If you happen to be in B.C.

Monday April 20, 2009. 7pm. Montmartre Café;, 4362 Main St. -- Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter launches The Johns : Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It with author Victor Malarek and UBC law professor, Janine Benedet

Tuesday April 21, 2009. 7pm. -- Bean Around the World, 3598 Main St. Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, YWCA Munroe House and Act II Safe Choice host Rewriting Our Own Futures: Words from Women of Vancouver Transition Houses with ex-residents from transition houses and singer songwriter Kate Reid

Wednesday April 22, 2009. 7pm. Montmartre Café, 4362 Main St. -- Battered Women’s Support Services and WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre host Community Engagement in Violence Prevention. Tough Guise: Violence Media and the Crisis in Masculinity Film/panel discussion applying a feminist analysis to involving men/boys in anti-violence work with Irene Tsepnopoulos-Elhaimer, Angela MacDougall, Hari Alluri and Curtis Clearsky and with performances by Kia Kidiri, JB The First Lady & Christie Lee

Thursday April 23, 2009. 7pm. Our Town Café, 245 East Broadway. -- Vancouver Rape Relief and Womens’ Shelter and WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre host Bad Dates, Campus Creepers and Drug Rapes with Aboriginal Women’s Action Network, Antigone Magazine and BC Women’s Hospital Sexual Assault Centre

Friday, April 24, 2009 3 pm Location TBA -- Battered Women’s Support Services host You Can Bet Your Maple Leaf On That - Violence Against Women & 2010 Olympics Battered Women’s Support Services announces anti-violence prevention strategy pre, during and post 2010 Olympics

Saturday April 25, 2009. 7pm. Our Town Café, 245 East Broadway. -- Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter hosts Olympics 2010: Women in Sport, women as Sport with Exploited Voices Educating, Aboriginal Women’s Action Network