On this page, you will find upcoming and past Commision and community events. We encourage all Nova Scotians to participate and celebrate our diverse communities. If you have an event we should include here please contact us.
The Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission is pleased to be co-hosting a travelling exhibition with the Cape Breton Regional Centre of Education this fall that will run during Holocaust Education Week 2018.
"United Against Genocide" will be on display November 2-14 at Victoria Park in Sydney, Cape Breton.
The exbit is travelling from the Montreal Holocaust Museum.
Thursday, October 11th, 2018 | 1:00 - 3:30 pm | Doors open at 12:30 pm
Mount Saint Vincent University - Rosaria Student Centre Multi-Purpose Room
Speakers and performers include inspirational girls from across Nova Scotia
Light refreshments will be served
Please RSVP at https://2018dayofthegirl.eventbrite.ca
Registration is free for all who attend
Please share with others who would like to join the celebration!
For questions, email girlsconference@msvu.ca
From Africville to Alton Gas: A Pop-Up Book Launch for
There's Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities
Please join Ingrid Waldron for her Halifax book launch From Africville to Alton Gas: A Pop-Up Book Launch for There's Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities. Ingrid will be joined by friends and colleagues who will read passages from the book and contribute their own experiences and perspectives on the issues and stories documented in the book. The following speakers will be joining Ingrid to deliver talks:
Geri Musqua-LeBlanc, Elder, Dalhousie University Elders in Residence Program
Lenore Zann, Nova Scotia NDP Party
Ellen Sweeny, Atlantic PATH
Mikiko Terashima, School of Planning, Dalhousie University
Irvine Carvery, Africville Genealogy Society
Michelle Paul, Environmental Activist
Louise Delisle, South End Environmental Injustice Society
Dorene Bernard, Grassroots Grandmothers Circle
Wednesday, October 3
6 pm -9 pm
Paul O’Regan Hall
Halifax Central Library
5440 Spring Garden Rd, Halifax, NS B3J 1E9
Cost: Free
Free refreshments
Ingrid will be signing copies of her book, which will be available for purchase.
Organized by Fernwood Publishing and the ENRICH Project
Nova Scotia Human Rights Commissioners willmeet in Digby September 19th and 20th.