Category: Clubs
November 20th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Project Pride and the SLC hosted two events this week in honor of Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance. If you were unable to attend the first event, a silent honoring of lives lost to anti-Transgender violence held Nov. 18, you can find photos here. If you missed the memorial event held Fri., Nov. 20, you can view the photos here. The installation that was erected in the PUB lobby in honor of #BlackLivesMatter and #TDOR will be on display until the end of Fall quarter. If you were unable to attend either Transgender Day of Remembrance event, please take the time to stop by the lobby and view the installation, which is a moving portrayal of the violence faced by this marginalized community.
Posted in Announcements, Arts & Entertainment, ASG, Clubs, Events Tagged with: #blacklivesmatter, #TDOR
November 19th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Check out what the art clubs have been making and do some holiday shopping – it couldn’t be more convenient!
Fri., Nov. 20, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Visual Arts Building 2000
Posted in Announcements, Clubs, Events Tagged with: art club, clay club, f-stop photo club, holiday art sale, VCT
November 19th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Have you ever met a “real” Indian? Aren’t most of them dead? Aren’t they just in the past? Come join us for the final installment presented by the First Nations club, Fri., Nov. 20 1:30-3:30 p.m. in the Multicultural Center, PUB 9301.
Posted in Announcements, Clubs, Events, Free Tagged with: first nations club, multicultural center
November 19th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Shoreline’s Talent Show on Nov. 19 was a huge success. Eleven amazing acts – ranging from dance to spoken word to singing – took the stage and wowed a packed house. Congratulations to all of our talented members of #PhinNation who shared their incredible talent with us! A big shout out to all the performers for their utter amazingness, and kudos to Chunbo Cheng for grabbing 1st place, Peyton Slimp for snagging 2nd place, Kehla Grow for winning 3rd, and Jasper Leong for bringing home the audience award. Congrats to all!
Missed the show? Check out our gallery of the event on flickr here.
Posted in Announcements, Arts & Entertainment, Clubs, Events Tagged with: talent show 2015
November 18th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Check out what the art clubs have been making and do some holiday shopping – it couldn’t be more convenient!
Thurs., Nov. 19, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Fri., Nov. 20, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Visual Arts Building 2000
Posted in Announcements, Arts & Entertainment, Clubs, Events Tagged with: holiday art sale, VCT
November 17th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Please join Project Pride and the Arts and Entertainment Board on Wed., Nov. 18 in the main lobby of the PUB at 12:30 p.m. to commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance and acknowledge that Black Trans Women are one of the most targeted groups in the United States.
According to BlackLivesMatter, the average life expectancy for Black Trans Women is 35 years. Please see this article for details of the high number of Black Trans Women killed so far in 2015.
Despite the recent epidemic of violence against Trans people in general, and Black Trans Women in particular, violent targeting of the trans community has been met with silence and erasure.
End the silence. Join us on Wed., Nov. 18 at 12:30 p.m. in the PUB lobby.
The week of Nov. 14-20 is Transgender Awareness Week. Click here to learn more about what it means to be Transgender and click here to see how you can help be an ally to the Transgender community.
Posted in Announcements, Arts & Entertainment, ASG, Clubs, Events, Free
November 17th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Please participate in this very quick survey to let us know if you think Shoreline Community College should offer a free laptop rental program for students and whether or not you’d benefit from this service.
Posted in Announcements, ASG, Clubs, Services for Students Tagged with: survey
November 16th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
The student sign up for Community Read is now live on the SLC web page here.
Don’t know what Community Read is? Read on:
Each year a new book is selected for our Community Book Read. Together we share our impressions and ideas. Weekly analyses of the text are led by a variety of college volunteers, bringing with them their unique backgrounds, expertise and perspectives. This keeps the discussion fresh, lively and relevant.
This year’s book is Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. Octavia’s Brood is a collection of social justice-themed science fiction stories that feature things like time travel, shape shifting, dystopian worlds, re-imaginings of “model minorities” and the possibilities of using visionary fiction to develop new ideas of future worlds. The works are inspired by the writings of Octavia Butler, an award-winning science fiction writer (Kindred, Parable of the Sower, and Lilith’s Brood) who lived in Lake Forest Park before her death in 2006.
The entire campus community is invited to read and discuss the stories inside Octavia’s Brood during winter quarter. Students will be able to receive a FREE copy of the book after signing up!
