SYPP Bowl-a-thon 2011

Blast to the Past:

Classic fashion through the decades

DATE: DECEMBER 17, 2011 Saturday

TIME: 12-4pm

SYPP’s Bowl-a-thon is a youth-organized, grassroots fundraising event that brings together youth, allies, and community members dedicated to supporting youth power and youth activism in Seattle.

There will be food, fantastic prizes, free t-shirts, and incredible flashbacks to fashion firsts, fits and flops!

Get involved and sign up as a Team Captain or donate to support your favorite social justice fashionista!

• Can you find 4 (or more) of your friends who would each be willing to raise $100 for SYPP? Your team goal is $500!
• Do you have a love for youth organizing and SYPP’s Education Justice Campaign?
• Do you love dressing up and being silly?

League of Education Voters and Our American Generation are hosting a panel in Kent, WA to discuss the rise of prisons, the rise of school discipline and how communities can challenge this!

Thursday, September 22 from 7 – 9 pm

The event is FREE, please register HERE

This panel will feature speakers from Seattle Young People’s Project, TeamChild, Children and Youth Advocacy Clinic at UW Law and Kent School District Alliance for Diversity and Equity

DIRECTIONS:

From I-5 South: Take exit 154A on the left to merge onto I-405 N toward Renton Take exit 2 to merge onto WA-167 S toward Auburn Take the 84th Ave S/N Central Ave exit toward Kent City Center Turn left onto 84th Ave S Continue onto Central Ave N Turn left onto E Smith St Destination will be on the right From I-5 North: Take exit 149A for WA-516 E toward Kent Turn right onto WA-516 E/S Kent Des Moines Rd Continue to follow WA-516 E Turn left onto Central Ave S Turn right onto E Smith St Destination will be on the right

Thanks to our wonderful team captains, bowlers, donors, and youth organizers, the 2010 Bowl-a-thon was a fun, rousing success. We are just hundreds away from our $15,000 goal, and with last-minute help we will surpass it. Now, we rest for a few weeks, and return in 2011 with a new campaign for racial and social justi…ce in school discipline! While we needed help from your wallets this time, in a few months we’ll need you in the streets with us! Thank You from SYPP! http://bit.ly/syppbowl



What is the YO?

Are you a youth between the ages of 13-18? Are you tired of seeing injustices all around you? Fed up with being mistreated because of your ages, race, sexuality, and/or gender? Interested in getting your voices heard? Well, come to the YO! and learn about youth organizing and social change! The YO! is an 8 day social justice training camp for and by youth. Learn about undoing oppression and how to be an effective organizer and leader in your community. The doors are open to all youth.

When and where is it?

The YO! Institute is 8 days: August 18-25th, from 10am-4pm each day. Bus tokens will be provided. The location will be in Seattle, and will be announced when we send you your confirmation.

What will I learn about? What workshops will I see?

• Undoing Oppression
• Revolutionary Art
• Youth Organizing 101
• The Personal is Political
• How to Resist!
• Real World Survival
• Educate 2 Liberate
• Media Skills

Get paid to make change?

Youth participants of the YO! will get a small check for attending ALL of the days of the YO! YO! graduates can then choose to stick around as active youth organizers at SYPP.

How do I get involved?

Fill-out an application and get it to us by July 23rd. We’ll confirm applicants by July 31st.

How do mixed-race folks talk about their experiences of privilege and oppression?  How do we support relationships of solidarity between light-skinned and dark-skinned people of color?

Date: Thursday  July 22, 2010  5:30-7pm
Venue: Seattle Young People’s Project 2820 E. Cherry St (Behind the YWCA)

Facilitators: DeAnn Alcantara, Jenn Bowman and Yecelica Valdivia

As a multi-racial, majority youth of color organization, questions of skin color, colorism, and multi-racial identities are always a hot topic at Seattle Young People’s Project. Join us as we explore these complex and salient issues and their personal and political underpinnings with a group community guests. Community guests include:  DeAnn Alcantara, Jenn Bowman, and Yecelica Valdivia.

Activist Conversations is an inter-generational monthly gathering where folks come together to talk on a range of themes and skills related to social change and community organizing.