QIO: Solutions LLC

QIO: Solutions LLC WHO & WHAT IS QIO: SOLUTIONS? HOW DO WE DO IT? How we do it:

1. DEI Assessments, reports, suggestions and implementation
2. Accessibility Improvements
3.

At QIO SOLUTIONS we tailor and design an experience that centers the clients expert knowledge of those they engage and connect with to finding solutions and implementing them using our networks and resources similarly driven by a DEI focused experience. QIO: Q***R CONSENSUS, PROCESS, SOLUTION, & IMPLEMENTATION LLC provides assessments of growing, transitioning, start-up, recovering, and diversifyi

ng businesses both for and not-for-profit's focused particularly on those that are minority-owned. We work collaboratively with our clients to identify obstacles and goals to build a comprehensive, innovative, solution-based plan as well as offering our network and resources to implement the plans measuring success by the standard of the client(s). Additionally, we offer follow up options to ensure the sustainability of the implemented solutions as well as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity (DEI) assessments from brand new startups to corporate institutions. I've shifted my work as a direct advocate through programming, workshops/training, curricular series, performance/arts/creative events for LGBTQIA+ as well as underrepresented, underserved, and under resourced groups, organizations, businesses, collectives, etc. via QIO to doing larger strategic planning, agenda setting, value and equity assessments with business and nonprofits as a specialized consultant with 17-years experience of field and remote work building sustainable, critically intentional, and integrity fostered relationships to inform future initiatives, missions, goals, and projects (including raising 1.5 million over five years for education on those who live with HIV today, forging over 500 partnerships from local to global, creating engagement with 85k per year, and 420 different public programs)

WHAT DOES QIO DO? Using QIO as a model to engage and structure collaborative equity-centered or more active DEI relationships with anything from an individual artist, to a progressive rights activist coalition, to a youth environmental group, to a pharmacy franchise to improve the accessibility of their app for aging populations and startups aiding those with housing challenge , etc. specifically with the intention of deepening their connectivity and understanding of how their business and/or practice as a space that wants to leans toward progressive, effective, and efficient decision making embracing the best attributes of cultural competence as they grow, recover, pivot, begin, or reset intentions whether that's amongst creative, educational, healthcare, youth, commerce, philanthropic industries and many others. Intergenerational Mentorship structuring
4. Consistent archiving of institutional knowledge
5. Sustainable Development increases growth via grants, donors, sponsorships
6. Community-Growth building bridges across demographic gaps
7; Collaborative Team and Task Management
8. Special Issue Visibility Campaigns (Communications and Marketing Solutions)
9. Professional Development & Curricular Models tailored to your needs

These are measurably successful piloted practices that have provided feedback and survey data indicating that both staff and leadership note visible positive changes to the work culture and the work itself. We start by doing a free pro bono 30-45 minute consultation to identify goals you have, obstacles you're working to overcome, or maybe you're at a point of transition. We learn from you and hopefully you gain from our experience design, execute, and implement based on the timeline, budget, and capacities assessed and expanding that potential. If you're open to chat further please let me know!

We are excited to announce QIO: Solutions LLC has joined as a member of Chicago's Rogers Park Business Alliance, the Nat...
01/16/2022

We are excited to announce QIO: Solutions LLC has joined as a member of Chicago's Rogers Park Business Alliance, the National Gay & Le***an Chamber of Commerce and LGBT Chamber of Commerce of Illinois certification as an LGBT-owned business and HIV+-owned business, and arts co-op Guilded (based off the Smart Coop Europe).

The past 12 months have seen relentless trials by fire. After 10 months of job hunting (what equates to five interviews/...
01/16/2022

The past 12 months have seen relentless trials by fire. After 10 months of job hunting (what equates to five interviews/applications every day for one year) and unemployment support being cut off I began to imagine I had become one of the 'unemployable' millions, the loss of 13 friends and colleagues, HIV aging and Long Term Survivors (LTS)--more than 60% of those living with HIV today are 50 and over-- these are people who experienced the horrors of ignorance, negligence, and the awful irresponsible truth of systemic discriminatory behaviors from the highest levels of public office to our childhood kitchen tables, to the COVID pandemic

BUT then I remembered the resilience, ingenuity, and industrious heritage my community has taught me.

