The South House Sexual and Gender Resource Centre (formerly the Dalhousie Women’s Centre) and the Saint Mary’s Women's Centre have joined forces with local organizations such as Venus Envy, Avalon Sexual Assault Centre, Stepping Stone and the Youth Project to put on the second annual ConsentFEST conference. ConsentFEST is a 1.5 day conference aimed at opening up discussion on everything to do with consent!
ConsentFEST strives to create spaces where everyone can gain a broader understanding of how consent narratives, sex-positivity, and challenging rape culture can come together to create a world based in consent. Our intention for this event is to invite conversation, critical & creative thinking and to foster a new common language surrounding consent.
The conference will be held on Friday November 23rd on the Saint Mary’s campus and Saturday November 24th on the Dalhousie campus. ConsentFEST will explore the theme of ‘Consent Culture’ broadly through academic and theory based discussions, hands-on workshops, comedy, music and art. The South House and our partner organizations would like to invite you to join us for a lecture, a workshop or a panel discussion. Details regarding programming & locations will be released shortly.
Follow us on Twitter @ConsentFEST or find us on Facebook ConsentFEST - Halifax. For questions, concerns or media inquiries, please contact Christina Aubrecht or Jean Ketterling at dwc@dal.ca or (902) 494 2432.
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