PILSEN – Yollocalli Arts Attain, the Nationwide Museum of Mexican Artwork’s youth program, is holding its annual Anti-Valentine’s Day Social gathering this Friday for teenagers and younger adults ages 14-25.
The free occasion options meals, music, dancing, Valentine’s Day card-making, artwork, sexual-health data and giveaways. The celebration is 6-9 p.m. on the museum, 1852 W. nineteenth St. Attendees can RSVP right here. The occasion web page guarantees free pizza, nachos and desserts; a dance celebration with DJ La Colocha; and “condoms … a number of condoms.”
This 12 months’s celebration has a masquerade theme, that includes a “moody, goth, ball robe celebration,” stated members of Yollocalli’s youth advisory council, which is organizing the occasion.
The museum galleries can be open and attendees will have the ability to take part in artwork actions resembling mask-making, amongst different workshops. Attendees are inspired to deliver buddies (so long as they’re included within the RSVP complete) however to depart their luggage and hulking coats at dwelling resulting from house.
The occasion offers youngsters and younger adults with a protected house to find out about sexual and psychological well being, wholesome relationships and LGBTQ+ points, stated Whitney Ross, youth improvement advisor for Yollocalli Arts Attain.
“We would like individuals to be educated, as a result of there’s this type of worry and stigma even inside our personal neighborhood,” stated Aliya Segura, a member of the youth advisory council. “Some individuals don’t learn about sexual well being, however sexual well being additionally speaks to reproductive well being.”
A number of sexual-health and mental-health nonprofit organizations can be on-site to distribute free sexual-health schooling materials, condoms and mental-health sources.
Having these supplies on-site offers teenagers with entry to a trusted supply they could not have at dwelling or college, Segura stated.
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