Join us this International Women’s Month

March is a month-long celebration of women happening throughout our community, with a full calendar of events, creative collaborations, and special gatherings taking place in Kamloops — including our annual International Women’s Day March on March 8th.

Scroll down to explore the complete schedule and learn more about each activity happening in spaces around the city — we can’t wait to see you out in the community.

  • Aberdeen Mall Women's Month Partnership

  • Resource Fair

  • Period Product Drive

  • New List Item

  • Donate Today

  • Poster Making Party

  • International Women's March

  • Women's March Route Map

  • Colour Me Courageous Fundraiser

  • Women in Focus

Women in Focus

An Exhibition Honouring Women Artists in Kamloops

Women in Focus is a curated exhibition celebrating the artistic excellence, diversity, and creative leadership of women artists in Kamloops. This exhibit brings together a range of mediums and perspectives, highlighting the significant contributions women make to the cultural landscape of our community.

The exhibition will be held on the upper floor of Aberdeen Mall, adjacent to Marshalls, from March 9–21.

Exhibition Hours: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM daily
Closed: March 15

Special Fundraising Event – March 14

Colour Me Courageous

On March 14, the exhibition will feature Colour Me Courageous, a fundraising initiative held in support of women’s programming in Kamloops. By donation, attendees will be invited to participate in a symbolic and light-hearted paint-throwing activity involving the Executive Director. Proceeds from this event will directly support ongoing community initiatives serving women.

We invite community members, partners, and supporters to attend and recognize the talent, resilience, and impact of women artists in Kamloops.

Come Visit Us and meet the Volunteers Empowering Our Community at the Women’s Centre

Join us Friday, March 6th @ Aberdeen Mall

Join us March 6th, 5–7 PM on the upper floor of Aberdeen Mall (next to Marshalls) for an evening of creativity, community, and feminist energy!

No registration is required, everyone is welcome. We’ll provide posters and supplies, but you’re welcome to bring your own materials too.

Bring your passion, your ideas, and your creativity, and help us make posters for the International Women’s March happening March 8th at 11 AM downtown. Let’s make our voices and messages seen!

International Women’s Day
March 2026

Gather with us Sunday, March 8th @ 11:ooam beside the Sandman Centre Parking lot next to the HOPE sign

When & Where

Kathleen Larose, Viola Thomas and Katie Neustaeter

Guest Speakers

Join us March 8 at 11:00 AM at the HOPE Sign in Riverside Park as we gather in community to honour International Women’s Day, and this year’s global Give to Gain theme.

When we give, we gain. This year, we gather with a shared commitment to generosity, reciprocity, and collective care because real change happens when communities give their voices, their presence, their power, and their solidarity. Give to Gain calls us to move beyond words and into meaningful, sustained action that multiplies safety, equity, and opportunity for women across the Thompson–Nicola region.

We will open the day in a good way with a blessing and powerful drumming led by Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Cultural Centre. Their leadership will ground us in respect, strength, and shared purpose as we gather in unity.

Following the opening, we will hear from community leaders speaking to women’s equity in the Thompson–Nicola region. Speakers will address the urgent need to gain women’s safety, equity, and access to care. Across our region, women continue to face barriers to essential services, including maternity care, reproductive health supports, and trauma-informed care. Violence against women is not only physical; it is systemic. It shows up in healthcare gaps, lack of culturally safe services, poverty, stigma, housing insecurity, and institutional neglect, placing women’s lives and wellbeing at risk.

We recognize that protecting women’s health and safety is fundamental to protecting women’s human rights, and that when women thrive, communities rise.

After the speakers, Knowledge Keepers and drummers will lead us through the streets of Kamloops in a solidarity march. Together, we will raise our voices for women’s safety, equitable healthcare access, and basic human rights, giving our presence, our power, and our collective strength to create change.

This year, we honour all women. We stand in remembrance of our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people (MMIW2S). We call on our governments and institutions to Give to Gain, to act with courage, responsibility, and care in ending gender-based violence and ensuring all women have access to safe, equitable, and culturally appropriate healthcare.

Bring your signs, your drums, your families, and your solidarity.

Let us gather with purpose. Let us remember with love.

Let us Give to Gain together.