Articles tagged with: benefits & fundraisers
Miss MeMe’s “37th Annual” Christmas Gospel Show to benefit One Anchorage & ICOAA Cares
Please join your hosts Miss MeMe and K-Ho for an afternoon of Christmas celebration, healing and debauchery! All proceeds will benefit One Anchorage. Please also bring a perishable food item to benefit ICOAA Cares’ support of the Food Bank of Alaska.
One Anchorage is the campaign for an April election ballot measure to offer the same legal protections to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people already offered to all other Anchorage residents. On December 8, One Anchorage campaign turned in over 13,000 signatures to the Anchorage municipal clerk to place the Anchorage Equal Rights Initiative on Anchorage’s April 3, 2012 municipal ballot.
- Date/time: Sunday, December 18, 2011, 5:00–8:00 PM
- Location: Mad Myrna’s, 530 East 5th Ave, Anchorage, AK (see map)
- Cost of admission: $5.00
- Further info: see Facebook events page
Snow Ball 2011 will benefit Food Bank of Alaska, ICOAA — this Saturday in Anchorage
Join the us for a 1940s event so magical it will feel like a dream:
Snow Ball 2011: Glitter and Glamour—
A 1940s Holiday Dream
Hosted by Mister, Miss, and Ms. Gay Alaska 2011-2012.
Admission is $15 or $10 with a canned food donation.
All food donations will benefit the Food Bank of Alaska and all money collected will benefit the Imperial Court of All Alaska and the ICOAA Scholarship Fund.
- Date/time: Saturday, December 17, 2011. Doors open at 7:00 PM, show starts at 8:00 PM.
- Location: Mad Myrnas, 530 East 5th Ave, Anchorage, AK (see map)
- Cost of admission: $15 or $10 with a canned food donation
- Further info: see Facebook events page
Happy Holi-Divas! — and 11th annual holiday toy drive at Lower LA in Fairbanks
Happy HOLI-DIVAS to you!
This month’s First Friday at the Lower L.A. in Fairbanks features entertainment by “Haus oF Fusion” Femme Illusion, live singing with Karnelle Brown, plus Cabaret Noir — Burlesque!
It’s also the 11th Annual Holiday Toy Drive Event, a Toy Drive to benefit the Interior AIDS Association (IAA). Toys & donations to toy fund will go to benefit children whose families utilize the services of IAA. Your door charge will be waived for any new toys brought in of $10 value or more! (If you are not able to attend this event, please consider dropping off an unwrapped toy to the offices of IAA at 710 3rd Ave, anytime between now and December 16th! )
- Date/time: Friday, December 2. Doors open at 9 PM, show 10 PM to 1 AM
- Location: Lower LA ( lounge downstairs from Los Amigos Tex-Mex), 636 28th Ave, Fairbanks, AK (see map)
- Cost of admission: $10 general seating, $15 VIP table seat. Limited VIP table seating & general seating tix available at (907) 322-5242. Tonight: your door charge waived for any new toys brought in of $10 value or more!
- Age restrictions: 21+ in bar area, limited 18+ in restaurant area.
- Further info: see Facebook events page
Paige’s Birthday Wish: A Saturday evening of entertainment benefiting Operation Morale Boost
After spending Thanksgiving with loved ones, help celebrate Paige’s 31st birthday this Saturday, November 26, by helping Operation Morale Boost send off packages to servicemembers unable to be with their families this holiday season.
Alaska favorite “I Can’t Think Straight” to become a web series — with your help
Last October, two films by independent lesbian filmmakers Shamim Sarif and Hanan Kattan were screened in Alaska, accompanied by Sheetal Sheth, costar of both films. Now one of those films, “I Can’t Think Straight,” based on the true story of Shamim’s and Hanan’s meeting, is set to become a web series — with your help. [Update: The project is on hiatus.]
Meet Penny Arcade & drink great wine — this Saturday at Out North
Good wine, good company, good organizations!
