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DESCRIPTION:Join us in the celebration of another year of Black History Mon
 th at McGill!\n\nBlack History Month at McGill 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 with our Uni
 versity Libraries and Department of History 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 Montreal Steppers\, a local performance collecti
 ve\, followed by a talkback panel discussion about the performance and Bla
 ck art and culture more broadly. The talkback panel discussion will be mod
 erated by Wellysanè Minyangadou Ngokobi and will include Professor Alex Bl
 ue V\, Professor Angélique 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 McGill. 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 “necrographic”) 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 “hick hop\,” 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. \n\nAngélique Willkie pursued a 25-year career in Europe 
 in dance\, circus and music. Performer\, dramaturg and mentor\, she is act
 ive in Montreal’s professional dance community and is the 2022 recipient o
 f the Prix de la danse de Montréal\, catégorie Interprète. She participate
 s actively in conversations on equity\, diversity and inclusion on the Boa
 rds of Festival TransAmériques\, La Chapelle scènes contemporaines and Esp
 ace Perreault transmissions chorégraphiques. 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’s Task Force on Anti-Black Racism and is Special Advisor
  to the Provost on Black Integration and Knowledges. Angélique is a Fellow
  of the Royal Society of Canada.  \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 McGill University and has worked to su
 pport students in his various roles at McGill 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
 .  \n\nMeet the Moderator\n\nWellysanè Minyangadou Ngokobi is a doctoral s
 tudent in Educational Studies at McGill University. 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 McGill University\, consis
 tently seeking to center and empower student voices in conversations they 
 are too often excluded from.\n	 \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
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/equity/channels/event/black-history-month-2024-op
 ening-ceremony-354390
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