Toonies For Tummies l WSO Gala: Martinis & Manhattans with Al Simmons l UofW Ghost Launch: Call for Submissions l International Women’s Week Cabaret: Rise Up!

Toonies For Tummies

From February 6 – 20, 2014 you can donate $2 in store at several supermarkets across Ontario and the Atlantic provinces. 100% of the funds collected will be donated to breakfast programs, which provide nutritious meals to children in schools.

The numbers are staggering.

One out of every six Canadian children goes to school hungry. Toonies For Tummies helps children who don’t have the “luxury” to start their day with breakfast by raising funds for Breakfast for Learning and the Breakfast Club of Canada.

And all it takes is $2 to make a difference.

How You Can Help

• Watch the Little Change, Big Change video here and donate online.
• Donate $2 in-store during the campaign period.
• Start and keep the conversation going on Facebook and Twitter #Toonies4Tummies
• Share the campaign badge on Facebook and encourage others to donate.

Participating stores in Ontario and Atlantic Canada:

• Colemans
• Co-op Atlantic
• Food Basics
• Foodland
• Freshco
• Galati Market Fresh
• Highland Farms
• Longo’s
• Metro Ontario
• Michael Angelo’s
• Price Chopper
• Rabba Fine Foods
• Sobeys and independent stores across Ontario and Atlantic Canada

The Grocery Foundation is an Ontario-based not-for-profit, representing leaders from Canada’s grocery industry. It was established in 1979 to enrich the lives and well-being of children. 2014 marks the 35th Anniversary of the Grocery Foundation.

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February 25, 5:30 pm

WSO Achievement Awards Gala Honouring Entertainer Al Simmons

Martinis & Manhattans

RBC Convention Centre, 375 York Avenue

Black Tie Optional

Gala Ticket - $225  l  Corporate Table - $2,500  l  Gold Table - $3,500

For tickets, contact Jason Hayes at 204-949-3973 

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Ghost Launch is seeking submissions of personal accounts, historical ephemera, writing, and art that record, remember, or respond to feminist and queer bookstores that no longer exist in Canada. 

The website will be a space to remember and reflect on vanished bookstores and as a platform for the virtual “launch” of works.  The website will also feature a variety of projects by feminist- and queer-identified artists, writers, performers, and activists.

Produced in conjunction with MY MONUMENT, the forthcoming exhibition at 

the University of Winnipeg’s Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg by Roewan Crowe, 

cam bush, Steven Leyden Cochrane, and Paul Robles (March 6 - April 5, 2014). 

Please indicate if you would prefer to have your submission published anonymously. 

Audio files can only be accepted via email at this time. Electronic submissions only. 

Submissions may also be emailed as attachments or file-sharing links. 

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March 7 and 8 at 8 pm

Colin Jackson Studio Theatre, Prarie Theatre Exchange, 3rd Floor Portage Place

Tickets $10, can be purchased online or by calling (204) 586-2236.

Sarasvati Transformative will again be producing a cabaret of monologues by Canadian playwrights to celebrate International Women’s Week.  This year’s theme is Rise Up!

Stories will focus on young women, new forms of advocacy and ways women tackle adversity!  This year's line-up includes:

• Something’s Not Right by Wren Hookey; 
• performed by Samantha Walters 
• Teen Trucker by Sara Arenson; 
• performed by Ashley Kowalchuk 
• Hide Away by Kendra Jones; 
• performed by Kaeleigh Ayre 
• Black and White by Cairn Moore; 
• performed by Andrea Houssin 
• Who Killed Snow White (Excerpt) by Judith Thompson;
• performed by Brittany Thiessen 
• White Girl Problems by Frances Koncan; 
• performed by Shanley Spence 
• I am not Malala by Hope McIntyre; 
• performed by Shae Burstow 
• What Being a Girl Means by Hannah Burns; 
• performed by Victoria Hill 
• Reflection by Sarah Simpson-Yellowquill; 
• performed by Hailley Rhoda 
• The Entaglement: The Nature of A Woman 
• Slam Poetry written and performed by Ali Tataryn 

Unleash Your Inner Pin-Up Queen!

creative image studios

To register please call Anthony Taylor at 416-441-2700 

Two fabulous workshops in Toronto!!!

Manitoba’s most famous Burlesque star, Miss La Muse, will teach you how to release that inner pin-up and boudoir queen. 

From wardrobe, hair and makeup to posing and attitude, she will take you step-by-step from everyday to magnificent. Don’t miss out on this rare opportunity!

You (do) this art form brilliantly. – Sir Martin Short, on Miss La Muse

Pin-up Queen Workshop

May 25, 7-10 pm

Miss La Muse gives a hair and makeup tutorial for everyday pin-up to photoshoot ready! 

You receive one 8x10 photograph. (additional costs for more or full cd)

Price: $75

One-On-One Pin-up Photoshoot (2 hrs)

May 26 10 am - 6 pm

Miss La Muse is joined by photographer Anthony R. Taylor for 2 hours of fun and photos!

You’ll be confidently saying “I’m ready for my close up Mr. Demille!”

You receive cd of FB sized photos and three 8x10, retouched, high res printable images.

Price: $230

Scrabble® Fundraising Tournament

The 14th Annual Scrabble®Tournament will be held Saturday, February 25, 

at the Intercity Shopping Centre. 

Mark it in your calendars, and practise, practise, practise!

