The Women’s Memorial March Art Walk in the Nature Reserve Park along the Coalbanks Trail will be on display from February 14, 2025 until March 16, 2025. (Start from Helen Schuler Nature Centre parking lot at Coalbanks Trail.)
*If you would like to contribute to the Art Walk, please email admin@ailethbridge.com. Submissions deadline Feb. 5, 2025, signs will be printed on chloroplast signs with the dimension Height 32" X Width 24 and nailed into a wooden frame."
Everyone is also encouraged to attend the Women’s Memorial March on February 14 in Downtown Lethbridge.
History of this Art Walk
In 2021, for public safety, the Women's Memorial March - Art Walk in the Nature Reserve was established. Local artists contribute their pieces to be displayed with the perspective of the lives lost due to violence along with Jaime Black's REDress Project displaying the red dress in the Nature Reserve.
This Art Walk is inspired by the Women’s Memorial March DTES. Everyone is encouraged to learn more.
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"The first women’s memorial march was held in 1992 in response to the murder of a woman on Powell Street in Vancouver. Out of this sense of hopelessness and anger came an annual march on Valentine’s Day to express compassion, community, and caring for all women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Unceded Coast Salish Territories."
"At present day, Indigenous women disproportionately continue to go missing or be murdered with minimal to no action to address these tragedies or the systemic nature of gendered violence, poverty, racism, or colonialism."
"This event is organized and led by women because women – especially Indigenous women – face physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual violence on a daily basis. The February 14th Women’s Memorial March is an opportunity to come together to grieve the loss of our beloved sisters, remember the women who are still missing, and to dedicate ourselves to justice."
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The march is made possible by organizations and individuals like you. This year we need to raise $10,000. Please donate online https://dewc.ca/donate-online and in the question “Where would you like to give?” please specify the Women’s Memorial March.” Or please make cheques payable to the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, and include Feb 14th Women’s Memorial March on the memo line. Mail cheques to the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, 302 Columbia St. Vancouver, BC V6A 4J1. All donations over $10 will be gratefully acknowledged with a tax-deductible receipt.