Beauty Night Society & DAMS present…

LACE Campaign’s Papalooza

Beauty night society is partnering with DAMS (Drug and Alchohol Meeting Support for Women), street nurses, PHS Life Skills Centre and LACE Campaign for Pap awareness week. According to LACE Campaign, women should get their Pap tests once a year to screen for cervical cancer. Seven out of ten cases of cervical cancer can be treated if caught early enough. Street nurses will be offering Beauty Night participants Pap screenings. Beauty Night volunteers and participants will talk about Pap awareness and cervical health.

Come in on Monday, October 25 from 5-7:30pm at PHS Life Skills Centre, 412 East Cordova.

• Get tested
• Get a gift
• Have fun – snacks, prizes, and entertainment

If you know any women who have been reluctant to go for Pap screens, please tell them about this event!

The Vancouver Foundation’s video portrait of Beauty Night Society is now live on YouTube!
Caroline MacGillivray, Executive Director of Beauty Night Society, narrates the video. Photographs by Aaron Chung.

The Vancouver Foundation previewed its Beauty Night video at its Vital Signs presentation on October 6th at the Roundhouse Community. We will share the video as soon as it is available. Many thanks to the Vancouver Foundation for producing the video, and for its support of Beauty Night Society.

One of the main themes of the Vital Signs evening was belonging: “People have an innate need to belong. We need a sense of connection to others and to our community in order to thrive. How our region fosters a sense of belonging, inclusion and participation is key to our vitality.”

The evening featured presentations from, and stories about, organizations that are involved in improving people’s lives, particularly through building community and creating support networks for people. Beauty Night is one such organization; by creating a safe space for women, and fostering trust and friendship, our volunteers and participants have been able to build a truly supportive community.

You can read more about belonging, as part of the Vancouver Foundation’s Vital Signs report, here.

Beauty Night’s founder and Executive Director, Caroline MacGillivray,will be facilitating at the
Persons Day Conference – Women’s Leadership Forum. Come celebrate, share and learn with women from all walks of life on this special day where women were declared ‘persons’ under the law. The speakers and interactive sessions will focus on women’s leadership, our strengths and the challenges, including the intersections of race, class and gender and aim to be transformative calls for action to improve the lives of women locally and globally. For more information, visit womenvoters.ca

Workshops:

1) Women Ushering In the Future with Isabelle St-Jean

2) Speak Up: Speak Out with Erica Pinsky

Full descriptions of the workshops can be found here.

Afternoon Panel:

• Caroline MacGillivray , National Executive Director and Founder of Beauty Night Society
• Shirley Chan, CEO of Building Opportunities with Business
• Liz Evans, Executive Director and Founder of the Portland Hotel Society
• Kelly MacDonald, Senior Adjudicator for Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat
• Eileen Mohan, mother of Christopher Mohan and 2009 Surrey Leader Daily’s “Leader of the Year”

Biographies of the panelists can be found here.

A schedule for the day can be found here.

When: Saturday, October 16, 2010 from 9:00-4:00
Where: SFU at Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC
Theme: Women as Leaders: Challenges and Strengths
Registration Fees: (Lunch included): $75 ($65 for members)

Wayne Dyer Live in Vancouver - Making the Shift from Ambition to Meaning is supporting Beauty Night by donating ten tickets to Beauty Night participants. In addition, they are offering a 20% discount to Beauty Night supporters and contributors (that’s you!) who wish to attend the event on November 23 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Simply enter the code PEACE at the ticketmaster checkout to receive the discount.

You can find out more about the event on their Facebook page.
Beauty Night thanks the organizers for their support!

Iluselu Beauty has created a vegan lipstick in commemoration of Beauty Night’s 10 year Anniversary celebration! $9 from each lipstick will be donated to Beauty Night.

For a sneak preview or to order your own lipstick, visit Iluselu.ca.

