We were excited that CFUW Nanaimo hosted the 36th CFUW BC Council AGM & Conference “Making Waves” from May 3-5, 2024. Thank you to all who joined us!
Jen Cody, Paths to Food Security
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
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.
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.
CFUW Nanaimo and this conference are located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Snuneymuxw, Snaw-naw-as, and Stzuminus people.
Conference Location: Coast Bastion Hotel 11 Bastion Street, Nanaimo, BC V9R 6E4 Tel: 250-753-6601 Free WIFI. Hotel parking at $9 for 24 hours.