Friday May 3

• 12:00 pm noon - 6:00 pm Registration Open at the Coast Bastion Hotel (Ballroom Foyer). Delegates pick up Accreditation / Voting cards

• 1:00 pm Afternoon Tours (meet in Ballroom Foyer)

• 3 pm - 5 pm CFUW BC Council Executive Meeting

• 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Opening Reception with No Host Bar (finger food served)

  • Opening welcome by Geraldine Manson C'tasi:a of the Snuneymuxw First Nation. Our distinguished speakers include MLA Sheila Malcolmson, Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krog, CFUW National president Joy Hurst, CFUW BC Council president (and National VP BC) Sheila Service, and CFUW Nanaimo president Jill Bester. Music by 5 students from the Wellington School music program.

• 9:30 pm Hospitality Suite open

Saturday May 4

• 8:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast Buffet. (Ballroom Foyer)

• 9:00 am - 12:00 pm CFUW BC Council AGM (Sheila Service, Chair) 

• 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Luncheon and Keynote Speaker – Jackie Hildering, The Marine Detective

• 2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Break

• 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Ay Lelum: The Good House of Design

• 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm Refreshment Break 

• 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Jen Cody – Paths to Food Security

• 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Free time / Hospitality Suite open

• 6:30 pm Social Time (No Host Bar)

• 7:00 pm Banquet and Charitable Trust

• 8:00 pm Entertainment: 

  • Rachel Dunstan Muller, a member of Nanaimo’s Around Town Tellers, a collective of oral storytellers, will make us laugh and touch our hearts with her alluring tales. 

  • Alexandra Lee and Amy Laing, Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra cellists, will enthrall us with a series of duets.

Sunday May 5

• 8:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast Buffet

• 9:00 am - 11:00 am CFUW BC Council program

• 11:00 am – 11:30 Wrap Up and end of conference.