To address issues of sexual violence, community members have organized a Take Back the Night Candlelight Vigil in place of a march, due to financial woes.

This event is to be held September 22nd, 2009 in Tomkins Park at 8pm. This event will include an inter-faith vigil, visual displays, and guest speakers.

Take Back the Night is an event near and dear to the hearts of many in Calgary. Last year, over 300 women took to the streets of downtown Calgary, marching alone in to symbolize that women should be able to do so every night without fear sexual harrassment and gender-based violence.

The term Take Back the Night came from the title of a 1977 memorial read by Anne Pride at an anti-violence rally in Pittsburgh. The first march was held in Belgium in March 1976 by the women attending the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women. They marched together holding candles to protest the ways in which violence permeates the lives of women worldwide. Other marches were held in Rome in 1976 as a reaction to recently released rape statistics, in West Germany in 1977 demanding "the right to move freely in their communities at day and night without harassment and sexual assault," and in 11 towns in England later in 1977 in response to the "Ripper Murders" in Leeds. This tradition holds strong in every major city and is always an emotional event for everyone involved.