Date

Event

Time

Place

Details

Aug 1 to 3

Friday to Sunday

Pride Weekend

Visit :  www.vancouverpride.ca for event listings

A few events listed below

Aug 1

Friday

Pride Weekend Launch

Noon

Vancouver Art Gallery

Mayor Sam Sullivan will present the Pride Weekend Proclamation

Aug 2

Saturday

Dyke March & Festival

Noon

March from McSpadden Park (Victoria & 5^th) to Grandview Park (Commercial Dr)

After the march festivities continue at Grandview Park – www.vancouverdykemarch.com – Come out and show your pride!

Aug 3

Sunday

Pride Parade:  30 Years of the Rainbow

12 to 2 pm

From Robson & Thurlow to Denman to Sunset Beach

Arrive early for good seating – Show your pride in our brothers and sisters!

Aug 3

Sunday

Pride Festival

2 to 6 pm

Sunset Beach

Family affair – entertainment for all ages - FREE

Aug 6

Wednesday

Hiroshima Day

Aug 6

Wednesday

Hiroshima Day Lantern Ceremony

Aug 7

Thursday

VDLC International Solidarity Luncheon

12 noon

Maritime Labour Centre

Colombian trade unionist, Maria Fernanda Bolanos

Aug 9

Saturday

Sanctuary: Zones of Peace Against State Violence

Interfaith Summer Institute: For Justice, Peace and Social Movements

SFU – Thinking fo the World

Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha

7271 Gilley Ave

Burnaby

Public forum – free or by donation – Speakers and workshop leaders include: Kathryn Poethig (US), Israel Alavaran (US/Philippines), Jared Will (Quebec), Jai Birdi (Vancouver, BC), Carlos Marentes (Bellingham, Wash)

Panelists will consider the intersection of the notions of sanctuary and their implications for a challenge to state sovereignty – workshops will cover the New Sanctuary Movement and immigrant rights; mobilizing around sanctuary; transnational alliances around sanctuary and more – for more info and to register go to www.interfaithjustpeace.org/forums.php

Sep 1

Monday

Labour Day Picnic

12 noon

Confederation Park

Burnaby

Entertainment for the whole family, info booths, face painting and more – Sponsored by BC Union Label.

Sep 16

Tuesday

VDLC Pizza Educational

6 pm

Maritime Labour Centre

1880 Triumph St

Vancouver

Pizza by donation

Sep 16

Tuesday

VDLC Regular Meeting

7:30 pm

Maritime Labour Centre

1880 Triumph St

Vancouver

Sep 18

Thursday

VDLC Workers’ Cabaret

7 pm

The End Café

Sep 20 to 21

Saturday and Sunday

Changing Militarism – Women, War, and Social Justice Conference

Sponsored by:  Women’s International League for Peace & Justice and SFU Women’s Studies & Vancouver Status of Women

Saturday

7:30 pm

Sunday 9 am t o 3:30 pm

Saturday – Vancouver Public Library

Sunday – SFU Harbour Centre

Saturday::  Canada’s Role in the World: Peace Keeping, or ? with Dr Sunera Thobani and Dr Mary-Wynne Ashford – moderated by Ellen Woodsworth

Sunday:  UN Day of Peace

Panels: 1 – Women Peace and Security Resoluiton  - 2- The Social Costs of Military Spending – 3- What are we doing now?  What can we do tomorrow?

More info joandgord@shaw.ca

Oct 4

Saturday

BC NDP Pre-election Training School

Vancouver

Contact Nicola Hill for more information

Nicola.hill@bcndp.ca

Oct 21

Tuesday

VDLC Pizza Educational

6 pm

Maritime Labour Centre

1880 Triumph St

Vancouver

Pizza by donation

Oct 21

Tuesday

VDLC Regular Meeting

7:30 pm

Maritime Labour Centre

1880 Triumph St

Vancouver

Sep 18

Thursday

VDLC Workers’ Cabaret

7 pm

The End Café

Nov 6 to 8

Re-Imagining Health Services; Innovations in Community Health

CCPA & SFU

Vancouver

NOV 15

SATURDAY

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Nov 18

Tuesday

VDLC Pizza Educational

6 pm

Maritime Labour Centre

1880 Triumph St

Vancouver

Pizza by donation

Nov 18

Tuesday

VDLC Regular Meeting

7:30 pm

Maritime Labour Centre

1880 Triumph St

Vancouver

Nov 24 to 28

BC Fed Convention

Vancouver

Nov 25

Tuesday

19^th Annual Union Counsellors Breakfast

7:30 am

Held during BC Fed Convention

Dec 4

Thursday

16^th Annual Labour Appreciation Night

6:30 pm

Hilton Vancouver Metrotown

United Way Lower Mainland, New Westminster Lower Mainland, and the Vancouver & District Labour Council recognize outstanding individuals in Community Service.

Dec 16

Tuesday

VDLC Pizza Educational

6 pm

Maritime Labour Centre

1880 Triumph St

Vancouver

Pizza by donation

Dec 16

Tuesday

VDLC Regular Meeting

7:30 pm

Maritime Labour Centre

1880 Triumph St

Vancouver

Jan 18 to Feb 13

CLC Winter School

Harrison Hot Springs

Schedule will be posted in Fall 2008