It was a personal conversation with a founding member of the international LGBTQIA+ human rights NGO, Synergia, an educator and conflict mediator turned Nintendo executive, a journalist who helped ignite the Obama administration's interfaith initiative, an award winning transq***r poet, and a powerhouse performer, writer, coding entrepreneur and now the irrefutably irreverent actress Angelica Ross, now a household name.

People who I worked with, for, and inspired my early work and motivated my capacity to have convictions, passions, and a playful imagination that cannot be knocked down. I now watch them on Saturday Night Live, Ryan Murphy award winning and acclaimed television series, landmark documentary and feature films demonstrating equity and accountability in an accurate telling of our community's history.

http://www.kiva.org/lender/

It is the pride that comes in seeing those I have worked with succeed and realize their dreams that empowers and affirms that same sense of resilience.

From that savvy, kind, fearless generator came Q***R, ILL + OKAY (QIO) the performance, awareness, and advocacy project formed in the face of adversity when diagnosed myself with HIV that allowed an experimental DIY idea to become an enterprising, international, visionary non-profit that drove donors, partners, sponsors, and foundations over five years to exponentially surpass any goals imagined and rounds out to nearly two million dollars of community belief and investment, six year AIDS Healthcare Foundation funded, four year Visual AIDS grantee.

I would not have made it this far with help of so many of you. Now is a time to give back and share in promoting the growth of those who need and deserve it most. All of this is possible because of you and I hope you'll help continue the momentum!

12/17/2016

Hey y'all it's and taking over the gram for the evening. Can't wait to see you tonight for the final ***rillokay night of performances. (directed by )

12/03/2016

***RILLOKAY artist performs at opening panel Disruption/Repression: How AIDS Changed America. See more of avery r. young at Q***R, ILL + OKAY opening next week at tickets are FREE at Public Access Theatre

12/03/2016

***RILLOKAY teaching artist performs following How AIDS Changed American Art lecture with co-curator Jonathan Katz. ***RILLOKAY artist performs at opening panel Disruption/Repression: How AIDS Changed America. See Q***R, ILL + OKAY opening next week at tickets are FREE at Public Access Theatre

Joseph Varisco In Association With Oracle Productions Presents:Q***r, Ill + Okay (2016)December 9 - 17, 2016CHICAGO, IL ...
11/14/2016

Joseph Varisco In Association With Oracle Productions Presents:
Q***r, Ill + Okay (2016)
December 9 - 17, 2016

CHICAGO, IL (November 7, 2016) – Joseph Varisco, in association with Oracle Productions, is proud to present the fourth year of Q***R, ILL + OKAY, a multidisciplinary performance series featuring LGBTQ artists living with HIV and other chronic illnesses. Q***R, ILL + OKAY will be presented December 9 - 17, 2016 at Oracle Productions, 1802 W. Bernice Ave. in Chicago. Tickets are on sale now at publicaccesstheatre.org. The press opening will be December 9, 2016 at 8pm.

The featured performers will be Avery R. Young, Angel Katz, Bea Cordelia Sullivan-Knoff, Dev_n and SK Kerastas, Grits and Vasilios Papapitsios, Emma Alamo, Juju Min###, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Lindsey Lee, Lucas Baisch, Michelle Zacarias, Morgan Elizabeth-Karadjian McNaught, Phillip Lambert X Blaknbrilliant and Tim'm T. West.

Q***R, ILL + OKAY is an annual multidisciplinary performance series exploring, challenging and reinventing narratives about the lives of q***r individuals and their relationships to HIV and other forms of mental and chronic illness. After being diagnosed as HIV+ in 2013, Joe Varisco invited an expansive artistic community to create new work around the relationship between q***rness, the body, and chronic illness.

