Bring your own shade (photo: mine)

As September blazes into San Diego, please note, AIDS Walk San Diego is slated for Sunday, 27 September. Now would be a great time to start thinking about how you’re going to pitch in and help out.

Here’s what’s coming up in sunny San Diego.

Tuesday, 1 September:

Coffee & Conversation with Nicole Torres
Join our live interview forum as we find out what makes songstress Nicole Torres tick!

Is it her Cuban heritage? Is it her passion for music? Is it her activism? Is it the poetry of her everyday life?

What: Coffee & Conversation with Cool Women
When: 7-8:30 pm
Where: The Center, 3909 Centre St, SD, (619) 692-2077
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Who: Host Tryce Czyczynska interviews ‘Oprah style’

Bonus: Nicole will sing for us!
Discover: www.nicoletorres.com

Free to attend, free coffee and light dessert. Come as long or as little as you can, come early for the best seats. Come to be inspired!

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City Council Meeting

Councilmember Donna Frye will present AT 10:00am a Women’s Equality Day Proclamation at San Diego City Council, in the chambers. As a Feminist please join us as the city acknowledges the 89th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. Come with us to celebrate. Please wear white, if you can, as the Suffragists did and please make your self a shoulder sash or carry a sign that says: “VOTES FOR WOMEN” or something else that a suffragist from that period might say. This should be a fun event for all of us. Hope to see you there!

Wednesday, 2 September:

SAME Spaghetti Fundraiser at The Big Kitchen

Join San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality members at The Big Kitchen, eat spaghetti and support grassroots activists fighting for Marriage Equality in 2010. SAME is asking for a sliding scale of $15.00 – $100,00 pr. Person with one 50/50 raffle ticket included in the price of your meal.

For more info: www.samealliance.com or 619-234-5789

Location: The Big Kitchen
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Address: 3003 Grape Street
City: San Diego, CA

Tuesday, 8 September

San Diego Alliance for Marriage meeting

The San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality (SAME) is a grass roots, democratically-run organization committed to fighting for LGBT rights including marriage equality. SAME meetings are open to the public. For more information please visit the SAME website.

As the movement continues we encourage everyone with an idea, a hope, a voice, to join us in this struggle. in numbers there is strength, in unity there is hope, and together we WILL realize our goal: equality.

We want to invite LGBTQIQAA activists to become NEW members and NEW organizations to join us in coalition at this SAME membership meeting. Our agenda will focus on issues of the future direction in the fight for Marriage Equality, a 2010 California ballot initiative for Civil Marriage and LGBT Equal Rights. The meeting discussion will focus on SAME leadership structure and leadership structure in the 2010 Marriage Equality campaign, planning future actions, signature gathering, phonebanking and fundraisers. Also on the agenda is SAME membership dues and planning for the Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser happening at The Big Kitchen on Wednesday, September 2nd.

Please join our membership meetings the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the Month. SAME meetings are open to the public. For more info visit SAME online.

Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: At a Residential Building on the SE Corner of 4th & Walnut (street parking after 6pm is FREE.) Signs at the gate will guide you to the meeting space which is UPSTAIRS on the 2nd floor. If you need directions contact Cecile: 858 335 6615.

Wednesday, 16 September:

Hillcrest Art Nite

The Hillcrest Business Association and More Super Events presents the monthly Hillcrest Art Nite. The Hillcrest Art Nite events consist of art spaces set up along the sidewalks of Hillcrest allowing event-goers to walk through a three-block portion of the community to view art, enjoy entertainment, shop and eat at some of Hillcrest’s most popular restaurants at discount prices, some of which include Baja Betty’s, Wine Steals, Bamboo Lounge, The Ruby Room and CC Lounge. Local shops also offer discounts to those coming out for the event.

Time: 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Address: University Ave between 10th and Herbert
City: San Diego, CA 92103

Sunday, 20 September:

Family Matters Family BBQ

Join Family Matters from 11 am to 3 pm on Sunday, Sept. 20 at Trolley Barn Park on Adams Ave. between Park and Texas. All families are welcome! Bring your kids, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, grandkids, friends and neighbors for music, karaoke, face painting, balloon art, jumps and slides, games, prizes and lots of social time. Children under 5 are free. All others pay only $10 for lunch and beverages. Want to sponsor another family? Your $30 gift will sponsor a family of three, while $50 will sponsor a family of five. Tickets are available online. For more information, contact Jane Schmoll at (619) 692-2077, ext. 121, or families@thecentersd.org. Check out the Facebook page.

Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009
Time: 11:00am – 3:00pm
Location: Trolley Barn Park
Street: Adams Ave. between Park & Texas

Tuesday, 22 September

San Diego Alliance for Marriage meeting

The San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality (SAME) is a grass roots, democratically-run organization committed to fighting for LGBT rights including marriage equality. SAME meetings are open to the public. For more information please visit the SAME website.

As the movement continues we encourage everyone with an idea, a hope, a voice, to join us in this struggle. in numbers there is strength, in unity there is hope, and together we WILL realize our goal: equality.

We want to invite LGBTQIQAA activists to become NEW members and NEW organizations to join us in coalition at this SAME membership meeting. Our agenda will focus on issues of the future direction in the fight for Marriage Equality, a 2010 California ballot initiative for Civil Marriage and LGBT Equal Rights. The meeting discussion will focus on SAME leadership structure and leadership structure in the 2010 Marriage Equality campaign, planning future actions, signature gathering, phonebanking and fundraisers. Also on the agenda is SAME membership dues and planning for the Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser happening at The Big Kitchen on Wednesday, September 2nd.

Please join our membership meetings the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the Month. SAME meetings are open to the public. For more info visit SAME online.

Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: At a Residential Building on the SE Corner of 4th & Walnut (street parking after 6pm is FREE.) Signs at the gate will guide you to the meeting space which is UPSTAIRS on the 2nd floor. If you need directions contact Cecile: 858 335 6615.

Sunday, 27 September:

AIDS Walk San Diego 2009

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s cuts to California’s HIV/AIDS programs were nothing less than monstrous. Now, more than before, this is our community’s best shot at raising badly-needed funds for programs and services vital to San Diegans at risk for or living with AIDS/HIV-infection. Please, sign up and walk or run. If you can’t, dig deep and support a participant or team.

AIDS Walk San Diego is San Diego’s largest one-day HIV/AIDS fundraiser and the biggest non-governmental financial provider for HIV/AIDS in San Diego County. Dozens of agencies — serving thousands of clients — rely on funds raised at the annual AIDS Walk to help provide essential prevention and care programs to thousands of men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS.

Established as AIDS Walk San Diego in 1989, this event took place for two years prior as the Walk for Life. Through a unique funding partnership with the San Diego HIV Funding Collaborative, AIDS Walk San Diego is able to increase the impact of the dollars raised at the event. Funds from the Walk are combined with donations from other philanthropists and foundations to qualify for matching funds. Since 1989, AIDS Walk San Diego has raised more than $7.5 million. In partnership with the San Diego HIV Funding Collaborative, nearly $555,988 was distributed last year to 26 community-based HIV/AIDS service organizations in San Diego County.

Check out the AIDS Walk San Diego website or Facebook for more information.

Time: 7:00am – 10:00am (see the event schedule)
Location: Balboa Park
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Additions and/or corrections to calendar items are welcomed. Drop me an email or add a comment below.