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Black History Month TORONTO & GTA Date Event Location Time Information January The Power Plant: OCAD University 10:00 AM Learn more HERE >> 22, 2019 In Conversation with Alicia Henry & Daina 100 McCaul Street 7:30 PM Augaiti Toronto, Ontario January Carlton Cinema 7:30 PM The Toronto Black Film Festival (TBFF) 23, 2019 Toronto Black Film showcases a selection of Black films with the Festival Press 20 Carlton Street objective of creating a space to discuss Conference Toronto, Ontario cultural, social and socio-economic issues. January The Power Plant 8:00 PM A free party to celebrate the launch of The 25, 2019 Contemporary Art Power Plant's Winter 2019 Exhibition The Power Plant Gallery Season! Learn more HERE >> Winter 2019 Opening Party 231 Queens Quay W, Toronto, Ontario td.com/blackhistorymonth Black History Month TORONTO & GTA Date Event Location Time Information January Studio Theatre, 1:00 PM Learn more HERE >> 26, 2019 Harbourfront The Power Plant: Centre In Conversation with Omar Ba & Nabila 235 Queens Quay Abdel Nabi W, Toronto, Ontario January Metro Toronto 1:00 PM The Annual Black History Month Kick-Off 27, 2019 Convention Centre Brunch brings together approximately 700 Ontario Black History community members and businesses for Society Black History 255 Front Street keynote presentations and entertainment, Month Kick-Off Brunch West, Toronto, focusing on the story of Black Canadians. Ontario Learn more HERE >> February The Gladstone 7:00 – The Exhibition aims to explore and celebrate 1, 2019 How Does It Feel Hotel 10:00 PM the diverse forms of Black Love in the Exhibition Opening & community. Launch Party 1214 Queen Street (Afterparty West, Toronto, to follow) Ontario td.com/blackhistorymonth Black History Month TORONTO & GTA Date Event Location Time Information February Harbourfront Centre Kuumba is a series of events in celebration of 1-3, 2019 Kuumba: Black History Month featuring the work of Journey to Black 235 Queens Quay photographers, filmmakers and community Liberation Symposium W, Toronto, Ontario leaders from Canada, the Americas and the UK. Learn more HERE >> February Longboat Hall, The Doors Learn more HERE >> 2, 2019 Great Hall open at Kuumba: 9:00 PM Black Liberation Ball 1087 Queen Street West, Toronto, Begins at Ontario 10:00 PM Harbourfront Centre 12:00 – Learn more HERE >> Kuumba: 2:00 PM Voguing Workshop 235 Queens Quay W, Toronto, Ontario February Harbourfront Centre 8:00 – DJ Skate Nights is an outdoor skating party 2, 9, 16, Kuumba: 11:00 PM that offers an evening lineup of DJs. Learn 2019 DJ Skate Nights 235 Queens Quay more HERE >> W, Toronto, Ontario td.com/blackhistorymonth Black History Month TORONTO & GTA Date Event Location Time Information February The Power Plant Harbourfront Centre 1:00 PM Learn more HERE >> 3, 2019 Gallery Talk: Sunday Scene with Dr. 235 Queens Quay W, Marieme Lo Toronto, Ontario February Salon 7:00 PM – An abridged musical performance 4, 2019 Toronto Reference 8:30 PM commissioned for Luminato, performed in the Heritage Series: Library Salon. Learn more HERE >> Cabaret on the Ward 789 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario February The Power Plant: The Theatre Centre 7:30 PM Learn more HERE >> 5 & 6, Live Performance with 2019 Okwui Okpokwasali 1115 Queen Street Poor People’s TV Room West, Toronto, Ontario February The Gladstone Hotel 8:00 – Moderated by the show's curator, Emilie 6, 2019 How Does It Feel 11:00 PM Croning, the discussion will be with the artists Artist Panel Discussion 1115 Queen Street and about their featured work, as well as the West, Toronto, themes explored throughout the exhibition. Ontario td.com/blackhistorymonth Black History Month TORONTO & GTA Date Event Location Time Information February Koerner Hall Cocktails Raising Our Voices is an exploration of 12, 2019 6:00 – contemporary and historical stories from Historica Canada: 273 Bloor Street 7:00 PM diverse Black Canadians, including community Raising Our Voices West, Toronto, leaders, artists, politicians and business Ontario Event people, and academics. Learn more HERE >> 7:00 – 9:00 PM February Isbael Bader 7:00 PM The Toronto Black Film Festival (TBFF) 13, 2019 Theatre showcases a selection of Black films with the Toronto Black Film objective of creating a space to discuss Festival Opening NIght 95 Charles Street cultural, social and socio-economic issues. The West, Toronto, Learn more HERE >> Ontario The Gladstone 7:00 – An engaging discussion about how we love, How to Love a Hotel 9:00 PM featuring Jamaican-born author Alexia Arthurs Jamaican: (‘How to Love a Jamaican’, 2018) in A Conversation with 1214 Queen Street conversation with Toronto-based artist and the Author West, Toronto, commentator Sharine Taylor. Ontario td.com/blackhistorymonth Black History Month TORONTO & GTA Date Event Location Time Information February Black in Toronto: A BAND 6:30 – Black in Toronto: A Generation of Leaders will 14, 2019 Generation of Leaders 9:30 PM be a gallery showcase of selected