Thursday January 30th, 2025
6:30p.m.
120 Dennis Hall
Coady West, St. Francis Xavier
Free Event
Everyone is welcome
Join author Andrea Currie, Dr. Jane McMillan, special guests and members of the Indigenous Students’ Society in conversation with the wisdom shared in Finding Otipemisiwak.
Books available for purchase and signing $20.00.
ABOUT THE BOOK: A Sixties Scoop survivor’s journey back to her Nation and the truth of who she is
“Weaving myriad forms—poetry, family history, personal
essay, cultural criticism—Andrea Currie tells her story with mercy and force, revealing the warp and weft of the racist system that codified the robbery of Indigenous children through the Sixties Scoop and the devastating consequences for those children, their families, and their communities.…Finding Otipemisiwak is a necessary, searing, and luminous gift of a book.” —Rebecca Silver Slayter, author of The Second History
ANDREA CURRIE is a writer, healer, and activist born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently living in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She is a psychotherapist working in Indigenous mental health and has accompanied the We’koqma’q Residential School Survivors on their healing journey for the past twenty years.
Many thanks to the Ulnooweg Foundation & the Deveau Centre for Indigenous Governance and Social Justice and the Indigenous Students’ Society @ X.
Please join us as we celebrate African Heritage Month!
This year's provincial theme, Legacy in Action: Celebrating Black Brilliance, highlights the enduring legacy of excellence, resilience and innovation demonstrated by people of African descent throughout the centuries in our province. In recognition and in celebration of our rich history, everyone is encouraged to attend the following events:
Date | Time | Location | Event |
January 30 | 10:00am | Chisholm Park | Town Flag Raising |
February 4 | 11:00am | Joyce Family Atrium (MULH) | StFX AHM Launch Celebration |
February 6 | 7-9pm | Bloomfield Hub | African Drumming |
February 8 | 6&8pm | Coach K Court | AHM Basketball Games |
February 11 | 10am-2pm | Ancestry Tracing Event | Town Library |
February 13 | 4:30-7:30pm | AHM Sodexo Dinner | Morrison Hall |
February 26 | 8-9pm | Black X-cellence Panel | Zoom |
February 28 | 6-9:30 | AHM Black Student Gala | TBD |
African Heritage Month Calendar African Heritage Month Events
