Events

To the right is a list of five of QCAD's most upcoming events. Below is a list of upcoming major events, as well as contact info to get involved with them. If you would like to view our full google calendar, click here.

 

Dining for Diversity

Host a party!

An innovative fundraising event benefiting QCAD – Quad Citians Affirming Diversity

WHAT IS Dining for Diversity? 

A Fun Way To Dine, A Fun Way To Give

Dining for Diversity is a fun and innovative event that will raise money for the continuation of programs and services provided by QCAD. Quad Citians Affirming Diversity (QCAD) brings Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight Allies together to build an inclusive community through support, education and advocacy. QCAD was founded in 1990, marking 2010 as our 20th Anniversary.

During the month of September, 2010, volunteers throughout our community will host dinner parties, either individually or collectively. The dinners will take place at homes but may take place at venues that can accommodate a larger group. From sit down dinners to large cocktail parties to backyard barbeques, the menu and the style of dinner is at the host’s discretion. Dinner themes can range from a “Mexican Fiesta” to an “Italian Feast”. The suggested dinner guest donation is $25 per person or more, with all proceeds going to QCAD.

How does this event work?

  • Be a dinner host or partner with a friend. Be creative! You decide the date and time during the month of September, the theme and menu for your dinner party, and the number of guests you will invite.

  • QCAD supplies you with helpful hints and dinner invitations to mail out to your guests

  • As a host, you provide the meal and beverages (your costs are tax deductible). Have a grand time with your guests, collect their tax deductible donations before the end of the party, and send the donations to the office of QCAD.
    NOTE: Checks must be made out to: “QCAD” with “Dining for Diversity” in the memo. 

  • Save the date: Friday evening October 8, 2010. Come to the FREE Dessert Gala event for the dinner party hosts.  We will tally the results and celebrate the success of this community wide effort.
    Dessert Gala details will come later.

How can I become a host?

Call us at 309-786-2580 or Email us at qcad.outforgood@gmail.com

Have a lot of fun, support a great cause and…. Dine for Diversity!

 

 

Quad Citians Affirming Diversity

5TH Annual Film Festival

Sunday, November 15, 2009

1:00 pm at the FIGGE Art Museum

225 W. 2nd Street, Davenport , IA

Each Film $10     Brunch $10

Call QCAD for tickets – 309/786-2580,

Purchase tickets from a QCAD Board Member

Order online  using PayPal

Film information as follows:

  BREAKFAST WITH SCOT   $10

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910847

Eric and Sam have been in a committed relationship for four years. Eric's a former hockey player turned sportscaster and Sam's a sport's lawyer. But when Sam's adventure seeking brother Billy, takes a job in South America, his ex-girlfriend, Julie, is discovered dead from a drug overdose leaving her son Scot (not Billy's son) to Billy. But Billy is missing in action so Sam is left to pick up the pieces. But the problem is Eric never wanted kids. When 11-year-old Scot arrives and they open his duffel bag, inside they find... one pink musical hairbrush, two plastic containers of beads and faux-gold chains, a pink poodle belt, and four pairs of white sock-ettes with lacy fringe at the top... they realize Scot is more out of the closet then they are even though he does not know it yet. A unique boy in an even more unusual situation, Scot throws Eric and Sam's life into complete disarray. When Billy finally shows up to take Scot back to South America - Eric and Sam can't bear the thought of losing Scot.

Written by Anon

 

    $10

http://www.augustaproductions.com/films/ferron/

(Release date: summer 2009.)

Ferron – girl on a road

Before the Indigo Girls and before Ani DiFranco, there was Ferron, whose plaintive and poetic songs provided the soundtrack for an entire generation of lesbians. Nearing 60 and feeling the urge to reconnect with her audience, Ferron reunites with her band to perform a concert after nearly a decade away. Internationally award-winning director Gerry Rogers (My Left Breast) is there to capture the moment.

Part performance film, part biopic, Ferron: girl on a road traces, the life, the songs, the loves, the heartbreaks, and the pioneering path carved by a true folk legend. Intimate, and sweeping all at once, this film moves beyond “chronicle” and captures in word and deed, the essence of a visionary artist, and the soul of an icon. It is a celebration!

 

I Can’t Think Straight     Two Cultures. Two Traditions. One Love.   $10

The Film - I Can’t Think Straight … a sexy romance with a twist:     http://www.icantthinkstraight-themovie.com/

Tala, a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian origin, prepares for an elaborate wedding with her Jordanian fiancé, when she encounters a timid Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend Ali.

Tala comes from a spirited Christian family; whereas Leyla’s strong Muslim upbringing could not be more different from each other but the attraction is immediate between both girls. Tala’s feisty nature provokes Leyla out of her shell and soon both women reveal their feelings for each other.

However, Tala is not ready to accept the implications of the choice her heart has made and escapes back to Jordan where her chain-smoking, high-brow mother finishes preparations for her ostentatious wedding. As family members descend and the wedding day approaches, simmering family tensions come to boiling point and the pressure mounts for Tala to be true to herself and she breaks off the wedding.

Meanwhile a heartbroken Leyla relishes her newly found sense of identity and self-respect and moves on with her new life – much to the shock of her parents.

Single again, Tala flies back to London – but it will take more than just a date set up by Ali and Leyla’s sister Zina to win Leyla back.

 

Proceeds from this event support the programs and services provided by

Quad Citians Affirming Diversity, 1608 2nd Avenue  Rock Island , IL 61201

One Writer, No Address

Teri Matheason-Voyna and Anne Lewis present, "One Writer, No Address" Jane Devin's Travels & Stories, hosted by QCAD.  

Tuesday October 13, 2009 at 5pm.
QCAD is located at 1608 Second Ave. Rock Island, IL
309-786-2580
http://www.qcad-outforgood.org

Jane (openly gay) is on her 1 year journey through the US sharing her stories and gathering new ones from the interesting people she meets along the way. This event is free to the public though donations such as gift card donations for Verizon, gas, food, and coffee are greatly appreciated. To learn more about Jane you may visit her website http://onewriternoaddress.wordpress.com/