ElderBerries

The ElderBerries

The Elderberries is the social and activism group for LGBT Elders in Atlantic Canada. We have four main activities:

Social

We usually meet • once a month, all year 'round • usually in Halifax, in the Northwood Penthouse Party Suite • usually on the afteroon of the second Sunday of the month, for fellowship including a pot luck meal. But there are lots of exceptions. Get on our mailing list (below) for the particulars. All events are potlucks, so get out your recipes!

Education

Our social events often include an educational topic relating to some element of LGBT elder life.

Public Speakers

We have a Speaker's Bureau which can provide informed and witty speakers who have been out and proud for decades, for media and other engagements. We appear at high school Gay Straight Alliance meetings around the province each year as a liaison between elders and high school students

Activism

We lobby various levels of government on a variety of LGBT & elders issues

The initiative behind this group comes from the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project (NSRAP)'s Elders Committee.

Questions? email us!

If you would like to be notified of events:

• email AtlanticCanadaElderberries@gmail.com or
• Like us on on Facebook or
• join the Halifax-45-LGBTQ-Commingle Meetup group!

Newsletters

2010

December

2011

April 7, May, June, July, August, & Supplement, September & Supplement, October (Supplement only), November &, Supplement, December 1

2012

January 12, February 18, March 21, April 15, May 14, June 20, July 8, July 27, September 17, October 26, December 5

2013

January 13, February 20, March 13, April 22, May 9, May 21, June 18, July 17, August 16, September 1, October 7, November 6, November 28

2014

January 8, January 31, February 5, March 4, April 6, May 4, June 1, July 14, August 15, October 6, November 7, December 6

2015

April 1, May 3, June 1, July 8, August 26, October 1, November 18, December 12

2016

January 8, February 9, March 5, April 6, May 7, April 6, July 9, September 8, October 1, November 4, December 13.

2017

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

2018

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

2019

January, February, March, April, May

Bylaws of the Society are here.

History

2009 - 2010

Need notes on who was the champion of the NSRAP LGBT Elders project, and why.

2009 - 2010

NSRAP gets a $10,000 grant from the Department of Seniors, to work on issues affecting LGBT Elders, especially those in long-term care.1

2009 -2010

Need details on whatever came out of that project - the report?

April 18, 2010

NSRAP Gathering Of LGBT Elders at the CompanyHouse attended by 34 people.2 There's a photo album of the event here

August 15, 2010

Public meeting -- HistoryProjectTodoList: who called it? -- at Spencer House. Inaugural Board: LynnMurphy, HalWalsh?, HeatherBurke?, AnitaMartinez, DanielMacKay, NickHonig?, HugoDann (ex officio from NSRAP), Rick. Heather resigned shortly after, and we have no record of which Rick that was.3

November 29, 2010

one of the first Newsletters indicates that the "Committee" consists of LynnMurphy, AnitaMartinez, HalWalsh?, DanielMacKay and NickHonig?

April, 2011

April 2011 Report to NSRAP

April, 2011

September Annual Report

November, 2011

Publish the 2012 ElderBerries Cookbook

2012 ??

[Date uncertain] The Elderberries win the ISCANS Rainbow Community "Candle" Award. March, 2015: the physical award, a big piece of glass, accidentally was dropped and destroyed.

October, 2015

Annual General Meeting: the new Board is AllisonBrewer?, HugoDann (ex officio from NSRAP), LanceLockwood?, DanielMacKay, AnitaMartinez, KenSaunders? & JackWaller?. Lance, Ken & Jack resign a couple of weeks later.

January 15, 2017

New Bylaws Drafted

June, 2017

We get mugs printed! The back side says, We are old. We are tired. We can get away with things. So… don't piss us off!

June, 2018

Board is AllisonBrewer?, RichardCrooks?, BarendKamperman, DanielMacKay, ScottMacNeil, AnitaMartinez, LynnMurphy, MikeSangster? & LauraShepherd?

July 22, 2018

We host the first Elderberries Salon a transgenerational story telling event.