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MakeGood is trying to decide who to make their December 2009 donation to.
Their Charity Survey is Now Open for Voting:

MakeGood is trying to decide who to make their December 2009 donation to.
Their Charity Survey is Now Open for Voting: http://digg.com/u15tco

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This season Knit Fit has been blessed with great and active volunteers. Already, Knit Fit has over 250 scarves, which is more than we have ever imagined. Because these numbers are so high, Knit Fit is in the process of getting the scarves all packaged up has already started. On Tuesday, November 17 Knit Fit’s executive team worked hard while packaging up these scarves in beautiful presentations. Knit Fit is hoping to set another date for the distribution of scarves because scarves are being finished by the minute! Please join us in completing our goal and create a warmer community for everyone.

Also Recent News: Knit Fit had its first orientation held at Beaconsfield Elementary to teach students at the school how to knit scarves! Thank you to our wonderful volunteers for taking time out of their busy schedule to teach these little fellas to knit scarves.

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.

Dear Friends,
On December 3rd, 2009 Beauty Night Society is having its annual “All I want for Christmas” Fashion show featuring pin-up designs by Nancy Black. This is an invitation for you to participate in the fantabulous event. “Be a part of the cause, not a part of the problem”
“All I want for Christmas” brings forward collaboration between art, imagination and originality. The anticipated 200+ guests will experience an exquisite evening showcasing some of Vancouver’s most talented individuals. Guests get to check out pin-up fashions by Nancy Black, performances by Luscious Dance and Sexy in Vancity dancers, whilst raising funds for Beauty Night Society’s makeover and development programs for women and youth in the community. The main sources of income for the evening will be: ticket sales, silent auction items, raffle tickets, photos with Santa and corporate sponsors.
Have you been good or bad this year? By helping Beauty Night Society you will definitely be good! We are looking for help in three areas: 1) Sponsorship, 2) Silent auction items and 3) Monetary donations. 100% of the proceeds will go to Beauty Night Society. Beauty Night Society works with under-privileged women and children on the Downtown Eastside and other troubled areas across Canada. It was founded in 2000 by Caroline McGillivray, and recently celebrated its 10,000th makeover. Beauty Night Society provides women and children with the tools to make positive lifestyle changes. Your generous contribution will give back to those who need it the most.
The event details: Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009 | Time: doors at 7:30pm, show 8pm Tickets: $10 advance, $15 at door | Dress code: Naughty or nice Location: Bar None, 1222 Hamilton Street, Yale Town Event Contact: Caroline McGillivray 778.885.4526 More info? Go to www.beautynight.org

Please let me know if you are able to donate a silent auction item, or be a sponsor of the event. I look forward to hearing from you at 778.885.4526 or carolinem@beautynight.org . Have a great day!
Sincerely,

Beauty Night Society’s “All I want for Christmas” Committee

On November 27th, we launched our Mom & Tot nutrition program. “Our mission is to provide marginalized women and youth tools to make positive life style choices and heal themselves and our community. Since we value dignity and respect for everyone, we take an innovative approach to educating our participants. There are some wonderful programs out there but ours has the interactive educational component to it.

The pumpkin carving concept of launching this program is one example of how we incorporate education and entertainment in all our programs. Everyone who attended our first session devoured the pumpkin soup and to figure out how we could meet the needs of the community we serve. We had our good meal bag program previously ran at transition homes. Dietician students led by Dietician Heather Lovelace would create a meal, serve it and discuss aspects of nutrition that could benefit each participants’ wellness. After the meal, participants were given the ingredients to recreate the same meal for up to six people.

To bring this program to Vancouver’s DTES, we needed to meet the needs of the participants. One of the key concerns were the lack of kitchen facilities; monies to purchase the ingredients and how to use nutrition for preventative health care. Through the different night’s meals – many that embrace different cultures and nutritional components are presented in a fun way to participants. By educating our participants to become engaged with our programming and actually using the information they learn, we believe it will create a healthy approach to food and life style choices; a great way for the women to bond with their children, break down generational barriers based on poor nutrition and make cooking healthy foods fun.

Beauty Night Society’s Mom & Tot Program Coordinators Alexa Fox and Christie Gray sat down with me to discuss how we could make this program fun and interactive.

Apapting a concept from Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (Hippy)’s literacy program - by teaching the children, it can strengthen the familly.

This program is  great way to involve and engage the community.  Little Flower Academy and Churchill Secondary School students’ Foods 12 class are creating recipes for us that can be cooked on hot plates or in a coffee maker.  Students who are volunteering to do the research for Beauty Night Society’s Mom & Tot Nutrition Program are developing leadership skills and becoming empowered as the research they develop will have a direct positive impact on someone’s life.

