Our 50th Anniversary Celebration was a huge success, thanks to everyone who organized, participated and attended. We had past staff, chairpersons, and council members attending alongside current staff and council, making for a diverse, intergenerational crowd of women dedicated to furthering gender equality.
Indigenous Opening Ceremony with Julie Pellissier-Lush
Some members of the Premiers Action Commitee on Family Violence Prevention (left to right): Jayelee Grady, Michelle Harris-Genge, Jane Ledwell, Danya O’Malley, Sara Roach-Lewis, Sarah Dennis, Dawn Wilson.
50 Year Timeline of the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women
We had the help of volunteers Bella and Yuan in translating our timeline spreadsheet to its glorious, bedazzled physical form, so people could participate in our timeline workshop. We also had volunteers Marissa and Zuri help with event set up and clean up. Many thanks to all of these wonderful young volunteers!
To view the 50 year timeline spreadsheet click here
Council Member Felicia Carey with her two daughters. Marissa on the left, and Zuri on the right, volunteered for the day.
During the event there were 8 retrospective slideshows on display that sampled photos from the 50 year span of activity of the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Additionally there is a slideshow that includes all of our Annual Report covers, with descriptions of the art by local artists. To view the slideshows click here
PEIACSW Staff honouring Jane Ledwell (Left to right): Michelle Jay, Caroline Galloway, Trish Altass, Becky Tramley
Guest Speaker Dr. Suzanne Kresta, Dean of the UPEI Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering
Feminist Leaders left to right: Lisa Murphy (Former Executive Director PEIACSW), Michelle Harris-Genge (Director, Interministerial Women’s Secretariat), Anne Nicholson and Dianne Porter (Chairs Circle for Gender Equality)
Group singing with Megan Stewart and Lucy Farrell
The day was also bittersweet as we bid farewell to our Executive Director, Jane Ledwell. We will miss her dearly, but we know she will do great things on her next adventures as Executive Director at CreativePEI.
Left to right: Hsiao-Yu Liu (Chairperson), Jenn Redmond (Minister Responsible for the Status of Women), Jane Ledwell (Executive Director)
To listen to CBC interview our new Executive Director, Vanessa Bradley, Click here
To listen to Michelle Jay’s CBC interview about our 50th Anniversary, Click here
To read the CBC interview of Garima Mishra and Dianne Porter Click here
Here’s to 50 more years of Advisory Council history!
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50 Ways to Celebrate ACSW’s 50th Anniversary!
We had a beautiful afternoon celebrating and commemorating with friends and allies new and old. We looked back over our past 50 years with a timeline of events spanning 5 decades and a retrospective slideshow of the many people involved in the work of gender equality. See more photos and read more on our Facebook Post!
