Events

ROM Exhibiting Stolen Artifacts – Picket this Friday (July 10)

Dead Sea Scrolls Illegally Removed from Occupied Palestinian Territories

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Date: Friday July 10
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park
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Join the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) and Women in Solidarity
with Palestine for a picket of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) this coming
Friday July 10. Help us protest the ROM’s failure to comply with
international law and its ethical obligations by:

- Demanding the ROM recognize the Scrolls are looted Palestinian artifacts.
- Demanding the ROM dissociate itself from the Israeli Antiquities Authority
which has systematically looted millions of Palestinian artifacts.

We have tried every avenue to avoid a picket – representatives from the
Palestinian community and other organizations have attempted dialogue with the
ROM – but none of the concerns have been addressed. We are left no choice but
to publicly protest, as the ROM has refused to make public the documents it
claims prove the legality of the exhibit. It has also refused to seek a UNESCO
opinion on the matter.

Please join us for this important picket! Bring noise makers!

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Ode'min Giizis

Strawberry Moon Festival

June 17-24 2009

The Ode'min Giizis Festival will celebrate this auspicious time of year and traditional Anishnaabe territory with a seven day multi-disciplinary arts festival in Peterborough, Ontario featuring local and visiting artists from the four directions. The O'Kaadenigan Wiingashk Collective and Public Energy invite you to come out to experience a diversity of Indigenous artistic expression and events from an Aboriginal perspective - including gallery exhibitions, talks, dance, film presentations, musical cabaret and concert.

Check out the events schedule here

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CRRC proudly presents . . .

THE TAXI PROJECT

a play about exile

Saturday May 9th @ 7 pm

Prince of Qales Public School

by four members of PEN Canada's writers in exile program:
emma beltran, martha kuwee kumsa, sheng xue and goran simic

directed by weyni mengesha

An original play exploring issues of freedom of expression and the complex realities of living in exile, the play follows four characters forced to leave their home countries and the struggle to create a new life in Canada.

When: Saturday May 9th at 7 pm
Where: Prince of Wales Public School Auditorium, 1211 Monaghan Rd (at Sherbrooke)
FREE + all-ages

for more information, please contact racerelation@gmail.com / 742-9658

part of peterborough's first annual asian heritage month

For more information, please click here

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International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21

Clip from CRRC press conference, March 18, 2009

Clip from Talk by Sharry Aiken, "From Slavery to Expulsion: Racism and Canadian Immigration Law", March 20, 2008

Black History Month

Peterborough Events for 2009: Calendar

Why a Black History Month? by Rosemary Sadlier

"In the 1950's the Canadian Negro Women's Association brought  the celebration to Toronto, Ontario. By 1978, Ontario Black History Society successfully petitioned the City of Toronto to have the monthly celebration formally recognized. This celebration is currently proclaimed across Canada." Read more