Queer Asian Youth

QAY was launched with its first event - a bubble tea lounge - in January 2000. Come celebrate with us to reconnect and reminisce as QAY turns 10!

Date and Time: Friday, January 15, 2009, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: The 519 Church Street Community Centre, 519 Church Street, Room 201 - 2nd Floor (map)

For further information, contact Wilson via email at youth@acas.org

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Happy new year!

Here is the agenda of what will be up for discussion at the first meeting of 2010:

1. Marking the QAY 10th Anniversary with festivities
2. Bringing back QAY's Queer Luck Club
3. QAY Leadership Development Retreat
4. Proposal to introduce a QAY core team

So come out and voice all of your ideas and aspirations for QAY in the coming year!

Date and Time: Friday, January 15, 2009, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: ACAS, 17 Isabella Street, 1st Floor

Refreshments will be provided.  For further information, contact Wilson via email at youth@acas.org

Back in January 2000, the first QAY event was held, in the form of a Bubble Tea Lounge (BBT).  Join us as we commemorate our 10th Anniversary with a line-up of special events scheduled for mid-February and Pride Week!

Date:  Saturday, December 19, 2009
Time:  12 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:  The 519 Church Street Community Centre  (map)

Join QAY at our holiday social as we wind down a year of much change, with hot chocolate, gingerbread friends and fun activities.  

Also, this will be your opportunity to provide your feedback on your satisfaction with the program and what you wish for it in the coming year!  Each person who submits an evaluation on the day will be given the chance to enter into a raffle for one of three $20 gift cards to any store at the Eaton Centre!

(Cuddles optional.)

A Space Gallery
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 110  (Richmond & Spadina)

Art exhibit viewing and workshop!

Recently, museums and galleries have shown an interest in the colourful syncretism of the Day of the Dead celebration, focusing on the traditional and folkloric aspects of the ritual. Bringing Down Our Dead departs from that approach, offering a contemporary expression of the ritual, while reflecting the political and social beliefs of our times. The artists’ works -- painting, video, performance, and installation -- pay tribute to the memory of the departed, and they also denounce violence, voice concerns, and record everyday events. The approaches taken by the artists are informed by their individual experiences as well as by the ways in which contemporary issues both reflect and deflect from those experiences.

( http://www.aspacegallery.org/index.php?m=programdetails&id=125 )

Please RSVP by the end of Thursday, November 26, Wilson Ho at youth@acas.org.

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We are meeting to plan our pre-Holidays event in mid-December.  Come join us with your ideas on what you want.  Dinner at 5:30, meeting at 6:00.

Date and Time: Friday, October 2, 2009, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: ACAS, 17 Isabella Street, 1st Floor

Refreshments will be provided.  For further information, contact Wilson via email at youth@acas.org

Queer Asian Youth (QAY) is proud to be a community partner for the Toronto premiere of Fruit Fly by H.P. Mendoza, who brought us "the surprise indie hit Colma: The Musical" in 2006.

Fruit Fly follows Bethesda, a Filipino adoptee and performance artist who moves to San Francisco to workshop and perform her show about the search for her birth parents. She finds herself moving into a commune of transient artists who help her navigate the art scene of her new home and quickly anoint her the unwanted label of "fag hag."

The film is to be screened at Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue on November 12, 2009 (Thursday) at 7:30 PM.

Check out the links for trailers!
http://www.hpmendoza.com/fruitflyfilm
http://www.reelasian.com/index.php/2009-festival/full-festival-schedule/details/16-fruit-fly

For further info or to purchase discounted tickets, contact Wilson Ho, Youth Outreach Program Coordinator, by phone at (416) 963-4300 ext. 229 or via e-mail at youth@acas.org.

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Ever wondered what dark mysteries run deep on Church Street?  Then,
come out, come out, wherever you are for a
Sherlock-Holmes-meets-Scooby-Doo night, where the clues and riddles can
lead you astray down into the hands of danger, or to victory and fame.

Date:  October 31, 2009 (Saturday)
Time:  6 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Place:  ACAS, 17 Isabella Street, 1st Floor

Please bring your digital camera and/or cellphones if you own one. 
Halloween costumes optional.  Make-up will be provided.  There will
also be free food and prizes to be won!

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Welcome to our new home at 17 Isabella!  The meeting will be for an event later in the month.  Halloween, perhaps?  So come by, even if to say 'hi' or check out the new digs.  :)

Date and Time: Friday, October 2, 2009, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: ACAS, 17 Isabella Street, 1st Floor

Refreshments will be provided.  For further information, contact Wilson via email at youth@acas.org