If you have participated in any capacity at the Women’s Centre this past year, including used the services, volunteered, donated, or attended a workshop/event, please click on this link and complete the survey - we want to hear from you!
Your feedback and ideas are important for planning our future services, events and programs, as well as for reporting to our funders.
The deadline to complete the survey is October 31.
Thank you for your time and your input, and for supporting the Women's Centre community.
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A new program at the Centre
In October, the Women's Centre is starting to host an employment clinic to assist women with a variety of skill-building to help their job search. We can help with:
Resume support and feedback
Interview practice and tips
Navigating employment resources
Job searching and referrals
Please share this new service with your networks.
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Connecting Community
We have been trying out some new ways to connect, as the pandemic has definitely affected our ability to build community at the Centre. Now that we have our safety procedures in place we are ready to explore how to re-connect with each other in new ways.
Do you have ideas for activities that would help us build back our community – in person, online & beyond? Email Sarah to chat further!
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Toy Room Planning is Under Way!
Our Toy Room Committee has begun planning for Toy Room 2020. Following up on the success of last year's program, and with the impact of COVID-19 shutdowns, we expect the number of women who will want to access program this year to be high. We are asking for your support to meet the demand.
If you are interested in sponsoring a toy room shift, volunteering, donating money and/or toys, or organizing a toy drive, please contact us.
Explore women’s issues and concepts such as sexism and patriarchy. Participants will also have the chance to gain a better understanding of the Women’s Centre’s Work for Change efforts and initiatives.
Want to know what’s under your hood? Come and learn some basic mechanic skills! Will include training and tips to keep you safe on the road. This workshop will be held in-person at the Women’s Centre while following Alberta Health guidelines; however, the event could move online via Zoom if provincial health circumstances change.
Join Vibrant Communities Calgary throughout October as they focus on what poverty looks like in our city and how we all have a role to play in Calgary’s poverty reduction strategy, Enough for All. Read more here.
This October, theCalgary Ability Network Poverty Reduction table is launching a virtual campaign to raise awareness and create an understanding of the experience of poverty for Details here.
The Centre for Newcomers is hosting the Shades of Africa conference from October 5-7 reflecting on the lived experiences of youth from African descent. Register here.
Hunting is often thought of as a masculine activity. To make the link between hunting, land use, and Land Back, Alex Wilson spoke to three Indigenous women hunters about patriarchy, spirituality, and the joys of being on the land.