Enjoy some really great wine, provided by our friends at La Bodega! Meet Penny Arcade, Performance Artist, before Saturday night’s show of B!D!F!W! Penny Arcade’s Sex and Censorship Show at Out North! And benefit some really great organizations — Identity, Northern Exposure, and Out North!
(La Bodega was already Bent Alaska editor Mel Green’s favorite liquor store — cool to know that it’s also supporting some of my favorite organizations!)
- Date/time: Saturday, November 12, 6:-00-8:00 PM
- Location: Out North Contemporary Art House, 3800 DeBarr Road Anchorage (see map)
- Cost of admission: $15 per person
- Further info: see Facebook events page
Dine Out for Equality with One Anchorage at Schlotzsky’s Deli
Join One Anchorage at Schlotzsky’s Deli (on Dimond Blvd next to the Red Robin) on Tuesday, November 8. 20% of all sales (walk-in or drive thru) will benefit One Anchorage!
The One Anchorage Campaign will place an initiative on the April 2012 municipal ballot in Anchorage to add sexual orientation and transgender identity to Anchorage’s equal rights code. This follows on an equal rights ordinance which passed the Anchorage Assembly in 2009 by a vote of 7–4, only to be vetoed by Mayor Dan Sullivan.
Help us show the buying power of One Anchorage. Spread the word — lets fill this place up!
- Date/time: Tuesday, November 8, 3:00-8:00 PM
- Location: Schlotzsky’s Deli, 321 E. Dimond Blvd, Anchorage, AK (see map)
- Further info: see Facebook events page
White Trash Party in Fairbanks this Saturday
Your Grande Duke and Duchess XIX of Fairbanks invite you to:
The White Trash Party
Daphne DoAll LaChores will be back again hosting the event, and DJ 50/50 will be spinning the tunes.
What’s a good White Trash costume look like? Overalls, Daisy Dukes, wife beater, cut-off blue jeans, John Deer hat, beer guts hanging out, mullets, big hair (for ladies) — be creative! Discount given to total outfit, $100 prize for best costume. There will also be a silent auction, cake walk, etc.
- Date/time: Saturday, October 8. Doors open at 7 PM; show starts promptly at 8:00 PM
- Location: Blue Loon, 2999 Parks Highway, Fairbanks, AK (see map)
- Cost of admission: General admission $15; $10 if you come in costume. All proceeds benefit the Imperial Court of All Alaska.
- Further info: see Facebook events page
Escape to Gilligan’s Island this Sunday with the 39th Emperor & Empress
Their Most Imperial Majesties, Denali Emperor Kevin Fawcett-Majors and Aurora Empress MariQuita of the Imperial Court of All alaska, invite every single one of you to:
Investitures of the 39th Reign:
ESCAPE to Gilligan’s Island!
Become a part of Reign 39: Will YOU be the next Prince of the Pribilofs? Earn your title! Buy your title! Bribe someone for a title! STEAL your title! It’s all in good fun! Costume contest: the winners get….A TITLE!
- Date/time: Sunday, October 2, 2011, 5:30 pm
- Location: Mad Myrna’s, 530 E. 5th Ave. in downtown Anchorage (see map)
- Cost of admission: $5 cover, with ALL proceeds benefiting the Imperial Court of All Alaska!
The Imperial Court of All Alaska (ICOAA) is an Alaska LGBTQA not-for-profit which over its lifetime has raised over a million dollars for scholarships and charity.
Homes for Our Troops: “Money from the fundraiser was lost” (Andrew Caleb “Drew” Pritt aka Diedra)
Questions emerged over the weekend about missing funds from a fundraiser held last month to raise money for the charity Homes for Our Troops (HFOT). The fundraiser, dubbed “Home for an Alaskan Hero,” was intended to help complete building of a fully accessible home for Army Sergeant Latseen Benson of Chugiak, who lost his legs to an improvised explosive device (IED) in Iraq in November 2005. Latseen is the son of Alaska politician Diane Benson, an ally of the LGBT community.