New photostream on Flickr:

Good Morning Everyone,

Product Contributions:

Huge thanks to everyone for your continued support Special thanks to those who responded so quickly to my facebook & twitter requests for more nail polish. The immediate response offering to contribute polish from your personal collections, contribute monies to purchase more supplies and spreading the word among your friends was overwhelming. It reminded me of how Beauty Night originally started. In the fall of 2000, I sent an email out asking for contributions of hair, nail, skin, dental and body care products to hold the first Beauty Night. People forwarded that email and I started hearing from people who I didn’t know that had contributions of products and money to purchase what we needed.

Beauty Night Volunteers Dressed up as Santa’s Helpers Handing out Xmas Stockings, Hand-knitted
Scarves, Oranges and Cookies and Spreading Xmas Cheer on December 24, 2009!

Since then we have given over 11 000 makeovers in 9.5 years. Our original concept has evolved from makeovers to life-makeovers. Our programming includes personal development, literacy, child minding, physical fitness, goal setting and mentorship. We can no longer accept gently used products as we are following Health & Safety Canada’s Guidelines. We would love to accept samples and new products or monies to purchase products. In the fall, we will begin our annual Xmas Stocking Drive. We will be filling up 600 stockings that Ms. Claus will hand out on Xmas eve to the women who participate in our programs. If you are interested in being involved in this program, please email us at [email protected] with your contact information and how you would like to get involved.

Beauty Night Welcomes David Chen as our treasurer

David K Chen:

Complete Financial’s owner and primary financial advisor is David Chen, BSc., BA, CSA (Certified Senior Advisor)

David is a technical scuba diver, motorcyclist and family man with a very mixed background of education, real world experience and financial services training.

Born and raised in Vancouver, David has built strong relationships with friends, colleagues and clients. Everybody knows if they have a problem and need a solution, they should contact him, even if it doesn’t have anything to do with money. “I am always available to help or find help” is David’s favourite saying.

David specializes in investment, insurance and leveraging strategies for personal and corporate cases focusing on preventing financial shrinkage and encouraging growth. Through stop loss plans and low tax investments, he has helped many families meet their financial challenges, including those with disabled children. He has been in the financial field since January 2004.

-Received a B.Sc. in human physiology from McGill University and a B.A. with awards and honours in bio-psychology from UBC.
-Certified Senior Advisor, 2 year Order of Merit qualifier, currently working towards his certified financial planner designation.
-Worked in a variety of professions including heavy machinery operator, light commercial scuba diver, and business manager.
-Currently one of a handful of technical-diver instructors with PADI-DSAT and well respected life support equipment technician
-Director and newsletter editor with Barnet Rifle Club since 1995.
-President to his 530 unit, residential strata council, 3 years running.
-Guest business psychology speaker for UBC’s Social Psychology Department.
-Job Interview Process coach and Work Experience mentor with Fraser Heights Secondary School
-Guest lecturer for Financial Matters with Fraser Heights Secondary School
-Workshop presenter for the Disabilities Association of British Columbia
-Workshop presenter for the North Shore Connexions society
-Workshop presenter for Community Living BC North Shore division
-Entrepreneur mentor for Canadian Youth Business Foundation

Beauty Night Volunteers An Minh Vu and Debbie Wright Chat and Style!

Thank You Vancouver Foundation!
We are thrilled to announce we are one of the recipients of Vancouver Foundations’ 3 year grants. Over the next three years, Vancouver Foundation will be contributing $45 000 to our Life Makeover program. The investment in Beauty Night Society’s mission to provide marginalized women and youth tools to make positive lifestyle choices strengthens the community within a community that Beauty Night has created. This investment will make it easier for us to reach more women and to get more of their input.

How Are We Doing?
We will be creating a Women’s Advisory Group with our participants and volunteers who are interested in being involved. Through these sessions we are hoping to evaluate what we offer our participants, how we can evolve it to meet their needs in ways they would like their needs met, and creating a stronger sense of community.
An Minh Vu, one of long time volunteers will be conducting a survey for our Beauty Night participants. Our last survey was conducted in 2006 to establish demographics. Our updated survey will collect demographics as well as focus groups to find out what our participants want. We are aiming to conduct the survey in September 2010. Thanks to the Benefic Foundation to contributing $3000 to Beauty Night to conduct the suvey.

