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UBC Gears and Queers - Paint the Cairn
📅 November 14th, 10am-12pm, 2pm-4pm
In recognition of Trans Day of Remembrance on November 20th, Gears and Queers will be painting the Cairn on November 14th. This act is not only to honor the lives lost to anti-trans violence but also to stand firmly against the growing wave of anti-trans rhetoric. Painting the Cairn demonstrates that trans people belong everywhere and don't only deserve safety but also celebration.
🕘 10 am - 12pm: painting the base
🕑 2pm - 4 pm: painting the candle and writing
Vancouver Parks Board TDoR Create and Connect
📅 November 15th, 8pm-10pm
Registration requested by Nov 12th to allow them to order supplies
Two spirit, Trans, and Gender Diverse (2STGD) people 19+ are invited to join the 2STGD members of the Queer Inclusion team for an evening of community connection and recognition of our resilience. If you are 2STGD, you are welcome, along with your support people if their presence helps to anchor your attendance.
Create wearable tokens of trans joy, cards to celebrate a friend or remember a loved one, and bunting flags for a community centerpiece or a mini version to take home. Snacks and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided.
Wearing masks in public indoor settings is not required by public health. Event attendees are welcome to wear a mask if they choose. Masks will be available at the event. Please respect other people’s personal space.
Drop Ins are welcome if the activity isn't full. Email 2STGD@vancouver.ca with your gender identity if you need the location. Staff will check the inbox at 6pm and reply with details!
Please note that the facility will be closed to the public but there are rental groups using nearby spaces. A Queer Inclusion staff person will be stationed near the entrance to greet attendees and redirect others. Washrooms will be marked Universal during this event.
We encourage everyone to help maintain a scent-free environment (no scented body products, clothing with scent residue, or scented project materials). For other accessibility information, please email 2STGD@vancouver.ca
Justice Institute of BC Transgender Day of Remembrance
📅 November 20th, 11AM - 1:pm
📍 Atrium, New Westminster Campus, 715 McBride Blvd, New Westminster
UBC OutLaws Remembrance & Resistance
📅 November 20th, 12:30pm
The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) is a day set aside every year on November 20 to grieve and remember the lives lost to anti-transgender violence around the globe.
It is a day to recognize how violence against trans bodies is inextricable from racism, classism, housing crisis, colonialism, sexism, and homophobia, such that ongoing violence disproportionately impacts Indigenous, Black, and racialized Two-Spirit, trans, and gender diverse people, especially trans women.
This year, Trallard and OutLaws are hosting a teach-in & vigil with the collaboration of UBC's Black Law Students' Association, Indigenous Law Students' Association, the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, UBC Pride Collective, and Queer Collective for Palestine Vancouver.
All faculty, staff, students, and UBC community are welcome to join us in solidarity, with love and care. We invite attendees to bring flowers, trans flags, newspaper clippings, or other contributions for the memorial outside Allard Hall.
Register to confirm your attendance (in @ubcoutlaws LinkTree): https://forms.gle/YUw3VGZPa2CBzG7w8
SFU Out on Campus - Tending Our Hearts
📅 November 18th | 5-7 PM
📍 SFU Student Union Building Room 2230 - 8888 University Drive West,Burnaby
In a collaboration with the SFU Queer Collective, and in the context of TDOR, we want to invite you to an intimate workshop to tend our hearts. In a caring, creative circle, each participant will handcraft their own symbolic heart using a variety of art materials, filling it with petals, stones, herbs, wishes, and intentions. Through this simple act, we honor what our hearts carry and revive, together, the living heartbeat of our community.
Tuesday, November 18, 5pm to 7pm, OOC Lounge, SUB 2230, RSVPs appreciated: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/tending-our-hearts-workshop-tickets-1964592379693
Let’s come together to give form to the invisible, to recreate our hearts as vessels of protection, tenderness, and love, and to reaffirm all that we hold inside.
All materials will be provided, though you’re warmly encouraged to bring a small personal element to include in your heart, something meaningful, like a piece of wood for grounding, the name of someone dear, a poem, or any symbol of what you wish to carry close.
Come as you are. Let’s make, remember, and heal, heart by heart, together.
Facilitator: Paola Quirós-Cruz is the Event Lead at the SFU Queer Collective. They are a queer, gender-fluid Colombian immigrant living on the unceded, stolen, and ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. They identify as roots and ancestors venerator, art ritualist, yerbatera, and collective conjurer. Paola is all about putting ideas into action, creating spaces where voices and bodies are celebrated, where belonging is something to be held and nourished, and where there is room to advocate for and honour our hearts, our joy, and our emotional grief. @lamagatierra
📅 November 20th | 5-7PM
📍 The Birdhouse - 44 West 4th Ave
A gathering and drop-in for 2SLGBTQlA+ community members to hold space and be together away from the public eye.
