2021 Diversity Calendar
The Anti-Racism, Equity and Human Rights Services team is pleased to present our Diversity Calendar. The art has been created by local artists who selfidentify as members of our diverse community, including but not limited to indigenous, lgbtq2+, non-binary, deaf, racialized, persons with disabilities, and allies. Many of the images featured are drawn from recent and past inclusive Valentines campaigns. The goal of these images is to reflect our diverse, intersectional, and inclusive community at George Brown College. Did we miss something? Want to be featured in next year’s calendar? E-mail us at [email protected] January 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 01 02 New Year’s Day Tamil Heritage Month Gantan-sai Yule Thai Pongal Begins Ends
03 04 05 06 07 08 09 World Braille Day Twelfth Night Epiphany Orthodox Día de los Reyes Christmas Day (Three Kings Day)
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Baptism of the Lohri Orthodox New Lord Jesus Year’s Day Thai Pongal Begins Maghi
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 World Religion Week of Prayer Timkat Bodhi Day Day for Christian Unity Martin Luther King Jr. Day Carlisle Robinson carodoodles 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 carlisle-robinson.com Conversion of St. Int’l Holocaust Bell Let’s Talk Day Paul Remembrance Day Mahayana New Tu B’Shevat Year’s Day
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[email protected] February 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 01 02 03 04 05 06 Imbolc Groundhog Day Four Chaplains Rosa Parks’ Black History Month St. Brigid’s Day Candlemas Day Birthday Setsubun Sai Feast Day of St. Blaise
07 08 09 10 11 12 13 Int’l Day of Chinese New Year Women and Girls Canadian Sexual in Science and Reproductive Health Day
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 St. Valentine’s Day Nirvana Day Saraswati Puja on Ash Wednesday Pink Triangle Day Nat’l Flag Day of Vasant Panchami Canada Family Day
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Triodion Purim Begins Magha Puja Day Aromantic Purim Ends Spectrum Awareness Week
28 Vivian Mau vvn_mau
[email protected] March 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 01 02 03 04 05 06 St. Davis’s Day World Day of Bangladeshi Heritage Mon the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation
07 08 09 10 11 12 13 Int’l Women’s Day Isra and Mi’raj Isra and Mi’raj Birthday of L. Ron Commonwealth Begins Ends Hubbard Day
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Cheesefare Clean Monday St. Patrick’s Day Ostara Day Sunday Irish Heritage Day
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Dora Tanasoiu Int’l Day for Int’l Day of the Lord’s Evening doratanasoiu.com the Elimination Victims of Slavery Meal of Racial & the Transatlantic Passover Begins Discrimination Slave Trade Nowrooz Afghan- Persian New Year
28 29 30 31 Palm Sunday Holi Ends Holi Begins
[email protected] April 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 01 02 03 Maundy Thursday Good Friday Holy Saturday Sexual Assault Awareness Month Int’l Day Against Sikh Heritage Month Victim Blaming
04 05 06 07 08 09 10 Easter Sunday Easter Monday Nat’l Tartan Day Yom HaShoah Yom HaShoah Begins Ends Visakha Puja Vimy Ridge Day (Vesak)
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Ramadan Begins Bengali New Year Yom Ha’atzmaut Yom Ha’atzmaut Vaisakhi Begins Ends
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Day of Silence
25 26 27 28 29 30 Chief Lady Bird Mahavir Jayanti Lag B’Omer Lag B’Omer Ends cheifladybird Begins Orthodox Good Friday
[email protected] May 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 01 Orthodox Holy Jewish Heritage Month National Moblity Saturday Asian Heritage Month Awareness Month Beltane
02 03 04 05 06 07 08 Orthodox Easter Orthodox Easter Monday
09 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mother’s Day Ramadan Ends Eid ul Fitr Begins Ascension Day Laylatul Qadr (Iftar) Eid ul Fitr Ends
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Shavuot Begins Int’l Day Against Shavuot Ends Malcolm X Day Declaration of the Homophobia, World Day for Bab Transphobia and Cultural Diversity Harvey Milk Day Biphobia for Dialogue and Development
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Pentecost Victoria Day African Liberation Ascension of Ascension of Whit Monday Day Baha’u’llah Beigns Baha’u’llah Ends
