Meet Ty! He is only three years old and he came into the Women’s Centre today with his mom to donate the first toy of the season to our upcoming holiday Toy Room. Every December the Women’s Centre of Calgary hosts a Toy Room for mothers and children in need. In 2010, our volunteers gave …
Food and cooking have always been a natural way for women to build community and bond. The Women’s Centre has recently launched a new series of Inter-cultural Cooking and Women’s Issues workshops. These unique workshops offer women the opportunity to cook (and eat) a dish from a different country while learning about women in that …
This Friday the Women’s Centre will be taking part in an important annual event – Take Back the Night. The purpose of Take Back the Night is to create awareness and take a stand against violence against women. The first Take Back the Night event in Canada occurred in 1978. This year’s event will showcase …
The Women’s Centre of Calgary is launching a new website in order to engage supporters, build community and provide a better overview of the Centre’s efforts to support women in Calgary. “We are so excited to have our supporter use our revamped website this fall. We hope the new website will become an important information …
Calling all volunteers! The Women’s Centre of Calgary will be hosting our annual Volunteer Appreciation night to honour all of our amazing volunteers. This year the event will be held on Wednesday, November 9, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at the Women’s Centre 646-1st Ave. N.E.
By Sarah Winstanley In the poem I am an Emotional Creature, a tribute to girls around the world, playwright and activist Eve Ensler finishes with this powerful phrase: “I love – hear me, love love love being a girl.” In a world where girls carry the weight of so much gender stereotyping and responsibility, this …
By Linda Akoakem The Calgary Stampede is an annual rodeo, exhibition and festival held every July in Calgary. Tuesday, July 12, 2011 marked my second chance to attend the annual Stampede Lunch at the Women’s Centre of Calgary. There was a good turn out and great weather. So many wonderful women showed up. There was …
By Leah Kelley The Women’s World Conference 2011 in Ottawa, Ontario, July 3-7, hosted close to 2000 delegates from 92 different countries around the world. This was the 30th anniversary of the first Women’s Worlds conference and the biggest feminist gathering Canada has ever hosted. English, French and Spanish were the three official languages of …