art works, featuring portraits of 19 Brock Avenue featuring portraits of Black elders. Black elders Toronto, Ontario Burdock 8:00 PM Project: Humanity presents We Now Recognize, a touring performance that Project: Humanity 1184 Bloor Street examines the idea of national apologies. Learn We Now Recognize West, Toronto, more HERE >> Ontario February Art Gallery of 6:00PM Learn more HERE >> 16, 2019 Ontario Toronto Black Film Festival Celebrity Night 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario td.com/blackhistorymonth Black History Month TORONTO & GTA Date Event Location Time Information February TD Gallery 6:30 – An interactive mixed media exhibition that 15, 2019 For the Record: Toronto Reference 8:00 PM explores hip hop culture in Toronto and An Idea of the North Library details the role of soundsystems in Opening Night propelling the city to be a source of globally 789 Yonge Street popular music. Learn more HERE >> Toronto, Ontario February Salon 12:00 - A full day of events around Black 16, 2019 Multidisciplinary Toronto Reference 5:00 PM contributions to the world of Opera Journey through Black Library featuring Jessye Norman, Naomi Andre and History and Opera Gregory Hopkins. 789 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario Rose Theatre 8:00 – “A Tribute to the Legends of Reggae: Into 11:30 PM The Dancehall,” is a musical ‘Rockumentary’ Tribute to the Legend 1 Theatre Lane that salutes the lives and music of legenday of Reggae: Into The Brampton, Ontario dancehall artists. Featuring live from Dancehall Jamaica: Lt. Stitchie, Tiger & Pinchers. Also featuring 5-time Juno Award winner Exco Levi who will be paying tribute to Reggae legend Garnett Silk. Eglinton St. George’s 2:00 – The reggae scene in Toronto’s Eglinton and United Church 4:00 PM Oakwood neighbourhood in the 1960s and Culchahworks Arts 70s created artists and sounds that continue Collective Presents: 35 Lytton Boulevard, to influence the genre today. Come and see Fish and Rum Project Toronto, Ontario some of the legendary figures in Toronto reggae on stage together for the first time in ages, playing the music that started it all. td.com/blackhistorymonth Black History Month TORONTO & GTA Date Event Location Time Information February Carlton Cinema First Film Learn more about the festival HERE >> 18, 2019 Toronto Black Film 1:00 PM Festival Kids Day 20 Carlton Street, Toronto, Ontario Last Film 7:00 PM February Main Theatre 7:30 – 11:30 One of the great singers of her generation, 20, 2019 Four Seasons PM renowned for her extraordinary voice and Centre for the musical versatility, American opera singer 12th Glenn Gould Prize Performing Arts Jessye Norman has been chosen as The Gala & Concert for Twelfth Glenn Gould Prize Laureate. More Jessye Norman 145 Queen Street than 40 years after making her operatic West, Toronto, debut, Jessye continues to maintain a busy Ontario performance schedule, now concentrating on recitals and concerts. Jackman Hall 7:00 PM A continuance of the How Does It Feel Art Gallery of exhibition with the showing of Medicine for Ontario Melancholy, a film by Academy Award- How Does It Feel winning director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Black Love Movie Night 317 Dundas Street Beale Street Could Talk). Film introduction West, Toronto, by Wedge Curatorial Projects Director Ontario Kenneth Montague. Co-presented with Paradise Theatre. Free tickets HERE >> td.com/blackhistorymonth Black History Month TORONTO & GTA Date Event Location Time Information February S. Walter Stewart 6:30 – 8:00 Learn more HERE >> 21, 2019 Heritage Series: Library PM Niagara Black Waters Flow Deep 70 Memorial Park Avenue, East York, Ontario February Fairmont Royal 6:30 PM – Learn more HERE >> 23, 2019 York Hotel 1:30 AM TD Black Diamond Ball 100 Front Street West, Toronto, Ontario Aga Khan Museum 8:00 – 9:30 Learn more HERE >> William Franklyn PM Leathers in Concert 77 Wynford Drive, Toronto, Ontario February Black Artists’ Networks BAND 2:00 – 4:00 24, 2019 in Dialogue (BAND) PM Panel Discussion 19 Brock Avenue Toronto, Ontario td.com/blackhistorymonth Black History Month TORONTO & GTA Date Event Location Time Information February Peel Art Gallery, Museum 2:00 – 4:00 North is Freedom is an exhibition of 24, 2019 NORTH IS FREEDOM & Archives PM photographs by Yuri Dojc that celebrates Official Toronto the descendants of freedom-seekers who Opening 9 Wellington Street East, escaped slavery in the United States in Brampton, Ontario the years before the American Civil War. February Salon 7:00 – 8:30 An onstage discussion about diversity 27, 2019 Heritage Series: Toronto Reference Library PM and the world of brewing. Beer & Diversity 789 Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario March 2, Culchahworks Arts The Opera House 8:00 PM 2019 Collective Presents: Eglinton West Project 735 Queen Street West, Concert Toronto Ontario March 4, Salon To Be Spoken word poet Hanif Abdurraqlib will 2019 Heritage Series: Toronto Reference Library Announced be interviewed about his work.