Emancipation Arts

🌟 Save the Date! 🌟

Join us on August 1st at Union Station to celebrate 190 years of Emancipation Day in Canada! 🎉

DJ sets, live performances, trivia, Freedom Portraits, and more! Let’s FreeUp! and make unforgettable memories together! ✨

📅 Date: August 1st, 2024
📍 Location: Union Station (TD Stage at Union Summer)
🕛 Daytime DJs: 1:30pm-2:30pm
🕔 FreeUp! Party: 5pm-9pm

MC Thelonius up next at the FreeUp! After-Party. Come thru! Let's celebrate Emancipation Day. https://vimeo.com/579498862
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FreeUp! Yourself After-Party Let's keep the celebration going! Come through to our FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2021 After Party when we livestream a stacked line-up of huge talent from the…

Huda Hassan of Refinery29 sits down with Michie Mee, Ngozi Paul and d'bi.young anitafrika to talk about FreeUp!, Emancipation Day and art as an act of resistance - https://www.refinery29.com/en-ca/2021/07/10597883/emancipation-day-celebration-free-up-cbc-gem-interview

Watch FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2021 on CBC Gem, available today at 1PM ET - https://gem.cbc.ca/live/1925907011695



Michie Mee Dbiyoung Anitafrika Ngozi Paul Huda Hassan Khadijah Salawutang CBC Arts

This Emancipation Day Celebration Shows That Art Is An Act Of Resistance R29 Unbothered spoke with Ngozi Paul, d’bi.young anitafrika and Michie Mee about their CBC gem show, using performing arts as an effective method to shape social change, and what freedom means to them on Emancipation Day.

FreeUp! asks what does freedom mean to you? In this Freedom Portrait, music artists Shah Frank, Wayne Tennant and FreeUp! Artistic Director, Khadijah Salawu, share what freedom means to them. https://youtu.be/HIlOSyDRIQg

Watch the entire FreeUp! 2021 Emancipation Day Special, available TODAY at 1PM ET - https://gem.cbc.ca/live/1925907011695