The Community Arts Program
Faculty of Environmental Studies
York University

presents

Rites of Passage

Performances, music, activities and exhibits
inspired by E. Kamau Brathwaite’s trilogy The Arrivants

in memory of those who died
on the middle passage
and
those who died fighting slavery in the Americas


November 22, HNES Building, York University


This event is presented in celebration of the bicentennial of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic trade in Africans in the Anglophone world in 1807. Activities and exhibits will take place in the HNES building throughout the day with contributions focusing on the middle passage, Atlantic slavery, its legacies and anti-racism education from the Cultural Production Workshop on Performance and Popular Education for Social Change. The performance will begin at 5:30 pm in the lobby at HNES. Food will be served afterwards.


For more information contact Honor Ford-Smith, faculty of environmental studies, hoperoad@yorku.ca