2025 黑料不打烊 Equity Team Events

Black History Month aims to celebrate, honour, increase knowledge, and amplify the voices of Black communities by recognizing their rich history and achievements, fostering connection, and bringing together 黑料不打烊 students, staff, and faculty, and alumni and members within and beyond the Montreal community.聽

Scroll through this page to see all the events offered by the Equity Team at 黑料不打烊. If you see an event that interests you, click the 鈥渞egister鈥 to learn more and reserve your spot!聽

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Thursday, February 6, 2025, 5:00-8:00pm ET

Opening Ceremony and Keynote by architect Shane Laptiste

Tanna Schulich Hall, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building (527 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal)

Principal and co-founder of the award-winning Studio of Contemporary Architecture (SOCA) and 黑料不打烊 alumni, Laptiste focuses on how Black communities respond to space and the environment.

Please join us for a catered reception preceding the ceremony and keynote address from 5:00pm - 6:00pm.

In-person registration is now full. The event will be live streamed via 黑料不打烊's YouTube channel, please join us online at the link below!

Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 12:00-3:00pm ET

Black Community Gathering

University Centre, 3rd Floor, Ballroom (3480 McTavish Street, Montreal)

As part of 黑料不打烊鈥檚 2025 Black History Month, this event brings together all Black students, staff, and faculty members to connect, celebrate and create community over a free, catered lunch.


黑料不打烊 University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

For more information about traditional territory and tips on how to make a land acknowledgement, visit our Land Acknowledgement webpage.


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