Breaking the Silence:
Gays and Lesbians in Our Schools
Program for the 2004
  
You are invited to attend the seventh annual conference

sponsored by the

College of Education
University of Saskatchewan

Theme: Safe Schools for Gays and Lesbians

Wednesday-Saturday, March 17-20
The Laramie Project
STM Auditorium
8:00pm

Saturday, March 20, 2004
Morning Plenary Session
9:00am "Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer visual narratives: Education, community, and culture. A multi-media presentation”
Kris Wells, University of Alberta

Greetings from the President–Dean Cecilia Reynolds, College of Education

Greetings from Bishop John Shelby Spong

Voices from our schools

9:30am Forming GSAs: Challenges and possibilities
At the university–Carole Pond, Co-ordinator, Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Service, University of Saskatchewan
In the STF–Kit Loewen, Administrative Staff, STF
In schools–Patti Rowley, Teacher, Mount Royal Collegiate
10:00am A visit by a few members of The Laramie Project cast
10:30am Bridge City Chorus–“Some of my Best Friends Are Straight”
“Sikuyo (We Are Walking)”
10:40-11:00am Coffee Break
11:00am University of Alberta Agape Group
  –An overview the status of GSAs in Canada;
–experience and successes in Alberta;
–two short skits–meeting to set up a GSA and a GSA visualized a few months later in which students and a teacher moderator work to keep the GSA active and purposeful in their school
12 noon-1:15pm Lunch
   
Afternoon Sessions
1:15-1:45pm Plenary Session:
  John Simpson, former principal from Coquitlam, now superintendent in the Burnaby School District; “The formation of the first high-school GSA and the education of an administrator”
1:45-2:45 and 2:45-3:45 Breakout Sessions:
 

The Agape Group, University of Alberta “GSAs in Canadian Schools: Student Resilience in the Face of Institutional Resistance” (An interactive workshop).


Wes Pearce, “Edward II vs. Romeo and Juliet: The need for pro-gay choices in theatre departments”

Warren Linds, Two-hour workshop on how to develop/use interactive theatre, plus a “production” to be performed in the final session.

Melanie Morrison– “Homonegativity : Early Research Findings”

Jay Kennard, “An STF Initiative: Safe Schools and Uncovering the Stones”
3:45pm Interactive Theatre and Wrap-up

Inquiries may be sent to Don Cochrane at don.cochrane@usask.ca

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