African Heritage Month

28 Day Series: Celebrating Black history Month Through Black Women Entrepreneurs
2023-02-01 00:00 - 2023-02-28 23:59 (America/Halifax) | Virtual – Online
To boost the presence of the African Nova Scotian women businesses and culture, this project is designed to promote the businesses and culture to further address the gaps in the African Nova Scotian community and the community at large. This project, 28 Day Series- Celebrating Black History Month through Black women Entrepreneurs ‘ aims to give African Nova Scotian women in business a voice in the community and to be celebrated and recognized for their contribution the the economic development in Nova Scotia
This project whereby 28 African Nova Scotian women business through Blk Women in Excellence organization, will have the opportunity to do a 3 min solo interview and then join red table conversations as a series.. The selected businesses will have to have African Nova Scotian cultural component attached to their business. These will be captured and shared nationally.
Before their stories are capture, the selected businesses will have the opportunity to go through a series educational session on how to elevate their business in front a camera. These educational sessions will teach them how to market their business, pitch, and body languages etc. The series will be videotaped in 1 day, at the Delmore Buddy Daye Learning Institute ( Jan 7, 2023) and the edited version will be delivered to Blk Women in Excellence by Jan 25th 2023. We will then post each of the women’s bios, images, short video for 28 days February 2023, along with the red table discussions. Some of the the topic would be

What are your barriers to starting a business?

What are the barriers to access to capital / Grants

Access to information

The colonization of mind frames in the Black communities

What supports would be beneficial to sustaining your businesses

What bias do you face as a Black woman in business?

Does racism & Discrimination play a factor in your day to day business dealings?

How do you feel about the ecosystem in Canada?

Downtown Halifax’s “African Heritage Month” light show will take you on a journey, shore to shore.
2023-02-01 18:00 - 2023-02-28 23:00 | Grafton Park, Downtown Halifax, 5381 Spring Garden Road, Halifax
February 1, 2023For Immediate Release
Downtown Halifax’s DELIGHTFUL DOWNTOWN “African Heritage Month” light show starts tonight!
(Halifax, N.S.) – Downtown Halifax Business Commission’s (DHBC) DELIGHTFUL DOWNTOWN “African Heritage Month” light show at Grafton Park (corner of Spring Garden Road. and Grafton Street) starts tonight at 6 p.m. and will be projected on the former Halifax Memorial Library nightly throughout February.
This special light show is a dedication to this year’s African Heritage Month theme, ‘Seas of Struggle – African Peoples from Shore to Shore,’ and highlights four different migrations that people of African descent embarked on, to arrive on Nova Scotian shores.
This vivid production was conceptualized by DHBC’s placemaking team and designed by Nick Iwasko of Wasko AV, with special advisement from Halifax Regional Municipality’s Office of Diversity & Inclusion and their African Nova Scotian Affairs Integration Office (ANSAIO). The show also includes original music, composed by Bradley “Raslaxx” Frankson of Legacy Music.
“When creating the audio for this show, I really wanted to paint a picture. All the sounds, instruments, music genres, were chosen specifically for each scene. I wanted to take you on a journey,” says Frankson. “The text in this show is just as important as the visuals, so it was important that the audio captivate the audience, allowing you time to absorb what you’re seeing and hearing, and let it sink in.”
DHBC’s DELIGHTFUL DOWNTOWN “African Heritage Month” light show runs three minutes in length and focuses on the arrival of the Black Loyalists, the Jamaican Maroons, the Refugees of the War of 1812, and the Caribbean Migrants, and how each group contributed to the prosperity of Nova Scotia.
“Our original goal with these light shows was to attract more people to Downtown Halifax,” says Paul MacKinnon, CEO of DHBC. “But once we started planning them, we also realized how powerful our resources and platforms can be, to educate, and help marginalized communities spread awareness. Ensuring the people of Nova Scotia feel represented in DHBC’s work is important to us.”
DHBC’s “African Heritage Month” light show is one of many light shows being shown throughout the month of February, as part of DHBC’s DELIGHTFUL DOWNTOWN at Grafton Park.
For more information on this show and for the full DELIGHTFUL DOWNTOWN at Grafton Park light show schedule go to: https://downtownhalifax.ca/delightful.

Black History Month with BWIE & ScotiaBank
2023-02-20 10:00 - 2023-02-27 17:00
BWIE in partnership with Scotiabank will be amplifying Black women owned businesses throughout HRM & some rural communities within their branches. This will be from February 20th, to 27th 2023. Please see our social media, and website for the location of branches, don’t forget to stop by, take a selfie with your favorite Black woman business owners table and share to the world!
