Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Open House
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Doors open 5:30 – 8 pm
Visit the drop-in centre, meet staff and volunteers, learn about programs, women’s talent showcase, original art silent auction, screening of documentary “Strength, Survival, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside”
Everyone Welcome
604-681-8480 x 226 for more info
Once Loved Threads – The Frock Swap
What you send to closet purgatory might be heaven-sent for someone else.
Celebrate the art of sharing with these 2 Vancouver-based retail fanatics and bring your once loved threads to infamous The Frock Swap.
Infamous for sending barely-worn clothing into closet purgatory, Danielle Ow & Marjolyn Ustaris didn’t know what to do with their worn-once-and-never-again clothes. What started out as a small birthday party theme in 2008, turned into one of Vancouver’s best bi-annual clothing swaps.
The concept behind Once Loved Threads is a simple one: “once loved, always loved”
Often imitated but never duplicated, We put a lot of love into our Frock Swaps to ensure that every swap is set-up boutique-style for easy swapping and we pre-screen all the clothing that comes in (on average, over 1,500 items each swap!) to make sure that each item is fashionable and wearable!
My Sister’s Closet – Social Enterprise of Battered Women’s Support Services will receive all unswapped clothing.
Here’s how it works.
Pictures of October 2010 event are here.
Danielle Ow & Marjolyn Ustaris
Join us on Thursday April 14th from 7pm to 9pm to celebrate the Vancouver book launch of “Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism” edited by Jessica Yee.
Where: Rhizome Cafe
317 East Broadway
Vancouver, BC
With a traditional opening and drumming, the evening will feature contributions from different authors and community members, as well as an audience discussion with editor Jessica Yee.
Proceeds from the evening will go to Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) More information about BWSS can be found here.
Main area is wheelchair accessible, we regret that the washroom area is not wheelchair accessible. For more information please contact Erika Shaker at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives at erikas@policyalternatives.ca
For more information about the book please click here! and here
More about Feminism FOR REAL
From Centre for Policy Alternatives
When feminism itself becomes its own form of oppression, what do we have to say about it? Western notions of polite discourse are not the norm for all of us, and just because we’ve got some new and hot language lately in equity-seeking movements like feminism — such as “intersectionality” — to use in our talk, it doesn’t necessarily make things change in our walk (i.e. actually being anti-racist).
Confronting the sometimes uncomfortable questions feminism has made us ask about what’s going on FOR REAL paved the many paths that brought the contributors of this book together to share their sometimes uncomfortable truths, not just about feminism, but about who they are and where they are coming from.
Against a backdrop exposing a 500+ year legacy of colonization and oppression, Feminism FOR REAL explores what has led us to the existence of “feminism”, who gets to decide what it is, and why. With stories that make the walls of academia come tumbling down, it deals head-on with the conflicts of what feminism means in theory as opposed to real life, the frustrations of trying to relate to definitions of feminism that never fit no matter how much you try to change yourself to fit them, and the anger of changing a system while being in the system yourself.
Jessica Yee is a self-described “Two Spirit multi-racial Indigenous hip hop feminist reproductive justice freedom fighter”. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network — the only organization of its kind in North America that works within the full spectrum of sexual and reproductive health by and for Indigenous youth across the continent.
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Battered Women’s Support Services will march in the International Day for the Elimination of Racism on Sunday, March 20th in downtown Vancouver-Coast Salish Territories. We will be marching alongside community members coming together to commemorate the struggle and strength of Indigenous and racialized people while we continue our fight against all forms of oppression.
The march will begin from the Waterfront Skytrain Station at 2:00 pm.
For more information, click here.
Settlement Worker Training Workshop
Supporting Refugee & Immigrant Women Who Experience Violence
Workshop:
When Thursday, March 3rd • 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Friday, March 4th • 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Where: The People’s Law School
# 150 – 900 Howe Street (can enter on Smithe Street)
Vancouver, B.C.
Room: Classroom (ground floor)
Phone: 250-388-4728
Parking: Expensive and hard to find (can enter paid parking lot in ally behind our building, ground level) – or take the Canada Line and get off at
Vancouver City Centre (Granville & Georgia Street downtown) and walk 3 blocks south until you reach Smithe Street.
Settlement Workers working in rural and isolated communities are well positioned to assist immigrant and refugee women who experience violence in their intimate relationships. This workshop is designed to support and enhance current work while emphasizing assessment and safety planning. Based on best practices in settlement and victim service work, experienced trainers and guest speakers will lead participants through a process that draws on group knowledge. Grounded in the strategies of empowerment, participants will explore assessment, safety planning, ethics, and other intervention strategies, to comprehensively meet the needs of refugee and immigrant women.
Topics include:
• patterns of human migration
• theoretical framework for understanding women’s experience of settlement
• the role of culture, family and community
• theoretical framework of understanding violence against refugee and immigrant women, models of safety
• legal issues – family law, immigration law, child protection law
Any questions regarding registration, please call Julia N. Schriver at 604-331-5421
All Settlement Worker Training Workshops are FREE of charge.
Refreshments will be served, however each participant should bring their own lunch.
2010 Settlement Worker Training Workshops are made possible by the generous support of: Battered Women’s Support Services and the Law Foundation of British Columbia
