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Take Back the Night

Sep 12
Sat 5:00 PM
Location
Ontario Rebelles table at the community fair

1900 Symington Ave.
which is the Davenport Perth Neighborhood Centre
Toronto , ON M3H 6A7

How to find us
"Come up to the table and introduce yourself. It'll be home base from 5 til the march, where we can hang out and get to know each other and leave stuff while you're checking out the fair!"

Estimated attendance
 7  people attended.
5.00 5.002

Who organized?
Tara

The Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape is doing its 29th annual Take Back the Night event so let's get out there and yell and take up some space!

If you've never heard of TBTN, here's what it's about: Noone should feel afraid for their safety. So there's this event where we all get out in the night to reclaim our rightful space and make it safer for each other. There's a community fair starting at 5, a rally at 6 and at 8, we march! If you feel you want to express yourself with a good ole-fashioned feminist placard or rock out with some kind of noisemaker, let me assure you this IS the perfect place for it:D

The theme this year is "No More Hiding”. It's about highlighting every woman’s experience of survivorship from the personal to political impacts in our every day lives with a special focus on the experience of all Non-Status (First Nations and Immigrant) women in our communities and the impact of violence while living without status. So that's a little something for you to ruminate over.

Important note: The march is a women-only event but our male friends are welcome to come out and cheer us on from the sidewalk!

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Who attended?

  • 7 attendees
    • Tara (+3 guests)
      “ I love doing Take Back the Night and it's awesome to be out there with you guys! ”
    • “ A great night! I was a little surprised by the general disorganization that I felt in terms of the organizing of the event but overall, it was great to see the crowd grow and grow as we paraded through the streets. Another favourite part for me was seeing our supporters standing on balconies, waving, cheering, knowing what we were marching for - and hopefully explaining it to many of the young ones watching. I went with one friend, but I think that anyone, even if they had been alone, would have been welcomed. It was a great night with tons of energy (although I would have liked more noisemakers/music .. similar to the No One Is Illegal Protest in Dundas Square, which was amazing).. ”