Every Woman & Womyns Gym Inspire Women who Move
Huge thanks to www.everywomanintheworld.com for raising over $2000 for Beauty Night through their annual silent auction & raffle. Every Woman Founders’ Kerri Carleson & Lynn Kanuka have made a huge impact on the lives of women through www.everywomanintheworld and continue to support Beauty Night monitarily, sponsorship and through volunary efforts. Kanuka, walk/run coach for Sport Med BC made it possible for 7 of our Womyns Gym participants to run the Sun Run. Thanks to the online coaching and the entry fees sponsored by the Sun, 4 of our participants completed the run. Womyn’s Gym Program Coordinator, Tyla Flexman & Kanuka might have a walk/run clinic geared up for Sept 2010 for our participants who wish to participate in the 2011 Sun Run.

Until then, Womyn’s Gym programming will focus on group fitness classes. We asked the women what types of fitness classes they would like to enjoy. Dance classes are at the top of the list. Thanks to Vivian Dang, Lina Martin-Chen, and Franny Varty, our participants are able to drop their children off with our child minders as they enjoy a dance class or our makeover program.

Out Reach
Since the closure of Vancouver Health’s Health Contact Centre in May, we have partnered with many community groups and service providers to offer our life makeover program to their participants. Participants of WISH, Atira’s EWMA (Emerging Women Making Art), YMCA’s Nanook, BC Women’s Hospital’s Fir Square, and Atira’s Serena’s Place have had or are scheduled to able to participate in our Life Makeover Program on their own premises. In July 2010, we stretch our programming to different parts of the lower mainland starting with the Front Room in Surrey.

Beauty Night Schedule Week of June 21 - June 27th.

Tonight’s Beauty Night
Schedule:
5:30 -8:30pm
412 E Cordova

Facilitating: Tiffany

Nails: Margo, Louise
Hair: Pamela & Courtney
Makeup: Amanda?
Skin Care: Anna
Reiki: Amanda

Creation Station: Jen

Tomorrow (Tuesday June 22) 6-8:30pm
BC Women’s Hospital
4500 Oak Street (in Fir Square * Please let us know if you need parking as they will give you a pass for parking)

Facilitating: Tiffany

Hair: Gary, Courtney
Nails: Karen, Louise
Skin Care: Anna
Makeup: Tiff

Saturday, June 26th
Nanook House
(special celebration for women wrapping up a 12 week personal development session I have been teaching. Mainly single moms)
Clark & Broadway Area * will coordinate place to meet with volunteers as confidentiality is important)
2- 4:30pm

Makeup:
Hair:
Nails:
Skin Care:
Massage:

* I’ve asked them to bring clothing to dress up in for after the make over, they can celebrate!
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Thank you to all of your support. If you wish to become a monthly contributor, please click on this link. https://beautynightsociety.pincgiving.com/
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Sincerely,

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Caroline MacGillivray
Beauty Night Society
www.beautynight.org

Beauty Night provides marginalized women and youth tools to make positive life style changes.

9 years, 400 volunteers, 11 000 makeovers.

Beauty Night… because dignity is beautiful.

Last night we held our first Beauty Night at WISH Drop In Centre’s new building. This morning I checked my email and discovered the article that Blue Planet Green Living wrote about Beauty Night has been posted. It was great to see how far we have come in the past nine years. Here is the article. www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/06/02/beauty-night-heals/

Good Morning Everyone,

Thank you to everyone for your continued support. For those of you who were not able to make it to our AGM.

Please Welcome New Board!

