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Smell This Aromatherapy Visits Beauty Night

January 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Every month our friends from Smell This visit our Beauty Night ladies. They set up a scent bar. For those who have never been to a scent bar, this is an opportunity to create your own “pure” fume. Smell This brings the essential oils and you are able to create your own scent.

Every month, they visit our Beauty Night ladies. One of my favourite sights is seeing the ladies naming their “pure” fumes. As they sit around the round tables and decide which scents they love the most, they share names. “My Own Creation”, “Heavenly”, and “Tyla” are some of the names of “pure” fumes they created.

While the Scent Bar is in session, our Team Beauty Night volunteers are offering services. Hair cuts, foot care, manicures, mini facials, brow shaping and relaxation massage are some of the services offered by our volunteers. The conversations, the laughter and friendships that blossom during our events are the threads that build the tapestry of our community.

If you would like to join Team Beauty Night, our next volunteer orientations are:

January 27 in Surrey

February 5th in Vancouver

 

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Beauty Night News Week of June 18th

June 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Congratulations to Alexandra Zuur, Chapman Story Telling Video Contest Recipient
We were thrilled to find out volunteer, Alexandra Zuur won first prize for her video she created about what she learned through her Beauty Night volunteer experience. (we will be showing the video tomorrow on the projector screen). Alexandra started volunteering for Beauty Night in January. She won first place for the video contest and 2nd place for the written story telling contest. Here is the video:

Last week we got to see World Hip Hop Mom perform on Tuesday night at Beauty Night for our ladies. World Hip Hop Mom aka volunteer, Monica Morong delighted our participants and volunteers as she performed two of her songs. The video for The World Needs a Hip Hop Mom can be downloaded here.

June 20th Bring Your Heart and Soul To Work with Heather White
Love to network and connect with amazing people? Pink Tank Group is having the legendary business coach, Heather White speak about Bring Your Heart and Soul to Work. Event is from 6-8pm in downtown Vancouver. Tickets $10 and partial proceeds to our cause. To purchase tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3501494063
June 21st Beauty Night Scent Bar at Lord’s Shoes

On Thursday, June 21st, Lord’s Shoes and Kirk Group are hosting Smell This Aromatherapy’s Scent Bar. From 6-8pm, you will be able to create your own “pure fume” from essential oils; enjoy a glass of wine and shop for shoes. ** Lords is donating a percentage of sales for the evening to our cause. $25 for tickets. I will have details to purchase tickets 50% of ticket price will go to our cause. ** If you want to book a Scent Bar, 10% of the proceeds are going to our cause. http://beautynightscentbar.eventbrite.com/
June 22, 23, 24th Beauty Night Breakfast
Come by the 9th Avenue Grill for a Beauty Night Benny. Spearheaded by their manager, Stacy Cashin (also one of our wonderful volunteers), the staff of 9th Avenue Grill will be creating a Beauty Night Benny. Partial proceeds to our cause. Diners are able to make donations to Beauty Night through their server. Details to be finalized.
June 23 & 24th
Massage by donation. Weather pending - Gastown Physio & Pilates will be offering massage by donation in front of Cafe Medina on Saturday & Sunday through out the summer.

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Beauty Night News Week of June 11th

June 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

What a fantastic week! There has been tons to celebrate! We’ve added some of the highlights in this newsletter. Thanks to our wonderful PR intern Adriana Ortega, you might want to check out our website. There have been tons of blog posts added - including several blog posts from volunteers, upcoming events and much more. There are so many events coming up and we are excited to share them with you.

** Volunteer Orientation is tonight at 6pm at DEWC 302 Columbia. Julia Pon will be coordinating tonight’s orientation. Please invite friends who might be interested in being part of team Beauty Night.

Huge thank you to our friends at Queen Elizabeth Secondary School for creating an award-winning
presentation about our cause. Thanks to their presentation and their support, they won $5000 for our
cause. The monies raised help us start Beauty Night programming in Surrey 4 times each month starting
in September 2012.

In The Media

The Vancouver Sun, The Province, West Ender, and Empowered Health (on Chek 6) are some of the places we have been featured this week. To read the article in the Sun (reprinted in the Province) please click here.http://www.vancouversun.com/health/empowered-health/Beauty+Nights+bolster+hopes/6752740/story.html
The video for Empowered Health segment can be seen here: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/empowered-health/Beauty+Nights+bolster+hopes/6752740/story.html


Hamilton Designs PJs for Beauty Night
Adriana Ortega, Jo Moore Hamilton and Caroline Mac
Gillivray pose with a sample of the softest PJs.