For information about our tournament, please contact Catherine

Register Online

or download the pledge form

Our 13th Annual Scrabble® Fundraising Tournament raised more than $11,000.00 and our 14th Annual Scrabble® Fundraising Tournament is going to be even more successful! 

Each individual who raises over $250 will be entered in our Porter draw!

One lucky fundraiser is going to win a trip for two from Porter Airlines!

  

Many businesses and community agencies participate in the Corporate Challenge! 

Unlike the regular tournament, Corporate Challengers play only one game at 12:30 pm. Prizes are awarded for highest pledge, highest combined team pledge, highest score. 

It is not necessary to enter a full team - 1 to 4 players can represent your company. 

Why not join us this year and support the TBLG in helping adults achieve their goals.

Howard Pawley @ BookFest Windsor

Thursday, November 3 · 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm

Art Gallery of Windsor

401 Riverside Dr W, Windsor, ON

Howard Pawley, former Premier of Manitoba and Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Windsor, will be at BookFest Windsor. 

Mr. Pawley will talk about his 19 years in politics, particularly the years from 1981 through 1988 when he served as Premier of Manitoba, and also recount stories from his recent book, Keep True: A Life in Politics.

Toronto Pagan Pride Day

Sunday, September 25 · 12:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Wilket Creek Park, Area 1, accessible by TTC and is located at Eglinton and Leslie.

If you are interested in hosting a ritual to showcase the tradition you work with or would like to host a workshop, please 

email Samantha with "Workshop/Ritual for Toronto Pagan Pride 2011" in the subject line.

Also, don't forget our bardic competition!

If you would like to donate a prize, please also 

email Samantha with "Prize donation TPPD 2011" in the subject line. 

They will place a link to your page and list you as a sponsor.

This event is open to everyone!

Metis, Metis Not

Local filmmaker Arlea Ashcroft's short film Metis, Metis Not will be screening at the 

3rd Annual Biindigaate Film Festival in Thunder Bay ON on Sunday Sept 25. 

Director / Performer: Arlea Ashcroft

Camera: Arlea Ashcroft, Ryan Simmons, Andrea von Wichert

Video Editor: Heidi Phillips

Sound Design: Mike Wright

Curator: Liz Barron

Metis, Metis Not was created as part of a new media art exhibit entitled ID, showing 

at Paved Arts in Saskatoon, SK. 

I documented my lack of relationship with my cultural background. I explored my own myths, stereotypes, and clichés from reenacting the discovery of my native heritage to my attempts to embrace my Metis-ness or Metis Not-ness at such a late age. 

I transformed myself into a Gift Shop Native Doll complete with packaging. The piece deals with my feelings of guilt, lack of entitlement, and own naiveté at my personal cultural crossroads and what it meant to be Metis. It has a homemade simplicity, that is truthful and heartfelt.  - Ashcroft

Grassy Narrows Clan Mothers vs MNR

Grassy Narrows grassroots women are blocking passage for Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) enforcement officers interfering with back-road repair work by the northwestern Ontario First Nations community.  

The community is repairing washouts and beaver damage to nearby back-roads to facilitate their ongoing use and enjoyment of their traditional territory.

Call the MNR Kenora office to express your support: (807) 468-2501

Some points to make:

1.  Stop harassing construction crews repairing the road to Ball Lake Lodge.

2.  Thousands of people are supporting Grassy Narrows.  This issue will not go away.

3.  Grassy Narrows has the right to determine what happens on their territory.

4.  We also support Grassy Narrows' call to end clearcut logging, and for justice on issues of mercury pollution and other contaminants. 

"We the Anishinabek have never given up jurisdiction on our natural territories," said 

Judy Da Silva, a Grassy Narrows mother, blockader, and traditional healer.  "We agreed to share the lands with the newcomers, but we will never give up our inherent right to use and protect the land, water and the forests."

The roads require repairs because the MNR has not conducted maintenance on the back road network since 2002 when grassroots women and youth put their bodies on the line to block logging machinery from further destroying the forests their community depends on. Previously the back roads had been maintained by local contractors through Provincial subsidies provided to the logging industry.

The blockade is the longest running blockade in Canadian history.  

The back roads are used by Grassy Narrows members to access hunting, trapping, wild rice picking and berry picking areas, and for access to the Ball Lake fishing lodge.  

"The MNR attempt to stop maintenance of the roads is an attack on our community's self sufficiency," said Roberta Keesick, a Grassy Narrows grandmother, trapper, and blockader.  “It is another attempt by the Province to assert unilateral control over the Territory in violation of our inherent and treaty rights."

Northwestern Ontario Writers' Party

Saturday, May 21 

7:00 pm to 10:30 pm

Come to Current River Community Centre, 450 Dewe Avenue, Thunder Bay, to celebrate 

the winner of the Elizabeth Kouhi award for excellence in writing 

the winner of the Sheila Burnford award for building writing and literature in the region 

the winners of NOWW’s Lucky 13th Annual Writing Contest 

the achievements of NOWW members in 2010 and 2011

This is your chance to

* Say a hearty “Thank you!” to NOWW’s partners in the community

* Support NOWW programs through a fabulous silent auction

* Join NOWW or renew your membership

* Learn of upcoming opportunities for writers

* Connect with writers – others who know the sting of rejection and the sweet thrill of a well-crafted sentence

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. 

Hot and cold appetizers will be served and a cash bar will be available. 

For tickets

email Amy at admin@nowwwriters.org or phone 708-5652

or fill out the form on Northwestern Ontario Writers' website.