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DESCRIPTION:Join us in the celebration of another year of Black History Mon
 th at 9I制作厂免费!\n\nBlack History Month at 9I制作厂免费 is organized by the Equity 
 Team in the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic).
  The 2024 edition will feature two main events in partnership聽with聽our聽Uni
 versity Libraries聽and聽Department of聽History聽and Classical Studies in the F
 aculty of Arts.\n\nBlack History Month 2024 Opening Ceremony\n\nThursday\,
  February 1\, 2024\n	5 PM - 8 PM\n	Elizabeth Wirth Music Building | Tanna Sc
 hulich Hall | 527 Sherbrooke Street West\n\nThe 2024 Opening Ceremony will
  feature a performance by聽Montreal Steppers\, a local performance collecti
 ve\, followed by a talkback panel discussion about the performance and聽Bla
 ck聽art and culture more broadly. The talkback panel discussion will be mod
 erated by Wellysan猫 Minyangadou Ngokobi and will include Professor Alex Bl
 ue V\, Professor Ang茅lique Willkie\, and Kayin Queeley.\n\nClick here to r
 egister.\n\nMeet the Panelists\n\nAlex Blue V is a Professor in Art Histor
 y and Communication Studies at 9I制作厂免费. His research examines the intersect
 ions of race\, sound\, space\, and place\, often employing heavily ethnogr
 aphic methods to demonstrate the influence of race on sound\, and the infl
 uence of sound on race. Additionally\, he is interested in narratives of d
 eath\, dying\, and afterlives in relation to Black sound and musical cultu
 re. Blue is currently working on two book projects. The first\, titled A M
 atter of Death and Life\, is an ethnographic (or 鈥渘ecrographic鈥�) study of 
 the narratives of death and dying in contemporary Detroit hip-hop\, and ho
 w artists employ various forms of death as praxis in music making. The sec
 ond\, which he is co-authoring\, is an ethnographic study of country rap\,
  also known as 鈥渉ick hop\,鈥� that examines issues of race\, gender\, class\
 , nationalism\, and identity\, primarily (but not entirely) in the souther
 n United States. Blue received his MM in Jazz Studies from University of N
 orth Texas\, and his PhD in Ethnomusicology from University of California 
 - Santa Barbara.聽\n\nAng茅lique Willkie pursued a 25-year career in Europe 
 in dance\, circus and music. Performer\, dramaturg and mentor\, she is act
 ive in Montreal鈥檚 professional dance community and is the 2022 recipient o
 f the Prix de la danse de Montr茅al\, cat茅gorie Interpr猫te. She participate
 s actively in conversations on equity\, diversity and inclusion on the Boa
 rds of Festival TransAm茅riques\, La Chapelle sc猫nes contemporaines and Esp
 ace Perreault transmissions chor茅graphiques. Associate Professor of Contem
 porary Dance at Concordia University\, her research interests focus on int
 erdisciplinary creation and decolonial dramaturgies. She holds a Concordia
  University Research Chair in Ecologies of B/black Performance\, was Chair
  of the President鈥檚 Task Force on Anti-Black Racism and is Special Advisor
  to the Provost on Black Integration and Knowledges. Ang茅lique is a Fellow
  of the Royal Society of Canada.聽聽\n\nKayin Queeley is the founder and dir
 ector of the Montreal Steppers which was formed in 2019 and has since conn
 ected with more than 15\,000 participants and offered over 500 workshops i
 n schools across the country. These workshops center the importance of Bla
 ck Lives\, Black history/futurity and stories in hopes to inspire\, streng
 then solidarity\, to reimagine a just world where we can breathe\, live\, 
 succeed\, and thrive differently and together. Kayin was named a CBC Black
  Changemaker in 2023 for his dedicated community work. He is an educator\,
  choreographer and writer. He has created and produced several original pr
 oductions that explore Black diasporic life and resilience in Canada in th
 e afterlife of slavery. He is also a Case Manager in Crisis Response in th
 e Office of the Dean of Students at 9I制作厂免费 and has worked to su
 pport students in his various roles at 9I制作厂免费 as well as other institution
 s over the past 10+ years. Kayin was born and raised in Saint Kitts and Ne
 vis and completed his undergraduate and master's degrees at the State Univ
 ersity of New York College at Plattsburgh before making a home in Montreal
 . 聽\n\nMeet the Moderator\n\nWellysan猫 Minyangadou Ngokobi is a doctoral s
 tudent in Educational Studies at 9I制作厂免费. Her research focuses o
 n bettering teacher education programs so that they best prepare pre-servi
 ce teachers to facilitate the culturally diverse classrooms here in Montre
 al and worldwide. As an advocate for critical cultural awareness in learni
 ng environments\, she leads and is involved with various initiatives and c
 ommittees geared towards EDI and anti-racism at 9I制作厂免费\, consis
 tently seeking to center and empower student voices in conversations they 
 are too often excluded from.\n	聽\n
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LOCATION:Tanna Schulich Hall\, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building\, CA\, QC\, M
 ontreal\, H3A 1E3\, 527 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Black History Month 2024 Opening Ceremony
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