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Cultural programming at Campus Saint-Jean as part of Black History Month

As part of Black History Month, Campus Saint-Jean is organizing a series of internal and external events to celebrate the history and many contributions of Black people.

Join us for Black History Month community events:

• Throughout the month
  Online
  Sharing information and launching podcasts

• Tuesday, February 4, 5pm-7:30pm - Launch of Black History Month
  Grand Salon, Pavillon Lacerte
  Launch event organized by and in partnership with Campus Saint-Jean and .

  • Conference: The journey of the first blacks, historical resources and concrete achievements

  • Poetry

  • Artistic performance

  • Exhibition of 13 black personalities

  • Refreshments
    
    

• Tuesday, February 25, 3:30 p.m. - Cultural event (discussions will be held in French)
  Auditorium
  Bernard Salva and the ADRAM 249 course invite community members to a screening of Dagmawi Abebe's film Voodoo Macbeth (2021), followed by a discussion with Charlie M'Balla and Mireille Isidore. The event will be followed by a buffet.
  
  • 3:30 pm: Readings of texts by Dany Laferrière and Maryse Condé
    Readings by members of Théâtre à l'Ouest/Troupe du Campus Saint-Jean
  • 4-6pm: Voodoo Macbeth by Dagmawi Abebe
    Film screening as part of ADRAM 249/Professor Bernard Salva class in English with French subtitles
    Voodoo MacBeth is set in 1936 in Harlem, a neighborhood ravaged by discrimination and economic hardship. With FDR's New Deal funding the Federal Theatre Project's black unit, director Rose McClendon convinces co-director John Houseman to help her produce Shakespeare's “Macbeth” in Harlem at the Lafayette Theater - with a black cast. They choose a talented but untested 21-year-old director by the name of Orson Welles to direct this groundbreaking depiction of Macbeth.
  • 6 p.m.: Debate
    Moderated by Professor Charlie Mballa
  • Buffet
  • 6.45 p.m. Presentation by of the Portrait Gallery of Personalities from Alberta's Black Francophone Communities project.
  • Moderated by Professor Mireille Isidore.