Events

Thank you for supporting the fundraising initiatives of grandmothers groups across the Campaign! Browse the calendar below to learn about the many online, in-person and multi-day events that grandmothers groups are organizing, as well as Campaign-wide events.

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Capital Grannies Canadian Museum for Human Rights Tour

This virtual tour of the museum in Winnipeg is an opportunity to view its exhibits and galleries, as well as its stunning architecture, with an experienced tour guide. The gallery exhibits range from Indigenous perspectives and the right to safety and justice for Aboriginal women in Canada, to human rights in a global setting, with […]

$25

Kingston Grandmother Connection’s unique African-oriented online store opens again April 3-29, 2022.

Fine handcrafted items for Mother’s Day, Easter, Birthdays: large woven African baskets, African cloth placemats, distinctive light-weight nuno-felted scarves, soap and shampoo bars, note cards and more. Pick up in central Kingston every Saturday, or get delivery. All proceeds go to Help Lesotho and the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign, helping African grandmothers […]

Free

No Be From Hia: A Homecoming Tale of a Family

Online

Join host Bianca Marais as she engages in conversation with Zambian writer Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda about her debut novel, No Be From Hia.

Free

Kingston Grandmother Connection’s unique African-oriented online store opens again April 3-29, 2022.

Fine handcrafted items for Mother’s Day, Easter, Birthdays: large woven African baskets, African cloth placemats, distinctive light-weight nuno-felted scarves, soap and shampoo bars, note cards and more. Pick up in central Kingston every Saturday, or get delivery. All proceeds go to Help Lesotho and the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign, helping African grandmothers […]

Salt Spring’s 14th Annual Scrabble Fundraiser

We will be hosting games, dinner and a silent auction over 3 days in June. On June 7, 9 games and prizes from 2 to 4 pm at Portlock Park Pavillion, and games, a chili dinner, silent auction and cash and carry tables from 5:30 - 9 pm at the Lions' Bradley Hall. Silent auction […]

Visiting Zimbabwe: A Conversation with Idah Mukuka Nambeya & SLF Partners (Online)

Zoom

For decades, community-led responses have been supporting and empowering people living with or affected by HIV and AIDS. These remarkably effective programs have only deepened over time, as their connection to their communities ensure they are cutting the AIDS pandemic off at its roots.  Idah Mukuka Nambeya, Senior Advisor to the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign, […]

Raising Monarchs (Online)

On June 23, 2022 at 1:00 PM ET, Ingrid Janssen will be giving a presentation on Raising Monarch Butterflies. Ingrid is a horticulturist, speaker, blogger and master gardener. She has been gardening for most of her life and is a passionate, some would say "crazy gardener". Her presentation, 'Raising Monarchs: How I Became a Monarch […]