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SUMMARY:Halton Black History Awareness Society - Cultural Dynamics Leadership Training
DESCRIPTION:Following the success of our May 6th Halton Hills CDLT workshop\, the Halton Black History Awareness Society (HBHAS) is looking forward to it’s 2nd Halton Hills Cultural Dynamics Leadership Training (CDLT) Workshop on Thursday May 22nd at our Halton Hills Cultural Centre. This Halton Region free program will enhance your leadership skills while equipping you with tools to foster inclusive environments\, celebrate differences\, and drive positive change within communities. Feel free to spread the word. \nEvent Timing: Thursday May 22\, 2025\, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Event Address: The Studio\, Town of Halton Hills Cultural Centre: 9 Church Street\, Georgetown\, Ont.- 905-873-2600. \nContact us: hbhascdlt@gmail.com. \nCDLT Registration: www.hbhas.ca/cultural-dynamics-leadership-training \nPlease find information on our upcoming programs here.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/halton-black-history-awareness-society-cultural-dynamics-leadership-training/
LOCATION:The Studio\, Halton Hills Cultural Centre\, 9 Church St.\, Georgetown\, Ontario\, L7G 2A3
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SUMMARY:Halton Black History Awareness Society: 7th Annual Emancipation Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:The exhibit will run from July 24 – September 15\, 2024 on the theme of Emancipation. Exhibit Launch: August 4\, 2024 • 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/halton-black-history-awareness-society-2024-halton-freedom-celebration-festival-2/
LOCATION:Helson Gallery\, Church Street 9\, Halton Hills\, Ontario\, L7G 2A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Halton Black History Awareness Society: 2024 Halton Freedom Celebration Festival
DESCRIPTION:The HBHAS is excited with this year’s Celebration Festival August 3\, 2024 at Spencer Smith Park\, Burlington\, as the lineup is stupendous.  We’re also pround of one of our musical groups\, Blackburn\, in their record breaking 2024\, 9 Maple Blues Award nominations.  Blackburn has played for this festival every year since our incorporation.  Due to their exquisite global promotions\, they will not be joining us this year as they’ve been asked to do a European tour.  Congratulations Blackburn.  We’ll revisit down the road. \n  \nThe musical program this year includes Maple Blues nominated for best new group\, Garnetta Cromwell and DaGroovmasters; Rayzalution – 5 piece all female Reggae phenom; Dejehan Luckystickz Hamilton & Friends; World Class Lou Pomanti & Oakland Stroke; and\, the infamous LTD Connection.  (Bios attaced).  Jazz/soul phenom\, Shelley Hamilton will be joining Luckystickz as Masters of Ceremony.  This exquisite musical entourage will compliment the wide array of multi-cultural crafts\, fashion\, art and storytelling workshops\, and youth activities.  This is a festival you do not want to miss. \n  \nLast years attendance of 5000 will definitely increase\, and the Halton Freedom Festival weekend\, will include an HBHAS Emancipation Flag Raising at Burlington City Hall on Thursday\, August 1st followed by our HBHAS Emancipation Gala Thursday evening at the Burlington Performing Arts Center\, and the 7th Emancipation Art Exhibition taking place August 4th at the Helson Gallery in Halton Hills. \n  \nThe HBHAS is currently accepting vendors to serve multi-cultural cuisine\, and we welcome crafters\, artisans\, storytellers\, genealogists\, historians\, and community service providers to join in the experience and celebrating within the “1st city in the world to acclaim August as Emancipation Month”.  We welcome you and yours to this free celebration festival.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/halton-black-history-awareness-society-2024-halton-freedom-celebration-festival/
LOCATION:Spencer Smith Park\, 1400 Lakeshore Rd.\, Burlington\, Ontario\, L7S 1Y2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:2022 Halton Freedom Celebration Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a day of total pleasure!!! Exquisite R&B\, Soul\, Funk\, Reggae\, Salsa\, African Dance and Jazz Fusion complimenting Cultural Crafts\, Tasty Treats (Food Trucks and Multi-Cultural Vendors)\, Community Services\, Youth Activities and Workshops. \nThis free festival is exquisite with multi-cultural crafts\, food trucks\, art\, fashion\, accessories\, cultural and heritage vendors\, youth activities and enormous ambience. Bring your chairs\, umbrellas\, and dancing shoes. See you there!!! \nThe 2022 Halton Freedom Festival will showcase musicians including Blackburn –2016 Juno runners up and recognized by Rolling Stone Magazine as the best blues band in Canada (2015)\, enslaved descendants whose father\, Bobby “Dean” Blackburn\, is recognized on the Mississauga Walk of Fame for bringing R&B into Canada and member of the first black family in Brampton\, Ontario; Dejehan Hamilton (MC) aka. Luckystickz (with band) who is Berklee College of Music’s 1st Steel Drum graduate supporting his scholarship in drumming\, represents Berklee University globally\, has a past playing with Harry Belafonte and is a HBHAS Board Director; and Michael Dunston\, renowned vocalist whose group The Lincolns are recognized as the Best R&B band in Canada and Soul Stew (Bamboo’s original home band of 40+ years)\, We were also pleased to present 11 x Canadian Music Award recipient\, Errol Woodward and his