June 2010
5 posts
Until Next Time
Saturday, June 5th, 2010 at 10:35pm.
Thanks to everyone who came out and supported us! T-shirts are still available (sizes are limited). Email Emma for more details.
We raised $1,907.82 at the event, making out total so far $4,237.82. You can still donate and buy art (to come soon).
If you are interested in helping The Project continue its work with identity based organizations, please...
The Project I Am is coming together!
It’s finally happening! We’re here at 2501 Mission & 21st and setting up for today! If you’re in SF today, come by! 10$ Requested Donations @ the door. Starts @ 4pm, ends @ 10pm. Food, live music, t-shirts & hoodies, and art! Come out and support the GSA Network!
Also, check us out @ http://theprojectiam.com!
Are you ready?
Going to The Project I Am? Need parking? There is a parking garage between Valencia and Mission Street on 21st, less than a block away from the event! For more info on the event, check out the event page on the website.
I am Annakai. I am female, a mind, a thought, a student, a laugh, a rider, a writer, a teacher, a sigh, a bubble, a name. I am Germany, Poland, Japan, Russia, the United States. I am rain hikes in Derbyshire, cold statues and subway running in Paris, mint thick ice cream in Québec, rooster feathers and red dust nectar in Michoacán. I am skin and sensitive organs emotive. I am stacks of books and...
May 2010
3 posts
I am from a girl who taught her parents how to be American. I am from a time when a woman was told, “you can’t graduate from college with honors AND be married with child.” A woman who breaks barriers at work and at home. I am from a woman whose kitchen is the heart, where no one leaves hungry and what is served is the most delicious. I am from a woman who knows Love and models...
Art Donation Form Deadline Extended to May 7th! →
April 2010
5 posts
Last 6 days to fill out art donation form! →
Art donation form due by April 30th.
Art donations must be submitted by May 14th.
Daniel Dallabrida: Mirror Piece! Please...
A TPIA Artist needs your help: DANIEL DALLLABRIDA needs our help on a project he is working on. He sent me the following message to send out to everyone I know. This won’t take long. Please participate!
Mirror Piece: An Invitation To Be a Reflection
• I am creating a work using multiple self-portraits. As many as I can collect in the next 48 hours. My deadline is tight. Go to the mirror...
Time is running out. If you want to donate... →
The Project I Am Presents Count Me In →
I am the anti-Disney. Seeing so many movies filled with people looking for acceptance, realizing that it isn’t what they want and that what they have is all they ever needed, and then being accepting anyways drove me crazy. I am the anti-teenager. I forget to think about my place in the world, forget that I am supposed to feel insecure about myself. Who am I? I am the anti-question. I...
March 2010
2 posts
TPIA T-Shirts for sale! →
Back from Break and Super Excited!
Well, we’re back from a much needed break, after hitting $2000 in donations on March 5th! Yes, it is very exciting!
More exciting news: TPIA T-Shirts are now available for sale. They’re $20 and are available in M, L and XL (they run small). If you would like to purchase one, please send the $20 with your size to the following address (checks should be made out to “GSA...
February 2010
8 posts
GET INVOLVED (before the big event)! →
Urban Students: Project Opportunities! →
“I am human. Simply put. I breath, feel, smile, cry and exist. I am ninety nine...”
– Gracelyn Newhouse, 15
ATTENTION URBAN STUDENTS! →
I am quiet. I walk around the edges, my knuckles knock along the cold metal bars of a black fence. A fist full of crackers, I am three I run slowly, the soles of my shoes crunching the pale earth beneath me. A pocket full of notes, I am fifteen A tune escapes my lips and defines my pace. Bright, the sun’s reflection against the water guides my vision to a man Cheerful, he offers a rose with thorns...
Remember Lawrence King: Act now to protect LGBT... →
January 2010
11 posts
Finishing Week Eight
We have just reached the end of our eighth week working on this project. I would just like to recap what we have done so far:
We have raised $1,471
We have found a venue that is donating their space to us
We have created a website that allows people to continuously get updated on the project.
And of course we have done a lot more that is not coming to mind right now.
It may not...
DONATE NOW! →
I am… and this is the problem. Walls I have constructed, constricting me to this barren vantage point. I look out on the sea of “self” but just as the tide shifts and the waves roll Every day a new breath I rise from the ashes of what I have been these past selves crashing into one another to produce me. I am to blame for the strength of the walls. I laid the bricks close and...
I am bisexual. But is that all? I also love Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food ice cream. Who says that my sexual orientation is more important than my impeccable taste in ice cream? Being anything other than straight, which is probably more common than most people think, is discussed, shunned, accepted, sad, fun, awesome, confusing, and really not that important – all depending on the person that’s...
I am searching. I look for a place of balance: school, friends, family. For a split second, I think I have found it and by finding it, that perhaps I have learned something more about myself. But the next moment, it is gone and I know nothing more than I did before. We have long talks about who we are, where we come from, but it is impossible to completely know another person. You might know a...
A Hard Day at the Office
So, some seriously exciting news today. We have officially secured a venue and have set a date!
SAVE THE DATE: June 5th, 2010 at Vanguard Properties. Read more about the event by clicking here!
Also, I’ve been busy updating the website with dates, times and the amount of money we have raised for the GSA Network. We have officially broken a thousand dollars, actually we have raised $1,300....
“Me? I am white, female, straight. I am a musician, an athlete, a student. A...”
– Me: by Lily Burns
“___ I am flat-iron heavy with lofty abstractions,
And ship-sinking,...”
– The Breathing-Point In Outrage by Rebecca Thurber, 18
“I don’t know about you, but I forgot that I’m white. A couple of...”
– Forgot I’m White by Greg Monfils, 54
“I am the person that she is. She is a mixed Dominica-Mexican-American. She is a...”
– She is by Andrea Ceballos, 17
Additions and Updates to the Website
There are a couple new things that have been added to the website!
—There is now a DONATE BUTTON on some of the pages. This donate button takes you to an external page on GSA’s website where you can donate directly to GSA through us. All money donated through that page will add to the total amount of money that we raise for GSA!
—We have a RECENT UPDATES section of the home page....
December 2009
7 posts
A Bit of an Update
I thought I would fill you all in on the resent meetings that I’ve been having this week about The Project I Am.
Today, I met with Carolyn Laub (the founder of the GSA Network) and Jacking Downing (the Developement and Communications Manager). It was a very exciting meeting. We discussed a lot of stuff, from venues to food to the website. The Network is going to be an amazing resource...
Meeting about a venue
I am excited to announce that in a week and a half I am going to be meeting with some people about a venue. I don’t want to give you guys too much info because I don’t want anyone to be disappointed if it falls through. Hopefully, it won’t!
I’ll keep you updated!
Emma
We're Live! →
Website Info
The website, www.theprojectiam.com, isn’t exactly up yet and could potentially change in the next 24 hours.
We’ll keep updating you with more info.
Thanks,
Emma
It's Happening
Ok. Today, I spoke to Carolyn Laub, the founder of the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, and she has given me the thumbs up to do the special event to benefit her organization. It looks like I’ll be working closely with the organization to get this thing going and to make it actually happen. IT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING. I am super excited!
Thanks for visiting the site,
Emma
This comes from our...
The Start of Something Great
I am pleased to inform you that I, Emma Schacter, will be putting together a benefit/gallery exhibition/fun night out for everyone and anyone. But you probably already knew that considering you’re reading this.
I will be keeping a journal (blog) to update you through the next five-six months (the date hasn’t been set yet) about what is going on with this awesome event. Please stay tuned for...