Past events: historical record
This is an archive, not a calendar of currently offered classes. Dates and venues refer to announcements preserved in outside sources. We have not recovered a complete original AWSDA event schedule.
Greenville, South Carolina — August 2–5, 2008
A 2008 Asheville.com notice promoted AWSDA’s seventeenth annual self-defense training seminar. It described instruction for beginners and experienced teachers and used the earlier Association for Women’s Self Defense Advancement name.
Newtown, Pennsylvania — November 4–6, 2011
A Westside Seattle report announced a training symposium and provided a description of the association’s educational role at that time.
Bellevue, Washington — October 5–7, 2012
A September 2012 Westside Seattle article referenced an upcoming symposium in Bellevue and explained the association’s revised name.
Seattle, Washington — August 4–7, 2016
The July 2016 Armed Citizens’ Legal Defense Network Journal, page 15, publicized an AWSDA conference planned for Seattle on these dates. The text includes a malformed or line-broken link resembling http://www.awsda.org/ - !upcoming-events/c7mv. This does not prove the entire string was a valid standalone web path.
How the old events link is handled
The website preserves compatibility with probable legacy event routes, including /!upcoming-events/c7mv. Old hash-fragment variants from legacy site builders may also open this page when JavaScript is enabled. These are compatibility routes, not a claim that the malformed Ahrefs target URL was an independently verified historical slug.
Related reading
Read the full 2008–2016 event history and the AWSDA association history.