Ten Oaks Project,
January 2008 eNews
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Registration is
Now Open
Are you ready to lace up your bowling
shoes? Have you been practicing your
adventure bowl since 2007?
It's now time
to book your lane for the 4th Annual Camp
Bowl-A-Thon! Our fundraiser extraordinaire returns
on March 1,
2008.
This year the
event is moving to a larger location, Walkley Bowling
Centre, where all
bowlers can lace up their shoes and get their bowl on at the
same time from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. That's right, 30 lanes of bowling madness,
including prizes, costumes, adventure bowling, and spirit -
all with the goal of sending kids to Camp Ten Oaks
- and having a little fun along the
way!
Form a team.
Raise funds. Send kids to Camp Ten Oaks.
It currently costs $600 a week to
send a kid to camp. This year's Bowl-A-Thon
fundraising target is set for $22,000. Help us make it
happen.
Check out our
website to find out how
you can book a lane, raise pledges and win fantastic
prizes!
Is
Volunteering Up Your Alley?
This year's
event is being planned and organized by an
unbowlievably dedicated team of volunteers! If
you want to have a ball while making a positive contribution
to the lives of children and youth in the LGBTQ community,
then join our volunteer team!! We're still
looking for people to help out with promotions, prize
collection and on the day of the event. Everyone is welcome to
participate!
If you are a high school student who is
looking for a cool way to complete 40 hours of volunteerism, a
parent who wants your kids to get involved in something fun
and constructive, a camp staff who needs a Ten Oaks fix, a
community member or partner, friend, ally or if you are
someone who wants to help out, then this opportunity is for
you!
Contact
Andrea Poncia at andrea@tenoaksproject.org to
to find out more, or just
drop-in to one of our planning meetings. We'll meet on
Sunday, January 13 and Sunday, February 3, at 2:00 pm at the
Ten Oaks Project
office.
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Camp Ten
Oaks
Register
for Camp Ten Oaks 2008
On
January 21,
2008 we'll be opening up camper
registrations and LAC applications in preparation for our 2008
summer season. All of these forms will be available
online at our camp website. Mark your
calendars!
Registration is first-come, first-served,
so don't forget to check back with us.
This year, we're
increasing the total number of camper spaces available to
58.
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| Ten Oaks
Project
Meet
our New Office Coordinator
Please welcome
Katie Collins as the newest member
of our team. She's our new Office Coordinator and will
start the week of January 21. Here's a letter of
introduction from her.
 Hello! I am pleased
and honored to be the first employee of the Ten Oaks Project.
For me, this is an amazing opportunity to achieve friendship
and solidarity with a community that I have, for a very long
time, been looking for.
I was raised in a LGBTQ family
since I was fourteen. I have a wonderful mom and two great
dads. I have always considered myself lucky to have three
great parents. However, it has been a struggle for me to find
other individuals and families with the same background. Since
my father came out, I have been an advocate and activist in
the LGBTQ community, but I had never really found a place that
truly understood or could relate to me and my family, until
now.
Children and teenagers who are raised in LGBTQ
families have a very different lived experience than children
who live in traditional families based on the heterocentric
nature of our society (and if anyone understands this
difference, it is me). Therefore it is about time that an
organization like the Ten Oaks Project is out there and
available to all kids with all types of family backgrounds. I
believe the Ten Oaks Project to be one of the most important
and valuable organizations for children from non-traditional
families: it is important for children, parents and the LGBTQ
community to have a safe space to seek solidarity, support,
comfort and friendship. I wish I could have had such an
opportunity growing up.
Not only am I grateful to be
offered this very important and valuable position in the Ten
Oaks Project, but I am also equally as excited to be
integrated into the LGBTQ family community - a community I
have been hoping to find for so long. Since I could not be a
camper, I believe that this job is the next best way that I
can get involved. I feel like not only is this opportunity a
good fit for me, but I hope it to be like a second home.
I am looking forward to getting to know all of the
dedicated volunteers, the hardworking parents, the devoted
supporters and of course, all the happy campers involved in
this project.
In solidarity,
Katie
Collins
We Have
Office Space
On January 1, 2008, the Ten Oaks
Project moved into its new office space. Well, we have
keys to the space and will slowly be moving in over the next
month. Our new contact information can be found at the
bottom of this
newsletter.
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Other Items of
Interest
Herb Girl February Family Funtime
Concert - Ottawa
It's the Herb Girl
February Family Funtime Concert. Join us as we celebrate
the "Love is in the air" tour (ok, one afternoon only,
but we do leave the house so it's just like a tour). Once
again in true Hintonburg style we are performing at the
Carleton Tavern (223 Armstrong Street by the Parkdale
Market).
Sunday, February 10, 2008, Noon - 3:00
pm
Cost is $5.00 per person or $10.00 - $20.00 family
(sliding scale)
Please be sure to have your kids or yourself dress
up as someone or something you
love!!!!
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The Ten Oaks Project is a
not-for-profit, charitable organization. Our mission is to
engage and connect children and youth from LGBTQ (lesbian,
gay, bisexual, trans, two-spirit, queer) communities through
programs and activities rooted in play.
We currently offer one program: Camp Ten Oaks.
Ten Oaks Project |
255 Montreal Road, Unit 205 |
Ottawa, ON | K1L
6C4
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