Hello, In Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Canada, we held a Gather the Women event. We set up a Labyrinth and a Red tent. We also had Reiki, Massage, Hair, Nails, make-up, Mini make-overs, food, child care and bellydancing ended the day as we all danced out of the auditorium.  We had 200 woman and children attend and the whole event was free!!

We are a committee of womyn who submitted a proposal to our government, and obtained some funding for the event. We started meeting in January over our lunch-hours for 12 weeks once a week, and planned and organized this event.

We love being part of it and each year we grow. We are very happy that this year we included a spiritual component along with the "Beauty Myth" component, and they were equally well attended. In the Red tent we offered womyns stories of birthing, menarche, menopause and all things cycle related. We had First Nations womyn, French womyn , Finnish and many other cultures offering their stories.

It was a wonderful success with lots of laughter and joy. We look forward to the day when the Beauty Myth stuff will not even be attended!

Yours In Solidarity, Bonnie Baranski