[Viva] Lunch, Learn and Laugh!!! Hot lunch program.

[anne bonner]

This is great. I hope the timing can be worked out as I think a lot of
people will be at the march.

Anne

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 5:18 PM shelly tognazzini <shetognazzini at gmail.com>
wrote:

> « Annual Feb 14th Women’s Memorial March – DTES
> <https://womensmemorialmarch.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/annual-feb-14th-womens-memorial-march-dtes/>
> 28th ANNUAL FEB 14 WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH
>
> January 18, 2019 by ajik
> <https://womensmemorialmarch.wordpress.com/author/womensmemorialmarch/>
>
> 28th ANNUAL FEB 14 WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH
>
> Thursdsay Feb 14th, 2019
> Family and community members gather in remembrance at 10:30 am
> March starts at noon from Carnegie (Main and Hastings)
> Unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and
> Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.
>
> FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/275794656420729/
>
> The first women’s memorial march was held in 1992 in response to the
> murder of a woman on Powell Street in Vancouver. Out of this sense of
> hopelessness and anger came an annual march on Valentine’s Day to express
> compassion, community, and caring for all women in Vancouver’s Downtown
> Eastside, Unceded Coast Salish Territories.
>
> The women’s memorial march continues to honour the lives of missing and
> murdered women and all women’s lives lost in the Downtown Eastside.
> Increasing deaths of many vulnerable women from the DTES still leaves
> family, friends, loved ones, and community members with an overwhelming
> sense of grief and loss. Indigenous women disproportionately continue to go
> missing or be murdered with minimal to no action to address these tragedies
> or the systemic nature of gendered violence, poverty, racism, or
> colonialism.
>
> On Thursday Feb 14th 2019, we will gather at 10:30 am at the Carnegie
> Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main Street (corner Hastings, Vancouver)
> where family members speak in remembrance. Given space constraints, we ask
> the broader public to join us at noon, when the march takes to the streets
> and proceeds through the Downtown Eastside, with stops to commemorate where
> women were last seen or found; speeches by community activists at Main and
> Hastings; a healing circle at Oppenheimer Park around 2:30 pm; and finally
> a community feast at the Japanese Language Hall.
>
> This event is organized and led by women in the DTES because women –
> especially Indigenous women – face physical, mental, emotional, and
> spiritual violence on a daily basis. The February 14th Women’s Memorial
> March is an opportunity to come together to grieve the loss of our beloved
> sisters, remember the women who are still missing, and to dedicate
> ourselves to justice.
>
> ** SUPPORT THE WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH*
>
> There are many ways to support the Feb 14th Women’s Memorial March:
>
> 1) *ATTEND:* Spread the word and join us (all genders welcome) to the Feb
> 14th march. We respectfully ask that you please do not bring your agency or
> group banners, flags, or leaflets as the Women’s Memorial March carries
> five banners only to honour the women. Sign honouring womens lives are
> welcome.
>
> 2) *KNOW THE PROTOCOL*: In a good way, we want to inform everyone about
> the protocol the march that has been in place for 28 years:
>
> At 10:30 am there will a family and community remembrance in the Carnegie
> Theatre. This is not open to media or the broader public.
>
> The media and broader public begins gathering at approximately 11:30 in
> front of Main and Hastings where territorial elders welcome us. At noon the
> elders and family members exit from the Carnegie Theatre and everyone is
> asked to make a circle at Main and Hastings for the prayer. The march
> proceeds at noon only when elders and family members have exited the
> Theatre and after the prayer circle.
>
> The March is organized and led by women. Women elders carrying medicines
> are at the front, followed by all women elders and family members and women
> drummers. The quilt made by loved ones in the DTES community is carried
> behind the family members and drummers. Everyone is invited to follow. We
> ask that you leave your organizational banners at home, signs honouring
> women’s lives are welcome.
>
> The march makes a numbers of stops along the way for ceremony to honour
> where women were last seen or found. There is no photography of the
> ceremonies. At approximately 2 pm we stop again at Main and Hastings for
> speeches by community activists, followed by a healing circle and drummers
> at Oppenheimer Park around 3 pm, and finally a community feast at the
> Japanese Language Hall.
>
> 3) *VOLUNTEER*: Please volunteer to support the march with setup, cleanup
> and more. We need approximately 55 volunteers. Volunteers can sign up here:
> http://signup.com/go/QowVVSf
>
> 4) *PLAN:* Plan a memorial march in your community. Last year, memorial
> marches were held in approximately twenty other cities and communities.
> Please email us the details so we can maintain communication, compile the
> information on our website, and build strength in our coordinated efforts.
>
> 5) *DONATE*: Please donate. The February 14th Women’s Memorial March is
> made possible by organizations and individuals like you. Please make
> cheques payable to the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, and include Feb
> 14th Women’s Memorial March on the memo line. Mail cheques to the Downtown
> Eastside Women’s Centre, 302 Columbia St. Vancouver, BC V6A 4J1. All
> donations over $10 will be gratefully acknowledged with a tax deductible
> receipt.
>
> Thank you all for your support and commitment,
> Feb 14th Women’s Memorial March Committee
>
> Website: https://womensmemorialmarch.wordpress.com/
> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womensmemorialmarch/
>
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> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 5:12 PM shelly tognazzini <shetognazzini at gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Val,
>>
>> You mean the DTES Women's March?..Correct?
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 5:03 PM Moyra Fielding <moyrajune at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> As all who have taken part will know.... Valentine's Day is the March
>>> for missing wemon in ....dtes....confused as to why  facilitators....would
>>> schedule this lunch at exactly....same time........confused and hope lunch
>>> will not win over ....supporting such a ..........deeply.... important...so
>>> important...event.....I can not walk ..... yet....this is my 12th
>>> year.....so important for those whosurround.....ones we have lost....happy
>>> .... Valentine's...those we love....love Val......
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 8:01 PM B V, <bertavezina333 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>    Viva is proud to present the newest HOT Lunch program for Women @
>>>> Positive Living BC. Our first event is February 14th starting at 12 PM til
>>>> 1:30 PM in the Womens lounge on the third floor.
>>>>    We are hosting a Lunch, Learn and Laugh event two times per month.
>>>> We are supplying bus tickets for those without a compass card. Viva will
>>>> keep you posted on future events.
>>>>       If you have any questions please feel free to email
>>>> wendys at positivelivingbc.org or reach put to me via the Viva listery.
>>>>    Looking forward to seeing some of you there, Roberta.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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