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.
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.
You are invited to the forthcoming book launch for “Africville,” a story by Shauntay
Grant illustrated by Eva Campbell. The launch is taking place during the Prismatic Arts Festival on
Thursday September 13th 2018 at 11am at the Africville Museum.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Africville Book Synopsis
When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she’s heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like —the brightly painted houses nestled into the hillside, the field where boys played football, the pond where all the kids went rafting, the bountiful fishing, the huge bonfires. Coming out of her reverie, she visits the present-day park and the sundial where her great- grandmother’s name is carved in stone, and celebrates a summer day at the annual Africville Reunion/Festival. Africville was a vibrant Black community for more than 150 years. But even though its residents paid municipal taxes, they lived without running water, sewers, paved roads and police, fire-truck and ambulance services. Over time, the city located a slaughterhouse, a hospital for infectious disease, and even the city garbage dump nearby. In the 1960s, city officials decided to demolish the community, moving people out in city dump trucks and relocating them in public housing. Today, Africville has been replaced by a park, where former residents and their families gather each summer to
remember their community.
Prismatic is delighted to host this event. Prismatic showcases and celebrates the work of leading Aboriginal and culturally diverse artists from across Canada and beyond our borders. Since 2008, the Prismatic Arts Festival has featured the work of over 700 artists and arts professionals in over 250 performances and reached over 30,000 diverse and engaged audience members.
Please RSVP to raeesa@prismaticfestival.com or call 902-425-6812.