Aura Jess LaForet monique.aura jesslafo 30 31 moniqueaura.com Trinity Sunday
[email protected] June 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 01 02 03 04 05 Corpus Christi National Indigenous Deafblind Awareness History Month Month Pride Month Italian Heritage Month
06 07 08 09 10 11 12 Feast of the Loving Day Sacred Heart of Jesus
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 St. Vladimir the Martyrdom of Int’l Day for the Great Day Guru Arjan Dev Elimination of Sahib Sexual Violence in Conflict
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Father’s Day Nat’l Indigenous Litha Chris Trotter World Refugee Peoples Day Nativity of St. iderdown.com Day Nat’l Humanist John the Baptist Day
27 28 29 30 Canadian Feast of Saints Multiculturalism Peter and Paul Day
[email protected] July 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 01 02 03 Canada Day
04 05 06 07 08 09 10 Independence Day Martyrdom of the Bab
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 St. Benedict Day Tisha B’Av Begins
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Nelson Mandela Eid al-Adha Begins Eid al-Adha Ends Asalha Puja Day Pioneer Day Tisha B’Av Ends
Carlisle Robinson carodoodles carlisle-robinson.com 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 St. James the Great Day
[email protected] August 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 Lammas Civic Day Transfiguration of World Breast the Lord Feast Feeding Week
08 09 10 11 12 13 14 Int’l Day of the World’s Indigenous People
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Assumption of Muharram Begins Mary
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Vivian Mau vvn_mau
29 30 31 Krishna Janmashtami
[email protected] September 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 01 02 03 04
Deaf Awareness Month Hispanic Heritage Month Begins
05 06 07 08 09 10 11 Labour Day Feast of the World Suicide Ethiopian New Rosh Hashanah Nativity Prevention Day Year Begins Rosh Hashanah Ends
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Hispanic Heritage Yom Kippur Ends Take Back the Month Begins Night: Action Yom Kippur Begins Against Sexual Assault
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Anant Chaturdashi Int’l Week of the Int’l Day of Sign Puja Deaf Languages Sukkot Begins Bi-Visibility Day
26 27 28 29 30 Chris Trotter Sukkot Ends Shemini Atzeret iderdown.com Shemini Atzeret Ends Begins
[email protected] October 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 01 02
Islamic Heritage Month National Disability Hispanic Heritage Month Employment Awarenes Ends Month
03 04 05 06 07 08 09 Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls National Day of Remembrance 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 World Mental Nat’l Coming Out Dussehra Health Day Day Hispanic Heritage Int’l Day of the Month Ends Girl Int’l Day of Rural Thanksgiving Women 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Eid Milad Un Nabi Eid Milad Un Nabi Spirit Day Begins Ends
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Intersex Awareness Day
Alexa Policicchio 31 All Hallow’s Eve Samhain
[email protected] November 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 01 02 03 04 05 06 Day of the Dead Diwali Guy Fawkes Night Birth of Baha’u’llah Family Violence Transgender Awareness Begins Prevention Month Month Hindu Heritage Month
07 08 09 10 11 12 13 Birth of Baha’u’llah Intersex Day of Remembrance Day World Kindness Ends Remembrance Day
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Int’l Students’ Day Birth of Guru Transgender Day Nanak of Remembrance
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Feast of Christ the Guru Tegh Thanksgiving King Mahadur’s (USA) Martyrdom Day Int’l Day to End Violence Against Women
28 29 30 Hanukkah Begins Carlisle Robinson carodoodles carlisle-robinson.com
[email protected] December 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 01 02 03 04 World AIDS Day Int’l Day of Persons with Disabilities
05 06 07 08 09 10 11 Kwanzaa Begins Int’l Human Rights Hanukkah Ends Day Nat’l Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Feast of Our Lady St. Lucia’s Day Las Posadas International Day of Guadalupe Begins to End Violence Against Women
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Yule Begins Christmas Eve Christmas Day Las Posadas Ends
Chris Trotter iderdown.com
26 27 28 29 30 31 Boxing Day New Year’s Eve