A Call to End Gender-Based Violence.

Save the date! Take Back the Night returns to Waterloo Region this year with activities and a march taking place at Gaukel Block in Downtown Kitchener. Join us for 40 years of Take Back the Night, and make your voice heard!

Thursday, September 21, 2023
6 - 9 p.m.
Gaukel Block, Downtown Kitchener

• March
• Speeches and Performers
• Community Information
• Activities for all Ages
• ASL interpretation available
• Merch available (cash and credit card payments accepted)

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Event Program

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Speakers and Performers

• Sara Casselman, SASC Executive Director
  • ​40th Anniversary Reflections
• Sarah Siembida, Spoken Word Poet & Poet Laureate of Smart Waterloo Region
• Melynda Visouvath, Survivor
• Latasha Wilson, Healing of the Seven Generations
• Joni NehRita, Jamaican-Canadian Artist and Musician

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Activities

• Refreshments
• Sign Making (materials provided)
• Photo Booth
• Community Information booths
• March (at Sunset) Through the Downtown Core
• Bystander Intervention Workshop (during the march, for those unable to participate)
• Kids Zone
• Calming Zone

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March Route Info

• The march will kick off at Gaukel Block
• Total distance: 1.3 km
• Total time: 30 minutes
• Pace: Slow
• Surface: Paved
• ​A Bystander Intervention Workshop will take place simultaneously during the march for those who are unable or do not wish to join the march.
• More details to come!

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Thank you to our Community Partners:

• Wilfrid Laurier University Consent is Golden
• Laurier Students’ Public Interest Research Group
• University of Waterloo Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office
• Conestoga College Student Engagement
• Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health
• OK2BME
• Healing of the Seven Generations
• ​Shelter Movers Southwestern Ontario
• Community Justice Initiatives Waterloo Region
• Sex Workers Action Network of Waterloo Region
• YW Kitchener-Waterloo
• SHORE Centre
  
• ACCKWA
• Coalition of Muslim Women
• Women’s Crisis Services of Waterloo Region
  

Contact Us

 If you have questions or accessibility needs that we can accommodate, please contact our Public Education Manager, Karley. You can email Karley at pubed@sascwr.org.