Join us on Friday, May 17 to meet Charlotte Gray, one of Canada's best-known writers, the author of nine best-selling books of literary non-fiction!
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THE F5 ARE ON A NATIONAL LEADERSHIP TOUR
For the last 15 years, the F5 have enjoyed living at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. Now they look forward to visiting legislatures, post-secondary institutions, public libraries and city halls across Canada. The F5 National Maquette Tour is intended to inspire today’s and tomorrow’s leaders to be nation builders, while promoting equality issues in each community it visits.
Our thanks to Mount Saint Vincent University in Bedford, NS for welcoming the F5 over the past three months, and to the City of Westmount, QC for opening your City Hall to the F5 next! Follow our tour HERE.
We are also looking for an additional funder! Please reach out to us HERE.
The F5 Maquette is a miniature of the F5F’s Women are Persons! Monuments in Olympic Plaza in Calgary and in front of the Senate of Canada in Ottawa. They were designed by Barbara Paterson and created by Bronzart Foundry.
Why a Pink Tea?
THEN: When the Famous 5 were campaigning for women to have the right to vote and run for elected office, their suffrage meetings were disrupted by their opponents. Women traditionally held teas for the birth of children, when someone left the community or other reasons. Men didn’t attend these teas so suffragists started calling their political meetings Pink Teas and very few opponents attended.
NOW: What the Famous 5 began, we continue: pay equity, racial inequality, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, missing and murdered Indigenous girls and women, mental health and addiction, and more. Whatever your gender, race, sexuality, age or background, we are all persons. What are you fighting for?
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Famous 5 Foundation is located on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot and the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut'ina, the Stoney Nakoda First Nations and the Metis Nation of Alberta, Region III as well as Calgary known as Mohkínsstsisi. As treaty people, we accept our responsibility for and role in reconciliation.
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