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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/

Deadline for Board Position Application Tomorrow Noon
Our AGM will be held Wednesday, May 19th at 5:30pm at PHS LifeSkills Centre 412 East Cordova. We wish to fill two board positions. If you are interested in running for a position on our amazing board, please send your resume, bio, and two references to info@beautynight.org before noon on May 3, 2010. We are looking for candidates for fill two board positions. Once the election is held during the AGM, our board members including newly elected officers will elect the executives on the board. Executive positions (may be filled by current board members or newly elected board members) include treasurer and co-chair. The bios of the candidates running for our upcoming election will be in the AGM package available on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010.

Thank You

Thank you to all of our contributors for your time, energy, talents and monies. Without you, we would not be able to provide as many life makeovers for vulnerable women through our fitness, literacy, child minding, makeover, and mentorship programming. It is thrilling how many people working together can make a huge impact in the lives of many.

Thanks to Jenni Graham, Courtney Krause, Danielle Robson, Laura Volpatti, Thea Cully, Sarah Honkenan, Tyla Flexman and Felicity Scott for inspiring our participants of our Womyns Gym program to do the Sun Run. Huge thanks to Sport Med BC (especially Lynn Kanuka) and the Vancouver Sun for making it possible.

Special thanks to Gwen Webster, 2nd term board member, current co-chair Gwen has been an inspirational co-chair and a wonderful front line volunteer. During her co-chair term, Gwen spearheaded the All I Want for Xmas and Beauty on the Boat events to raise funds for Beauty Night. She worked directly with the participants mentoring one participant who is gearing up to apply for hair school. “Gwen is a huge piece of “team beauty night” – our wonderful blend of board, staff, and volunteers. Her contribution of time, energy, and skills have been priceless to Beauty Night and to me. She made my transition from board to staff easier than I thought it would be. We are very lucky to have such a wonderful board and Gwen has been such a fantastic part of it,” says Beauty Night founder and national executive director, Caroline MacGilivray. “She is a dear friend and has contributed her time, energy and innovation to Beauty Night. Although Gwen is stepping off the board, I am thrilled that she is still on “Team Beauty Night.”

Contributing Monthly
If you wish to make a contribution to Beauty Night Society or becoming a monthly contributor, you can do so by clicking on https://beautynightsociety.pincgiving.com/. The more resources (volunteers, in kind and monitary contributions) raised, the more women and children we can provide safe spaces for them to be themselves, make friends and become leaders in their own communities.

In the Media
On Saturday, May 1, 2010, Beauty Night’s Women’s Gym Volunteers including special volunteer Sport Med BC’s Walk/Run Coach, Lynn Kanuka ( Olympic Bronze Medalist in 1984) were featured in the Vancouver Sun. 7 participants are training for the Sun Run on May 9th! Spearheaded by Kanuka, the Vancouver Sun sponsored the participant’s entries and sport med BC sponsored the web coaching. It was inspiring to have Lynn Kanuka on site training the participants last Monday. Volunteers and participants got to try Lynn’s coaching first hand, hold her Olympic Torch and hear many inspirational things. http://www.vancouversun.com/health/these+women+life+makeovers+challenge/2973151/story.html

This Thursday, Erin Shaw’s piece about our makeover program ran on ShawTV’s Express. This Wednesday, Erin will be covering the Womyns Gym Sun Run training session. As we count down the days until May 9th, the women continue to follow Sport Med BC’s web coaching. Special thanks to all of our Womyns Gym volunteers and Program Coordinators Tyla Flexman and Felicity Scott.

Social Media
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http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Beauty-Night-Society/109332169098889

Or Follow our Twitter feed @beautynight

Every Woman in the World Silent Auction Items Needed
From Every Woman Founder Kerri, Carleson:

This is a request for donation for a Silent Auction Item or Welcome Bag Gift in exchange for exposure at every WOMAN – Whistler (May 14 to 16). Silent Auction proceeds go to Beauty Night Society and Dress For Success Vancouver.

You are receiving this e-mail because you have either supported every WOMAN in previous years or because we think that your business has some form of interest in health and women. Please ignore this e-mail if you have already confirmed your donation. And our apologies if you are receiving this in error.

