News
BCRC announces their three program partners
Published on November 16, 2020
Bridging Language and Culture in Quebec (B.L.A.C.Q.) is a collaboration between three English Speaking Black Community Organizations in Quebec. BCRC will help the three partner organizations produce a series of online cultural events that explore the contributions of English Speaking Blacks to Quebec. They will include productions by and about the English-Speaking Black communities that strengthen and promote its cultural history. These productions are intended to promote cultural awareness, social inclusion and a sense of belonging while simultaneously providing cultural content that contributes to physical, mental and emotional well-being.
LECTURES LOGOS READINGS & KOLA MAGAZINE
Building Bridges Via Literature
As a way for Quebec’s Black Anglophone and Francophone established and beginning writers to build bridges to each other and to Quebec’s many cultural communities, Logos will create a series of online events to showcase these writers. The events will comprise four themed sessions, ninety minutes long, of four writers plus a moderator. Each session will be comprised of two sections. The first section will be a brief reading of the participants’ work; the second will be a roundtable on the chosen theme. The themes will be: community building, overcoming exile and alienation, and social justice, Montreal Black Community and the Media. Kola Magazine will publish a select number of these pieces.
BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP
Arrivals Belonging Project
Black Theatre Workshop’s Arrival’s Belonging Project aims to guide participants through an embodied archival process that engages them in unravelling public and personal historic sources to create new interdisciplinary works that explore the legacy and belonging.
WEST-CAN FOLK PERFORMING COMPANY
The Community Belonging Project
West-Can Folk Performing Company will partner with three community organizations to offer a series of Caribbean folk songs, storytelling, Caribbean folk dance and drum workshop.