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Friday, Feb. 6, 7 p.m.: Sonnet L’Abbé will sing the jazz and read poetry that helped shape them into the artist they are at My Black History Is Poetry, Is Jazz: Musical Performance with Nick Peck on piano at the Nanaimo Art Gallery. Tickets cost $10.
Sunday, Feb. 8, 11 a.m.: Explore the history of Nanaimo’s Black pioneers and local landmarks that tell their story with resident storyteller Debbie Goodman at the First Unitarian Fellowship.
Thursday, Feb. 12, 7 p.m.: Ruby Diaz Smith will read from her book, Searching for Saraphim, at Vancouver Island University, Building 180, Room 134. Co-presented by the Nanaimo Historical Society and Nanaimo Community Archives.
Thursday, Feb. 19, Noon: The Black History Book Club will meet in the Malaspina Theatre Lobby to discuss Desmond Cole’s The Skin We’re In.
Monday, Feb. 23, 2:30 p.m.: Come read anything by a Black author at Speaking Black Voices: A Black History Month Open Mic In the Malaspina Theatre Lobby.
Friday, Feb. 27, 10:30 a.m.: Amel Aldehaib in conversation with Dr. Magnolia Pauker will discuss A Pan African Feminist Blueprint for Peace in Sudan on Microsoft Teams.
Saturday, Feb. 28, 5:30 p.m.: The Nanaimo African Heritage Society presents the Harlem Night Black History Gala and Dinner at the Bowen Park Complex. Tickets cost $40.
