community meal and public vigil hosted by Ryan's Hope and Moms Stop the Harm - all are welcome
Engage Barrie Organization will have a table at this event, so please come and meet some of the members of our Board, and learn how you can get involved - bringing a Supervised Consumption Site to Barrie was one of the first issues that brought or group together, and we continue to advocate for compassionate, evidence-based solutions to the toxic drug crisis.
Details-At-A-Glance
When: Saturday, August 31, 6pm
Where: Barrie City Hall, 70 Collier Street
What: A community meal and candlelight vigil
Hosts: Ryan's Hope and Moms Stop the Harm
More information: visit the event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/818335976513542 or email christine@ryanshopebarrie.ca
On August 31st, International Overdose Awareness Day, Ryan's Hope and Moms Stop the Harm invite you to join us for Vigil of Hope and Remembrance. We will gather together to honour and remember those we have lost and to offer support and comfort to each other.
We will gather first to share a meal together as friends and neighbours followed by our vigil of hope and remembrance in memory of lost loved ones.
Speakers from our community that have been directly impacted by the toxic drug crisis will be sharing their stories, followed by prayers, songs, a moment of silence and candlelight vigil in memory of those we lost.
Agenda
6:00 pm Community meal
6:30 pm Visiting tables and with each other
7:00 pm Speakers followed by moment of silence and candlelight vigil.
“There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone, the light remains.”
Community partners who would like to participate please email christine@ryanshopebarrie.ca
If you would like to participate in the Flowers of Remembrance display by making flowers in memory of those lost to drug related harms and system failures, it would be appreciated if these flowers could be delivered to us a week prior to the ceremony so they can arrange the display. Please contact christine@ryanshope.ca for details.
EBO is happy to share events and opinions of our members and community partners, provided they fit within our mandate.
This particular event is in line with our values of collaboration, diversity, education, empowerment, equity, inclusivity, and information. It also fits within our founding principles of local community-based organizing, and creating safe spaces, as well as our key focal points of decolonizing our city, and healthy urbanism.
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