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Welcome to our
E-News for Thursday, July 23, 2015
1) E-News is taking a Vacation
The Thursday E-News will return on Thursday, August 13th, 2015.
2) DiverseCity Multicultual Street Festival is in Summerside this Saturday
The DiverseCity Multicultural Street Festivals celebrate Canadian multiculturalism -- they are PEI's largest, family-friendly, free outdoor festivals. With tremendous support from three Island communities -- Charlottetown, Montague, and Summerside, from federal and provincial funders, and private sector sponsors -- the PEI Association for Newcomers to Canada is pleased to announce that DiverseCity Multicultural Street Festivals will be held in these locations again this year:
DiverseCity Summerside
Green's Shore Park
Saturday, July 25
Charlottetown and Montague festivals have already taken place.
New elements for this year include a UNHCR Refugee Tent and interactive display from CARE Canada to educate the public about the situation in refugee camps around the world, and a team of flower arrangers coming all the way from Japan. The Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society will join us again at all three events along with the many cultural groups, new and established, that make PEI their home.
All DiverseCity Multicultural Street Festivals will be alive with multicultural performances, demonstrations, displays, and delicious international food, and will finish with a Cuban dance party featuring ECMA nominated favourites, The Count and the Cuban Cocktail. Source: PEI Association for Newcomers to Canada website.
For more information click on this webpage.
3) Soul Food this Sunday
Soul Food will be held on July 26th, at 10am, at the Baha'i Centre. This month we will explore the theme "Footprints in the Sand" to the music of The Elusive Kings. Please feel free to invite your friends and family or anyone you home visit to this multi-faith devotional event!
4) Status of Women Canada E-Newsletter for July 14, 2015
5) PEI Business Women's Association E-news for July 21, 2015
6) The Arts in Motion Festival
Summerside
Monday, July 27, 2015
The Arts in Motion Festival is an ongoing project of Wyatt Heritage Properties Inc. For two hours on weekdays from July 27 to August 7, artists, artisans, musicians, and street performers, will demonstrate and perform on the downtown section of historic Water Street. Visitors and residents, free of charge, have the opportunity to enjoy the music of local performers, watch the production of artistic creations and interact with the arts community and learn more about their place in community. Source: BUZZon.com
7) Beanz Espresso Bar & Café Drop Off Box
 If you're looking for a simple way to help out your community, we have a drop off box for The Anderson House stationed here at Beanz.
Anderson House is in need of household items including:
tea bags, coffee, children's lunch items, dishwasher soap, cleaning supplies, paper towel, toilet paper, waste/recycle bags, plastic wrap, tinfoil etc. Thanks for your help!
8) Join this petition in support of 'Indigenous Women's Alliance for CEDAW'
Dear All,
Please circulate widely and diligently. This very specific and grand initiative is headed by an Indigenous Women's network in Latin America. It is very important. Wide support NOW could really make a difference!!
Thanks, Angela Miles
Petition Link
Full information is available when you click on the petition link. This is an AVAZZ petition and will be available on their website if for any reason you find this link doesn't work.
Excerpt:
"The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is the first and most important instrument of the United Nations that holds states responsible for acts of violence against women, whether perpetrated by the State or by private persons. However, we as Indigenous women feel that the CEDAW Convention does not adequately address the specific type of racism and discrimination we experience, or the relationship between our collective rights as Indigenous communities and our rights as women.
Faced with this situation, a group of organizations joined forces to develop a document that reflects our concerns and claims regarding our individual and collective rights as Indigenous women, and we will submit this document, with your support, to the CEDAW Committee, calling upon them to issue a specific General Recommendation on Indigenous Women, based on the proposals contained in this document."
9) Art in the Open
10) Get Up and Go Breakfast for Women Leaders
Kick-start your morning at the “Get up and Go” breakfast; where we celebrate leadership and unite the energies of influential women. Here, we support leadership through inspiring speakers who candidly share their stories and the creation of alliances and friendships with ambitious like-minded women from all walks of life.
Come be inspired, inspire someone and leave feeling energized and a part of something GREAT.
August speakers: Kathy & Cyrilla from Saunders Wealth Advisory Group
For 20 years, Kathy and Cyrilla have worked to build their business as wealth advisors. In a heavily male dominated field where men make up 86% of the market and females just 14%, Kathy and Cyrilla have learned to overcome challenges and find great opportunity.
Today, these powerful women have been named Canada’s Wealth Professional Magazine’s “Top 50 Performing Advisors”, manage a team of six in two provinces as well as very busy families at home.
Come be inspired by their story of determination, vision and ongoing support for one another.
Date: August 27th, 2015
Time: 7:30am-9:00am
Location: Delta Hotel, Tilly Tupper Room
Speakers: Kathy Robertson & Cyrilla Saunders – Saunders Wealth Advisory Group
Ticket link (deadline August 10)
Have questions about Get Up & Go: Breakfast for Women Leaders (August)? Contact Insight Brand & Marketing Studio in partnership with Sara Roach Lewis
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