International Women’s Day 2025 “Accelerate Action for Equality”
The Advisory Council on the Status of Women, the Coalition for Women’s Leadership, Women’s Network PEI and community volunteers invite everyone to join in celebrating IWD on Saturday, March 8 from 6:30pm-9:30pm in the Rotary Auditorium of the Charlottetown Library Learning Centre (CLLC). Please enter the library through the back doors on Pownal Street.
We will host a variety of performers sharing their movement and dance, and instructing basic movements. Speakers will share their passion to advance women and girls and grow community. And as usual there will be refreshments, a children’s corner with books and activities, and IWD gifts for all. The evening will wrap up by singing together the IWD anthem Bread & Roses.
People of all genders are welcome to this free of charge event. Come connect and reconnect in friendship, allyship and celebration to accelerate a global movement towards gender equality!
For more information contact: [email protected] or 902-368-4510.
Film Screening of Madan Sara: The Power of Women
The Institute of Island Studies and PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women will host a film screening and discussion at City Cinema on Tuesday March 4, at 2:00pm. We will view Madan Sara: The Power of Women www.madansarafilm.com. The film is described as, “If Haiti has continued to resist and exist, it is in large part because of the persistence, discipline, and vision of valiant Haitian women. Haitian filmmaker Etant Dupain has profiled a particular group of women whose work is at the heart of Haiti’s informal economy.” City Cinema doors will open at 2:00, concessions available. Tickets are free of charge, available by reserving at: www.citycinema.ca or at the door until capacity is reached.
For more information contact: [email protected] or 902-368-4510.
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