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Interrobang issue for the week of Monday, December 07, 2009
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Interrobang issue for: Monday, December 07, 2009
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Calendar helping build women leaders of tomorrow
Ivana Pelisek
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Published: Monday, December 07, 2009
University students from all
across Canada have brought
together 12 internationally
renowned athletes and created a
calendar.
The Antigone Foundation is a
Canadian organization that works
to support young women’s
involvement in leadership, politics,
activism and feminism.
The 2010 Dreams for Women
calendar was created in an effort to
use the power of female athletes in
order to raise money for young
women’s leadership training in
Canada, with regards to making a
lasting impression from the 2010
Vancouver Olympic Games.
“The Dreams for Women project
began in 2008 when The Antigone
Foundation put out a call for people
to submit their Dreams for
Women on postcards,” said
Amanda Reaume, executive director
at the Antigone Foundation.
“We received submissions from all
over the world as far away as
Germany, France, Bulgaria, Japan
and Brazil. We are based out of
Vancouver so we thought it would
be interesting to try to engage
Olympic athletes for our 2010 calendar
and ask them to make postcards
with their Dreams for
Women on them. The results were
astounding, as a number of fabulous
Canadian and U.S. athletes
made amazing postcards and sent
them to our organization to include
in our calendar.”
The foundation wanted to do
something special to commemorate
the historic 2010 year and to
honour Canadian and U.S. female
athletes. The foundation teamed up
with university-aged women to
help bring 2010 athletes together
for a cause as important as this
one.
The athletes featured in the calendar
include the following
women:
Rachel Armstrong, Canadian
women’s volleyball;
Julia Clukey, U.S. women’s
luge;
Erin Hamlin U.S. women’s luge;
First Nations snowboard team;
Kirsten Manley-Casimir,
Canadian women’s volleyball;
Cathy Priestmer Allinger,
Canadian women’s speed skating;
Sara Renner, Canadian women’s
cross country;
Michelle Roark, U.S. women’s
freestyle skiing;
Angela Ruggiero, U.S. women’s
hockey;
Robbi Weldon, Canadian
women’s para-nordic skiing;
Ashley Wagner, U.S. women’s
figure skating;
Katie Willis, women’s ski
jumpers;
The money raised from calendar
sales will be used to fund Dreams
for Women Scholarship for young
women leaders, as well as a cross-
Canada leadership whistle stop
tour, which will stop in at least five
Canadian cities and provide leadership
training to girls and to
young women.
“The money will go to a student
who is interested in working to
help young women attain leadership
positions in our society. We
will also use the money to fund a
Cross-Canada Dreams for Women
Leadership Tour in which we will
go to a number of communities and
provide leadership training to
young women and girls,” said
Reaume.
The calendars will also be used
to help raise money for other
organizations. They’ll be sold at a
discounted price for $10 Canadian
to non-profit women’s organizations
who will benefit by using
them for their own organizations.
“It is important for young
women to know that they can be
leaders and to recognize that they
have the potential to change the
world in business, politics, or
activism,” Reaume said.
The main project of the organization
is to publish Antigone magazine,
a publication about women
and politics that started at
University of British Columbia
and has since expanded to a national
subscription base, as well as, to
the University of Toronto.
The calendar will be sold for $20
Canadian and is available via the
Antigone Foundation blog at antigonefoundation.wordpress.
com or by emailing
antigonemagazine@hotmail.com
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