TIME

ROOM/LOCATION

TITLE

DESCRIPTION

All day

3rd Floor
Wellbeing Room 1

Facial Feminisation Surgery Consultations

Dr Luis Capitan MD of Facial Team, Marbella will offer private consultations between 10.00 & 11.30 – 12.30 & 14.30 – 16.00 & 17.00.

All day

3rd Floor
Wellbeing Room 2

Nail Painting & Treatment

Nail Technician, Vikki-Marie Gaynor, will offer this service at  £1 per person to cover materials.

All day

2nd Floor
Library

Rolling Film Show

Various films, informative, fun and relevant to trans-people.

10.00
(45 mins)

3rd Floor
Main Meeting Room

Continuing the Battle for Trans Equality

Bernard & Terry Reed (MBE) of the Gender Identity Research & Education Society will explain the GIRES role and how it helps the trans community.

10:00
(60 mins)

2nd Floor
Group Work Room

Health Promotion – Breast Cancer Awareness

Lisa Lindsey will be holding a session on breast awareness and breast screening for transgender men and women.

10:00
(90 mins)

2nd Floor
Meeting Room

UNISON – Workplace Rights

Unison will be running a workshop on Trans equality and rights in the workplace and the impact of cuts on public services.

10:30
(60 mins)

2nd Floor
Board Room

Transsexual, the title no one wants

Holly Granger will present on the challenges she has faced with transition.

11.00
(45 mins)

3rd Floor
Main Meeting Room

Internalised Transphobia

A very interesting presentation by psychotherapist Dr. Keneth Demsky PHD.

11:00
(60 mins)

2nd Floor
Group Work Room

Safety & Self Defence for
transpeople

Self defence demonstrations & discussion on safety for trans people.

11:30
(60 mins)

3rd Floor
Small Meeting Room

Facial Feminisation Surgery:
Q&A with the FFS Surgeon

Learn about the surgical techniques now available and get your questions answered by Dr Luis Capitan MD of Facial Team, Marbella.

11:30
(60 mins)

2nd Floor
Board Room

TREC regular Arts & Crafts Group

An opportunity to be artistic. Each month the group address different projects, for example glass painting. The session will be open to all Sparkle visitors where space is available.

11:30
(60 mins)

2nd Floor
Meeting Room

Transgender Housing Rights & Issues

Irwell Valley Housing and Harvest Homes will run a workshop highlight the issues transgender face in respect of housing and attendees to better understand their rights.

12:00
(60 mins)

3rd Floor
Main Meeting Room

Trans Equality Action Plan

The Government Equalities Office will be talking about the Equality Action Plan and consultation workshop.

13:30
(60 mins)

2nd Floor
Group Work Room

Safety & Self Defence for
trans-people

Self defence demonstrations & discussion on safety for trans people.

13:30
(90 mins)

2nd Floor
Meeting Room

UNISON – Workplace Rights

Unison will be running a workshop on Trans equality and rights in the workplace and the impact of cuts on public services.

13:30
(90 mins)

2nd Floor
Board Room

Drag King Workshop

Flirty Bertie  will present a workshop addressing all things Drag King: clothing, binding, packing, beards, makeup and much more.

14.00
(45 mins)

3rd Floor
Main Meeting Room

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal

 

A talk and performance by trans magician Fay Presto.

Come and hear Fay recount the story of her incredible life, some true confessions, reminiscences of political activity and maybe perform a few amazing tricks…..

 

15:00
(60 mins)

3rd Floor
Small Meeting Room

Facial Feminisation Surgery:
Q&A with the FFS Surgeon

Learn about the surgical techniques now available and get your questions answered by Dr Luis Capitan MD of Facial Team, Marbella.

15:00
(60 mins)

2nd Floor
Group Work Room

Health Promotion – Breast Cancer Awareness

Lisa Lindsey will be holding a session on breast awareness and breast screening for transgender men and women.

15:00
(60 mins)

2nd Floor
Meeting Room

SOFFAs Group

A regular TREC event - A group for the Significant Others, Friends, Families and Allies of trans people to get together and talk.  All Sparkle attendees in one of these categories are welcome to attend.

15:00
(60 mins)

2nd Floor
Board Room

TREC regular Creative Writing Group

Each month the group meet to do writing exercises, talk about the art and craft of writing, and (optionally!) share our work with each other. The session will be open to all Sparkle visitors where space is available.

15.30
(45 mins)

3rd Floor
Main Meeting Room

Transition – a Funny Experience

Trans comedienne Bethany Black explores trans issues through humour and audience interaction.

 



 

Workshop with The Government Equalities Office (GEO) to develop further the

Transgender Equality Action Plan

 

Time:

 

10:30 – 15:00 – Sunday 10th July 2011

Location:

 

3rd Floor - Main Meeting Room

Description:

 

The Coalition Government is committed to publishing a Transgender Equality Action Plan by the end of 2011. Several workshops have already taken place to develop the Trans Statement of Needs. The aim of this workshop is to further refine this Statement of Needs, to propose actions to implement it, and to inform further the Government's Equality Action Plan.