Access Information for Take Back the Night 2017

ACCESS INFORMATION

This years theme is “Take Back the Night: Breaking down Silences from Generation to Generation” To us this means resisting violence through holding conversations with our elders, our youth, and ourselves.

This event is wheelchair accessible.
This event provides ASL interpretation.
This event provides attendant care.
This event provides childcare.
This event is welcome to all genders and is trans inclusive 

To make this more clear for the broader community, we know that accessibility is not only ASL interpretation, accessible doors and washrooms but in addition, we need to have a more cohesive and precise knowledge of what access means in a whole political and social context. For us at TRCC/MWAR and for the last 15 years we have and continue working side by side with The Anne Johnston Health Station (AJHS) a not-for-profit community health centre providing a wide range of programs and services that promote the health and well-being of youth, seniors and people with physical disabilities.

For Take Back the Night we ask community to take a moment to read this piece; to reflect and come with your heart and openness to support and be an “ally” to others.

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Take Back the Night, TRCCMWAR and the Anne Johnston Health Station work from the Independent Living Philosophy. This means people with disabilities have the right to:

• Live with dignity in their chosen community;
• Participate in all aspects of their life; and
• Control and make decisions about their own lives.

While the aim of Independent Living is not to make a person “normal” in a physical or mental sense, the movement emphasizes the value of people with disabilities to have ordinary life experiences by providing community-based, consumer-controlled services, supports, resources and skills training to enable people with disabilities to live within an independent living practices in community.

The Accessible team is here to support the event this way:

We have around 15 centre members that are part of the Access Team. How can you recognize them?

[figure wearing a black shirt that on the front says #weBelieveSurvivors in light pink. Second figure wearing a black shirt with A TEAM on the back. The “A” is in white and the “TEAM” is in pink]

AGENDA FOR 37^TH TAKE BACK THE NIGHT

3:45 pm Meet and Greet at the front and back of the Regent Park Community Centre entrances at 402 Shuter Street.

4:00pm Community Dinner at the Banquet Hall follows signs or ask a A.T. person to go with you.

5:00pm Talking Circles, after the community dinner the Banquet Hall will host two of the Talking Circles

Radical ideas of equity: Experiencing trauma in different bodies with Lucy & Grissel and Maria Montejo

A Decolonized World – Intentional Engagement towards a decolonized world with Zainab Amadahy

NOTE: (This Talking Circle will be outside on the back of the Regent Park entrance) Storytelling & Digital Media – Breaking down survivor silences through intergenerational mediums with Tamar & Diedre

IMPORTANT TO KNOW EVERY TALKING CIRCLE WILL BE CLOSE 10 MINUTES AFTER THEY START. PLEASE SELECT IN ADVANCE WHICH ONE DO YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN.

6:30pm Rally space to be announced on site tomorrow.

Bring warm clothes and comfy shoes

The Accessibility Team will have two short spots of three minutes during the Rally to inform the entire community of our role at the event and also remember that at Take Back the Night March, the Access Team will set up the flow of the march, that means we will go on the front

8:00pm MARCH , YEAH WE GO AND TAKE THE STREETS AND RECLAIM THEM, GET YOUR CHANTS AND NOSIE MAKERS READY.

THANKS AGAIN AND SEE YOU TOMORROW!