Equality Breakfast 2025

Equality Breakfast 2025

West Coast LEAF in conversation with Naomi Klein

Event Details

Friday, March 7, 2025

7:00-9:00am (doors at 6:30am)

Location: Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, 900 West Georgia St.

Naomi Klein in a cream blazer and black shirt holding her glasses and smiling softly. Grey background in a pixelated rainbow frame with a white West Coast LEAF logo in the bottom right corner.
credit / Sebastian Nevols

Our main fundraising event of the year, the Equality Breakfast brings together community members, friends, advocates, and activists with a shared passion for gender justice.

Join us as we celebrate International Women’s Day and our 40th anniversary with award-winning journalist and bestselling author, Naomi Klein!

Want to learn more about this incredible event? Sign up for our mailing list or check out the FAQs!

Presented by:

Visionary Partners

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Featuring Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and the international bestselling author of nine books published in over 35 languages including No LogoThe Shock DoctrineThis Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough, On Fire, and Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World which won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction in 2024.

A columnist for The Guardian, Naomi’s writing has appeared in leading publications around the world. She is the honorary professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers University and is Associate Professor in Geography at the University of British Columbia where she is founding co-director of UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice.

Partner with us!

Our annual Equality Breakfast is only possible because of the generous support of our Partners.

Partnership is a highly visible way to demonstrate that you value gender inclusion and diversity in leadership, are committed to social responsibility, support access to justice for all, and want to see a more equal and just BC.

Frequently Asked Questions

Event Details

Cutoff to buy early bird tickets is January 31, 2025.

  • After early bird closes, regular individual tickets will be $140 and regular table pricing will be $1,600.

Cutoff to buy regular tickets is March 3, 2025.

Friday, March 7, 2025, from 7 am to 9:00 am PT.

Doors will open at 6:30 am PT.

Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, 900 West Georgia Street. See map.

The Equality Breakfast menu is, as usual, lacto-ovo vegetarian with a vegan option upon request. For other dietary requests including allergies, please fill out the form linked in your order confirmation email by Monday, March 3, 2025.

The venue has an upgraded air filtration system. We will have N95 masks available for guests.

The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver is wheelchair accessible. We provide American Sign Language interpretation and CART live captioning. Please let us know if you would benefit from ASL interpretation so that we can ensure that you have appropriate seating. For those who use a wheelchair or other assisted mobility device, we would like to reserve you a fully accessible seat.

Please enter any accessibility requests on your order form or email info@westcoastleaf.org. Please note that the deadline for accessibility requests is Monday, March 3, 2025.

There will be a photographer present to help us capture the event. If you do not want your photo taken for any reason, please let the photographer know. You may be photographed in a crowd shot. If you have safety concerns regarding photography, we will have a lanyard that you can wear to help us identify which crowd shots we should not publish or use to promote our activities.

Tickets

By purchasing a table rather than individual tickets, your group has access to priority seating. Individual tickets are not reserved and ticket holders can select their seats from any of the tables in ‘open seating’ upon their arrival at the Breakfast. Tables will be reserved ahead of time so all 10 guests are guaranteed to be seated together.

Registration for this event is non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, you are welcome to transfer your ticket to a friend, colleague, or loved one. You are also welcomed to donate it back to us and we will redistribute it to a community member who might otherwise be unable to attend.

To take advantage of this option, please donate the ticket back to us via info@westcoastleaf.org no later than Monday, March 3, 2025.

Yes; you can ensure you are seated together by either becoming a Partner or by purchasing a table. Your organization can become a Partner, which, among other benefits, will give you access to a priority table so you can socialize with your group.

We do have a limited number of tables available for purchase. Otherwise, we suggest you plan to arrive early to choose seats together from the available open seating.

Tax receipts will be issued for a portion of the ticket and/or table purchase prices.

Partnerships

To learn about the impact and benefits of becoming a Partner, request a partnership package, or to discuss your level of support, please send us an email.

Silent auction

The silent auction will be available online and in person this year. You’ll have several days to peruse and bid on coveted items and services.

Can’t attend the event? You can still make your bids and win your most-wanted items. More details to come!

To donate to the silent auction, send an email and someone on our team will get back to you!

Membership

By purchasing an individual ticket, you are automatically eligible to become a member. Opt-in on the payment page!

If you did not purchase an individual ticket, you can purchase a membership.

Yes!