Candlelight Vigil for Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Name: Candlelight Vigil for Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Date: October 7, 2025

Website: https://www.claires-community.org/get-involved/events/candlelightvigil

Candlelight Vigil and Resource Fair

Event Description:

Candlelight Vigil for Domestic Violence Awareness Month to be held Tuesday, October 7th - South Park

The community is invited to a Candlelight Vigil hosted by Claire's Community to mark Domestic Violence Awareness Month and shed light on the effects of violence on the community. The vigil will provide an opportunity for the community to remember victims, honor survivors, and explore ways to act toward making a difference.

Activities will start at 5:30 p.m. with a resource fair of local organizations sharing community resources. The Clothesline Project returns this year, displaying t-shirts decorated by survivors, allies, and those who have lost loved ones to violence. Shirts and fabric markers will be available. The purpose of the project is to increase awareness of the impact of violence and abuse, to honor a survivor’s strength to continue, and to provide another avenue for them to courageously break the silence that often surrounds their experience.

The program begins at 6:30 PM with live music and speakers and ends at 7:30 with candle lighting. Our candlelight vigil is a way to remember the victims of relationship violence, to honor the survivors, and to act to create change.

“We will rise up as a community to say that violence against anyone is unacceptable.” ~Claire VanLandingham, 2015~

EVENT AGENDA:

5:30 - 6:30 Clothesline Project & Resource Fair
6:30 - 7:30 Program & Candlelight Vigil

Opening Words
Speakers
- Remember
- Honor
- Act
Candlelight Moment of Silence