Name: Celebrating Black Composers – Amherstburg
Start: 2025-02-14T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-14T20:30:00-05:00

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February 2025
The Amherstburg Freedom Museum Hosts, The Artists of Colour’s, Exhibit: “The Never-Ending Quest for Inclusion”

Featured February 1, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - March 2, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Amherstburg Freedom Museum 277 King St., Amherstburg, ON, Canada

The Amherstburg Freedom Museum Hosts, The Artists of Colour’s, Exhibit: “The Never-Ending Quest for Inclusion” The Never-Ending Quest for Inclusion is the second portion of The Artists of Colour’s “Journeys Project” created by and featuring, works of The Artists of Colour. This special presentation is a fine arts-based project displaying a combination of paintings, images, […]

Regular Admission
Celebrate Black History – READ UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND

February 1, 2025 @ 3:30 pm - February 28, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Windsor Public Library John Muir Branch 363 Mill St, Windsor

Celebrate Black History – READ UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND. Description: Adults and Seniors join us every Thursday from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. as we read, learn and discover amazing people with powerful stories. Let’s continue to READ UNTIL WE UNDERSTAND. Borrowing the title from a book written by Farah Jasmine Griffin, many books on various […]
5th Annual Buy Black Twenty Eight Day Challenge

February 1, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - February 28, 2025 @ 8:00 pm

Buy Black Twenty Eight Day Challenge Join the 5th annual Buy Black 28 Day Challenge organized by Black Business Can! This month-long initiative encourages consumers to consciously seek out and support Black-owned businesses in your community. Learn about and visit a diverse range of Black-owned businesses across Windsor and Essex County. Recognize the entrepreneurial spirit […]

Free
“Dem Ole Boring, Wutless Records?” Critical Records Management for Work, Home and Play

February 3, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Records - whether current, semi-current or permanent - are evidence, footprints or talking pieces. Management of records at work, home or elsewhere is often taken for granted but is critical, given the evidential nature of records. This interactive session makes recordkeeping all about the participant in an engaging, stress-free manner. Participants are guaranteed to leave […]

FREE
Department of History will be welcoming Dr. Kyle T. Mays to campus where he will be presenting a public lecture entitled “Reparations & Decolonization: A Critique”

February 4, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

On the evening of February 4 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm at the Armouries Building, Dr. Kyle T. Mays (@mayskyle) will be presenting a public lecture entitled “Reparations & Decolonization: A Critique.” This event is being hosted by the Department of History as part of Department’s Black History Month celebrations. All are welcome to attend!

Free
Rosa Parks: Race, Religion, and Resistance

February 4, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Caribbean Centre 2410 Central Ave., Windsor, ON, Canada

This year marks the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' refusal to be seated in a segregated section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Ms. Parks' refusal and subsequent arrest helped to bring attention to race issues in the United States and around the world. This panel is comprised of Ms. Erica Thedford, Elder Lana Talbot, […]

Free
Beauty is Me Fundraising Luncheon

February 6, 2025 @ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm

St. Clair College Centre for the Arts 201 Riverside Dr. W, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Featuring Keynote Speaker Nicole Bonnie
Author visit and book signing with Craig Shreve, author of the acclaimed The African Samurai

Featured February 8, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

The Amherstburg Freedom Museum and River Bookshop are pleased to present Craig Shreve, author of The African Samurai. Craig Shreve was born and raised in North Buxton, Ontario, and is a descendant of Abraham Doras Shadd, the first Black person in Canada to be elected to public office. His debut novel One Night in Mississippi […]

Free
Windsor West Indian Association’s Annual Black History Brunch 2025

February 9, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for kids under 14. For information and to purchase tickets, please call (519) 945-0213 or visit the Caribbean Centre. Date: Sunday, February 9th, 2025Time: 1:00 – 5:00pm Where: Caribbean Centre, 2410 Central Avenue, Windsor

$25
“The Improv Show” Improv Workshop

February 11, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Join The Improv Show for a one-of-a-kind improv workshop that combines universal principles like “Yes, And…” with a unique African twist. Zimbabwe is a country rich in oral traditions, storytelling, and resilience—embodied by their national motto: “Make A Plan.” Whether you’re a seasoned improviser or a curious beginner, this workshop offers a fresh, dynamic perspective […]
Black Scholars Institute Virtual Think Tank

February 14, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

This February, we are excited to collaborate with the Black Scholars Institute at the University ofWindsor, making this session an especially unique opportunity to engage in impactful discussions and foster inclusive innovation. You should join us if you:- enjoy hearing about new ideas- like to solve problems- would like to make new connections- want to […]

Free
Celebrating Black Composers – Amherstburg

Featured February 14, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Celebrating Black Composers In Partnership with the River Bookshop, and the Amherstburg Freedom Museum Windsor, and the Windsor Symphony Orchestra. The WSO celebrates Black composers, performing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Four Novelettes. He was a British composer of mixed-race heritage, a descendant of an African-American soldier. A late 19th Century Romantic powerhouse, Coleridge-Taylor wrote in the style of Dvorák. Adolphus […]

$35

Amherstburg Freedom Museum

February 2025

The Amherstburg Freedom Museum Hosts, The Artists of Colour’s, Exhibit: “The Never-Ending Quest for Inclusion”

Celebrate Black History – READ UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND

5th Annual Buy Black Twenty Eight Day Challenge

“Dem Ole Boring, Wutless Records?” Critical Records Management for Work, Home and Play

Department of History will be welcoming Dr. Kyle T. Mays to campus where he will be presenting a public lecture entitled “Reparations & Decolonization: A Critique”

Rosa Parks: Race, Religion, and Resistance

Beauty is Me Fundraising Luncheon

Author visit and book signing with Craig Shreve, author of the acclaimed The African Samurai

Windsor West Indian Association’s Annual Black History Brunch 2025

“The Improv Show” Improv Workshop

Black Scholars Institute Virtual Think Tank

Celebrating Black Composers – Amherstburg

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