You can explore the book, its message and its authors at the library’s learning guide here.
You can find more information and a link to sign up on the SLC web page and you can also sign up to join the read here.
Posted in Announcements, Clubs, Events, Free Tagged with: community read, octavias brood
October 11th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Princess Angeline.
Shoreline Community College’s First Nations Club talks back to Columbus on Mon., Oct. 12, with a day of events celebrating Indigenous People’s Day. Students, staff and faculty are invited to join a day of events that challenge non-Native ideas of Indianness and explore contemporary—and nearby—issues of Makah whaling and federal recognition of the Duwamish people. All events are free.
Matika Wilbur: Project 562’s Quest for Real Indians – 9:30 a.m., PUB Quiet Dining Room (9208)
Pesented by Howie Echo-Hawk (Pawnee and Athabaskan), First Nations’ Club, Shoreline Community College. Video and discussion of Wilbur’s (Swinomish and Tulalip) work in challenging visual and cultural images of contemporary Native Americans. Click here more information on Project 562.
Modern Makah Whaling and the Lens of History – 10:30 a.m., PUB Quiet Dining Room (9208)
Presented by Joshua Reid (Snohomish), Ph.D, Departments of History and American Indian Studies, University of Washington. Reid will talk about how history helps us better understand why whaling remains important to Makahs today. It draws from his book, The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs.
Princess Angeline, film – 11:30 a.m., PUB Quiet Dining Room (9208)
Co-sponsored by Project Pride – This film from independent indigenous filmmaker Sandra Johnson Osawa (Makah) and her partner Yasu Osawa uses the story of Chief Seattle’s oldest daughter—Princess Angeline or Kikisebloo—to explore the history of the Duwamish people and their so-far fruitless quest for federal recognition.
Smoke Signals, movie – 12:30–2:30 p.m., PUB Room 9202
Written, directed, co-produced and mostly acted by American Indians, Smoke Signalsis a road movie within an indigenous flair. With a screenplay written by Sherman Alexi (Spokane-Coeur d’Alene), the movie pokes fun at the way Native Americans are stereotypically imagined in America today and challenges non-Indian viewers to come to terms with Native American experiences and perspectives. Film will be followed with Native comedy shorts and discussion.
Posted in Announcements, Clubs, Events, Free Tagged with: first nations club, indigenous peoples day
October 6th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
October 7, 2015 is World Cerebral Palsy Day. In honor of this day, the students in Shoreline’s Disability Awareness Society will be hosting a table in the PUB from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. to help educate the campus community on cerebral palsy…a disability that affects 17 million people world-wide.
Although cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability in childhood, it is widely misunderstood. Through World CP Day, we have the opportunity to raise awareness of CP in our communities and assist others to look beyond the disability.
Public awareness is an issue because CP is a complex, lifelong disability. It primarily affects movement, but people with CP may also have visual, learning, hearing, speech, epilepsy and intellectual impairments. It can be mild, such as a weakness in one hand, to severe cases in which people have little control over movements or speech and may need 24-hour assistance.
People living with CP can experience a range of responses from others in their communities. On one end of the spectrum, they can face deep-seated but misguided sympathy, or even pity. Though intentions are good, they infantilize the person with CP. They can be smothered with (too much) love, and spoken to in a simple, childlike way. Others can subconsciously over-protect a person with CP, and thus prevent them from having essential life experiences.
On the other end of the spectrum, CP is viewed through deep-seated cultural beliefs. It may be seen as validation of superstitions about the mother, or wrath upon a family. Some even believe that CP is contagious or that a child with CP brings shame to a family. Mothers may be abandoned with their child, or a person with CP may live their life in an institution.
And in the middle are thousands of fine people who still find it difficult to make eye contact or know how to communicate with someone who has CP. It is not that they feel any ill will, it is just best—maybe even polite—to not engage.
There is nothing to be gained in blaming people for their ignorance about CP. Instead, we will work to put an end to it. We have the ability and the moral obligation to ensure everyone knows the real truth, and acts accordingly.
The above information and more can be found on the World CP Day’s site. For an infographic with even more information about cerebral palsy, click here.
Posted in Announcements, Clubs, Services for Students Tagged with: cerebral palsy day, disability awareness month, disability awareness society
