LIHU‘E — The Zonta Club of Kaua‘i joined other Zonta Clubs around the world in celebrating the start of “16 Days of Activism” on Nov. 25.
At the local level, Zonta clubs across the world have organized activities and events as part of the 2023 Zonta Says No to Violence Against Women campaign that focuses on the service and advocacy actions of Zonta clubs and districts to prevent violence against women and girls.
As part of the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence, the Zonta Club of Kaua‘i brings awareness to the community.
The Zonta Club of Kaua‘i installed a visual window display with Kaua‘i Society of Artists (KSA) at Kukui Grove Center. The window display will run all 16 days of the campaign, through Dec. 10, and is available for the public to view from noon to 6 p.m., daily at KSA gallery.
“We are excitied to partner with the Kaua‘i Society of Artist, the American Association of University Women (AAUW), and the YWCA of Kaua‘i whose missions are aligned with the Zonta International global organization,” said Zonta Club of Kaua‘i President Edie Ignacio Neumiller.
Neumiller extended a public invitation for a single-day event that will take place on Nov. 29 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at KSA gallery where resources from the Zonta Club of Kaua‘i, AAUW and YWCA of Kaua‘i will have resources available and guest speakers.
The Red Dress Project was started by Jaime Black with a public art installation that was created in response to the missing and murdered Indigenous women (known as MMIW) epidemic in Canada and the United States.
This ongoing project that was started in 2010 — there is an MMIW mural by the Mo‘olelo Murals artists on Kress Street in downtown Lihu‘e —commemorates missing and murdered Indigenous women from the First Nations, Inuit, lMetis and Native American communities, including Native Hawaiian women and girls by hanging empty red dresses in a range of environments.
The project has also inspired other artists to use red to draw attention to the issue of MMIW, and prompted the creation of Red Dress Day with red representing the blood of the missing women.
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