CNC Marks Black History Month
Prince George, B.C. – February is Black History month across Canada, and CNC and the Prince George African Heritage Society are celebrating with a wide variety of events throughout the month.
George Kaweesi, CNC instructor and Black History month organizer, says the occasion “celebrates the diverse roots of the nation and country we call Canada. These events remind everyone that our community is made up of those from near and far and they share a common goal of trying to make it better.”
Here’s a schedule of events:
Feb 8 – Night of son at First Baptist Church, 483 Gillett St, at 7 pm. Tickets $10.
Feb 15 – Family Day at CNC from 2 to 5pm. Free admission. All children and adults welcome. Contact Jacob Madjitey at 250-564-4820.
Feb 18 – Caribbean cooking demonstration, 7pm, First Baptist Church. Tickets, $20, available at CNC Bookstore and Chances Are Consignment Store, above Books & Company on Third Avenue.
Feb 22 – Main event at CNC. Dinner at 6:30pm, followed at 7:30pm by a presentation of Mandela: The Man and His Legacy.
Feb 25 – South African cooking demonstration. 7pm at First Baptist Church. Tickets $20 available at CNC Bookstore and Chances Are Consignment Store.
Feb 28 – Cultural performances, music, food at CNC from noon to 2pm.
Comments
Does Canada have an African-Canadian history? Further, does BC or for that matter Prince George? I’m all for learning about others’ cultural backgrounds but seriously? Are you kidding me?? Guess Obama did annex Canada when we weren’t looking – or at least CNC.
LOL
Surprisingly enough, BC does. An early arrived group of blacks who had escaped slavery in the USA volunteered to be members of the colonial militia. A military force that was formed to dissuade the US from trying to annex the Crown Colony of British Columbia in the period before we joined Canada. The “Father of British Columbia”, colonial governor Sir James Douglas, (who opposed BC joining Canada ~ figured we’d get the short end of the deal, and arguably we did), was a ‘creole’, of mixed black and white parentage. Like Obama.
Sir James Douglas, “the Father of British Columbia”, his mother was coloured, she was a Creole originally from Barbados.
Oh, whoops sorry Socredible, I should have read your whole post.
king Creole? I saw that movie with Elvis in it. He was a cool dude. That’s it for me on Creole.
You trying to tell us there was a n—-r in Elvis’s woodpile, Harb? Maybe in the hips, but not in the lips.
Never. Despite being an eventual over weight drug addict, every one loved Elvis.
Comments for this article are closed.