When volunteer Jo Moore Hamilton is not volunteering for Beauty Night, she is a fashion designer. Last week, we (our PR intern Adriana Ortega, Jo Moore Hamilton and I) met to talk about a limited edition collection created where part of the proceeds would be donated to our cause. The pajamas designed by her mother (Jo’s had a pair that she has had since she was 12yrs old!) may be named after beauty night ladies and the beautiful qualities about them. When one is wearing the PJs, there will be a note describing the qualities and how wearing the pajamas can make you feel. With some of the beautiful strengths many of our ladies have, we think you will sleep well knowing that part of the proceeds are going to our cause.

Beauty Night’s AGM 2012
On Tuesday, June 19th our programming with be rescheduled as our AGM will be taking place at 6pm. We will need volunteers to help with set up, meeting and greeting attendees, and to help the event run smoothly. Please let me know if you want to volunteer. If you are attending the AGM, please sign up. Please invite friends who might be interested in attending. Our AGM package is available on the invitation, please let us know if you are attending as we need to print out to package for attendees. Here is the invitation.

Shoes, Scent & networking! Looking forward to Beauty Night Scent Bar sponsored by Smell This Aromatherapy, Lord’s Shoes and Kirk Group. It will be a fantastic night of mingling, creating your own purefume and shoe shopping. 50% of the proceeds of your $25 ticket go to our cause. To purchase tickets, please visit http://beautynightscentbar.eventbrite.com

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Events & More for Week of June 4th

June 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Team Beauty Night Volunteers: Caroline MacGillivray, Kristin Guy, Annie Bennett, Tyla Flexman, Kim Pacquette, and Arline Trividic

Smell This and Feel Better With Smell This Aromatherapy Scent Bar
The room smelled amazing! Beauty Night participants got to create their own “pure” fume of essential oils. Nicole and Arline from Smell This Aromatherapy guided our participants to create their own scents. Names such as “Tyla” (after participant’s favourite volunteer), “My Own Creation”, and “hope” were some “pure” fume names.

Barefoot & Bubbly: #Pedis4cause
The Month of May wrapped with a splash. Barefoot Wines and Absolute Spa Group hosted a party at English Bay Boathouse. Those who attended the private event were treated to wine, pedicures and wonderful appetizers. Hosted by Urban Rush’s Fiona Forbes, attendees were encourages to tweet about the party using the hash tag #pedis4cause. For each tweet a donation from Barefoot Wine was given to our cause. It was an amazing night where we got to connect with so many people who support our cause. Compliments of Dianne Chow, here are some photos from the event. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.387337544660106.84488.141445145916015&type=1
Queen Elizabeth Secondary Students Aim to Win $5000 for our Cause
Cross your fingers, our friends from Queen Elizabeth Secondary made phase 2 for the YPI Cares contest with their presentation of Beauty Night. If they win, YPI Cares will donate $5000 for our cause. YPI is an initiative where grade 10 students create a presentation about the charity of choice. If chosen, the charity of choice will be given $5000. Each school is able to chose a recipient.

Last year, students from Bal Moral Secondary School (Carson Graham) won the YPI Cares for their school. This the video they created last year. http://youtu.be/VtRzHEJq1jY

The support did not stop there. One of our Bal Moral supporters, Terry-Dayne Beasley donated his birthday money to our cause. His mother and sister now volunteer for us too.

Upcoming Events:
The next few weeks promise to be busy and exciting time. Although our AGM is June 19th, there are many many ways you can support our cause. Tell your friends. Please share events on facebook, twitter, linked in. Come to events - great way to connect with other volunteers and to support our cause.

* If you have an event that you would like to include our cause in, please contact Caroline ([email protected]).

