notable Asian-Americans. In 1998, Helen was named Chinese-American Journalist of the Year by the Organization of Chinese-Americans. Her work on the Asian-American landmark civil rights case of anti-Asian violence is documented in the Academy-Award-nominated film, Who Killed Vincent Chin?
Q-Wave Table at the Asian Heritage Festival – May 8th
May 4, 2011
The Asian Heritage Festival is here again!
This year, the out-door event will be held at The Union Square Park, at East 17th Street and Park Ave on May 8th from 12 pm to 5 pm.
The Asian Heritage Festival is an annual event where all the Asian and Pacific Islander organizations come together to show collectively the resources and variety of services we have in our community.
It is a great opportunity to explore different organizations and services that may be available to you!
It is a wonderful outreach opportunity for Q-WAVE as well, and we will be sharing a booth with GAPIMNY at the event. We are often able to provide some education and awareness about our organization as a resource to the general Asian community and to recruit new members at this event.
We hope to see all of you there! Please do come and stop by our booth, we would love to see/meet you and your friends! ~Look for the Q-WAVE Banner and volunteers~
To help with raising awareness and visibility for Q-WAVE, if you feel up for it, please wear a Q-WAVE T-Shirt if you have one!! All the volunteers will be wearing our t-shirts as well, and the shirts will be available for sale at the table!
We will also have a small fundraising-bake-sale to help cover the cost of tabling at this event. Please come and support us, thank you!!