October 15, 2017
It’s time to buy your tickets for our upcoming African Dinner!
October 15, 2017
It’s time to buy your tickets for our upcoming African Dinner!
On Sunday, October 15th, we will be hosting our 6th annual dinner - a delicious African-themed meal prepared by Tria Fine Catering.
Other highlights of the evening:
- a chance to hear from our special guests from Africa: Eunice Mangwane, Waziko Margret, Mariam Mulindwa and Justine Ojambo
- the opportunity to examine and buy the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s new book, Powered by Love: A Grandmothers’ Movement to End AIDS in Africa, and to meet the book’s photographer
- a silent auction of high-quality items and services
The dinner will be held in the Upper Hall of the Florence Filberg Center in Courtenay. Doors will open at 5:00 p.m. There will be a cash bar.
Tickets cost $50 and can be purchased at Laughing Oyster Bookshop or Blue Heron Books, or by calling Jane at 250-792-5993.
With thanks to our sponsor
October 16, 2017
Launch of Powered by Love: A Grandmothers’ Movement to End AIDS in Africa
October 16, 2017
Launch of Powered by Love: A Grandmothers’ Movement to End AIDS in Africa
The Stephen Lewis Foundation’s recently-published book will be launched in our community on Monday, October 16 from 4:30 to 6:00 at the Courtenay Public Library, 300 6th Street.
This free event will be an opportunity to hear from three grandmothers from Africa: Eunice Mangwane, Waziko Margret and Mariam Mulindwa, as well as the National Director of Phoebe Education Fund for Orphans & Vulnerable Children, and the book’s photographer, Alexis MacDonald. They will all be on hand to answer questions and to sign books.
Books will be supplied by Laughing Oyster Bookshop, and all royalties will benefit the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation.
For more information contact Joanne at 250-334-0967.