This is an experimental music network for women in Vancouver. We are determined to help create an inclusive noise community and supportive space for women to meet and experiment musically. We hope this project will be a catalyst for the formation of more female-based groups in this genre. We are trans-inclusive, please and thank you! No experience or commitment it required - just the desire to try... This is not a band, its the beginning of a more radical, open, posi-core community invested in dialogue about gender, power and personal experience.
i'm looking to find parties of either gender interested in joining an experimentally focused choir. you don't need to be maria callas to do it, just willing to attempt to engage and try to hit notes as instructed. contact via myspace i suppose.
Diverse Ethnic Communities Rally Around Missing and Murdered Women
One of the longest running marches against violence against women in Vancouver, the Annual Women’s Memorial March began 17 years ago after the brutal murder of a Coast Salish woman left area members in shock, spurring women in the DTES community to take action against violence towards at-risk women and young girls.
The 2008 17th Annual Women’s Memorial March Valentines Day, February 14, 2008 will unite members of Indigenous and South Asian communities to draw attention to the issue of violence against women. Led by women, the marchers include supporters, community, friends and family members of missing and murdered women. The large procession will converge at Main and Hastings moving through the DTES stopping at sites where women have died. At each spot there will be a traditional First Nations honoring and prayer ceremony and a laying of a red or yellow rose in remembrance.
39 women remain missing from the Downtown Eastside and violence and murder continue to target South Asian women.
“These women will never be forgotten but remembered, honoured and loved. They were: Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Aunties, Grandmothers, and Friends Violence has now touched our most vulnerable citizens, small female children who should be protected are being murdered. How can this happen. Violence against women in our communities is unacceptable!” Marlene George, Advocate and long time planning committee member.
February 14th events will be held Toronto and Edmonton to mark unity in action against violence
ITINERARY 17TH ANNUAL WOMEN'S MEMORIAL MARCH Thursday February 14, 2008
12:00 PM Family members speak in remembrance of their daughters: Carnegie Centre Theatre 1:00 PM March begins with a circle at Main & Hastings 2:00 PM Community activists speak outside the Vancouver Police Station 2:45 PM Healing Circle at Oppenheimer Park Memorial Pole, Candles of
