Workshop Schedule!

** 2011  Schedule **
We are still accepting workshop proposals! Please send your submissions to twac@riseup.net

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Wednesday July 27th

10:30a-12:30p

* Cob Oven/Natural Building:  Cob building is a cheap, easy, and time tested way to build structures for almost any kind of function.  Come help build a cob oven literally from the ground up.  We’ll be dealing with insulation, a bit of carpentry, making cob mud batches, and hopefully finish plasters.  We will talk about cob on a larger scale and other natural building techniques as we work.  When we’re finished we can fire it up and stuff ourselves with pizza and bread and pies!  This project will take a few days so look for us on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and come get dirty…  (Jorie)

2:00p – 4:00p

8:00p Performance/ Art / Poetry

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THURSDAY, JULY 28TH

10:30a-12:30p

*First Aid and Self-Care for Cyclists: basic first aid & injury prevention,
as well as brief info about bike fit, preventing/treating weather-related
illnesses, and nutritional stuff for longer rides. (Nova)

2:00p – 4:00p

*Punk, Polyamory, and Patriarchy:  Competition and Cultural Capital amongst female socialized folks within Polyamorous circles.  The zine includes narratives
from both female identified, male identified, and gender queer folks
describing their experience with the subject described above.  A facilitated discussion, with hope to continue expanding this project…collecting different narratives and ideas… (Taylore)

8:00p Telling Our Radical Stories

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FRIDAY, JULY 29TH

10:30a-12:30p

*Discussion/Brainstorm about oppression and how to improve our
movements: My preference with this oppression discussion is that it focus on racism through an intersectional framework. (Ariel)

2:00p – 4:00p

*Herbal Gynecology 101: Basic herbal remedies for cramps/yeast/etc.  Come prepared to share your skills and experience, too!  Nova would love a co-facilitator with more experience.  (Nova)

*Field Checking 101 (Meredith)

6:00-8:00 pm(ish) Issue discussion

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SATURDAY, JULY 30TH

10:30a-12:30p

*Coal Export in the Northwest:  Overview of proposed coal export terminals in Oregon and Washington, where the coal is coming from and going to, and who/how we will fight it. (Meredith)

*Affinity Groups, Collectives and How We Work Together:  A dynamic workshop utilizing activities and games to explore the roles, purpose and use of affinity groups, collectives and other forms of self organizing. Using methods from popular and experiential education, we will look closer at the ways we work together in the direct action and radical organizing context. (Hazel)

2:00p – 4:00p

*An Introduction to Transphobia and Cissexism:
Transgender 101 workshops often prioritize topics and questions like terminology, what is a transperson anyway?, how do hormones and surgery affect transpeople physically?, and the difficulty non-transpeople have with using the correct pronouns for trans people. Terminology and other basic info will be covered but this workshop will utilize an intersectional analysis of systems of oppression to focus on how gender-variant people are oppressed in America. Some of the topics covered include: common prison/jail/police policy, job, healthcare, and housing discrimination, colonialization, poverty, sex work, fetishization of trans people, sexual violence, bathroom access, body image issues, stereotypes, immigration, airport harassment, hate based violence, gender identity disorder and coercive therapy, media depictions, etc. Come with your questions, your input, and your ears. The presenter will try to meet the audience where they are. (Ariel)

8:00p Performance Night: Sprockettes!  Poetry, dancing, music
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SUNDAY, JULY 31st

10:30a-12:30p

*30 Years of Earth First!  and Conservation Biology: A composite workshop outlining the History of Earth First! and the science of conservation biology (Karen Coulter)

2:00p – 4:00p

* Sex Work:  This workshop will be a facilitated discussion by a Portland based exotic dancer in the sex work industry. They will be gearing the discussion towards self-empowerment, self management, and talking about the pros and cons of such an industry. They would love to co-facilitate with other workers in the sex industry.
- Steph Boston, TWAC

8p- Craft Night!

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MONDAY, August  1st  ** DAY OF ACTION **

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