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Listen to artists who have played at the Emancipation Festival Showcase:

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Stand By Me
Africa
At Last
Do it Now
Halleluja, I Love You

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Coming Soon:  2012

Black History Event – Grey Roots Museum & Archives

Saturday, February 25, 2012      - 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Admission $25.00, (includes light lunch)

Northern Terminus Journal (Volume 9) Launch

Saturday, February 25, 2012      - 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

 

Please join us in celebrating the release of Northern Terminus: The African-Canadian History Journal (Vol.9)

For more details about the Journal, please click here. 

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Speakers Forum / 2012 - Start of the 150th Emancipation Day Celebrations

Friday, August 3rd, 2012 at Grey Roots Museum & Archives

 

150th Emancipation Day Picnic

Saturday, August 4th at Harrison Park & Kelso Beach

Details To Follow

Gospel Explosion 2012

Sunday, August 5th at Kelso Beach

Details To Follow

 

 

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Past Events / 2011:

Fundraising Event

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011 at The Roxy Theatre

Admission: $29.95

Leslie McCurdy performs - The Spirit of Harriet Tubman & Things My Fore-Sisters Saw

Roxy Theatre -

251 9th Street East 1-888-446-7699/ 519-371-2833

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Speakers Forum

Friday, July 29th, 2011 at Grey Roots Museum & Archives

Admission - $20.00 via PayPal - 7:00 - 9:30 pm

Presentation of two short plays: The Mary Ann Shadd Story and the Life of William Hall

Grey Roots Museum & Archives
Owen Sound, Ontario
1 877 473 9766 Toll Free/ 519 376 3690

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Saturday, July 30th, 2011

HARRISON PARK - 149th Emancipation Celebration Picnic: Music, Crafts & Picnic

 Admission is Free - Donations welcomed

Live Music, Games, Races, Special Awards, Cultural Crafts and Artworks, Community and Cultural Food Vendors, Basket Lunches, Storyboards, Games, Races, Black History Cairn Presentation, Genealogy, Loads of Camaraderie & Ambience

  

Black History Event – Grey Roots Museum

February 12, 2011, 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Admission $25.00, (includes light lunch)

Northern Terminus Journal (Volume 8) Launch

February 12, 2011, 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Donations accepted at the door

Please join us in celebrating the release of Northern Terminus: The African-Canadian History journal (Vol.8). 

For more details about the Journal, please click here.

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Janie Cooper-Wilson - Author & Historian

Saturday, June 4th, Grey Roots Museum & Archives

1:00 to 4:00 pm - Admission is Free

Book Launch - Echoes in the Hills: My Eighteen Month Search for John Brown`s Legacy

Music by Bobby Dean Blackburn

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