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20th Annual DTES Womens Memorial March for Missing and Murdered Women
“Their Spirits Live Within Us”: Annual Women’s Memorial March for Murdered and Missing Women
In January 1991 a woman was murdered on Powell Street. Her name is not spoken today out of respect for the wishes of her family. This woman’s murder in particular was the catalyst that moved women into action. 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, Coast Salish Territories.
Decades later, the march continues to honour the lives of missing and murdered women. 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 heinous and unimaginable violence that have taken the lives of so many has left a deep void in our hearts. We gather each year to mourn and remember our sisters by listening to their family members, by taking over the streets, and through spiritual ceremonies.
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. Every year the list of women going missing also increases. Over 3000 women are known to have gone missing or been murdered in Canada since the 1970s. Last year, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women issued this statement: “Hundreds of cases involving aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in the past two decades have neither been fully investigated nor attracted priority attention.”
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. Please join us.
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Rocky Dal Passo’s update on his beloved cat Alicia who was thrown out of a 5 story window who is going through a $5,000 operation!
Rocky Dal Passo has some good news about his beloved cat Alicia: Enough money was raised thanks to the generosity of the public for Alicia to start her operation on her broken back legs!
Thank you everyone who donated! 🙂
HomeGround 2011 for the DTES Homeless and Underhoused at Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
HomeGround
For Homeless & underhoused DTES Residents
4 Days of Free Food, Great Entertainment, Workshops & Activities About your right to food
AT OPPENHEIMER PARK
Thursday February 17 4pm – 10pm
Friday, Saturday, Sunday Feb 18 – 20 8am-8pm
Enjoy delicious hot meals. Explore & engage about your Right to nutritious, affordable, and healthy Food. Relax, listen & dance to great bands and performers.
THURSDAY February 17
4pm Late Lunch
Split pea stew & chorizo
4pm-8pm Right to Food Fair
Informative & Interactive displays showcasing our communities
Right to Food activities
8-10pm Movie Supersized Me
Popcorn & Beverages served
Learn what happens when you eat nothing but McDonalds supersize meals for an entire month
FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY February 18-20
8am Breakfast
Hot Oats & strong coffee
12-12pm Lunch
A changing daily menu of classics
12:30-1pm First Nation Musical Opening
1-3pm Right to Food Workshops &
creative, engaging activities for all ages
3:30-8pm Entertainment Your favorite local performers, singers & bands to put you in a mellow mood or get up up dancing
5-7pm Dinner Delectable gourmet evening feasts
PERFORMANCES FEATURING TALENTED LOCAL ARTISTS AND BANDS
Dalannah Gail Bowen
Carnegie Jazz Band
Good for Grapes
Ron Stelting’s Drum Circle
Downtown Eastside Poets
Niddi Cascade & Dianna
Nancy Delyzer
Bev Blanchard
SongTree
Harmony of Nations
Stan Hudac Quartet
Pancho & Sal
Buffalo Spirits
WORKSHOPS & ACTIVITIES
Lantern Making & Parade
Spring Planting Workshop
Food Street Theatre
Cooking Demonstarations
Storytelling
Food Jeopardy
Mural Painting
SOLEFood Display
Community Kitchens Showcase
Recipe Swap
Fondest Food Memory Contest & Daily Draws
Brought to you by The Carnegie Community Centre and the DTES Neighbourhood House with seed funding from the City of Vancouver. HomeGround acknowledges & honours the fact that our community lies within the Traditional Territory of the Coast Salish People
Below are photos of friends of AHA MEDIA who have given permission to have their photos taken
Below is Roy giving a friendly wave
Below is Garvin Snider wearing his HomeGround toque
Below is Rob with a plate of healthy food
Below is Peter with delicious and healthy food
Below is Roy painting at the DTES murals
Below are some paintings from Peter
New Fountain Shelter in Vancouver Downtown Eastside is threatened with closure, Please write a letter of support
From New Fountain Shelter Staff:
PLEASE READ URGENT!
Hello friends,
I am contacting you about something urgent to the daily lives of many downtown Vancouver residents. The shelter I work at is being threatened with closure. It will close, and leave about 45 people completely homeless and without the support of the shelter staff, food and services.
Please write us a letter of support to help us stay open. Please consider writing your letter soon as we need to get them by the end of the month.
