NYCoRE Conference Biennial Statement

Hello NYCoRE Family,

Over last seven years, the annual NYCoRE conference has grown from a small gathering of 150 people, to over 1200 students, educators, activists and community members! We have worked hard to create an inclusive and justice-oriented space filled with new ideas, art, education and love. Through the years, we have developed many exciting features, such as child care, kids track, inclusive name tags, interactive arts, pass the hat, a social media team, youth open mic lunch, breakfast/lunch/snack, all day coffee, community and raffle time with a DJ, organizational and sales tables, stellar keynote speakers, and over 75 annual youth and adult-led workshops. Thank you for your support as we continue to build toward a radical and socially just world.

While our conference has grown in attendance, effort, workshops, and mouths to feed, our capacity has not. We have always been and continue to be an all-volunteer grassroots organization made up of people employed in other full-time jobs. Because of our commitment to continue to maintain the high quality of the NYCoRE conference, we have decided to move to a biennial model. From now on, we will hold the conference every other year, in the off years of the Free Minds Free People conference, put on by one of our sister organizations, The Education for Liberation Network. Therefore, NYCoRE will not hold our event in 2017, but will be back in 2018 for our 8th, now biennial, conference.

Thank you for your understanding and support.
NYCoRE

May 14, 2016

RSVP for May Member Meeting!

RSVP for Our May 20th Member Meeting

Immigration Enforcement, Law Enforcement, and Educational Justice

Join us Friday, May 20th for our monthly member meeting. This month’s Political Education will be facilitated by members of NYCoRE’s Teach Dream Working Group.

In April, we discussed the intersections of the prison abolition movement and educational justice. In this month’s meeting, Teach Dream (a working group of NYCoRE) will continue this conversation by exploring the connections between immigration enforcement and law enforcement. The United States has a long history of using policing and borders to perpetuate racism and capitalism. We will read, discuss, and draw ways that we as educators in particular can resist and support resistance in order to imagine and bring forth a world without borders and without police.

Check out these two actions to support undocumented and immigrant youth and families:

A petition to Chancellor Farina and Mayor de Blasio to make NYC a true “sanctuary city.”
A resolution urging more explicit and tangible support through the United Federation of Teachers’ Delegate Assembly this Wednesday.

To learn more about these actions, join us on May 20th!

Note: Credit for much of the political analysis in this workshop goes to the Black Lives Matter movement, the ICEfreeNYC coalition, Families for Freedom and the New York State Youth Leadership Council.

Please remember to RSVP to give us an accurate head count for food as well as bring reusable food containers and utensils. Let’s try to be radical in all aspects of our lives!

Time:
5:30 to 8:00 PM

This meeting will include political education and working group break out time.

NYU Pless Hall 3rd Floor Lounge
82 Washington Square East
New York, NY

There will be no NYCoRE 101 for this meeting. If you are new to NYCoRE, please check out nycore.org to see our member guide.

Please Bring ID and RSVP here to give us a head count for food, and to notify security.

NYCoRE
http://www.nycore.org

May 3, 2016May 3, 2016

Check Out Friday’s Workshops!

It’s not too late to register for this Friday’s Beyond Tolerance Conference!

Join us May 6th at Vanguard High School- 317 E 67th St.

Afternoon Schedule:

4:30pm – 5:20pm: Expo-style tabling & snacks (community groups and student groups)

5:30pm – 6:20pm: Session I workshops

6:30pm – 7:20pm: Session II workshops

7:30pm – 8:30pm: Open Mic

Afternoon Workshops Include:BookUp LGBTQ: Reading Our Own Stories
Led by an LGBTQ author, BookUp LGBTQ is an afterschool reading program where students get to choose and keep all the books they read. Students also get to go on fieldtrips to local libraries, queer bookstores and LGBTQ historic sites throughout the city. In the workshop, we’ll be doing one of the opening activities of BookUp, “Judge a Book By It’s Cover”, where we look at a bunch of books and, just based on the cover we talk about whether we’d read the book, why/ why not and then see if that changes once we read the first page of the book. It’s a great way to start unpacking our own biases and interests and an opportunity to talk about the publishing world and what goes into marketing a book cover.

How We G.L.O.W: exploring lgbtq+ youth identity through interview theatre
Participants in this workshop will first watch a live performance based on interviews with lgbtq+ youth and then participate in a discussion with creators and actors. The How We G.L.O.W. Project amplifies the voices of lgbtq+ youth through interview theatre. Creators Jamila Humphrie and Emily Schorr Lesnick completed 21 interviews with young people of diverse backgrounds about their identities, the labels they claim or create, and the biggest issues facing their communities.

The Shade is Real In this workshop we will be screening a youth produced film by SupaFriends followed by youth discussion on LGBTQ issues in schools.

Creating Trans Affirming Schools The New York State Department of Education recently released the Guidance to School Districts for Creating a Safe and Supportive School Environment for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students (TGNC), which expands on the protections that Title IX and the Dignity for All Students Act have established. This workshop will explore the implications of these laws and policies for educators as well as best practices. Professionals and students will leave with concrete strategies and tips for making your school a safer and more affirming environment for transgender and gender non-conforming students.#Thatsnotlove – Addressing Emotional Abuse The One Love Foundation was created in honor of Yeardley Love, a UVA senior who was beaten to death by her ex-boyfriend in 2010. The goal of the One Love Foundation is to prevent relationship violence by educating the most at-risk individuals, those between the ages of 16-24, about the varied signs of abuse and what healthy and unhealthy relationships looks like. During this workshop, students will learn about One Love’s #ThatsNotLove campaign, which shines a light specifically on emotional abuse using short digital clips. Attendees will learn about the warning signs of relationship abuse, and how to step in if you see these signs your own relationship for a loved one’s.

INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED Play essential games from the arsenal of Theatre of the Oppressed and participate in a forum theatre demonstration. Connect the tool of Theatre of the Oppressed to human rights and oppression as it affects your community through dialogue and brainstorming.

Don’t Stand By, Stand Up!: Strategies to Stop Bullying This interactive workshop allows participants the opportunity to identify and explore types of bullying and bystander behaviors. Through role-play, participants will better understand bystander behavior and have the opportunity to practice effective and appropriate responses to bullying.

Starting Conversations: Queer Identities and LGBTQ Families Join members of NYQueer as they share lesson ideas, comprehensive read-alouds, and pertinent discussion-starters to begin discussions of gender and address the LGBTQ-community at any age. Participants will have the opportunity to share and develop their own ideas for addressing gender, and leave with resources on this important topic.

How You Like It! A sexual health workshop geared to empower young people around how to make sexual behaviors pleasurable and safe at the same time.