Tiaras & Bowties Children'S Gala - Supporting Asac

Bring your family out for a spectacular evening filled with children's activities, entertainment and dancing! All proceeds go to ASAC!

The Association for Safe Alternatives in Childbirth (ASAC) is proud to announce our 4th annual TIARAS AND BOWTIES gala on April 22nd. Edmontonian families, sponsors and guests can look forward to yet another a fantastic evening filled with activities, food, entertainment and dance. Don’t miss out on an inspiring and family-friendly night out! (It’s also a great opportunity to dress up like royalty. ) Our silent auction will offer copious family, child and adult friendly items for bidding, and several sponsorship opportunities for local businesses are available. We are inviting local entrepreneurs to share in this opportunity to promote their businesses and their brands with hundreds of local families.

Tickets are currently on sale until April 16 at http://www. asac. ab. ca /tiara_s_and_bowties_gala

We are currently seeking silent auction donation items (child and family friendly) and gala sponsorship.

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For more details, please visit www. asacgala.com

This year ASAC is working on expanding their reach to the many diverse populations in our province. In 2017 we will be collaborating with Indigenous Birth of Alberta (IBA), a new organization that supports local Alberta indigenous women. Keeping in line with ASAC’s mission to “help women have better births”, IBA will provide culturally appropriate support to low income and at risk indigenous women living in urban and rural centres throughout their pregnancies, births, and early days of motherhood.

ASAC was formed in 1979 to help women and their families have better birth experiences. A positive and satisfying birth experience will help a women transition more easily into her role as a mother, bonding with her baby will be easier and she will have a better chance of avoiding postpartum depression. The cost to families and society are high when mothers are depressed and not functional.

ASAC’s mandate is to educate women about childbirth, regardless of the caregiver and location of birth that they choose. ASAC believes that women are capable of making good decisions for themselves, if they are well-informed. A women is more likely to have positive feelings about her birth if her choices are respected and she feels she had some control over her birth process, regardless of the outcome.

Birth Issues is ASAC’s biannual magazine, full of birth stories, birth and parenting information, health information for the whole family and much more. The magazine emphasizes choice, awareness, and a natural, healthful approach to these topics. It is unique in that it is the only magazine written by women for women, by consumers for consumers.

As a consumer-based, not-for-profit, volunteer-run organization, ASAC relies on donations and money raised through various fundraising methods. Funds are required to keep the Birth Issues magazine in print, and for their many other programs including lecture series, movie screenings, conferences, resource library, trade show displays, and play group. For more information please visit www. asac. ab. ca.