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Past Events
For tickets, group bookings or further information please contact Holly on 8341 8700 or ywca@ywca.ne
Week Without Violence - 12th-19th October 2009
For more information about this years 'Week Without Violence' campaign, please click here.
Sisters Doing it for Themselves Workshop - 28th August
Come along and share your experiences with and learn from other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women, through their stories of leadership and achievement, discover further ways of enhancing your sphere of influence, increasing your networks as well as meeting other women from around Melbourne whom are also involved in leading their families and communities.
To register please fill out the registration form on page two of the flyer and email to teena.moffatt@kwmb.org.au or for further infomation call Teena Moffatt, Koorie Women Mean Business on 9670 3460.
Please click here for the flyer and application form.
Body Guardians: Parenting for Positive Body Image
Bratz Dolls, Barbies, Dolly and Cleo: how do parents compete with these images? Increasingly children are bombarded with messages that tell them to criticise their bodies. What can parents do to promote positive body image and self-respect?
This International No Diet Day join WIRE as we explore some practical tips for parenting for positive body image.
Speakers include:
Liz Moore, YWCA Flygirl program.
Liz will talk about practical ways that parents can promote positive body image for their children.
Erin Young, creator of REAL magazine.
Erin will provide a young women’s perspective on parenting and body image, and talk about why she decided to create REAL, a magazine to empower young women and promote self-respect.
Julie Gale, founder of Kids Free 2 B Kids.
Julie will talk about her experiences as a mother that lead her to establish Kids Free 2 B kids, and about how KF2BK has made a difference in the battle against the over-sexualisation of children.
FREE
International No Diet Day
Wednesday May 6
1:30pm-3pm
The Victoria Room, 4th Floor Queen Victoria Women’s Centre 210 Lonsdale Street Melbourne 3000
RSVP http://trybooking.com/PW ph. 9921 0878 inforequests@wire.org.au www.wire.org.au for information, referrals and support call 1300 134 130 Venue hire kindly provided free of charge by the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre.
World YWCA Day 2009
 
If you would like to attend this exciting event, or would like more information, please contact Holly on 8341 8700 or ywca@ywca.net.
YWCA Victoria's AGM
Please come along to YWCA Victoria's AGM on Thursday 30th Ocotber at the Jasper Kitchen, 489 Elizabeth Street to help us celebrate another year of improving the lives of women by ending inequality.
Join us for drinks and nibbles at 6.00pm, with formal proceedings beginning at 6.30pm.
Please RSVP to Holly on 8341 8700 or ywca@ywca.net.
Week Without Violence - 13th to 19th October 2008
Please click here for more information.
YWCA Victoria, Geelong
- Women will be invited to participate in decorating a mural of stories which represents courage and survival of family violence and sexual assault.
- The activity aims to provide women with a voice and create a sense of community through bringing individuals together from Geelong and the surf coast communities.
- The activity commences on the 1st October and the mural will be presented at the ‘Reclaim the Night’ event held on the 31st October.
Please contact YWCA Victoria - Geelong Region on 03 5221 6333 or geelong@ywca.net for more information.
YWCA Victoria, Melbourne
- A GirlPower program will be held at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre in Melbourne on the 23rd October.
- Girlpower is a self defence, empowerment and crime prevention program designed for young women. The program aims to address the increasing need in young women for self protection, resilience and empowerment.
- During the Week Without Violence, all YWCA programs will be holding postcard and anti violence message workshops to raise awareness and encourage women’s voices to be heard.
Please contact Narelle at YWCA Victoria - Young Women's Programs on 03 8668 8151 or gscoordinator@ywca.net for more information.
Pro Choice Vic
YWCA Victoria is taking a leading role in the campaign to decriminalise abortion in Victoria.
Make your voice heard! Become part of the Pro-Choice Victoria campaign to make sure that all references to abortion in the Victorian Crimes Act are removed, and that the new law gives women and couples the right to decide.
Please visit the Pro Choice Vic website at www.prochoicevic.org.au.
Girlstorey
 At the moment we are holding FREE (yes, FREE) Hip Hop workshops, run by the very cool Candy B from Sista She with regular visits from Busty Beats.
Anyone (female and under 30) is welcome to come along to enjoy some dancing, MCing and the development of their own very cool, very funky Hip Hop identity!
