Spring Up

today! we are doing an everyday TJ webinar with 🌠 want us to do a webinar on care, conflict, organizational accountability, consent, or TJ with your group in 2024? Reserve now at timetospringup.org 🪼

NCCASA has contracted with Spring Up to facilitate this training. Facilitators are Gayatri Lakshmi (they/them), collective member and consultant, Spring Up Mara Martinez-Hewitt (they/them), collective member and consultant, Spring Up https://www.timetospringup.org/. This webinar will be in English on Zoom. Please let us know if you need English to Spanish interpretation.

NCCASA ha contratado a Spring Up para facilitar esta capacitación. Los facilitadores son Gayatri Lakshmi (elle), miembro colectivo y consultora, Spring Up Mara Martinez-Hewitt (elle), miembro colectivo y consultora, Spring Up https://www.timetospringup.org/. Este seminario web se impartirá en inglés en Zoom. Por favor, háganos saber si necesita interpretación del inglés al español. La página de inscripción es en inglés. Haga clic en la palabra “Translate” (Traducir) en la esquina superior derecha y selecciona la opción "Spanish" (Español) de la lista desplegable para ver la versión en español.

We are tabling at Psychedelic Science 2023 in Denver! Come see us at booth 405 if you are here 🍄

Registration for bluelight’s summer term online 6-week courses + 1-day virtual retreats is now open! 🎉 Learn more + register today at bluelight.academy (link in bio)

What will you do to invest in your personal development and support system this summer? Will a bluelight academy course or retreat be part of making space for you to commit to your own unlearning and healing?

Get 25% off any retreat when you register for any 6 week course!

Get 10% off if you register by May 3rd with the code EARLYBIRD

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Last month, our collective member .shaina was involved in co-hosting a Liberatory Art-making workshop alongside in collaboration with the . The event was put together by and took place in the space at in Raleigh, NC. As a digital collective with our collective members all over the US, we love getting the opportunity to show up in each of our local communities to support and uplift values aligned work and in this case, we got to share Spring Up’s work around the Resilience & Revitalization project to spark inspiration for for liberatory art making. 🌈🍄✨

“Vanguard Social: Visions of Southern Q***r Resistance,” highlights the works of Southern QTBIPOC (Q***r, Trans, Black, Indigenous People of Color) artists as a means of empowering and uplifting their lived experience. This exhibition places emphasis on the pivotal role of QTBIPOC creatives in the push for liberation, while also highlighting the need for solidarity throughout communities that are marginalized by way of systemic oppression.” The is currently up at VAE in Raleigh, NC until March 23rd so if you are local to the area or passing through, we encourage you to check it out!

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✨Registration for bluelight’s Spring 2023 Consent, Gender, Power course is now open!✨

bluelight academy's Consent, Gender, Power class is an opportunity for community educators, advocates, care providers, and people impacted by gender based violence to explore the roots of violence and frameworks of prevention and response. Through this multi-media course we dive into the history, power dynamics, and systems that perpetuate and uphold gender based violence as well as strategies and tools to practice consent, healing, and harm reduction.

If you have questions on scholarships or accessibility, please visit bluelight.academy for more information. This course runs from February 10 to March 31 and includes several optional live virtual spaces to connect with other students and discuss the material, as well as a 1:1 coaching session, a print workbook, and 6 modules of original video, audio, and text resources with comments to ask questions and reflect.

Registration closes on January 25th, –– Learn more + register for the course at bluelight.academy or using the link in our bio!