Tuesday Feb 20, 2018
780 Upper Wentworth St, Hamilton ON L9A 4V5
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Indwell: Affordable Communities for Hamilton
Emma and Graham Cubitt will discuss, Indwell , a non-profit charity that creates affordable housing communities.
Coming Events
Tuesday, Feb 20, 2018
Indwell: Affordable Communities for Hamilton
Emma and Graham Cubitt will discuss, Indwell , a non-profit charity that creates affordable housing communities.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Resolution Night – Your Actions and Advocacy Committee will facilitate the discussions of the proposed CFUW National or Ontario Council resolutions and update us on the many forms of action and advocacy locally.
Tuesday April 17, 2018
Music Therapy… the Healing Power of Music with Bonnie Brittain
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
What’s so Funny? with Paul Benedetti,
followed by the CFUW – Hamilton AGM
Tues Jan 16 @ 7:00 PM
Our speaker for the evening will be Shawn Selway, winner of the 2017 Hamilton Arts Council Literary Awards for Non-Fiction for his book Nobody Here Will Harm You.
Shawn’s talk will provide insight into the evacuation of 1,274 Inuit and Cree suffers of tuberculosis from the Eastern Arctic to Hamilton’s Mountain sanatorium from 1950- 1965. An important look at a difficult time in our country’s history.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
7:00 pm
Sackville Hill Recreation Centre
780 Upper Wentworth St
Hamilton L9A 4V5
Dates & Data
The most recent edition of CFUW Ontario Council’s “Dates and Data” is now available. It includes a notice of the Florence Martin Graduate Student Research Grant, our Author Night with Anna Olson and notes our continued partnering with Inasmuch House along with updating us on the activities of our sister clubs in Ontario.
The complete newsletter is available to read by clicking on the link below.
Rural Women Survey – UNCSW62
CFUW will be sending a delegation to attend the sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW62) next March 2018.
This year’s priority theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls.
In preparation for this high-level meeting, CFUW wishes to collect data on its members’ perception of challenges and opportunities for rural women in Canada as well as on the experience of members living in rural settings.
The results will enable us to better prepare for this meeting and promote commitments from United Nations Member states that illustrate our members’ vision.
You can access the survey by simply clicking here or using the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/cfuwruralwomensurvey
Deadline to complete the survey is January 15, 2017.
Many thanks in advance for your interest and participation!
Shawn Selway – Winner of the 2017 Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
7:00 pm
Sackville Hill Recreation Centre
780 Upper Wentworth St
Hamilton L9A 4V5
Our speaker for the evening will be Shawn Selway, winner of the 2017 Hamilton Arts Council Literary Awards for Non-Fiction for his book Nobody Here Will Harm You.
Shawn’s talk will provide insight into the evacuation of 1,274 Inuit and Cree suffers of tuberculosis from the Eastern Arctic to Hamilton’s Mountain sanatorium from 1950- 1965. An important look at a difficult time in our country’s history.
Resolution Intents AGM2018
The 2017-2018 Resolution cycle is underway!
To allow clubs to plan for speakers on Resolution topics, you can now consult the approved intents here . As per the Schedule for Resolutions, the deadline to send your intent is now closed. It is to be noted that intents do not guarantee a club will submit a resolution by deadline January 15.
REMINDER :
The deadline to submit the completed proposed Draft Resolution to resolutions@fcfdu.org is January 15, 2018. From January 15 – February 7, the Resolutions Committee will work with proposers to arrive at a final draft.
Anna Olson
Dec 04, 2017
Hamilton Public Library
55 York Blvd
Hamilton On
L8N 4E4
Club Action Newsletter
The most recent issue of the CFUW Club Action Newsletter is now available . Please click on the link below for details about:
- Nominations for the Board of Directors and Regional Directors
- Update on AGM 2018
- Advocacy – 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence starts Nov 25, 2017
- CFUW Club Events for the next 16 days
- CFUW Clubs News
CFUW HAMILTON 