Province's first gay-straight alliance summit to take place in Saskatoon
Victoria Dinh | CBC News | Posted: April 7, 2016 11:30 PM | Last Updated: April 7, 2016
Teachers and students from across the province will be able to participate
Saskatchewan's first gay-straight alliance summit is taking place this month in Saskatoon.
OUT Saskatoon has teamed up with Camp fYrefly to bring the two-day conference to teachers and students from around the province.
We thought that it was really important to provide a space to bring all of these students together. - Amanda Guthrie, youth and education coordinator for OUT Saskatoon
"Students who identify with the LGBT community in rural settings often feel isolated," said Amanda Guthrie, youth and education coordinator for OUT Saskatoon.
"And so, it's really important that they have the opportunity to meet others that are like them and to meet people who are concerned about similar issues so that they don't feel so alone."
The summit will feature two keynote speakers with over 12 workshops and 20 presenters for attendees to choose from.
"We thought that it was really important to provide a space to bring all of these students together, to get them to meet one another, [and] especially for the advisors to meet one another so that we can brainstorm and be strategic about what GSAs are working on across the province," said Guthrie.
The summit will take place on April 15 and 16 at Walter Murray Collegiate.
For more information about registration and specific summit events, click here.