On September 12th, we started our Beauty Night with a splash of health by partnering with the Lace Campaign. Lace encourages women to get their pap tests once a year. According to studies, many cases of cervical cancer can be cured if caught early on. We partner with street nurses to offer pap testing for Beauty Night participants 3 times a year. Please encourage the women in your life to book a pap test once a year.
Skin Deep opens tonight in Toronto
June 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Here is a sneak peak at Skin Deep, the multi media art installation piece by film maker Jessica Dymond opening reception tonight in Toronto. We are honoured to be celebrated in Skin Deep.
Excerpts from “Skin Deep” from Jessica Dymond on Vimeo.
Skin Deep
June 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Last year, many of you might have seen Jessica Dymond with her camera at many Beauty Night programming. The documentary footage she shot has evolved into Skin Deep, Mixed media installation by Jessica Dymond at the IMA Gallery in Toronto. The opening reception is June 10th from 6-9pm.
Taken directly from her page, here is her description of the project and a sneak peak at part of the installation.
Skin Deep
Mixed media installation by Jessica Dymond
June 1-18, 2011
Opening Reception June 10, 6-9 PM
I.M.A. Gallery (80 Spadina Avenue, Toronto)
Hours: Wed-Sat, 12-5 PM
Skin Deep explores issues of empowerment, feminine identity, and self-worth in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Visual representation of the Downtown Eastside and its residents is often problematic, focusing largely on the shock value of the neighbourhood’s most well-known issues: prostitution, drug addiction, HIV and, perhaps most notoriously, the missing women. While these issues certainly deserve attention, the focus tends to be on individuals-at-risk, rather than the area’s demonstrably strong sense of community, particularly within a feminine context. This multi-screen, non-linear documentary project is a re-creation of Beauty Night, a drop-in event which provides beauty services to self-identified, including transgendered, women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The project includes short video portraits of the women who attend Beauty Night, shown through two-way mirrors, as well as projections of the neighbourhood shot on Super 8 film. The goal of the installation, including the mirrored reflections, is to create a sense of self-reflexivity in the audience, and help to physically close the psychological gap in the social hierarchy.
Skin Deep is currently on display as part of the Doc Now Festival.
AGM on June 15th
June 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
You are cordially invited to our annual general meeting. It will be held on June 15, 2011 at PHS Life Skills Centre, 412 East Cordova in Vancouver, BC. Doors open at 5:30pm and the meeting starts at 6pm.
It is a great opportunity to see what we have been up to for the past year and to meet our community of supporters. We would love to share our plans for this fiscal year as well as to thank our current board and to meet our new board.
Our AGM package can be downloaded here.
FundRaising: Youth in Philanthropy $5000 to our cause
May 27, 2011 By 2 Comments
Here it is… the video created by Carson Graham Secondary students used in their presentation that won $5000 for our cause. In their own words:
Youth And Philanthropy initiative bursary winning video on Beauty night Society’s wonderful services, accomplishments and mission. Beauty Nights, is a Vancouver based volunteer ran program that is designed for to give “live makeovers” for the woman of the Downtown East side of Vancouver that live in poverty.
