Battered Women’s Support Services will march in the International Women’s Day Parade in Vancouver on Saturday, March 8th. The parade, which starts in McSpadden Park at 12:30, will include floats from women’s organizations in Vancouver that celebrate 100 years of International Women’s Day.
A festival will follow at the Wise Hall on Victoria drive. For more information visit the IWD Vancouver website or download the PDF below:
This March 5th, the Utopia Festival will celebrate women in music at Vancouver’s creative hub, W2 Storyeum! The musical showcase features 30 artists including: Peaches, Tanya Tagaq, Isis Salam (Thunderheist) and more.
Join BWSS in Ending Violence at the Utopia Festival March 5th in Vancouver. Thanks to W2Woodwards for this Feminist Vision!
Tickets are $26 (+up) available now at Beatstreet, Little Sister’s, Puff, Zulu, People’s Coop Bookstore, The Fall, W2 and online.
From March 4th to 6th, the 2011 Kawaskimhon Moot will examine legal remedies to issue of missing & murdered Indigenous Women. This year’s facilitators include Gwen Brodsky, Shelagh Day, Darlene Johnston , June McCue, Valerie Napoleon, Jean Teillet, and Beverley Jacobs.
Read more about the 2011 Kawaskimhon Moot here.
One year after the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the Olympic Village is a ghost town. While developers and marketers try many different tricks to recoup tax-payer’s money, housing activists want the promise of social housing delivered. At noon on Saturday, they held a Housing Rally, calling for safe, affordable housing within the empty units at the Olympic Village and beyond.
Read about the housing crisis in Vancouver here and here.
Read about the empty Olympic Village here.
Read more about the rally and tent village here.
UPDATE: Protesters were ordered off of the property in the Olympic Village by VPD, 10 were arrested and released without charges, read more here.
An evening of music for downtown eastside residents
Thank you, February 14th Women’s Memorial March Committee, for this vision and the steadfast leadership of women of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, bringing courage and commitment to remember and honour the missing and murdered women of the downtown eastside. Now in its 20th year, the February 14th Women’s Memorial March is an immensely powerful women’s action that anchors the tenacious fight for remembrance and justice to end violence against women.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Doors at 7 • Show from 8PM to Midnight
W2 – 151 West Cordova
No charge • Alcohol free • Child friendly event
Food + Beverages available
Their Spirits Live Within Us final line up has been confirmed:
Whyte Feather
Murray Porter
SPIN EL Poeta
Little Hawk
Bitterly Divine
Dalannah Bowen
JB The First Lady
Arlette Alcock
Stephanie Pedraza
M’Girl
Faith Nolan
To Reserve seats email endingviolence@bwss.org
Battered Women’s Support Services announces a strategic leadership program for all women interested in specialized training that will empower their roles in ending violence against women.
In its mission to end violence against women, Battered Women’s Support Services is offering the training program at no charge to attendees and invites all interested women to reserve their spot early as space is limited.
Please download the following information leaflet to learn more about this exciting opportunity:
