Featured Image: "Orlando Dreaming" by Armando Sebastian

​State of the Arts Dallas: LGBTQ Equity in the Arts
Hosted By: Dallas Museum of Art and Art& Seek

Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Dallas Museum of Art
JOIN US as Jerome Larez, co-founder of Arttitude, will be a panelist discussing LGBTQIA Equity in the Arts. 

KERA's Jerome Weeks will moderate the discussion including panelist 
Erica Felicella, artist, consultant, organizer 
Olivia Grace Murphy, Flexible Grey Theatre Company 
Jerome Larez, Co-Founder and Board Chair, Arttitude

TRANSPOSE EXTENDED - MOVIE SCREENING

Havana Bar & Grill from 6:30pm - 7:30pm
This month we are excited to open our doors to Trans youth in Dallas for a screening of Transpose Extended. This is a documentary that focuses on Transpeople living in Dallas and their families. Arttitude is partnering with LULAC Rainbow Council 4871 to bring a panel to discuss issues affecting Trans youth after the screening. Please join us and bring anyone who is interested in learning more about how to support Trans youth in Dallas! 
Guest Speaker: TBA

Call for Submissions

Community is often used to refer to a group of individuals who share some common characteristics or interests; however, a community becomes even more powerful when it is comprised of a group of individuals who are concerned for each other’s welfare, and can see their common interests as aligned even across other forms of difference. In our current political climate, it is easy to get discouraged, and to feel isolated and alone; but now it is more important than ever to resist those forces that would divide us.
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We are members of multiple, diverse communities, and believe in the power of community as a political tool. In this issue of Opaline, we hope to share stories of community reimagined as an act of resistance and by doing so to bring communities together to inspire even more people to get involved in ways they might never have imagined.

Join Opaline in celebrating and exploring the power of community by sharing your story through short fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, personal essays, and visual art. Submissions will be accepted from September 1, 2018 through May 1, 2019.
Opaline is an annual special issue featuring short fiction, poetry, drama, personal essays and visual art by LGBTQ+-identified individuals, , persons of color, women, those who are differently-abled,, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. Opaline is a program of Arttitude,
 
Opaline, a project of Arttitude, is an annual publication featuring short fiction, poetry, drama, personal essays, and visual art by LGBTQ+ identified persons, persons of color, women, those who are differently-abled, immigrants, other marginalized persons and communities, and their allies.  


FUNDRAISING EVENT

WHEN | September 9th, 2018 | ​6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
WHERE | Sue Ellen's 3014 Throckmorton St, Dallas, TX 75219
 
Fundraising items include vacation packages, autographed merchandise, Hollywood memorabilia and sports memorabilia. Help Arttitude raise money for the "Last Night in Black History" cultural project.
 
For more information, please contact Stevie J. Downer @ 210-908-2387.
It’s time to imagine the better world we want to see. It’s time to look ourselves, our country, and our world in the mirror and begin to project the image of a united and proactive community.

We have resisted, and we must continue to resist, but we also must begin to see the world we want to leave for future generations. In this issue, I aimed to highlight the change enacted amongst political and social tension. I am pleased with the responses which showed a continued resistance along with a goal for the future. No two pieces are the same; but each take up that call to resist, to move forward, to imagine.
Upcoming Show in San Antonio | August 11- August 31
Galeria E.V.A. | 3412 S Flores St, San Antonio, TX 78204

TRANSPOSE PROJECT

Upcoming Screening in San Antonio | May 10, 2018
Luther's Cafe | 1503 N Main Ave, San Antonio, TX, 78212

COMING SOON | 2019

GIVING TUESDAY | NOVEMBER 28, 2017
November 28, 2017 is the International Giving Day!
Please consider donating to Arttitude to help us fund our upcoming programing and help create an open, welcoming space for diverse artists.
 OUR NEW BOARD MEMBERS | NOV 8, 2017
BRET GAITHER
LEX TREVINO
STEVIE DOWNER
SPOTLIGHT: TRANSPOSE | NOVEMBER 4, 2017
Arttitude congratulates film documentary Transpose, director Kurtz Frausun and its entire cast members for being awarded The Shawn Moore Prize for Texas Filmmaking at recently-concluded Q Cinema LBGT Film Festival in Fort Worth on November 4, 2017. Transpose uses interviews filmed with webcams, cell phones, and other personal recording devices to encapsulate the raw humanity of every individual story. “Arttitude, as an organization, strives to use Transpose as a point of discussion and education for our community so that people can have a better understanding and insight into the transgender community--their stories, their hopes, their struggles and their triumphs as individuals” – Jil Lasaca.
SPECIAL ISSUE: OPALINE | SUMMER 2018
Imag[e]ine
It’s time to imagine the better world we want to see. It’s time to look ourselves, our country, and our world in the mirror and begin to project the image of a united and proactive community.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Opaline publishes an annual special issue featuring short fiction, poetry, drama, personal essays and visual art by the LGBTQ/Allies community, women, people with disabilities, immigrants, and other minority groups. Opaline is a program of Arttitude, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting change and acceptance through visibility for the LGBT and minority communities using art and creative writing to shine light on the narratives of those marginalized in American culture.

YEAR IN REVIEW | 2017

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