You get:
- exposure in front of 250 participants (fun-filled woman professionals, entrepreneurs, empty-nesters, soul-searchers, adventure-seekers and health advocates – ages 25 to 72, but mostly 40 to 55)
- ability to add your profile to www.everywoman.ca – Exchange
- product displayed during Welcome Reception (or in Welcome Bags)
- company name listed on partner and supporter presentation during event
- $50 off your every WOMAN Registration – use promo code: ‘HEALTH’ when registering before May 9

Silent Auction Item
If you are interested, before May 9, please provide the following info:
- name of item
- value of item
- company name (as you would like listed)

Welcome Bag Gift
We are looking for 250 tangible items (not coupons or paper, unless there is a significant value). We realize there is a cost to this, so let us know what you are willing to provide and we can negotiate partner or sponsor status.

Delivery:
(Vancouver) Before May 12 – mail to Johanna Mramor, 1936 141A Street, Surrey, BC V4A 7R4
(Whistler) Before May 13 at 5pm – drop off att: Kerri Carlson or Paul Adams, Westin Whistler
*or let us know if we can come pick-up your item(s).

If you are interested in having an exhibitor table in the every WOMAN Marketplace, please e-mail us for more information.

Thank you so much for your support!

Kerri

Kerri Carlson
every WOMAN – Whistler

Turn on your television to Shaw TV’s Express. Erin Shaw’s story of Beauty Night Society’s makeover program airs tomorrow at 6pm on channel 4.

Tonight one of The Vancouver Sun photographers will be capturing the womyns gym participants warm up. Sport Med BC’s walk/run coach Lynn Kanuka will be leading the warm up. Program Coordinators Tyla Flexman and Felicity Scott have been using Kanuka’s Sport Med BC’s web coaching to prepare for the Sun Run on May 9th. As we count down the days, we are thrilled to be acquiring more knowledge about the walk/run process.

Thank You!

Huge thanks to all of our volunteers and contributors. Without your contributions, we would not be able to reach so many women and children in a positive way.

$520 anonymous
$520 anonymous
$200 Caree Ludwar

In Kind:
Sport Med BC – web coaching
The Vancouver Sun – entries for 7 womyns gym participants in Sun Run
North Face – clothing for Womyns Gym participants

To make a contribution now or to set up monthly contributions, please visit https://beautynightsociety.pincgiving.com/

Beauty Night Award Nominations

Beauty Night Founder, Caroline MacGillivray has been nominated for a Woman of Worth Award. www.thewowevent.com for more details.

Beauty Night Toronto

Tonight Saafi Warsame and our Toronto volunteers hold our last Beauty Night in Toronto. Beauty Night Society launched December 9th, 2002. In the last 8 years, Beauty Night has held over 80 makeover nights. Tonight’s event will be held at Yorktown Shelter in Etobicoke. “I want to thank all the volunteers and contributors that kept Toronto going during the past 8 years,” said Beauty Night Founder and National Executive Director, Caroline MacGillivray.”Thanks to your perseverance and contributions, we have made a huge impact on the lives of many.” Hopefully Beauty Night Society will be back in Toronto after 2012.

“During our strategic planning session, we decided to focus on creating a template for rural areas and cities. This way we will be able to reach more women and children once we have a sustainable structure in place,” says MacGillivray.

AGM – May 19th, 2010

Our annual general meeting is coming up on May 19th. As mentioned in our previous newsletter, we are looking for a treasurer. If you are interested in applying or getting more information, please email info@beautynight.org. Please include your bio and two references before May 2nd, 2010. Our board package will be available – including the bios of potential Beauty Night Society Board Candidates on May, 5, 2010.

Beauty Night Supporter Bonus: Every Woman in The World Discount

Get a $75 discount from www.everywomanintheworld.com by hitting the promotional code: beautynight BEFORE April 30, 2010. . Every WOMAN has supported Beauty Night through their silent auction (still collecting auction items) and by inviting a participant from Beauty Night to participate in the weekend. During the every WOMAN event in White Rock last month, they sponsored 5 participants from our womyn’s gym program.

If you get a chance to take participate in the every WOMAN weekend, I highly recommend this weekend. It is a great opportunity to get inspired, have fun, try new things, and have fun being you with a group of wonderful women!

Here is every WOMAN founder, Kerri Carleson’s words and the link:

Thank you for supporting every WOMAN – Whistler (May 14 to 16) at The Westin Resort & Spa and for forwarding this e-mail to anyone who you think might be interested. We are pleased to offer a $75 discount to your friends per below. Check out the attached flyer!

