Women’s Wednesdays: Gender Equality Panel

#WomenWednesdays highlights Bahamian women and our experiences in The Bahamas, specific to our identities including gender, race, sexuality, age, and ability. Held once per month at minimum, the events will draw women together to have conversations that bring our individual lives into focus while connecting to family, community, and national narratives.
#WomenWednesdays intentionally centers and prioritizes women and girls, and is open to the public through in-person events, livestreams, and social media activity. It is a collaborative effort of Equality Bahamas and the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas to create a safe space for knowledge-building, idea-sharing, critical dialogue, and movement-building.
The Gender Equality panel will kickstart our event series, and lay the foundation for later discussions.
Questions framing the conversation include:
-What is gender equality?
-What does gender equality look like?
-What is the importance of constitutional equality?
-How do religious institutions/leaders/views (not) support gender equality?
-What are current barriers to gender equality? How can we address them?
Our Gender Equality panelists are:
Natalie Willis, Cultural Practitioner
Alexus D’Marco, Human Rights Defender
Carol Misiewicz, Supreme Court Registrar

Free Meditation Session

Join us at NAGB for a free meditation session designed for artists of all disciplines, and open to the public. Please bring a mat, cushion, towel, or whatever you would like to sit on during the 90 minute session.
Peace Revolution is a project by World Peace Initiative – an international organization working to promote a culture of peace through the practice of meditation. Through its PIPO (peace in, peace out) initiative, volunteers travel the world to offer free meditation sessions to schools, organizations, yoga/meditation centers, state organizations, and many others. Peace Revolution strongly believes that promotion of a culture of peace begins with self development and the meditation practice improves quality of life, reduces stress, increasing concentration, and increases feelings of well-being and happiness.
Peace Revolution is bringing a volunteer group to Nassau, offering its “Basic Principles of Meditation” workshop using the Dhammakaya technique. Originally from Thailand, this technique has been adapted into a form of practice for everyone, regardless of religion, nationality, and beliefs. The workshop includes an introduction to meditation, basic techniques, meditation practice, a question and answer session, and a talk on the project and the benefits of meditation.
Peace Revolution first visited The Bahamas in 2015 when two sessions were held in Nassau – one public and one private – with facilitation by Ilse, a volunteer from Mexico. This year, two public sessions will be held at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas and Cosmosis Yoga Suite (Tuesday, May 3 at 1pm)

Hollaback! Bahamas – Chalk ‘n’ Chat (to end street harassment)

Events

On April 14, 2016, Hollaback! Bahamas held a chalk art event in collaboration with Pro Society which organizes a Chalk Art Festival at College of the Bahamas every year. Students at COB participated in the conversation about street harassment by writing messages in chalk, and “That was street harassment” cards were distributed.

Check out footage from the event below.