Live music, letter writing, drag performances, and healing as we mark this year's Trans Day of Remembrance.
All Ages
More info at https://www.qmunity.ca/event-details/trans-day-of-remembrance
Binary Freedom Foundation TDOR Gathering - Mission
📅 November 20th | 5-7PM
📍 33175D North Railway Ave, Mission BC
🕯️ Trans Day of Remembrance 2025 🕯️
This year, we’re not only remembering we’re reclaiming joy. Bring your voice or a listening ear for our open mic throughout the night!
Our community market is a space to honour those still living, to celebrate trans creativity, and to build strength through connection.
Joy is resistance. Art is survival. Gathering is how we keep each other going. Our artists are tagged and we will be doing intro posts tomorrow so stay tuned to learn more about each creator!
Join us as we hold space for remembrance, resilience, and the beauty of being still here. 🌈
📅 November 20th, 5pm - 7pm
📍 UBC NEST, Room 4406, 6133 University Blvd, Vancouver
Join us in commemorating Trans Day of Remembrance this year. Pride Collective will be providing a safe space to memorialize and de-stress. 🏳️⚧️
⏰ WHEN: Thursday, November 20th from 5-7PM
📍 WHERE: NEST 4406 (Osprey Space)
🌼 WHAT: Come listen to your fellow pride members commemorate those we've lost through poems, name readings, and more. Leave an item or note at our memorial table, de-stress with colouring pages, and plant some seeds to celebrate new life.
As always, everyone is welcome. We hope to see you there..
SFU Out On Campus TDOR Gathering - in person and online
📅 November 20th | 5:30-7:30PM
📍 SFU Student Union Building Room 3100 - 8888 University Drive West,Burnaby
An annual vigil for the trans siblings we lost to transphobic violence
Join us as we remember those in our community who have been taken from us this year, honour those who are still here, and find strength and hope in community.
Content warning: there will be discussion of violence and discrimination against trans people. While we will not share any details or descriptions of violence, this topic is very heavy and can be triggering. We will have a support person in place, as well as Out on Campus lounge as a quiet space to take a break in.
Cost: FREE, with RSVP preferred at the link above
In person: Student Union Building's Social Stage (entrance floor, across from Blenz)
Online: Zoom (register for link)
If you have access needs, please send us an email at ooc2@sfss.ca.
University of Fraser Valley TDOR - Abbotsford
📅 November 20th | 5:30-7:30PM
📍 University of Fraser Valley, Building A, 33844 King Rd, Abbotsford
On Thursday, November 20, we invite you to join us for a Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil in the A Building Entry Hall (near the bus stop) on the UFV Abbotsford campus.
This vigil is a time to mourn the dead and fight for the living — to remember those whose lives were lost to anti-trans violence and to stand together in solidarity and hope.
A reflective space will be available where attendees can add names and/or photos of those they are remembering. This event is open to students, staff, faculty, and the public.
This event has been co-organized by No Space for Hate Abbotsford, the UFV Faculty and Staff Association, the UFV School of Culture, Media, and Society, and CHASI to affirm our commitment to standing in solidarity and support with the trans community, now and always.
In Our Own Voices - Langley
📅 November 20th | 6-8PM
📍 Timms Community Centre, Multipurpose Room 2, 20399 Douglas Crescent, Langley
This Transgender Day of Remembrance, join the Langley Pride Society and our guests at the Timms Community Center for a panel discussion with members of the local transgender community. Learn more about us from us - our stories, joys, fears, and hopes, and start the conversation to become a more active ally.
Doors open at 6:00PM and the panel begins at 6:30PM. We'll have snacks and resources available to grab before and after the panel.
This event is on the second floor, but is accessible by elevator.
Space is limited - RSVP for this free event now!
Do you have a question for our panel? Our inbox is always judgement free to help us learn and grow together.
Want to get involved? Reach out to info@langleypridesociety.ca to join our volunteer list
Vancouver Trans March & SAGAH Trans Day of Remembrance
📅 Thursday, November 20th, 7pm
Food starts 7pm, event starts 7:30
Each year, we gather with community and grieve our lost loved ones. The outdoor vigil for Trans Day of Remembrance is a grassroots effort, stewarded by small community organisations with limited funds, on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, & səlil̓wətaʔɬ land.
