Each year, the February 14th Women’s Memorial March creates 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. The March also affirm support for family members and affected communities and reaffirms the call for full national inquiry as well as an independent international inquiry. Each year the Memorial March committee must raise funds to pay for such things as hall rental, sound system, food, red & yellow roses, memorial brochures, blankets, posters, candles, tobacco and other expenses.
“Grand Mamas: artists and allies talk about their grandmothers, mothers and sisters” is a fundraising event. All performers, organizers and helpers have donated their time and talents.
Heartwood Cafe, 317 E Broadway, Vancouver, British Columbia
Doors: 7 pm
$10 – $20 Donation
**This event is intended as a FUNDRAISER for the Memorial March. Tickets only at the door.
PERFORMER Line Up:
Julie Flett
Emily Chou
Sarah Hunt
Leah Horlick
Tiare Lani Kela Jung
Dina Del Bucchia
Lisa Jean Helps
Raven Charlize Salander
Brenda Prince (Middle of the Sky Woman)
Jotika
Hosted by Jen Sung and Amber Dawn
ASL interpretation by Maggie Harkins (plus 1)
Performer BIOS:
JULIE FLETT is a Vancouver-based Cree/Métis author, visual artist, and illustrator. Julie creates stories for children that subtly explore the connections among language, culture, and nature.
LEAH HORLICK is from Treaty 6 Cree territory, Saskatoon. She wrote a book of poems, Riot Lung, and co-curates LITANY, a queer & anti-oppressive reading series.
LISA JEAN HELPS is a criminal defence lawyer, writer, feminist and ally. She has been counsel at the Supreme Court of Canada on two landmark cases to do with an accused detainee’s right to silence and when judges have a duty to ensure fair process. She lost both times, but she has won cases at all other levels of court. Lisa tells stories for a living, mostly other people’s, and, behind those stories are other stories about grief and loss, poverty, home and exile.
JOTIKA is a Brown, Queer women who was born and raised on land that was stolen from the Musqueum, Tsleil-Waututh Sḵwx̱wú7mesh-Squamish peoples. Her roots are in Fiji and Northern India. Her art centers around explorations of diaspora, decolonization, trauma, resilience and healing.
SARAH HUNT is a Kwagiulth writer and activist who has been working for the past 15 years to address violence in Indigenous communities. Interested in the tensions between law and violence in colonial relations, she advocates looking to Indigenous law for solutions that foster a sense of agency and reciprocal responsibility.
TIARE JUNG was raised by mom. They are a queerdo with mixed-Polynesian roots, rehumanizing food systems, taking care of family, playing uke, singing through (what’s up! / what’s up?)
MAGGIE HARKINS is an ASL-English Interpreter and the Vice President of BC Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf
With special performances by Femme City Choir – an all-genders, femme-fabulous, singing extravaganza! They started making sweet music together in the Fall of 2013 on unceded Coast Salish Territories. They celebrate and elevate self-identified femme-ness in every form through song and creative community.