[van-announce] Vancouver Status of Women & Community Events

[Women Centre]

Vancouver Status of Women & Community Events

 

 

1. VSW Volunteer Call Out - Womyn’s Herstory Collage Art Project 

2. Women's Annual Housing March -  Sat June 13th @ 1:30pm - Downtown
Eastside Women Centre

3. Earth, Fire, Water and Air – Sat June 27th @ 8pm – Rhizome Cafe

 

 

 

1. VSW Volunteer Call Out - Womyn’s Herstory Collage Art Project

 

 

Vancouver Status of Women Volunteer Call Out

 

For a 

Womyn’s Herstory Collage Art Project 

 

VSW is looking for volunteers to collaboratively create a large multi-media
collage that honours the Women’s Herstory Movement with a particular
emphasis on the experience of Indigenous/First Nations womyn and womyn of
colour.

 

 

This is a unique opportunity for womyn interested in learning and sharing
creative art/collage skills, Knowledge of important events affecting
racialized womyn, and connecting with other womyn in a creative feminist
space. 

 

This volunteer project is open to all self-identified womyn. We especially
encourage Indigenous/First Nations womyn, womyn of colour, and trans,
two-spirited, and queer-identified womyn to join us.

 

Bus tickets and refreshments will be provided. VSW is a wheelchair
accessible place.

 

For more information and to set up a volunteer interview please call
604-255-6554

Email: womencentre at vsw.ca or gorgeousmabel at hotmail.com

 

 

 

2. Women's Annual Housing March on Sat June 13th

 

- please forward widely -

 

 

* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyNC7fjLhT8

 

===> 3RD ANNUAL WOMEN'S HOUSING MARCH <===

 

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Sat June 13 @ 1:30 pm

Starts outside Downtown Eastside Women Centre

(302 Columbia- corner Cordova, just west of Main)

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On Saturday June 13 at 1:30 pm, join women in the Downtown Eastside Women
Centre Power of Women Group in the 3rd Annual March for Women's Housing and
March Against Poverty! Everyone welcome!

 

We are marching for:

- Social Housing, Childcare, and Healthcare for all!

- No more Evictions and No more Condos in the DTES!

- People Before Olympic Profits!

- Stop Criminalizing the Poor!

 

Although we are still suffering in shelters and on the streets, we are not
yet defeated. We are making our voices heard, we are bringing empowerment
into our lives, we are fighting for positive change, and we are expressing
the humanity of our neighbourhood. We hope all of you will join us.

 

For more information contact project at dewc.ca or call 604-681-8480 x 234.
We are also seeking endorsements, please contact us if you would are
interested in being added to a list of supporters.

 

On facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=80841139629

 

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* Power & Perspectives: An Interview with Power to Women group
http://knollpaper.wordpress.com/current-issue/gender/power-perspectives/

 

* Election won’t change lives of Downtown Eastside women:

http://straight.com/article-216138/harsha-walia-and-andrea-pinochet-election
-promises-won%3F%3Ft-change-lives-downtown-eastside-women

 

* Downtown Eastside Women Ask Politicians for Housing Swap

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/1286

 

 

The Power of Women Group is a group at the Downtown Eastside (DTES) Women's
Centre, located in the DTES of Vancouver (the poorest off-reserve postal
code in Canada). We are a group of women from all walks of life who are
either on social assistance, working poor, or homeless; but we are all
living in extreme poverty. Our aim is to empower ourselves through our
experiences and to raise awareness from our own perspectives about the
social issues affecting the neighbourhood.

 

Many of us are single mothers or have had our children apprehended due to
poverty; most of us have chronic physical or mental health issues for
example HIV and Hepatitis C; many have drug or alcohol addictions; and a
majority have experienced and survived sexual violence and mental, physical,
spiritual, and emotional abuse. For indigenous women, we are affected by a
legacy of the effects of residential schools and a history of colonization
and racism.

 

 

 

*** Supporters of this march include: ***

 

2010 Watch

Alliance for People's Health

Anti-Poverty Committee

Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society
Battered Women Support Services Society B.C. Committee for Human Rights in
the Philippines BC Persons With AIDS Society BC Poverty Reduction Coalition
Building Bridges Human Rights-Vancouver Bulland Awaaz Café Kathmandu
Carnegie Community Action Project Carnegie Community Centre Association
Citywide Housing Coalition Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Lenninist)
DTES Elders Council DTES Neighbourhood House Filipino-Canadian Youth
Alliance Filipino Nurses Support Group Fraser Valley Peace Council Friends
of Women in the Middle East Society GAATW-Canada Grassroots Women Greater
Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens' Association Indigenous Action Movement
Industrial Workers of the World International Iranian Federation of Refugees
La Surda Latin American Collective Latin America Connexions Lookout Society
No One Is Illegal Olympics Resistance Network Oxfam Canada PACE Society
Philippine Women Centre of B.C.

PIVOT Legal Society

Portland Hotel Society

SIKLAB-B.C.

Rhizome Café

Salaam- Queer Muslim collective

Siraat

South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy Stopwar.ca Streams of
Justice Teaching Support Staff Union The Global Education Center - BC The
Rational Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users Vancouver Socialist Forum
Vancouver Status of Women Walk 4 Justice West Coast Aboriginal Harm
Reduction Society West Coast Women's Legal Education & Action Fund WISH
Drop-in Centre Society Women Against Violence Against Women Workless Party

 

 

 

3. Earth, Fire, Water and Air

Rhizome Cafe

Saturday, June 27, 8:00pm

The Aboriginal Writers' Collective hosts an evening of the Four Elements
through music, art and poetry with a dynamic lineup featuring Hiromi Goto,
Joanne Arnott, Afuwa Granger, Fiona Lam, Janet Rogers, Kasp, and Russell
Wallace, just to name a few....

$5-20 Sliding Scale, no one turned away. Proceeds will benefit Leave Out
Violence (LOVE) program for youth.

 

 

*** If you would like to be removed from this list please reply with
“REMOVE” in the subject. Thanks! ***

 

 

 

 

Maria Escolan

Women's Centre Coordinator

Vancouver Status of Women

2652 East Hastings Street

Vancouver, BC     V5K 1Z6

Phone 604-255-6554  Fax 604-255-7508