“Q***R, ILL + OKAY has grown exponentially for our fourth annual production. This show is a powerfully personal exploration of reinventing narratives that is critically inclusive of a vast spectrum of experience. I could not be prouder to helm the production of an unrelentingly forward moving conversation with these artistic communities. This year we’ve doubled all efforts, bringing two weekends of new and original content with fourteen artists, in collaboration with Oracle Productions and Art AIDS America Chicago, a national touring exhibition. Q***R, ILL + OKAY elevates conversation as a creative movement engaging arts and social justice as tools for effective change on a national scale,” says Joe Varisco.

PRODUCTION DETAILS:
Title: Q***R, ILL + OKAY
Producer: Joseph Varisco
Performers: avery r. young, Angel Katz, Bea Cordelia, Dev_n and SK Kerastas, Dirty Grits and Vasilios Papapitsios, Emma Alamo, JuJu Minxx, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Lindsey Lee, Lucas Baisch, Michelle Zacarias, Morgan McNaught, Phillip Lambert X Blaknbrilliant and Tim'm West.

Location: Oracle Productions, 1802 W Berenice Ave. in Chicago
Dates: Press Performance: Friday, December 9 at 8pm
Regular Run: December 9-10 and 16-17, 2016
Curtain Times: Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm
Tickets: Admission is FREE at Public Access Theatre: http://tinyurl.com/q***rillokay

About the Creative Team:
Joseph Varisco (Producer) performs independent production and development support to underrepresented, HIV+, and q***r populations as Program Coordinator of Art AIDS America Chicago at Alphawood Foundation, co-curator at Salonathon, and Resident Curator for Poonie's Cabaret at Links Hall. Varisco is the creator of the annual performance series Q***R, ILL + OKAY, sits on the Victory Gardens Theater Community Leadership Council, a recipient of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Chicago Community Trust, and Visual AIDS grants and Program Director of the Chicago Q***r Arts Mentorship Program via High Concept Labs.

Q***R, ILL + OKAY is supported by AIDS Healthcare Foundation, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Alphawood Foundation, Art AIDS America Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, FredSays, Howard Brown Health, Links Hall, and Salonathon.

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Nightly lineups for Q***r, Ill + Okay (2016) have been released! This year we're coming at you with TWO full weekends of...
11/14/2016

Nightly lineups for Q***r, Ill + Okay (2016) have been released! This year we're coming at you with TWO full weekends of magic. Oh and don't forget, tickets are completely free but you do have to RSVP.

https://oracle.yapsody.com/event/index/54684/q***r-ill-okay/245927

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9th
DEV_N + SK KERASTAS, MICHELLE ZACARIAS, DIRTY GRITS + VASILIOS PAPAPITSIOS, BEA CORDELIA, EMMA ALAMO, LINDSEY LEE, ANGEL KATZ, PHILLIP X BLAKNBRILLIANT

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10th
DEV_N + SK KERASTAS, MICHELLE ZACARIAS, DIRTY GRITS + VASILIOS PAPAPITSIOS, BEA CORDELIA, EMMA ALAMO, LINDSEY LEE, JUJU MIN###

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16th
DEV_N + SK KERASTAS, MICHELLE ZACARIAS, DIRTY GRITS + VASILIOS PAPAPITSIOS, KAY ULANDAY-BARRETT, MORGAN MCNAUGHT, AVERY R. YOUNG, LUCAS BAISCH, TIM'M WEST

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17th
DEV_N + SK KERASTAS, MICHELLE ZACARIAS, DIRTY GRITS + VASILIOS PAPAPITSIOS, KAY ULANDAY-BARRETT, MORGAN MCNAUGHT, AVERY R. YOUNG, LUCAS BAISCH, TIM'M WEST

Joseph Varisco In Association With Oracle Theater PresentsQ***R, ILL + OKAYDecember 9 - 17, 2016CHICAGO, IL (November 7, 2016) – Joseph Varisco, in association with Oracle Theater, is proud to present the fourth year of Q***R, ILL + OKAY, a multidisciplinary performance series featuring LGBTQ artist...

10/27/2016

On October 14, 2016, High Concept Labs hosted Chicago Q***r Arts Mentorship Program (CQAMP) Artist ALEXA GRÆ at Mana Contemporary Chicago. SEEN is a multidis...

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