Fergus McCann – Co-Chair
Currently Manager-Media & Community Relations for BC Housing. Prior to joining BC Housing, Fergus worked for 5 years at CTV BC and nearly 20 years at CKVU (Channel 13 - now Citytv) on programs as diverse as The Vancouver Show, the Laurier La Pierre talk show and in the newsroom on the assignment desk. His early years in broadcasting included working in radio in Salmon Arm and Kelowna. Born and raised in South Vancouver, Fergus and family have been living in Burnaby since 1984. His community service has included time on boards such as the BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils, the Family Support Institute and most recently, the Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion. He was recognized as a City of Burnaby Local Hero in 2005.
Sheryl Williamson - Co-Chair
Sheryl has been a Vancouver resident for 15 years now. With a strong belief in building community, Sheryl and her family give many hours of volunteer time. She holds key positions in several community organizations and has participated in many initiatives such as:
She is currently a Vancouver Police Board Member, On the West End Citizens’ Action Network (WECAN), Chair (since 2003), Family Services of Greater Vancouver (1134 Burrard Project), Community Advisory Committee Member, Our House Recovery Society, Board Member Four Pillars Coalition.
She has previously been on West End Integrated Neighbourhood Network (WEINN), Steering Committee Member and Working Group Lead , Immediate Past Chair Safe Streets Coalition, Member Justice Review Task Force (Street Crime Working Group), Past Participant.
Sheryl is the Chief Operations Officer and a founding partner of a privately owned business in Vancouver and holds several industry designations. She is a Certified Marketing Executive with a Diploma in Sales and Marketing from the Sauder School of Business at UBC. Sheryl’s passion is in building potential ~ both that of individuals and organizations. She is married with one child.
Sarah Mah – Secretary
Sarah Mah has a bachelors degree in genetics, and interested in promoting women’s rights and equality. She was introduced to Beauty Night when she accompanied her mother to some of the events. Sarah became very interested in the Beauty Night cause and saw how the program contributes to the physical and emotional health for women experiencing severe poverty in the DTES. It was not until after she had completed an accelerated high school education and most of an undergraduate degree that she was able to devote time to the program. Sarah started on the BNS board one year ago and looks forward to continuing to serve on the board as secretary, in addition to her role as an amateur manicurist at the events!
Amanda Bonella - Board Member
Amanda Bonella is a 33 year old mother of a (fantastic) 15 year old daughter. Her work in the Downtown Eastside began in 2001 when she began PEERS Vancouver and in less than two years raised over 1.5 million dollars through proposals to government and private foundations. In 2003 she began going around the country speaking on the issue of sexual exploitation as an expert who had not only exited the sex trade herself but also worked alongside women who were on that journey as well, creating curriculum and developing programs for them in partnership with them.
Amanda went on to develop workshops for professionals on how to engage target populations from the bottom up and is an activist for the rights of women, particularly those who suffer from systemic marginalization. In 2006 She started Surrey Girlz, a by us for us sex worker organization in Surrey whose major funding came from t-shirt sales in Vancouver and Kitsilano (SurreyGirlz Fashions…fashions from the frontlines).
In 2007 Amanda was recruited by the One Man Army firm (an association of Red Seal Journeymen Tradesmen) to assist in the incorporation, system development and management of the company. In 2008 she bought a house in Bella Coola while on a writing sabbatical and formed the first ever “by us for us” monthly and yearly youth events, on New Year’s Eve more than 300 residents from the small town came out to support the youth’s first ever sober new Years Eve Ball.
Amanda continues to provide some administrative support at One Man Army, continues her website development at Vancouver’s IT Girl and is opening a frozen yogurt restaurant (Yogiberry) on the corner of Carrall and Cordova (June 2010).
Stacey Dallyn - Board Member
Stacey Dallyn started volunteering for Beauty Night Society in August 2009. Her production skills and contacts developed through over 20 years experience in fashion, media and film made her a dynamic part of the All I Want for Xmas Production Team, Beauty Night’s Annual Xmas Stocking Drive and Knit Fit.Solution focused, Stacey comes up with fresh angles to show case media friendly end product. Her experience as Fashion Editor of Vancouver Magazine and Western Living Magazine shows her keen eye, ability to stick to a budget, team build and come up with innovative ways of coming up with workable solutions. Through her experience on the PTA for her sons’ school, Stacey has been heavily involved with school-based grass roots fund-raising on a local and international level.
Kevin Day – Board Member
Kevin Day is a social entrepreneur with experience running both private and public companies. In 1998, Kevin founded Riskebiz Internet Services Inc., a company which helps entrepreneurs in the developing world establish and grow local businesses by connecting them with micro-finance services through the mobile web. In 2002 Kevin helped establish Feed Me Sports Inc., a company which published sports related content for mobile phones. Under Kevin’s leadership, Feed Me Sports acquired Mobilized Entertainment in 2008, a public company that trades on the over the counter market in the United States. Mr. Day has experience raising money for start-ups and he is also an experienced computer programmer developing many of his company’s mobile applications. Kevin was a Director of the British Columbia Captive Insurance Association for 10 years and is currently a Committee Member of the Canadian Captive Insurance Association. Kevin obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia in 1994. After university and prior to starting his first business, Kevin worked for several years in the insurance industry as a property and casualty insurance broker. Kevin is an avid runner and enjoys movies, documentaries, and reading biographies of business icons.
Kristy Delorme - Board Member
Kristi Delorme has worked as a Social Worker supporting Aboriginal children and families since 2008. She began her career working within the Aboriginal community after volunteering at the Urban Native Youth Association homework clubs in Vancouver in 2003. After being successful in her application to become the Program Coordinator with the First Nations School Success Program, Kristi moved into a Program Coordinator position for the Aboriginal Mentorship Program that connects First Nations youth with positive role models and mentors. Kristi was reminded each day of the negative affect colonization, residential schools and high child removal rates by the government had on the ongoing cycle of addiction, abuse and violence in the Aboriginal community. This experience motivated Kristi to return to university in 2006 where she obtained her second degree, a Bachelor Degree in Social Work, specializing in Aboriginal child welfare. In 2008, Kristi began work with the Ministry of Children and Family Development in Burnaby where she connects children and families to culturally appropriate support services.

