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SUMMARY:Prisoner Justice Day
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to celebrate Prisoner Justice Day on August 10th at the Halifax Commons. On this day every year\, incarcerated and formally incarcerated people take the day to fast while prisoner justice advocates take the tie to discuss the significance of the day and what the current prison system has done and is doing and ways we can help. \n\n\n\nThis year we will be meeting to discuss the connection between mental health and prison\, the alarming overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous people in prisons and introducing the various organizations that do prison abolition/reform and ways the greater community can help. \n\n\n\nFocus: Gathering with a panel of formerly incarcerated people to discuss their experience in prison. This PJD\, an emphasis on how mental health is greatly tied in with the justice system as well as a discussion surrounding how people are criminalized through poverty\, racism\, anti-indigenous sentiments\, respectability politics\, etc. highlighting the overrepresentation of women and women identifying Black and Indigenous people in prisons and how folks can support organizations that help formerly incarcerated people or the participants directly. \n\n\n\nLocation: Halifax Commons\, 5816 Cogswell St\, Halifax\, NS B3H 2Z4 \n\n\n\nWhen: August 10th 5:30-7:30If folks have any questions\, they can email us at Booksbeyondbars@gmail.com
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/prisoner-justice-day/
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SUMMARY:ACORN NS Halifax-Mainland Chapter Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Mainland organizing meeting!We’re getting organized for the next steps in our rent control and landlord licensing campaigns\, as well as the minimum wage and raising assistance rates! \n\n\n\nJoin at https://bit.ly/NSACORN \n\n\n\nQuestions? Email halifax@acorncanada.org
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/acorn-ns-halifax-mainland-chapter-meeting-2/
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SUMMARY:Emancipation Day Virtual Session
DESCRIPTION:YOU’RE VIRTUALLY INVITED!!! A live-stream presentation with Dr. Charmaine Nelson\, Professor of Art History and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement at NSCAD University.   Please tune in and share with your networks as we continue our learning around Emancipation Day. Details below – \n\n\n\nDate: Tuesday\, August 10th \n\n\n\nTime: 6:00 p.m. (ADT) \n\n\n\nLocation: Nova Scotia Culture Facebook page – www.facebook.com/novascotiaculture \n\n\n\nShe will discuss the complexity of slavery in Canada to help us comprehend what former enslaved people celebrated in 1834 with slavery’s demise in the British Empire.  \n\n\n\nHave a question for Dr. Nelson? Drop in it the comments section on Facebook or send in advance to Aja Joshi at Aja.Joshi@novascotia.ca. #EmancipationDayNS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDay: Tuesday\, August 10th. \n\n\n\nTime: 6:00pm (one hour) \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Charmaine Nelson\, NSCAD \n\n\n\nHost: Aja Joshi \n\n\n\nModerator: DeRico Symonds \n\n\n\nOpening Remarks: Deputy of CCH \n\n\n\nTitle: An Introduction to Canadian and Nova Scotian Slavery \n\n\n\nSummary: \n\n\n\nAs Nova Scotians and Canadians commemorate Emancipation Day on August 1st\, 2021\, it is important to pose the question – emancipation from what? Canadians are largely ignorant of any knowledge of Canadian Slavery because it is simply not a part of our normal curricula in grade school\, high school\, or higher education. Yet\, the historical documentation of this two-hundred-year history under two empires (Britain and France) has been\, for the most part\, well preserved in various museums and archives across the country. \n\n\n\nThis talk contests our customary national celebration of the Underground Railroad (1834-1865) and the stories we tell ourselves about being “the good guys” who saved enslaved African Americans. Instead\, it considers the nature\, scale\, and complexity of slavery in Nova Scotia and other parts of Canada in order to comprehend and appreciate what formerly enslaved people celebrated in 1834 with slavery’s demise in the British Empire. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: \n\n\n\nDr. Charmaine Nelsonis a Professor of Art History and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University in Halifax where she is also the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery. Prior to this appointment she worked at McGill University (Montreal) for seventeen years (2003-2020) and at Western University for two (2001-2003). \n\n\n\nNelson has made ground-breaking contributions to the fields of the Visual Culture of Slavery\, Race and Representation\, and Black Canadian Studies. She has published seven books including The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth Century America (2007)\, Slavery\, Geography\, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica (2016)\, and Towards an African Canadian Art History: Art\, Memory\, and Resistance (2018). \n\n\n\nNelson has given over 260 lectures\, papers\, and talks across Canada\, and the USA\, and in Mexico\, Denmark\, Germany\, Italy\, Norway\, Spain\, the UK\, Central America\, and the Caribbean. She is also actively engaged with lay audiences through her media work including ABC\, CBC\, CTV\, BBC One\, and PBS. She blogs for the Huffington Post Canada and writes for The Walrus. Nelson has held several prestigious fellowships and appointments including a Caird Senior Research Fellowship\, National Maritime Museum\, Greenwich\, UK (2007) and a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair\, University of California – Santa Barbara (2010). She was recently the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University (2017-2018) and in 2021 she will be a fellow at Bard Graduate Center in New York City. 
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/emancipation-day-virtual-session/
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