[van-announce] (UPDATED!!) Apr. 17 VSW event - Woven: This is What Liberated Community Looks Like

[LEAP Coordinator]

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Vancouver Status of Women requests your presence at...
 
WOVEN
This is What Liberated Community Looks Like
 
 
Saturday, APRIL 17, 2010
7:00-10:00pm
Rhizome Cafe
317 East Broadway
Unceded Coast Salish Territory
 
Donations ($5-20) encouraged. No one turned away. 
On-site childcare provided. All genders welcome!
 
With a traditional Coast Salish opening by Kat Norris
 
FEATURING
EMERGE: Women Rising Media Arts Exhibit 
A collaborative project between Vancouver Status of Women & Point Youth
Media that delivered media arts training with a focus on photography to a
group of women living with multiple systemic barriers. Pieces visioned,
created and developed by the group will be on display. 

RITA WONG
Author of three books of poetry: sybil unrest (co-written with Larissa Lai,
Line Books 2008), forage (Nightwood Press 2007), and monkeypuzzle (Press
Gang 1998). She received the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Emerging Writer
Award in 1997, and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2008. Wong teaches in
Critical + Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and
is currently researching the poetics of water. 

PRESS RELEASE
A collective of poets involved in social movements. Recently produced
Survaillance, a chapbook of anonymous contributors, to witness the impacts
of the Olympics in Vancouver. 
 
And a fierce line up of speakers including BENITA BUNJUN, RAIN DANIELS,
ADRIANA PAZ, ANGELA MARIE MACDOUGALL, CARMEN AGUIRRE, PRITI SHAH & more!
 
Since 1971, Vancouver Status of Women has engaged women in vision and
struggle to achieve full participation in political, social and economic
life. We believe in creating healthy, joyful and liberated feminist
community. We provide critical information, resources, advocacy and
capacity-building training to support women's self-determination. 
 
Recently, VSW suffered major funding cuts devastating to our ability to
continue our work. 
Why and how did these cuts happen? Who is affected? What can we do as a
community to protect essential community programs and services?
 
Come and hear organizers, facilitators, community members, volunteers,
program participants and allies speak about their experiences with VSW, and
share your own ideas!
 
GET INFORMED. GET MOBILIZED. GET INSPIRED.
 
We ask you to consider donating or becoming a member of VSW even if you are
unable to attend. 
Contact  <mailto:leapcoordinator at vsw.ca> leapcoordinator at vsw.ca or
604-255-6554 for more information.
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