Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Presents: International Women's Day Celebration.

This is a free women's only event open to all women. Join us for a friendly potluck gathering in celebration of International Women's Day. Bring a potluck dish, plate & cutlery if you can and come prepared to have a great time!

Entertainment includes speaker Susan Lambert, singers Kendall Patrick, Marlene Nash, and Judi Nichol. The Aviva Women's Choir and the Raging Grannies. Dance performed by the Chinese Dancers.

Nanaimo Women's Centre, Canadian Labour Congress, VIU Students' Union, VIU Human Rights Committee, VIUFA Status of Women Committee, Nanaimo Coalition for Women's Advocacy.  

 

Join the VIU Liberal Studies Club for a viewing of Alejandro Jodorowsky's epic film:

A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces
him to seven wealthy and powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guide's assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek out the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal.

Join us for free popcorn, snacks and refreshments and lively conversation afterward. It's going to be a good one!

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Email mun.viu@gmail.com for volunteer info.  

This is the 3rd annual Memorial March to honour the over 500 missing and murdered women from Vancouver Island and all across Canada. The march will take place on Feb 14th to coincide with the marches across Canada.

We will gather at Pandora and Vancouver on the green space and rally at 11 am. At noon we will march down Pandora to Government and then down Government to Totem Park (this is not finalized). There we will have speeches and provide lunch. We are asking people to wear red or regalia and bring drums and to remember loved ones. Everyone is welcome to participate.THIS YEAR'S MARCH IS NOT A PROTEST - the community has asked for a MEMORIAL march and that is what this will be - much more like Vancouver's than the one here last year. Nation flags will be welcome but all signs must be about the women. Any activist-like events will take place in the week prior to the march. 

 

Email Lisa Wilson at abrep@viusu to book a spot on the bus heading to Victoria (limited seats are available). 

Join the Vancouver Island University Students' Union in celebrating Eating Disorder Awareness week. We will be showing the film '36-24-36' and handing out popcorn. It's an insightful feature length documentary film, made by pre-adolescent girls, that explores the issue of female body image and its correlation with eating disorders. 

The film gives the viewer a firsthand perspective of Jessica and Shannon's battles with anorexia while lending itself to the professional opinions of counsellors and dieticians who work with adolescent women. It also explores the reality and insights of pre-adolescent girls who, prior to making this film, thought very little about the perception of female body image within our society. 

 

Come join us outside the Students' Union Building in celebrating our natural sizes. There will be activities including what you love about your body, positive body image exercises, resources, and some giveaways.

 We are joined by the Health & Wellness Desk. 

To kick off the Eating Disorder Awareness Week there will be a full-day of random acts of kindness. Throughout the day there will be a passing of random acts to everyone on campus. Just pay it forward.

The VIU Women's Collective is a collective of women students who want to be active, organized, and mobilized on issues of equality on campus, in the community and around the world. Members and allies participate in any way they can, and are involved in the planning and implementation of events, campaigns and advocacy, in collaboration with the Women Students' Representative. 

We meet every Monday at 4pm inside the Students' Union at the chair formation in the second set set of doors.   

Everyone is welcome, including our male allies. 

Come join us for the thought-provoking film by Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta.

In 1938, Gandhi's party is making inroads in women's rights. Chuyia, a child already married but living with her parents, becomes a widow. By tradition, she is unceremoniously left at a bare and impoverished widows' ashram, beside the Ganges during monsoon season. The ashram's leader pimps out Kalyani, a young and beautiful widow, for household funds. Narayan, a follower of Gandhi, falls in love with her. Can she break with tradition and religious teaching to marry him? The ashram's moral center is Shakuntala, deeply religious but conflicted about her fate. Can she protect Kalyani or Chuyia? Amid all this water, is rebirth possible or does tradition drown all?

Come join us for this thought-provoking film. Popcorn and refreshments and conversation to follow.