While Womyns Gym, Kids Club and our yoga programs run at PHS Life Skills Centre, Beauty Night Makeover Facilitator, Tiffany Telford brings some Halloween cheer to the Celluloid Social Club tonight. (Doors open at 7:30pm at the ANZA Club  #3 West 8th Ave at Ontario St). Tiffany will be offering Halloween makeup for minimum $10 donation, proceeds to Beauty Night Society.

Here are the details for tonight’s event:
Big Smash! Productions + The Celluloid Social Club present
BLOODSHOTS CANADA 2009 The 48-Hour Horror Filmmaking Challenge!

GRAND PRIZE $1000 as determined by DAN O’BANNON
(writer, ALIEN and TOTAL RECALL, writer/director of punk-horror classic RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD)

SHOOTING: Friday October 23 – 7:00pm – Sunday October 25 – 7:00pm
SCREENING: Wednesday October 28 – 8:00pm at the Anza Club (3 W. 8th, Vancouver) Doors 7:30 pm / $5 cash at door

Prize for Best Hallowe’en Costume at Screening

BNS (Beauty Night Society) makeup artists doing zombie makeup for a minimum $10 donation per person. Proceeds to BNS that teaches women and youth living with violence and poverty tools to heal their lives and our communities. Beauty Night… because dignity is beautiful

The 2009 Local Jury at the screening consists of past Bloodshots winner Scott Belyea (TEN MINUTES BEFORE SHOWTIME), director Matt O’Mahoney (ELECTRIC FENCE) and genre cinema bad-boy Uwe Boll (STOIC, POSTAL)!

All details and registration info at http://www.myspace.com/bloodshotscanada

As hundreds of DV filmmakers the world over have already learned, making a short film in one weekend can be terrifying. Lack of sleep is just the beginning of your problems when you are trying to corral actors into repeating their performance with more energy at 5 in the morning and you know you have only got another 6 hours to get a final edit of your masterpiece put together.

Well, start brewing your coffee now, because the people who brought you Vancouver’s CINEMUERTE FILM FESTIVAL (1999-2005) are getting set to bring you the 6th annual BloodShots 48-Hour Horror Filmmaking Contest – 25 Teams of filmmakers all fighting against the clock to make the best horror film they possibly can. There will be celebrity judges, fabulous prizes and several tons of fake blood!

At 7:00pm on Friday October 23, registered participants are given envelopes containing a horror subgenre (in past years this has included haunted house, giallo, backwoods horror, necrophilia film and more!), a weapon, a prop and a line of dialogue. They then have 48 hours to return their finished 2-7 minute film on DVD!

Every year, there is a BLOODSHOTS screening hosted by The Celluloid Social Club, where the films are voted on by both the audience, and an in-person jury. This year’s local jury consists of past Bloodshots winner Scott Belyea (TEN MINUTES BEFORE SHOWTIME), filmmaker Matt O’Mahoney (ELECTRIC FENCE) and genre cinema bad-boy Uwe Boll (STOIC, POSTAL)!

In-person jury prizes (from Rue Morgue, Maple Pictures, Happy Bats, Mondo Macabro DVD, Videomatica, The Rio Theatre and more) will be awarded on site immediately following the screenings and a short period of deliberation by the jury. Ballots will be handed out to the audience and collected after the screening. The results of these ballots will be combined with the online voting results to give us the overall Audience Winner.

These results will be posted online at www.myspace.com/bloodshotscanada on Monday Nov. 2. The jury winner and the overall audience winner are the two finalists that go on to the final round, being sent to the Grand Prize Juror for their shot at winning $1000!

This year’s Grand Prize Juror is DAN O’BANNON (writer of ALIEN and TOTAL RECALL, writer/director of punk-horror classic RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD). We will be sending the top jury-winning film and the audience-winning film to Dan, he will NOT be at the screening in person.

The 2009 contest is open to entrants throughout British Columbia. More details on rules, registration, jury, voting, and prizes are available at http://www.myspace.com/bloodshotscanada.

If you have any questions, email Kier-La Janisse at bigsmashproductions@gmail.com or call 204-998-5578.

We’ve started up Womyn’s Gym programming. The program is very engaging and promises to help our clients achieve some great goals.
Next week we will be starting yoga classes as well.

We are still looking for more fabric and yarn, sewers and knitters for our stocking drive. Please email info@beautynight.org if you are able to help!

Thank you everyone for your continued support

Beauty Night Stocking Drive 2008

Shot by the wonderful Bill Nevison.
We’re having another stocking cutting session this Sunday for all those interested, please email info@beautynight.org for more information.