Engaging Women, Transforming Cities

Event Details

Time: May 30, 2013 from 8:30am to 5pm
Location: Simon Fraser University
Street: 500 Granville Street
City/Town: Vancouver, BC
Website or Map: http://womentransformingcitie…
Phone: info@womentransformingcities.org
Event Type: conference
Organized By: Women Transforming Cities
Latest Activity: on Sunday

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Event Description

Engaging Women, Transforming Cities:
Designing an Ideal City for Women and Girls Inaugural National Conference

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Thursday May 30, 2013 / 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

Location:
Segal Graduate School of Business
Simon Fraser University
500 Granville Street
Vancouver, British Columbia

The Engaging Women, Transforming Cities Conference is a one-day event designed to bring together municipal officials, urban designers and planners, and women and girls interested in transforming our cities into places where women are more involved in electoral processes, and municipal governments are responsive to the priorities of women and girls in Canada’s urban centres.

Early Bird Rate until April 10, 2013

Breakfast Keynote:

Caroline Andrew, PhD, Director of the Centre on Governance, University of Ottawa, President of Women in Cities International/Femmes et Villes

Tiffany Muller Myrdahl, Ph.D. Junior Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair in Gender and Urban Studies at Simon Fraser University

Lunch Keynote:

“Women Transforming Cities: Agendas for the Future.”

Sylvia Bashevkin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Author of Tales of Two Cities: Women and Municipal Restructuring in London and Toronto.

Prabha Khosla, Internationally renowned author and equity consultant with UN-Habitat and many other organizations

The Engaging Women, Transforming Cities Conference program features keynote addresses, morning and afternoon workshops/sessions, and the Best Practice Awards Reception. Speakers and forums will be announced in the coming weeks; watch our event webpage for details.

For the convenience of FCM 2013 Conference attendees: The Engaging Women, Transforming Cities Conference is being held in Vancouver BC, one day prior to the 2013 Federation of Canadian Municipalities Conference (May 31-June 3, 2013).
Fees
Early Bird Rate: $100. Available until April 10, 2013. Instant saving of $40 from $140 regular rate. Includes full-day conference from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, breakfast, and lunch.
Financially-challenged: $50. Includes full-day conference, breakfast, and lunch. 40 seats are available at this rate. Please select this rate based on your income/ability to pay.
Best Practice Awards Reception Only
$23 includes appetizers and awards presentation. Cash bar. Note this event is not included in the conference registration fee.

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If you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact info@womentransformingcities.org

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Comment by ROSE on Sunday

Comment by ROSE on March 17, 2013 at 9:26pm: Women and girls make up half the population of Canadian cities. In Canada, however, only 21 per cent of elected municipal officials are women. Girls are not typically engaged in decisionmaking that affects their lives in cities. Engaging women and girls in municipal decision-making, policy making, urban planning and budgeting can transform cities to be more equitable, inclusive and democratic for all residents. In some cities, women set up organizations and council advisory committees to change these statistics by addressing equality, equity and diversity. We want to build on that work with a national conference titled, Engaging Women, Transforming Cities, Designing an Ideal City for Women and Girls.

The Engaging Women, Transforming Cities conference will bring together elected municipal officials with women and girls active in women’s groups, unions, universities, schools, aboriginal, queer, immigrant and refugee, housing and health organizations, and violence against women, anti-racist, anti-poverty and child care activists as well as planners, architects and engineers. This is an opportunity for dialogue and action between women and girls and local governments. We want to transform our cities into places where women are more involved in the elective process and municipal governments are responsive to the priorities of women and girls in Canada’s urban centres.

For Canadian cities to be accountable to women, we need women to be involved in decisionmaking at all levels. A national conference bringing together elected officials with women from equality-seeking community organizations will move this agenda forward. We’re organizing this conference to take place in Vancouver before the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ annual
conference in June, 2013. Organizing is taking place by email, Skype, phone calls, Facebook, and in meetings across Canada.

Please join us in engaging women and girls to transform our cities. For information, to get involved, to let us know what you are doing or to send letters of support
to Engaging Women Transforming Cities:

Phone 604.873.7240
Email: womensadvisorycommittee@vancouver.ca
Write: Engaging Women, Transforming Cities