Tuesday

DINE OUT FOR LIFE

Join area restaurants for Dining Out for Life
Thursday, April 28th

Up to 50% of your bill will be donated to the
Interior AIDS Association

Lavelle's Bistro (Dinner)
Bobby's Downtown (Dinner
Ivory Jacks (11 am - 5 pm)

For an updated list of participating restaurants, visit

Take Back the Night 2011

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TAKE BACK THE NIGHT 
Saturday April 30th, 6:30 pm 
Morris Thompson Cultural Center 
101 Dunkel Street in downtown Fairbanks

Take Back the Night is an event with the mission of ending sexual violence in all forms. Take Back the Night events unify women, men, and children in raising awareness of sexual assault and domestic violence while lending support to survivors.  

Contact Brittany at 452-2293 if you can help out with Take Back the Night 2011, or if you have questions.

Saturday

A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer - Benefit Reading

 V‑DAY FAIRBANKS 2011   & 
Members of Revive the Red Tent Productions
Present a Benefit Reading of
A MEMORY, A MONOLOGUE, A RANT AND A PRAYER:  Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls
Friday, April 22nd and Saturday, April 23rd at 8:00 p.m 
Empress Theatre (in the Co-op Building Downtown Fairbanks)
Enjoy the performance, help raise funds and awareness, END violence against women and girls!
Who: V-Day Fairbanks
What: A V-Day Book Event: A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer raising funds for the Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living
Where: Empress Theatre (Located in the Co-Op Building Downtown Fairbanks)
When: Friday, April 22nd and Saturday, April 23rd at 8:00 p.m.
Admission: $10.00 Students, $15.00 General Admission
Contact: Anna Gagne-Hawes (revive.the.red.tent@gmail.com)
Goal: To raise awareness to stop violence against women and girls and to raise funds for – The Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living
 A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer: Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls, is a groundbreaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights, edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle and commissioned by V-Day for the first V-Day: UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS festival, which took place June 2006 in New York City. The writings are inspired, funny, angry, heartfelt, tragic, and beautiful. But above all, together they create a true and profound portrait of how violence against women affects every one of us. A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, And A Prayer are a call to the world to demand an end to violence against women.
About V-Day
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler’s award winning play The Vagina Monologues and other artistic works.  In 2010, over 5400 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $75 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 12,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic Of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. In twelve years, the V-Day movement has reached over 300 million people.

Tuesday

Scholarship (LGBT) - DEADLINE April 18, 5pm

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The Lesbian, Gay , Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Friends & Allies Student Scholarship was established to provide a scholarship annually to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students, children of LGBT persons , or friends and allies of the LGBT community who have affected it positively.
Qualifications:
  • Must be a full time or part-time student attending the University of Alaska Fairbanks
  • Must be in good academic standing
  • Preference will be given to students who were born in Alaska or are Alaska residents
Application Procedure:
  • Provide contact information & UA ID
  • Please submit a 500 word minimum essay responding to the question,
          "What is your relationship to the LGBT Community"

Award Amount : $1,000

Deliver, mail or email completed application materials to:
LGBT Friends & Allies Student Scholarship
c/o Scholarship coordinator, UAF Financial Aid Office
Room 107 Eielson Building
PO Box 756360
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6360
scholarship@uaf.edu

For mor info : call 474-6228

Monday

Day of Silence April 15, 2011

Hundreds of thousands of students at thousands of middle schools, high schools and colleges will take some form of a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools.

  • Because nearly 9 out of 10 LGBT students experience harassment in American schools each year.
  • Because 60% of LGBT youth feel unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation.
  • Because nearly 1 out of 3 LGBT youth missed school in the past month because of safety concerns.

What are you going to do to end the silence?

Learn more at http://www.dayofsilence.org