House of Cheek @ Sexualized Violence Awareness Week

EmPOWERment – Burlesque Night! at Sexualized Violence Awareness Week featuring House of Cheek!

FREE

The power to create change and practice consent is within all of us!

The UVSS and our campus partners are passionate about preventing sexualized violence. Join us for a week of interactive tabling & activities, giveaways, and a night of BURLESQUE!

– EmPOWERment: An Evening of Burlesque (6-8pm, Thursday, in Vertigo) featuring a beginner’s dance class, performances, free food, and a question + answer session!

Join us for a 30-minute interactive Contact Dance workshop, a type of dance that empowers and emboldens participants! Explore how to assert yourself and your boundaries while being in close contact with others. The instructor will guide you in some solo improvised movement, and movement with each other and as a group. No dance experience necessary! Everyone welcome! It is always your choice to participate or observe.

Register for our interactive & informative workshops at uvic.ca/SVAW!

GAMES & PRIZES
– Come find us tabling in the Quad from 11am-2pm on Tuesday and Thursday, and 10am-2pm in CARSA on Wednesday!

WORKSHOPS
– Tools for Change Workshop (4:30-7:30pm Tuesday)
– Peers Victoria Sexualized Violence Prevention in the Sex Industry Workshop (3-4pm Tuesday, CLE A203, register here: https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/5BMV7C3)
– Understanding Consent Culture Workshop (3-5pm Wednesday, register at antiviolenceproject.org/workshops)
– Men’s Circle at AVP (6-8pm Wednesday, SUB B027)
– Sexual Health & Education in Res (Thursday before the burlesque show)

PERFORMERS
– The Velvet Unicorn
– Scarlett Hummingbird
– Cherry Cheeks
– Hazel Nuez

ABOUT BURLESQUE
Burlesque is performance through the art of striptease. It is a way for people of any community or identity to learn about their own sexuality and boundaries. The performances empower people of all gender identities, gender expressions, and body types, working to further prevent sexualized violence.

We’re partnering with anti.violence.project, Vikes Recreation, and UVic’s International Student Services, Office of Student Life, Equity & Human Rights, and Residence Services departments.

We acknowledge that this event takes place on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen & WSANEC peoples, and we thank them for the privilege of living and working on these lands. Reconciliation and decolonization are foundational to our sexualized violence prevention & education work.

Do you have specific accommodation or accessibility requests? We’re here for you! Email Juliet at campaigns@uvss.ca and we’ll work it out.