This year and last, SAGAH, the Society for Advocacy for Gender-Affirming Healthcare Sagah and the ‘Vancouver’ Trans March team have partnered to make this important space possible, but we need your support.
Donations will go to our Host Nations welcome, warm food, candles, ASL interpretation, equipment, and other essentials for the vigil. Donations above our goal will be shared equally between our organisations to support future community gatherings and initiatives.
Thank you so much for your heartfelt care—any amount makes a difference for this day.
Go to sagah.ca/tdor to contribute to the vigil.
Trans Day of Remembrance Concert and Vigil
📅 Thursday, November 20th, 7pm
📍 Canadian Memorial United Church, 1825 W 16th Ave , Vancouver
Please join us for an evening of art to commemorate the lives of our siblings lost to the violence of transphobia.
To my transgender siblings: I love you.
To our allies: Please join us. We need you desperately. I want the chapel to be overflowing! Transphobia affects all of us! Let’s see how many people we can get as a physical demonstration of our strength in numbers.
I believe that Transgender people deserve more than an emotionally, one-dimensional experience of grieving. We are dynamic, radiant, and powerful. We deserve to celebrate the legacy we are part of, laugh amidst agony, and be angry in a world that wants us to be quiet.
It is my pleasure to introduce some of the generous artists who will be gracing us throughout the evening.
Kimmortal they/them @kimmortaltheartist
bishi he/him @bc__ball_
Forrest Mortifee he/him @forrestmortifee
SHER & Delta Pride Society Transgender Day of Remembrance
📅 November 20th | 7:15 PM
📍 Delta City Hall 4500 Clarence Taylor Crescent, Delta, BC
Delta Pride Society and SHER Pride welcome you to join us as we gather at Delta City Hall for a Trans Day of Remembrance Vigil on Thursday, November 20th at 7:15 pm.
We thank the City of Delta for their continued support. gathering and drop-in for 2SLGBTQlA+ community members to hold space and be together away from the public eye.
📅 Friday, November 21st, 7pm
📍 Sun Wah Centre, 268 Keefer St, Vancouver
At 7 p.m. on November 21, Haitu will host a Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) event at 268 Keefer St in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Haitu will screen documentaries about Asian trans people. Joanne Leung, one of Haitu’s organizers, will share her experiences, raising awareness of the lives and struggles of Asian trans individuals. We will also hold a moment of silence for transgender people who have passed away, and share local transgender-related medical and legal resources. Please scan the QR code on the poster to register for the screening event. Ticket proceeds will fund future events and the printing of resource booklets.
Documentaries and Interview Information
- Out of Place (2017) by Vice: VICE China took a deep dive into what it‘s like to be transgender in the Asian nation, meeting five trans men and women. They shared stories of battling depression, staring down hate, and coming to terms with their identities—a process culminating in a fight for gender equality.
- Friction (2024-) directed by Xiona Li, official selection of Aesthetica Film Festival: Caught between societal expectations and family obligations, a closeted trans woman in China faces a harrowing choice: risk social abandonment by embracing her true self, or endure the mental strain of remaining invisible to stay safe.
We Are Unbound Trans Day of Remembrance - Chilliwack
📅 Wednesday, November 26th, 6pm - 8:30 pm
📍 Chilliwack New Learning Centre 46361 Yale Rd, Chilliwack
We Are Unbound is honoured to partner with Chilliwack School District (SD33) for their 3rd annual Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR) event. We’re grateful to stand alongside so many incredible organizations supporting this meaningful evening. Big love to @hummingbirdcommunitychwk, Chilliwack Healthier Community, Gender Support Network, @qmunity, and Out On Screen.
Each year, TDOR is a time to commemorate the lives of transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse individuals lost to violence and systemic injustice. It’s also a call to action, to confront discrimination and build a more inclusive future for all.
Join SD33 for an evening of reflection, learning, and community featuring:
🤲 Indigenous Welcome
🩷 Keynote by Jaylene Tyme — celebrated Two-Spirit, Indigenous trans woman, drag artist, and advocate, known for her inspiring artistry and activism. Jaylene, a contestant on Canada’s Drag Race Season 5, brings her powerful story of resilience and empowerment as a Sixties Scoop survivor and community leader. @jaylenetyme
👥 Q&A
📸 Photo op
🎬 Mini Film Festival
📚 Resource Fair with curriculum-linked materials and local supports
Venue: Chilliwack NLC - Alumni Hall, 46361 Yale Road, Chilliwack
Who: Everyone! Staff, students, families, and community members welcome
Register: Link in bio
Let’s come together to honour, listen, and take action toward a safer, more compassionate community.
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