Reggae Band to our audiences and the exceptionally talented Neema Children’s Project from Uganda – 19 talented orphans dancing\, singing and drumming towards fundraising to send school supplies to hospitals and orphanages back home. We are please to have join us this year: Garnetta & Dagroovmasters – a high energy show band that plays and sing the genres of Blues\, Classic Soul & Funk\, and a reflection of Canada’s multicultural society! Garnetta was lead vocalist and drummer for a Toronto’s only female reggae band Sweet Sensation\, performing on the same stage with Platinum/Grammy Award artists like Maxi Priest\, Shabba Ranks\, Shaggy\, Gregory Issacs and Sean Kingston\, Platinum/Grammy award Soul legends\, Percy Sledge\, Dorothy Moore and The Manhattans\, and Carlene Ling\, (aka Vanda Li) Founding Director\, Bling Entertainment & “Black African Caribbean Canadian Artists Unite” (BACCAU) who perform for Black Music Month (June) and Black African Caribbean Canadian Appreciation Month.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/2022-halton-freedom-celebration-festival/
LOCATION:Spencer Smith Park\, 1400 Lakeshore Rd.\, Burlington\, Ontario\, L7S 1Y2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Halton Black History Awareness Society Emancipation Flag-Raising
DESCRIPTION:Your participation in this year’s ceremony recognizes everyone’s freedom as we are one. Yes\, we’ve suffered similar inhumanities such as our Ukraine cousins are experiencing today. It’s time to acknowledge\, appreciate\, articulate\, and activate that we do best when we work together with authenticity. \nWhat this means is implementing equality legislation\, educating our teachers to become educators\, stopping racism\, marginalization\, stereotyping\, and hate whenever and wherever it raises it’s divisive head. Our ancestors all fought for their respective ancestry and Our inhumanity. \nThe Halton Black History Awareness Society (HBHAS) is honoured to be hosting a 2022 Halton Freedom Festival\, Emancipation Pan African Flag-Raising Ceremony celebrating the 1834 British Emancipation Act which freed all colonial slaves\, initiated by Ontario’s First Lieutenant Governor\, John Graves Simcoe through the Anti-Slavery Act of 1793. It is appreciated that multi-cultures helped transport many of the “freed” slaves to Canada both through the Underground Railroad and throughout the North American continent. The Pan African flag is representative of all blacks of African Ancestry. \nThe HBHAS is appreciative of being recognized as the first city in the world to acclaim August as Emancipation month. This acclamation took place at our 2018 Halton Freedom Celebration Festival and was acknowledged at a Dr. Julius Garvey presentation in tribute to his father on Marcus Garvey Day\, at Toronto’s City Hall (2019). The City of Burlington further proclaimed\, at the HBHAS flag-raising ceremony in 2021\, recognizing August 31st the International Day for People of African Descent in alignment to the UN General Assembly 2020 resolution sponsored by 52 countries\, and a proclamation recognizing August 1st as the first Canadian National Emancipation Day. \nOur 2022 Proclamation Flag Raising Ceremony will take place on Friday\, July 22 nd from 12 noon to 1 p.m. at the Burlington\, City Hall and will recognize the start of the 2022 Halton Freedom Festival which includes our 5 th Annual Emancipation Art Exhibition (July 27 – September 6\, 2022) at Helson Gallery in Georgetown; and our 2022 Halton Freedom Celebration Festival\, taking place at Spencer Smith Park on July 30. Please find Artists and Musician/Event schedule at www.hbhas.ca. \nOur flag raising will incorporate a number of speakers\, Federal/Provincial and Municipal and Community Leaders welcoming the celebration of everyone’s freedom\, still in process.
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/halton-black-history-awareness-society-emancipation-flag-raising/
LOCATION:Burlington City Hall\, 426 Brant St.\, Burlington\, Ontario\, L7R 3Z6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:2021 Halton Freedom Celebration Festival
DESCRIPTION:The 2021 Halton Freedom Celebration (HBHAS) Virtual Festival celebrates and acknowledges Halton’s rich Multi-cultured History. \nThe HBHAS 2021 free virtual presentation presents historians\, government\, community leaders and entertainers\, a number of which are enslaved descendants\, orphaned youths\, and freedom/equality activists denouncing racism and promoting cultural knowledge\, inclusive integration and authentic equality. \nThis video celebrates\, through inspiring narratives and exquisite music\, 187 years since the British Emancipation Act of 1834 and appreciates the Halton\, Hamilton\, Niagara area as being where the Emancipation process began; recognizing our first year of Canada’s legislated National August 1st Emancipation Day and Burlington\, Ontario\, Canada being the first city in the world to acclaim August as Emancipation Month. \nThe Halton Black History Awareness Society is please to collaborate with the Canadian Caribbean Association of Halton who is distributing free food packages throughout Halton on August 1st. The HBHAS also thanks its sponsors\, Turkstra Lumber\, Burlington Arts & Culture\, TD Bank\, FACTOR and the Burlington Community Foundation for their continue support. \nEnjoy our presentation and we look forward to seeing you live at our expanded 2022 Halton Freedom Festival. \nDonations welcomed at www.hbhas.ca. Thank you.
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