Workshops/Event Descriptions

Indigenous Sovereignty Week - Film Screening

Film Screening - 12-1:15pm

Presentation by Lisa Michell - 1:15-2pm

In the Aboriginal Students' Centre - across Sidney Smith St. from the Max Bell Centre

In partnership with UMASA and the planners of Indigenous Sovereignty Week, the Womyn's Centre will be screening the film Finding Dawn - a documentary "which illustrates the deep historical, social and economic factors that contribute to the epidemic of violence against Native women in the country. It goes further to present the ultimate message that stopping the violence is everyone's responsibility." After the documentary, Lisa Michell, an organizer of the Women's Memorial March will be speaking from 1:15-2pm with time to answer questions.
The event is being held in the Aboriginal Students' Centre, across Sidney Smith St. from the Max Bell Centre.

Feminist Discussion Group

We will be having a weekly discussion group (starting October 1st!)  to go over feminist issues in a safe, womyn positive space. The discussion group is open to all womyn, regardless of whether you identify as feminist or not. As the group will be held in the Womyn's Centre, which is a womyn-only space, if there are men who are interested in joining the discussion, they are very welcome, but we ask that they give us advanced notice so we can find a different space. Please send us an email at uofm_womyn@hotmail.com to let us know. The meetings will be held on different days and times to accomodate as may people's schedules as possible. If you have an idea for a topic, or would like us to change the venue for a certain meeting to open it up to both womyn and men, please send us an email at uofm_womyn@hotmail.com to let us know.

Wen-Do
 
Starting Tuesday, October 20th from 6-8pm
Will run for 6 weeks - To end November 24th
Cost = $35
Room to be announced

16 spaces available!!

But wait!~ What is Wen-Do?
Wen-Do is a women's self-defense course, for women of all ages, shapes, sizes, with or without disabilities. Over the course, you will learn simple, effective physical self-defense techniques, explore verbal self defense - reasoning, confronting, using suprise, and more... discuss issues of violence against women and girls in a supportive setting and share real-life stories of resistance! *

To sign up for the course, please email uofm_womyn@hotmail.com

Thank you!

*info taken from http://www.wendo.ca/home.php

Dec. 6th Memorial

On December 6th, 1989, a lone gunman entered l'École Polytechnique, the engineering school at l'Université de Montréal.  He singled out and shot every woman he could find, killing 14 of them before killing himself. The women killed are:

Geneviève Bergeron, 21 - Civil Engineering
Hélène Colgan, 23 - Mechanical Engineering
Nathalie Croteau, 23 - Mechanical Engineering
Barbara Daigneault, 23 - Mechanical Engineering
Anne-Marie Edward, 21 - Chemical Engineering
Maud Haviernick, 29 - Environmental Design
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, 31 - Engineering Materials
Maryse Laganière, 25 - Employee, École Polytechnique
Maryse Leclair, 23 - Mechanical Engineering
Anne-Marie Lemay, 27 - Mechanical Engineering
Sonia Pelletier, 23 - Mechanical Engineering
Michèle Richard, 21 - Mechanical Engineering
Annie St-Arneault, 23 - Mechanical Engineering
Annie Turcotte, 21 - Engineering Materials

In 1991, the federal government declared December 6th as a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.  Violence against women is still a daily reality in our society.*

*info taken from http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/humanrights/nav01.cfm?nav01=53828