Please join us for the BORN AGM, the setting will be informal. We are meeting at 46 Parkside Dr.Lewis Point in Charlottetown on June 5th at 6:30 p.m a potluck supper will follow a short meeting. This is great time for new members to join us for some information about upcoming plans. Children and Babies welcome.
In the tradition of The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, you are invited to attend a 1 day Red Tent Gathering celebrating womanhood. This is a place to honour our experiences as women throughout the life cycle (menarch, pregnancy, birth, menopause).
The gathering is taking place on Saturday, November 1, 2008 from 10 AM – 4 PM at the PEI Place located at 298 University Avenue in Charlottetown. Activities will include working with clay to find your inner goddess, ways to celebrate our daughters entry into womanhood, birthing practices and options, empowering menopause and belly dancing. We are also planning a book reading so please stay tuned for more details. The Red Tent Gathering is being hosted by BORN Co-operative and Women’s Network with assistance from the Pregnancy, Birth and Infancy Network. The event is free and open to women of all ages. Please call Women’s Network at 368-5040 or email doula@isn.net to register.
Check back soon for an itinerary of events for the day!
The LLL World Breastfeeding Event, next Saturday, is in conjunction with the PEI Breastfeeding
Coalition, and we will have out a donation box for La Leche League Canada, as LLLC Groups use World Breastfeeding Week to plan a fundraiser for the LLLC National Office.
You and your families are all welcome to a Kick Off celebration for World Breastfeeding Week in Canada
Saturday, October 4th
noon to 2PM
Victoria Park Tennis Courts Clubhouse, Charlottetown
Chili (vegetarian and other varieties), rolls, and healthy snacks will be provided, and there will be childrens activities and educational displays. Please try to drop by!
The Clubhouse is near the PEI Pottery Studio in the Park on the waterfront side of Victoria Park. You can park by the Kiwanis Dairy Bar, or go down the little road from the cannons past the back of Fanningbank and park by the pottery bungalow, or come in to the park off Brighton Road by the baseball fields and walk through the asphalt path to the little road that goes to the pottery bungalow. We hope to have signs up. Call one of us if you need better directions.
BORN is pleased to announce: THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN
A DOCUMENTARY FILM DIRECTED BY ABBY EPSTEIN AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY RICKI LAKE
ON: Sunday, June 15th, 2008
LOCATION & TIME: City Cinema, Charlottetown @ 2pm
TICKETS: Admission by donation (suggested $8)
In 2001, actress Ricki Lake gave birth to her second child with the assistance of a midwife in her home bathtub. She made the choice for a home birth after she experienced unwanted medical interventions while delivering her first child at a hospital birthing center. Ricki succeeded in giving birth on her own terms and the experience was so unexpectedly empowering and life-changing that she felt every woman should know what they could be missing out on.
Ricki approached filmmaker Abby Epstein to collaborate on a film that would examine birth culture in America, and ask questions about the way American women have babies.
Footage of women having babies punctuates THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN. Each experience is unique; all are equally beautiful and equally surprising. Giving birth is clearly the most physically challenging event these women have ever gone through, but it is also the most emotionally rewarding.
Along the way, Epstein conducts interviews with a number of obstetricians, experts and advocates about the history, culture and economics of childbirth. The film’s fundamental question: should most births be viewed as a natural life process, or should every delivery be treated as a potential medical emergency?
As Epstein uncovers some surprising answers, her own pregnancy adds a very personal dimension to THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN, a must-see movie for anyone even thinking about having a baby!
This film premiered at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival and was released in select theaters in January 2008. The filmmakers are allowing these local screenings to help raise awareness on the topic and support birth organizations on a local level. All proceeds from this screening will go to benefit BORN Cooperative Ltd.
For more information go to www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com
