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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:
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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.