Inspiring through physical activity, every WOMAN – Whistler is a weekend of activity offering fitness, dance and wellness workshops. Featuring: Nia, Hip Hop, Pole Dancing, Wake-Up Sexy, Capoeira, Go-Go Dancing, West African Dance, Hoola Hooping, Nordic Walking, Posture Improvement, Living Above The Line, Ayurveda, Boot Camp, GYROKINESIS ®, Confidence-Boosting Catwalk, The Power of Dreams, 5 Rhythms, Circuit Training, Financial Fitness, Yoga and much more. All shapes and sizes welcome. No experience necessary. Humour recommended. Movement guaranteed.

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Happy International Volunteer Week!!!

Volunteer Profiles/Survey:
At Beauty Night Society we create a safe space in the frame work of health and wellness. Through this we create a space for the women to make friends and become leaders in their own community. We could not do this without you. Thank you for all that you do! For International Volunteer Week, I wanted to interview everyone of you to talk about why you volunteer. I wanted to get some quotes to do some volunteer profiles on the website. I have put together some questions on survey monkey. If you feel comfortable having your responses posted, please add your name in there. If you would like to give general feedback, this is possible too. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/27S5MCC

Kid’s Club:
Our mandate for the child minding component of programming is the offer 20 minutes of physical fitness for every hour of programming. Thanks to Franny Varty, Vivian Dong, Lina Marin Chan and Christen Young, we have exceeded that total. Jumping, skipping, hopping and running as they play tag, sing and so many other things keep huge smiles on their faces. Last Monday, I got a workout of my own as I tried to keep up with Courtney Krause, Laura Volpatti, Franny Varty and the children. Spinning, playing tag and other activities kept the children engaged and enthused as their parents participated in the programming. When it was time to say good bye, there were a few tears and struggles from a few of the children who wanted to continue to play.

* A few of the mothers have told me that the act of getting the kids to sleep seems easier on nights that they come to Beauty Night.

Release Your Royalty:
Tonight we welcome Taaja. Taaja will be teaching a “royalty” workshop for our participants. The program description for the participants read: Learn how to be “Your royal princess every day”. Taaja will teach you how to walk down the red carpet and Own the Room with confidence and grace. A fun and interactive workshop!!
6-7pm tonight
www.taajainc.com

Ready, Set, Go!!!
Womyns Gym participants are counting down the days until May 9th. On May 9th 7 of the participants will be walk/running the Sun Run. “I cannot express how excited I am to have our women complete a monumental goal,” says Womyns Gym Program Coordinator, Tyla Flexman. We are thrilled to have the support of Lynn Kanuka, the walk/run coach for Sport Med BC. Lynn, a long time supporter of Beauty Night Society is sponsoring the participants through web coaching and Sport Med BC is sponsoring 7 of the women for the Sun Run. The feedback from both our trainers and our participants has been positive. “Her web coach support has also been excellent, the inspirational tips and forums are very helpful. With the help of daylight savings we are now able to walk / run outside every session. We have built up to 40 minutes outside 20 min of which are running, ” says Tyla when asked about how the training has gone.

Womyns Gym Clothing
We had an overwhelming response to our last newsletter. At press time, Womyn’s Gym Program Coordinator, Tyla Flexman and I were trying to get clothing for our Womyns Gym participants. Some of the participants were wearing jeans and flip flops to work out in. Kerry Parsons and the wonderful community from Cranbrook pitched in and have collected tons of atheltic wear for the women. Tyla and I are delighted. This way the participants will have clothing right at the beginning of the program. Many women do not know their sizes and we have found it difficult to preorder the clothing for the particpants.

Huge thanks to Christen Young of North Face. Christen volunteers for Kids Club on Wednesday Nights. She responded immediately to the newsletter to let us know she has spoken North Face about contributing outfits for the women to wear for the womyns gym program. North Face responded favorably. Last Monday, we handed out the new outfits including sports bras. The women were delighted.

Every Woman in the World
5 Womyns Gym participants took part in www.everywomanintheworld.com on the weekend of March 27th. Huge thanks to Lynn Kanuka for sponsorship to this amazing event. The next www.everywomanintheworld.com will be in Whistler on May 14, 15, and 16th. Every Woman in the World supports Beauty Night by holding a silent auction. Half of the proceeds from the auction are contributed to Beauty Night Society. Every Woman also sponsors a Beauty Night participant to enjoy the action packed weekend at Whistler.

