We seek a Project Director to coordinate various youth-centred projects and broaden our grassroots network among multiracial and Indigenous girls and young women in Victoria and Vancouver Island. The term-limited position will report to the antidote Board of Directors.

The individual we seek has demonstrated experience in grassroots organizing, managing non-profit organizations, recruiting, training and supporting volunteers and staff through popular education and community development approaches, and experience with girl-centered methods. The successful candidate will have knowledge and experience working in racialized and sexualized violence and violence prevention.

Qualifications must include the following:

• Experience and understanding of gendered racialization and violence issues pertaining to girls and women from racialized and Indigenous backgrounds;
• A minimum of 3 years experience in organizational management, project coordination and financial administration;
• Excellent facilitation, computer and oral and written communication skills;
• A minimum of two years’ experience in staff recruitment, training and supervising staff and volunteers;
• Demonstrated background and training in community development, outreach and grassroots organizing;
• Experience in anti-racist, youth-centred, participatory action research and popular education methodology;
• Ability to multi-task and work with very limited supervision.
• Ability to work with democratic, collaborative organizational processes.
• Ability to work with volunteers from all antidote membership categories;
• Demonstrated success in Fundraising including grant writing;
• Experiential knowledge as a racialized and/or Indigenous person in Canada is preferred.

Working Conditions:

• 25 hours per week at $25/hour. Mainly works from antidote office, with set core hours.
• Additional hours will be required from time to time to accommodate project deadlines, workshop facilitation, attending Board and working group meetings and representing antidote at public events.
• Travel may be required from time to time and will be reimbursed in accordance to antidote Financial Policy
• Start Date: March 1st, 2012 or sooner, but negotiable based on availability.
• This is a limited term position and only statutory benefits will be paid.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: February 20, 2012

For more information or to submit your resume please contact:
Gayle Nye, antidote Coordinator
Email: gayleis@shaw.ca

Please join us in the 4th Annual Memorial March for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

Date: February 12, 2012
11 am – “Our Place” at 919 Pandora St.
12 PM – March to Thunderbird Park
1 PM – Speeches and Refreshments

Feel free to wear Red or Regalia – Bring your drums and remember loved ones.

All are welcome.

Questions? Please contact feb14.memorialmarch@gmail.com

Want to create more positive representation for women of colour and/or Indigenous women in the blogosphere?

Social media is a strong tool that can be used to actively mobilize connection and community building so antidote is searching for a volunteer blogger to contribute to our website.

We encourage entries that explore topics in race, gender, sexual identities, poverty, environmental issues, and more. All the same, artistic contributions via arts-based media such as photography, podcasting, film, and more are welcomed!

If this suits your interests, let us know! An honorarium pool to be established.

Contact: info@antidotenetwork.org for more details.

antidote is a multiracial and Indigenous girls and women’s network. This call-out respectfully encourages all who identify as such to apply.

Find our antidote Page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/antidotenetwork.

‘My Forbidden Disorder’ is a new play written and performed by a group of immigrant youth that fearlessly examines the challenges faced by gay, lesbian and transgendered youth and strongly condemns the homophobia they face at school and in our communities.

When Koyume Fukushima, age 17, was at her home in Japan, one of her friends revealed his sexual identity as being gay. The students in her school, including herself, ostracized and ignored him until he changed schools. When Koyume came to Victoria as an international student, she realized the injustice of her actions. “I saw this [same-sex] couple walking down the street and thought, ‘Wow, they look so beautiful.’” She was determined to make amends and raise awareness about homophobia here in Victoria as well as at home in Japan. Although English is her second language and she had no prior experience with theatre, Koyume wrote ‘My Forbidden Disorder,’ a play that is both sophisticated and heart-breaking.

Koyume teamed up with five other multicultural youth to produce ‘My Forbidden Disorder.’ The diverse cast of youth comes from Japan, the Philippines, Mexico and Canada. Though they all grew up with divergent cultural perspectives on same-sex relationships, all the youth agree that homophobia is a problem that needs to be dealt with. They invited youth from the South Island Pride Community Centre Society to be involved in the production and a truly youth-led project was born. The play is a powerful tool that illustrates the disastrous effects of homophobia in a way that speaks to the youth as well as the adults in our community.

‘My Forbidden Disorder’ would like to acknowledge the support the Theatre Inconnu, the BC Healthy Communities Youthcore Program and the Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society (VIRCS), the Bayanihan Community Centre and the South Island Pride Community Centre Society.

What: My Forbidden Disorder

When: June 22 and 23 at 7pm (doors at 6:45)

Where: Theatre Inconnu, 1923 Fernwood Road

For more information contact:

Megan Thom, Enable Program for Children and Youth Coordinator

enable@vircs.bc.ca, (250) 361-9433 ext. 203

antidote Annual Report 2010-11 (PDF)