Here is the statement
As some of you may know, the New Fountain Shelter is currently fighting to stay open. Our shelter is full nightly with approximately 45 homeless people. We feed, provide support in a person’s search for housing, distribute clothing donations and of course provide shelter for those who have none.
We are collecting letters of support. They can be simple or complex. They could express a personal experience at the New Fountain Shelter, or they could generally address the positive impact of shelters on our community.
If each of you takes the time to write and send even a small paragraph it will have a major impact.
Please send letters of support to: jakeh@phs.ca and jessicaj@phs.ca.
Thank you, we are depending on your support!
New Fountain Shelter Staff
Utopia Festival: Women in Digital Culture Celebrating women in music on March 5, 2011 at Vancouver’s creative hub W2 Storyeum!
Utopia Festival: Women in Digital Culture
Celebrating women in music on March 5, 2011 at Vancouver’s creative hub W2 Storyeum!
Showcase | Concert | Mobile Dance Party | Unconference | Music Maker Workshops
Showcase features 25 artists + 3 rooms | Electro | hiphop | bass |
Showcase and unconference featuring: Peaches, Tanya Tagaq, Isis Salam, Betti Forde, B-Traits, Librarian, Lynx, Zenobia Salik, She, Blondtron, Lady Lane, Tank Girl, Miss M, Just Sheila, Bles-sed, The Square Root of Evil, JNL, Miss Innocent, Tapes + more TBA. Media artists include VJ Electrabelle, Julie Gendron, Sebnem Ozpeta, Claudia Medina, and Krista Lomax.
Follow along on Twitter: @W2Utopia
Tickets available now at Beatstreet, Little Sister’s, Puff, Zulu, People’s Coop Bookstore, The Fall, W2 and online http://utopiafestival.eventbrite.com
The evening concert and showcase program is open to men and women, while the daytime is women-only. Note program subject to change.
For women interested in electronic music and media, Utopia Unconference wristbands provide all-access and 3 meals: Breakfast, Music Maker Workshops, Lunch, Mobile Dance Party, Unconference, Dinner Reception, Concert, and Showcase. We are anticipating 150 women participating in five creative streams: electro, hip hop, bass, electro-acoustic and live cinema.
Check out this background article on Granville Online. Produced by W2, and curated by Betti Forde, Irwin Oostindie, Librarian, and Nina Mendoza.
The Festival coincides with the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day and its theme: 100 Women, 100 Artworks. Proceeds support W2’s Second Annual Girls Creative Tech Summer Camps (8-14 years).
Call for workshop proposals: DJs and live PA; media art performers & installations for this showcase of electronic leaders and emerging artists. Inquiries:irwin@creativetechnology.org or call W2 office: 604.689.9896
SCHEDULE
Saturday, March 5, 2011
• Purchase a Festival wristband if you wish to participate! Workshop details will be coming soon.
• Unconference registration table opens 9am
• Youth delegates welcome 9am-9pm
• Childcare provided on-site 9am-9pm
• While the unconference and workshops are open to women only, for everything else men are welcome.
10am-12noon Morning Music-Making Workshops Hands-on creative technology workshops electronic music production, turntabling, video production, music journalism. All levels of experience welcome including youth (15-19 year olds)
12 – 1pm Lunch
12:30 – 2:00 Mobile Dance Party
Public, free. Meet at Broadway skytrain 12:30pm for a live pirate radio broadcast and dance party down Commercial Drive in celebration of the 100th anniversary International Women’s Day Parade.
2-8pm Unconference
2:00 – registration opens
2:30 conference welcome
2:45 opening keynote
3:00 opening panel
3:45 open space intro
3:45 coffee break provided by W2 media cafe
4:00 open space sessions I + II – (5 concurrent)
6:00 production workshops (5 parallel streams: electro; bass; hip hop; electro-acoustic, live cinema)
7:00-8:00pm dinner reception
8pm Evening Program
Keynote address: Peaches (Berlin) and music by Tanya Tagaq (NWT) with guests, plus Women Writers – readings in association with W2 Real Vancouver Writer’s Series.
10:30pm Showcase!
Electro, Bass, Hip Hop starring Peaches, Isis Salam, Betti Forde, Librarian, Lynx, Tanya Tagaq, Zenobia, B-Traits, DJ She, Tank Girl, plus more! Media artists include VJ Electrabelle, Julie Gendron, Sebnem Ozpeta, Claudia Medina, and Krista Lomax.
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