Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre

February 14th Memorial March - a brief history; Black History Month honours our sisters and grandmothers; Important information coming from the Outreach Worker about what causes Syphilis; Donna, the Outreach Worker at DAMS, is beginning a new group entitled "Anger and Art"; Lucy joined the Centre team in late December; Cori is now covering Marg's advocacy position until Marg returns; Meshell is the Outreach Worker and leaving in early March to pursue other things; in group Still Movement for women survivors of violence - this is about Bodyhistories/Bodystories and connecting individual and community resistance and healing; Learn about African-Canadian heritage during Black History Month

Volunteer of the Month letter; Volunteer Appreciation Week; Healing from Residential Schools Letter - impact on First Nations communities; Residential School Memorial Project to honour sruvivors in B.C., permanent memorial plaque placed in Chief Simon Baker room at Vancouver Friendship Centre; Amazing Local Story- Victoria Folster, Key Reserve in Sask. is a long term member of Womens Centre; Prevention of violence against women week; Housing Problems - come to Social Housing Forum; Calendar: Learning Group; BWSS; End Legislated Poverty-Organizers Training; Street Nurse; Popular Education Group; Womens Voice; Women Surviving Together; Still Movement; Creative Writing Group; Arts and Crafts Workshops - Beading with Leona; Clay Works; Fabric Arts with Freeda; Dreamcatchers; No Means No: Campaign Against Sexual Assault Letter; What's on at DAMS? Creating community - moving from isolation to connection; Women's Yoga Group at DAMS; Good-bye Letter from Outreach Worker Meshell; Personal Stories: Real Voices from the Women's Centre; Good Morning Vietnam short letter and poem; Letter about centre moving to new location; Important Health Announcement: Drug Recall all products containing the chemical Phenypropolamine

Summer BBQ for Women and Children at Crab Park; Information Meeting for Women in the Centre; Elder's Medicine Wheel - Mission; Johnny Greyeyes film about the love between two First nations women; Programming Updates; DEWC Schedule; Regular Programming; Crafty Workshops - Beading with Leona, Fabric Arts with Freeda, Dreamcatchers with Tom-morrow; New Media Workshop; Volunteer News; Poems: I've Got the Blues, Friends, A Message from Anita Kennedy; Prisoner's Justice Day August 10th; Powell Street Festival 2000; Exercises

Harvest Dinner at Centre; Women's Centre Guidelines: clean up after yourself, clothing room, donations, look after your belongings, laundry, smoking, phones, bus tickets, no drugs or alcohol, bathrooms 5min max., treat each other with respect; New Staff; Interim Exectutive Director Lauren Howes, Programmer Jennifer England; Out On Screen Film and Video Festival; End Legislative Poverty starting Organizer's Training Group; Announcements: Thank You to United Native Nations for Donation of Long Tables; Calendar; Regualar Programming: Learing Group, Street Nurse, Popular Education Group, Women's Voice, Women Surviving Together, Creative Writing Group, Support Gathering for Women with HIV/AIDS; Arts and Crafts Workshops: Beading with Leona, Fabric Arts with Freeda, Dreamcathcers; Message from Ilona; Valentine's Prayer for forgiveness and caring towards one another; Update on Skills Development Project; Volunteer Coordinator and Volunteer Orientation; Stopping the Violence Worker (Carol) - the cycle of abuse explained; includes list of abusive characteristics and patterns; Recipes: Tomato soup with salmon and grated romano or parmesan cheese; Poem - Invisibility by Raven