For those who would like to contribute an auction item, please contact Kerri at info@everywomanintheworld.com. If you are interested in participating in the Every Woman Experience, you can get $50 off by putting in the promo code: BN.

At the Movies:
Huge thanks to Jacqui Ellis who shared her love for film with our Beauty Night participants by contributing passes to the http://www.womeninfilm.ca/WIFF_2010.html this weekend at the Vancity Theatre. Thank you to Anna Greczmiel who offered to take some of the women to enjoy films by women. The women enjoy being inspired by film. Several months ago, Beauty Night had the honor of having local filmmakers Chris McDowell and Moira Simpson screen their film Under One Sky at PHS LifeSkills Centre. The film focuses on the Pacific Association of Women Martial Artists camp. A variety of martial art instructors shared their craft and talked about how martial arts strengthened them. One of the martial arts who appeared in the film came on site to teach the women some self defense.

Toronto:
Volunteer coordinator, Saafi Warsame facilitates her last Beauty Night event on April 29th. Saafi will be sadly missed by Beauty Night volunteers and participants. She has been a fantastic part of our team both in Vancouver as well as Toronto. Saafi’s humour and sincerity have helped shape the Toronto events. We wish her well and can not wait to welcome her back when she has time to volunteer again!

AGM:
Mark your calendars for May 19th. Our annual general meeting will be held that evening. AGM package will be available on April 19, 2010.
Please let us know if you would like to attend.

Treasuer
Christie Gray has resigned as our Treasurer. If you are interested in serving on the Beauty Night Society board, please let us know. Please email us for more information. We will send you the board member package and upcoming meeting schedule if you are interested in running for the Treasurer position.

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Beauty Night… because dignity is beautiful

Since the tender age of 11, Laura took giving back to a whole new level. This year, she spearheaded the movement that had over ten schools and hundreds of volunteers involved in knitting scarves for Beauty Night participants. On November 22nd and Christmas Eve, volunteers walked through the streets in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside handing out scarves to people who needed to be warm.

Huge thanks to our contributors and volunteers who made our All I Want for Xmas party successful! Thanks to your contributions we are able to provide more life makeovers to vulnerable women.

Thanks to Ronnie Bugay from www.galeliodesign.com for capturing the event and what we aim to achieve with the monies raised through Beauty Night Society.

Beauty Night National Executive Director and Founder, Caroline MacGillivray chats to Life on Purpose Network about how Beauty Night got started.

Have you been good or bad this year? By helping Beauty Night Society you will definitely be good!

Yaletown’s hottest club, Bar None hosts the “All I Want for Christmas” Fashion Show fundraiser.  On December 3rd, 2009 make your way to 1222 Hamilton Street where you can be Naughty while being nice to Beauty Night Society.   Featuring pin-up designs by Nancy Black. Tickets: $10 advance, $15 at door.  Dress code: Your choice of suger or spice. Contact: Caroline McGillivray 778.885.4526 or visit www.beautynight.org  to learn how this holiday gathering will get you to the top of Santa’s list as you help women and children in Vancouver’s downtown eastside with the tools to make positive lifestyle changes.

“Be a part of our cause, not a part of the problem”

Bring your credit card and cash.  There will be lots of opportunities to give and receive with a   silent auction items, raffle tickets, photos with Santa and his sexy elves. Vancouver’s leading pin-up fashion Designer Nancy Black, Luscious Dance and Sexy in Vancity dancers have donated their time to keep the cost affordable and enable you to bring your friends to kick off the season right.  Book ahead as our venue has limited space.  It is sure to be an amazing show and it is for a great cause: to provide marginalized women and youth tools to make positive life style choices to heal themselves and build healthy communities. The more money raised, the more people we can heal.

For 9 years Beauty Night Society has used makeover and development programs
To heal women and youth in our community. With outreach offices in Toronto , Vancouver and Victoria Beauty Night Society is proud to boast recently celebrating its 10,000th makeover.  Over these years what started as a place to heal the spirit now provides fitness, nutritional, educational programs and the community needed to make positive lifestyle changes a way of life.  We hope to see you there.

Beauty Night Board Member Dave Dickson’s article about Cut off Supply of Kids is in today’s Province Newspaper. For those of you who wonder what we can do to help in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, Dave shares his highly informed opinion.