The workshops are on a Friday afternoon (3pm to 6.30pm) at Underbelly Studios
on Smith Street, Fitzroy (Level 1, 279 to 281 Smith Street - enter via Greeves Street).
For more information call Narelle on 03 8668 8151 or email gscoordinator@ywca.net.
24th April - World YWCA Day
On World YWCA day, YWCA Victoria will be asking our members to renew their membership. This can be done online though our Volunteering and Membership section, or by filling in one of our membership forms. Please call 8341 8700 or email ywca@ywca.net for more information.
The theme for this year's World YWCA Day is 'LISTEN to she who speaks: Women Leading Change'.
World YWCA Day in 2008 is about telling stories—we want to put life, voice, sound, music and colour to the stories of women who have brought change to our communities and to the lives of countless women. Please visit www.worldywca.info for more information.
YWCA Australia is encouraging Australian members to focus World YWCA Day activities on the theme of women’s housing. Please visit the YWCA Australia website for more information, www.ywca.org.au.
International No Diet Day 6th May 2008
YWCA's Eat Cake campaign celebrates everybody! Come along to Federation Square for an interactive, multi-media, hip-hop, cake experience!
As part of International No Diet Day, the Eat Cake campaign aims to discourage diet myths and encourage a healthy relationship with food.
International No Diet Day promotes a healthy balance and happy lifestyle, including a bit of cake every now and then.
Eat Cake: Tuesday 6 May 2008, 10.30 - 12.30 Main Stage
Federation Square, Corner Swanston & Flinders Streets, Melbourne
Click here for more Eat Cake information.
International Women’s Day 2008
YWCA Victoria celebrated International Women’s Day in partnership with the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre and co-tenants. The annual event again highlighted the women’s centre and the work of the organisations who operate out of the building.
Visit the QVWC website at www.qvwc.org.au.
YWCA Victoria staff and members attended Fill the G - Thursday 30th November 2007
YWCA Victoria believes it is unacceptable that women are still disadvantaged in the employment market. The current industrial framework continues to reflect lower earning capacities and higher casual and part time employment for women. The new Industrial Relations laws further contribute to the social disadvantage experienced by women and restricts their ability to address it. YWCA Victoria is concerned that there has been little or no investigation of how the new Industrial Relations changes affect women.
YWCA Week Without Violence: 14-20 October 2007
77 prominent Australians contributed their shoes to YWCA’s awareness raising exhibition, Seventy7 Pairs of Shoes, taking a stand against domestic violence. Each pair of shoes represented one of the 77 people who are, on average, killed by their intimate partner each year. This year some of the celebrities have taken the next step, and donated their shoes to the YWCA’s national anti-violence campaign.
The YWCA Week Without Violence started in 1995 in response to increasing levels of violence in society. Today, it is a global campaign involving more than 100 countries and millions of men, women, youth and children wanting to make their communities safer places to live.
Click here for more information.
Changin' It, Lovin' It - April 13 & 14 2007
Two days to change your world!
YWCA Victoria worked in collaboration with YWCA Australia and other local associations to present Australia's first National Young Women's Conference in nearly a decade. The conference hosted over 150 young women from aroung Australia, and highlighted the ongoing need to be a strong advocate on issues such as mental health, the environment and human rights.
For more information click here.
Too Big to Ignore
In August 2004 Shelter SA’s report Sexcluded? recommended that the SA Women’s Housing Caucus should re-form, after almost 20 years silence.
The new Caucus was formally launched on International Women’s Day 2006. It is a branch of Shelter SA. It has a network of more than 300 members across South Australia and interstate. Activities are organised by a small Planning Group who reflect the diverse interests of the wider membership.
The Caucus has hosted forums, held community consultations, facilitated the visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on Housing and promoted cross-sector discussions to improve women’s housing options and pathways.
The Caucus quickly met a problem in the lack of explicit analyses of current trends and policies for women’s housing choice. So it formed a partnership to commission Too Big To Ignore. This ground breaking report takes the first steps in providing a women’s perspective on housing data and research.
Click here for report. Click here for flyer.
To get involved any any of our up coming events, or to learn more about the work of the YWCA Victoria, please contact ywca@ywca.net or call 03 8341 8700.
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