June 5th Volunteer Orientation
On Tuesday, June 5th we will be holding our monthly volunteer orientation at 5pm at the VPL Firehall Branch 1455 West 10th Avenue. It will run from 5pm until 7:30pm. Board member, Julia Pon will be facilitating this orientation session. If you know people who are interested in joining Team Beauty Night, please let them know the details about our orientation. Please ask them to fill in our volunteer application form too: http://www.beautynight.org/index.php/volunteer-form/
June 5th Health Care Site Visit
On Tuesday, June 5th a Ukrainian Health Care Team visits us. 7 out reach nurses from Ukraine are dropping by to see how we connect beauty with creating community. Thanks to our community relationship with the street nurses, the Ukraine Health care team wants to see how we connect our participants to wellness and health care through our programming.
June 6th AGM Package
Fresh off the presses, our AGM package will be available on our website.
There will also be an invitation to attend our AGM via event brite.
June 7th Beauty Night in the Media
Set your PVR, Empowered Health piece on Beauty Night will be airing at 7pm on Chek 6. The profile piece in the Vancouver Sun prints on Thursday too.
June 8 & 9th Massage by Donation.
Gastown Physio and Pilates’ RMTs will be offering relaxation massage by donation in front of Cafe Medina in Gastown on sunny days. Times & Dates TBD
June 14th - Living Extraordinary Want to be inspired? Conscious Diva’s presents a night of 12 luminaries to inspire you. Beauty Night Founder, Caroline MacGillivray is honoured to be one of the speakers. For tickets and additional information, please visit http://www.consciousdivas.com/living-extraordinary-live
June 19th AGM
On Tuesday, June 19th, we will be holding our AGM at DEWC 302 Columbia at 6pm. Our regular programming will be cancelled due to our Annual General Meeting. It will be an opportunity to celebrate what we have achieved this year, board election and plans for our upcoming year. * We prefer to hold it where the women are able to attend.
June 20th Bring Your Heart and Soul To Work with Heather White
Love to network and connect with amazing people? Pink Tank Group is having the legendary business coach, Heather White speak about Bring Your Heart and Soul to Work. Event is from 6-8pm in downtown Vancouver. Tickets $10 and partial proceeds to our cause. To purchase tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3501494063
June 21st Beauty Night Scent Bar at Lord’s Shoes
On Thursday, June 21st, Lord’s Shoes and Kirk Group are hosting Smell This Aromatherapy’s Scent Bar. From 6-8pm, you will be able to create your own “pure fume” from essential oils; enjoy a glass of wine and shop for shoes. ** Lords is donating a percentage of sales for the evening to our cause. $25 for tickets. I will have details to purchase tickets 50% of ticket price will go to our cause. ** If you want to book a Scent Bar, 10% of the proceeds are going to our cause. http://beautynightscentbar.eventbrite.com/
June 22, 23, 24th Beauty Night Breakfast
Come by the 9th Avenue Grill for a Beauty Night Benny. Spearheaded by their manager, Stacy Cashin (also one of our wonderful volunteers), the staff of 9th Avenue Grill will be creating a Beauty Night Benny. Partial proceeds to our cause. Diners are able to make donations to Beauty Night through their server. Details to be finalized.

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Beauty Night News: Week of May 28th

May 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Photo: Beauty Night Volunteers Kathleen Nosek, Courtney
Emerslund, Hikaru Hirabayashi and Mira Thomas at
Rice Block last Thursday.

I wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who made last Tuesday run smoothly. By 4:30pm we had 50+ women signed up for dinner. By the time we opened the doors, we had over 63 women in for dinner. We recruited one of our participants Corina to give us a hand. She told the ladies that we knew that everyone was hungry and that we did not want to turn anyone away. She let them know we were splitting the portions in half so we would be able to serve more women. She called out the first 10 women on the list to come up. As she went through the list of 50 women, Adrianna greeted new comers at the door and explained the situation. After Corina made sure the first 50 women had been fed, Adrianna gave her the new list which had an additional 13 women on it. It was a busy busy night. By the end of the night, we had well over 110 people come through the doors.

With cheque issue the following day, it was busy and at times stressful. I want to thank everyone for being such an incredible team. You bring so much joy into the fabric of our community - thank you!

Empowered Health (airs on Chek 6 at 7pm on June 7th) came in to do a story. Tonight, the Vancouver Sun will be by to do a profile piece about our cause. The story will go to print on June 7th in conjunction with the Empowered Health piece.

Thursday night at Rice Block was the exact opposite of Tuesday evening. Due to staff changes, they did not know we were coming. It was a quiet evening but the ladies who did come had a fantastic time. The follow up emails we’ve had from their management team show they are in agreement that we should continue to offer our programming on the Thursday after cheque issue at their location. To quote one of the women: “If you weren’t here, I would be lying around my room trying not to go to the alley. Thank you for being here.”

Upcoming Events:

June 5th Volunteer Orientation
On Tuesday, June 5th we will be holding our monthly volunteer orientation at 5pm at the VPL Firehall Branch 1455 West 10th Avenue. It will run from 5pm until 7:30pm. Board member, Julia Pon will be facilitating this orientation session. If you know people who are interested in joining Team Beauty Night, please let them know the details about our orientation. Please ask them to fill in our volunteer application form too: http://www.beautynight.org/index.php/volunteer-form/
June 19th AGM
On Tuesday, June 19th, we will be holding our AGM at DEWC 302 Columbia at 6pm. Our regular programming will be cancelled due to our Annual General Meeting. It will be an opportunity to celebrate what we have achieved this year, board election and plans for our upcoming year. * We prefer to hold it where the women are able to attend.
June 21st Beauty Night Scent Bar at Lord’s Shoes
On Thursday, June 21st, Lord’s Shoes and Kirk Group are hosting Smell This Aromatherapy’s Scent Bar. From 6-8pm, you will be able to create your own “pure fume” from essential oils; enjoy a glass of wine and shop for shoes. ** Lords is donating a percentage of sales for the evening to our cause. $25 for tickets. I will have details to purchase tickets 50% of ticket price will go to our cause. ** If you want to book a Scent Bar, 10% of the proceeds are going to our cause.

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