LIVE STREAM OF VIOLENCE NO MORE IN VANCOUVER, COAST SALISH TERRITORIES
BATTERED WOMEN’S SUPPORT SERVICES, in partnership with SISTERWORK and THE URBAN NATIVE YOUTH ASSOCIATION.
Andrea Smith, Cherokee scholar-activist and co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color against Violence, and Bridget Tolley and Kristen Gilchrist, co-founders of Families of Sisters in Spirit – a discussion on ways forward to end violence against Indigenous women.Presented by: No More Silence Network and the Women and Gender Studies Institute at UofT with the support of The Native Youth Sexual Health Network.
APR 29, 2013 • 4-8 PM (PST)
We will be viewing the live stream of Violence No More event at THE URBAN NATIVE YOUTH ASSOCIATION.
Address: 1618 EAST HASTINGS STREET, VANCOUVER
Stew and Bannock will be served for dinner and a discussion will follow
For more information please contact Meghan at 604-254-7712. or Brandy at 604-652-1867
Our Indigenous brothers are encouraged to attend!
Sponsored by the Alcohol & Drug Counselling Program at THE URBAN NATIVE YOUTH ASSOCIATION.
This event is part of a day of programming and the 3rd installment of The Silence is broken: Now What? A member of The Vancouver Women’s Memorial March Organizing Committee Lisa Yellow-Quill as well as author Sarah Hunt from Victoria will also be present. This series represents a collaboration between the Native Youth Sexual Health Network and No More Silence dating back to the summer of 2011.
For video of parts 1 and 2 please see here:
http://nomoresilence-nomoresilence.blogspot.ca/
2011_08_01_archive.html
http://nomoresilence-nomoresilence.blogspot.ca/
2011_12_01_archive.html
Co-sponsored by:
Native Youth Sexual Health Network; Sistering; New College, UofT; Department of Anthropology, UofT; Canadian Studies, UofT; Department of Political Science, UofT; OISE/UT Graduate Student Association; CUPE3907, UofT, GGAPSS (Graduate Geography and Planning Student Society, UofT).
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You can download the poster here.
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