Southerners on New Ground

Tennessee Statewide Membership Call
2020-05-16 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
Join SONG Tennessee members for a statewide call on Saturday, May 16th at 2PM CST/3PM EST. We’ll gather together as Queer and Trans kindred from Appalachia to the Gayborwoods to the major cities across TN and more! We’ll cultivate joy and connection, offer a regional scan of SONG’s campaigns in the South, and build a strategy for our collective liberation. It’s a space for all current and future members to jam out together!
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Durham Chapter Meeting
2020-05-16 14:00 - 15:00, 2020-05-12 18:30 - 20:30, 2020-05-09 14:00 - 15:00, 2020-05-05 18:30 - 20:30, 2020-05-02 14:00 - 15:00, 2020-04-28 18:30 - 20:30, 2020-04-25 14:00 - 15:00, 2020-04-21 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) and 3 more dates
Contact: songdurham@gmail.com

Arts + Culture Working Group Call
2020-05-14 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
The Arts & Culture Working Group is a space for members across the region to support SONG organizationally to use art as an essential political education tool that can create deep connection with our communities. With the help of AgitArte, a community based grassroots arts organization, members learn how to develop an Arts & Culture crew locally, experiment with guerilla theatre tools, and develop plans for how regional Arts & Culture work in can move campaigns.
Contact: Jose Romero (jose@songsouth.org)

New Member Orientation
2020-05-10 18:00 - 20:00, 2020-04-12 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
If you are a new member of SONG, join our New Member Orientation call! This call is a chance to be in community with other new members as we visit the history of our founders, the methods in which we organize in the South, and an orientation to the infrastructure of this organization. This is the space to bring questions, curiosity, time, talents and vision for how we can organize together! No worries if you can’t make it – this space is going to be held on a monthly basis and will be recorded!
Contact: Alan Ramirez (alan@songsouth.org)

Virginia Statewide Membership Call
2020-05-09 16:00 - 18:00, 2020-04-25 16:00 - 18:00, 2020-04-11 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Join SONG members from all around the Commonwealth for a chance to build relationships with Southern freedom fighters, share resources like plant medicine knowledge, and get plugged in with the work of queer and trans liberation! Please register to receive Zoom dial-in information. Contact Rebecca Keel (rebecca@songsouth.org) for more information.

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Small Town & Rural Working Group Call
2020-05-07 18:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Join the monthly Small Town & Rural Working Group calls!
The Small Town & Rural Working Group comes from a long legacy in SONG to fight isolation and build power with our queer and trans folks across the South. We understand that the South is primarily rural and many of our folks are systematically ignored from the primary narrative of what liberation and freedom for LGBTQ can look like. Rural queers face many of the same predicaments and challenges of our urban counterparts, but they are often magnified by this social economy of small places. For more context on the history of our Small Town & Rural work read our “Small Town Cross Roads” report.
Contact: Alan Ramirez (alan@songsouth.org)

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Free from Fear Campaign Call
2020-05-05 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
These every other month calls are a vehicle for member-leaders organizing SONG campaigns across the South to talk to one another, share strategies and tactics, assess the conditions we are facing regionally, share out core organizing training and tools, troubleshoot challenges that are arising, build trust, and strengthen relationships. The Free From Fear regional calls happen on the 1st Tuesday.

Contact: SONG Statewide Organizers: Rebecca Keel (rebecca@songsouth.org), Angela Henderson (angela@songsouth.org) and Jill Cartwright (jill@songsouth.org)

Columbia, SC Chapter Meeting
2020-05-04 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Contact: songcolumbia@gmail.com

South Carolina Statewide Membership Call
2020-04-30 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)

Asheville SONG + Equality North Carolina Meeting
2020-04-26 12:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
Contact: Monse Ramirez (monse@songsouth.org)

Spokescouncil Call
2020-04-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
The SONG Spokescouncil is a longtime dream of the organization. It consists of member leader representatives from each chapter, working group, board, current fellowship cohort, and ForeverSONG family. The Spokescouncil is designed to be a member-led formation for making decisions, sharpening our collective tactics, actions, and work across the region.
To Learn More Contact: Carlin Rushing (carlin@songsouth.org)

Nashville Chapter Meeting
2020-04-20 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York)
Contact: Angela Henderson (angela@songsouth.org)

Make It Rain Working Group Call
2020-04-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Join the monthly Make It Rain Working Group calls!
The Make It Rain Working Group is a space for members across the region to help SONG fundraise and skill up their development skills! Fundraising is so important to help our organization have campaigns, convenings, and have the strong regional reach queer and trans people across the South deserve.
Contact: Britney Nesbit (britney@songsouth.org)

Political Education Working Group
2020-04-16 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
The Political Education Working Group is a space for SONG staff, SONG members and Forever SONG family to identify the current political education needs for our membership. We know that grassroots organizing work requires intense study in rigor, and this space will help us continually provide tools and curricula for our membership.
Contact: Angela Henderson (angela@songsouth.org)

DigiCommz Working Group Call
2020-04-16 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Join the monthly DigiCommz Working Group calls!
The DigiCommz Working Group is a space for members across the region to help build capacity for SONG regionally and for our chapters and crews moving active campaign work. DigiCommz aims to identify members who are moving communications or digital work in our membership and support their leadership through cross team skill building, regional projects, and providing training and resources. We know the importance of organizers also being communicators – to not only speak of their work, but create crafted messages and narratives in line with their politics and organizing to translate into tactics to win campaigns.
Contact: ND Johnson (nd@songsouth.org) or Micky Jordan (mickyj@songsouth.org)

Language Justice Working Group Call
2020-04-15 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
The Language Justice Working Group is a space for members across the region, bilingual or monolingual, to help SONG strategize, build and fortify our values around creating authentic communication across race, culture, and difference. This is imperative for movement building. Language justice as a framework allows us to explicitly name the grief associated with the loss of our ancestral languages, as a result of colonization and imperialism as well as heal and advocate for our inherent right to communicate in our most authentic form.
Contact: Monse Ramirez (monse@songsouth.org)

Nashville Open Mic and Karaoke Zoom Night
2020-04-11 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