Dave Dickson – Board Member
Dave was born and raised in Vancouver area, joined the Vancouver Police Department in May,1980 and became an Advocate for street workers and youth. He spent his entire VPD career working in the Downtown Eastside. Over the years Dave received a number of awards :
· 2003-Recognition Award from Native Health Society
· 2004-Police Officer of the Year
· 2004-Federal Justice Dept. Award for working with Youth
· 2004-International Safety Award for working to keep High Risk Women safe
· 2005-City of Vancouver”Youth Ally Award”
· 2005-Solicitor General’s Community Policing Award
· 2006-B.C. Civil Liberties Award
· 2006-Queen’s Jubilee Medal for Community Policing
· 2006-Premier’s B.C. Community Achievement Award
Dave left the Vancouver Police Department in August 2008 and is currently working with another organization as an outreach worker in the Downtown Eastside so that he can continue his work with the street workers and youth.
Pamela Lelong - Board Member
Pamela has over 22 years experience serving on non-profit boards. She is one of the founding members of Beauty Night Society and in this capacity,Pamela served as the Secretary/Treasurer and wrote the original constating documents for Beauty Night. She has also volunteered on many occasions for the Society. She is a past board member of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors where she served as Vice-president of the Vancouver region, briefly as Co-chair of the Ethics Committee, and as Chair of the Legislative Review Committee. Pamela added the values and duties of clinical counselling to their constitution and re-wrote the BCACC bylaws during her role as Chair of the Legislative Review Committee. She also served as the Secretary/Treasurer on the board of the Greater Vancouver Employment Strategy Society.
Pamela is a member (inactive status) of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors and a past member of the Canadian Counselling and Guidance Association. Pamela’s work experience includes delivering companion services; coordinating non-profit employment programs, delivering one-to-one/group counselling, information and life skills training sessions; writing instructional media, funding proposals, reports and programs; drafting leases and lands claims settlements; acting as clerk of the court; and delivering secretarial and cosmetology services. Pamela has also supervised college and university student practicums and appeared on television, radio and in other media to represent the needs of the unemployed.
Pamela currently works in the position of companion for a large health care organization which is one of the 50 best managed in Canada.
Bill Nevison - Board Member
Writer/producer Citytv Creative Services, promotion & commercial production. Previously worked as a writer/producer at Global TV. Won various broadcast awards, including gold medals from Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) Promax/BDA, and International CrimeStoppers. Has been on the Beauty Night board of directors for 3 years. His role on the Beauty Night Media Committee includes writing and editing Beauty Night press releases, media packages, and media guidelines. Has been involved with the annual Beauty Night stocking drive and has also documented the event.
Darren Reiter – Board Member
Darren Reiter is the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of the Board of eMedia Networks International Corporation, a sonic branding company listed publicly on the Canadian Venture Exchange (TSX.EMM) Darren has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia (1992), a Masters in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh (1995) and a Certificate in Journalism from Langara College (1997) In partnership with award winning producers and directors including Braemar Court Productions and Bowen Arrow Productions, Darren has produced several short movies including “The River of Jordan” which screened at the Atlantic Film Festival in 2007 and “Amazon Falls,” a feature length drama currently in post production. Darren resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Special thanks to Tyla Flexman, Tiffany Telford, Jacqui Ellis, Gwen Webster, Eileen McDougall and Karen Flemming for making everything run smoothly.
Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in serving on Beauty Night Society’s Board. Through Beauty Night there are many opportunities to provide marginalized women and youth tools to make positive lifestyle changes in a health and wellness frame work. Serving on our committees and our front lines benefits the lives of the women and youth we serve and we encourage you to find out more opportunities to volunteer or contribute.
Beauty Night Closed on Victoria Day, Monday, May 24th
We will be closed on Monday, May 24th but will reopen for programming on Wednesday, May 26th for Womyn’s Gym.

