UMPI Rainbow Society

10/02/2023

Join us October 21st in the Campus Center to see the Delicious Divas as they come to UMPI do put on a drag show hosted by Pride Aroostook and UMPI Rainbow Society. Tickets for students go on sale tonight! Visit us in the Owls Nest if you would like tickets.

09/23/2023

Come join us for our first "Snack and Chat" on September 29th in the clubhouse where we will be talking about LGBTQ+ representation in Pop Culture while we enjoy "pop" snacks.

09/23/2023

Here is a list of all of the events we will be holding this semester!

06/17/2023

Rainbow Society at Aroostook Pride Festival 2023! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

06/15/2023

We are so excited to be able to be at pride this year!! 🏳️‍🌈

06/15/2023

Join us to walk around the block at the Pride Aroostook 2023 Festival! Bring your best rainbows and let's silly walk or serious walk or boogie our way down Main Street.

Starting at 5:15p at Riverside Park Pavilion.

04/28/2023

04/28/2023

Calling all visual artists*! MTN is seeking visual art about TRANS JOY.
The art will be featured in a calendar that will give us and our community a full year of reminders that joy and delight are our birthrights. It will also be sold as a fundraiser to support MTN's programming.

Prompts:
What does it mean to experience joy, delight, sweetness, and love as a trans person?
How would you visually represent trans joy? What is its shape and color?
What brings you joy as a trans person? Is it a location? A feeling? A thing? An experience? How can you show that thing, person, place, feeling?
How does joy bring meaning to your life? What does that look like?
What kind of work are we looking for?
Paintings
Drawings
Digital art
Comics
Word art
Collage
Linocut or woodcut
Papercutting
Photos
Multimedia
And ALL types of visual art, from beginners to experienced artists*

Due date for all art is May 30, 2023
Art can be submitted in digital format by sending it to [email protected] with "art" in the subject line
Artists will be notified by June 30 of selections for the project.

*We respectfully request that all media submissions be by trans and/or nonbinary artists. If you are a cis ally and want to help with the project, we would love to have your support in other ways! You can contact MTN's Volunteer Coordinator at [email protected] with "volunteer" in the subject line to find out how you can contribute some time or resources to the project.

04/28/2023

In conjunction with our art auction this year, we're commissioning poets who would like to sign up to write a poem about an art piece in the auction. These poets will be published in a zine, and read their poems at the showcase. We will have registration for this between now and May 8th.

If you'd like to see examples of art from previous years before you submit poems in registration, you can either look at our older Instagram and Facebook posts, or email [email protected].

Use this link to register (which is also in our LinkTree): https://forms.gle/SkPizLnyYB6v4FwGA

We thank The Equality Community Center, Indigo Arts Alliance, Maine Humanities Council, The Portland Public Library, QueerCraftME, and Rainbow Arts Collective as our key collaborators.