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Preventing Violence Against Women
Urban Women’s Anti-Violence Strategy Reconvening To host Death Does Not Become Her – Pre Mortem Initiatives
During Prevention of Violence Against Women Week April 18 – 24, 2010
In 2009, Urban Women’s Anti-Violence Strategy held events on Main Street in Vancouver to standing room only crowds confirming the essential and critical services women’s organizations provide in British Columbia.
In 2010, the location is Commercial Drive and the events are even more compelling and pressing.
Schedule:
Tuesday, April 20: What’s Rape Got To Do With It? An Evening of Consciousness-Raising
Little Nest located at 1716 Charles Street, Vancouver
7 pm to 9 pm
Wednesday, April 21: What do Women Want?: Feminists Shaping The Path for Men’s Anti-Violence Work
Little Nest located at 1716 Charles Street, Vancouver
7 pm to 9 pm
Thursday, April 22: The Grid: 5 Critical Forces Sustaining Male Violence Against Women
Little Nest at 1716 Charles Street, Vancouver
7 pm to 9 pm
Friday, April 23: When Battered Women are Arrested: The Systems’ Response to Violence Against Women
Britannia Community Centre Canucks Family Education Centre located 2nd floor 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver
7pm to 9 pm
Sunday, April 25: Sisterhood: The Ties That Bind Us – A Film Screening of “Searching for Angela Shelton”
Rio Theatre located 1660 East Broadway, Vancouver
2 pm to 5 pm
For more information call 604-687-1613, email strategicinterventions@bwss.org or www.bwss.org
Urban Women’s Anti-Violence Strategy is:
Howe Sound Women’s Centre,
Surrey Women’s Centre,
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter,
South Fraser Women’s Services Society,
Act II Safe Choice,
Women Against Violence Against Women
Battered Women’s Support Services
Prevention of Violence Against Women Week 2009
All Events are Free and Open to the Public
Monday April 20, 2009. 7pm. Montmartre Café, 4362 Main St.
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter launches
The Johns : Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It
with author Victor Malarek and UBC law professor, Janine Benedet
Tuesday April 21, 2009. 7pm. Bean Around the World, 3598 Main St.
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, YWCA Munroe House and Act II Safe Choice host
Rewriting Our Own Futures: Words from Women of Vancouver Transition Houses
with ex-residents from transition houses and singer songwriter Kate Reid
Wednesday April 22, 2009. 7pm. Montmartre Café, 4362 Main St.
Battered Women’s Support Services and WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre host
Community Engagement in Violence Prevention. Tough Guise: Violence Media and the Crisis in Masculinity
Film/panel discussion applying a feminist analysis to involving men/boys in anti-violence work with Irene Tsepnopoulos-Elhaimer, Angela MacDougall, Hari Alluri and Curtis Clearsky and with performances by Kia Kidiri, JB The First Lady & Christie Lee
Thursday April 23, 2009. 7pm. Our Town Café, 245 East Broadway.
Vancouver Rape Relief and Womens’ Shelter and WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre host
Bad Dates, Campus Creepers and Drug Rapes
with Aboriginal Women’s Action Network, Antigone Magazine and BC Women’s Hospital Sexual Assault Centre
Friday, April 24, 2009 Location TBA
Battered Women’s Support Services hosts
You Can Bet Your Maple Leaf On That – Violence Against Women and 2010 Olympics
Battered Women’s Support Services announces anti-violence strategy for 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Olympic Games pre, during and post prevention and intervention strategy
Saturday April 25, 2009. 7pm. Our Town Café, 245 East Broadway.
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter hosts
Olympics 2010: Women in Sport, women as Sport
with Exploited Voices Educating, Aboriginal Women’s Action Network and Sports Journalist, Laura Robinson