Sun Run Success!!
The Sun Run was a huge success!! Please enjoy our photos and blog on the Womyns Gym website . Huge thanks to Lynn Kanuka of www.sportmedbc.com. To quote Womyns Gym Program Coordinator, Tyla Flexman: “Lynn, know that your coaching, sponsorship and motivation helped make our goal a reality. It was a gorgeous day for a sun run, and we had all but one participant join us for the race. One of our clients ran the sun run coming in at 1:25 and the others walking in around 2 hrs. Everyone was so excited, happy and proud of themselves. Thank you for allowing us to share that experience with our clients, they truly appreciate it.”
What’s next for Womyn’s Gym? Plans are in the works for a walking program to start in the fall so more of our participants will be ready for the Sun Run Training in January for Sun Run April 2011!

Thank You!!
Huge thanks to www.everywomanintheworld.com last weekend, they raised $1500 for Beauty Night Society through their silent auction during the welcome reception. Since 2004, Every Woman in the World has been a proud sponsor of Beauty Night Society and we thank them for their support directly with the participants and for investing in Beauty Night Society’s mission - providing marginalized women and youth tools to make positive lifestyle changes.
Nancy Perreault entered a contest that donates money to one’s favourite charity. She chose Beauty Night. Thank you Nancy for the contribution of $410.

Nancy Perreault has agreed to design our Xmas Stocking for our annual Xmas Stocking Drive. Every Xmas, volunteers from high schools, Sparks troupes, elementary schools sew Xmas Stockings that are filled with skin care, dental care, hair care, and body care products. 600 Xmas stockings are handed out on Xmas Eve to women in the Downtown Eastside, transition homes, drop in centres and hospitals.
Xmas Stocking Coordinator, Blair Lockhart informed me that fabric contributions have already started arriving. In August 2010, we will be holding a volunteer information session specificaly for the stocking drive and Knit Fit. If you are interested in volunteering for either project, please contact us at [email protected].
Thank you for everything!
Sincerely,

Caroline MacGillivray
Beauty Night Society
www.beautynight.org

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Beauty Night… because dignity is beautiful