There are two events this weekend to commemorate Ryan Skipper’s birthday — a memorial today in Atlanta, and a fundraiser tomorrow in Auburndale, Fla., for the Ryan Keith Skipper Foundation.
Memorial in Atlanta
Note: Check Georgia Equality website for last minute schedule changes.
1:00pm
First Metropolitan Community Church
1379 Tullie Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
404-325-4143
For more information on attending Ryan’s vigil and other ways you can help please contact Melinda Morgan by email or at (404) 327-9898.
The RSK Foundation Fundraiser
Source: The Lakeland Ledger:
A fundraiser for the Ryan Keith Skipper Foundation will be Sunday at the Auburndale Civic Center. Admission is $10 for the benefit, at 115 W. Park St. in Auburndale.
At 3 p.m. Sunday, Harmonious Universe, an artists’ group that promotes peace and unity through artwork, will be on hand with blank canvases that can be painted by visitors in Skipper’s memory.
Canvas painting is free, and a silent auction and entertainment will begin at 7:30 p.m.
All money raised from the auction, food and drink will go toward the foundation, whose mission statement is to educate and promote the acceptance of diversity. Skipper was gay.
Skipper was found stabbed to death March 14. His killing has been classified as a hate crime.
Ryan would have been 26 today.
