PEI Community Reads

TONIGHT Mar 2 ! Desmond Cole, live in your living room!
Register here: https://bit.ly/32I8Sos

Desmond Cole's The Skin We're In | Mainstreet PEI with Matt Rainnie | Live Radio | CBC Listen A Year of Black Resistance and Power is the acclaimed book from author Desmond Cole and has been the focus of Island readers over the last year through the PEI Community Reads project. Desmond is part of an Island online event next week.

Discussion Questions for the final chapter of The Skin We're In. We hope you enjoyed reading along with us! Please join us for our virtual author event, "A Conversation with Desmond Cole," on Wednesday, March 2nd at 7 PM. This event is free but registration is required: https://bit.ly/32I8Sos

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Check out our resource kit for handouts, discussion questions, and recommendations for further reading: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U-rtq1VNq4Nl_rgAZvXzVIqcpH5VmOpO?usp=sharing

Have you read Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist? BCcampus has created a guide for readers - *Book Club Facilitation Guide: How to be an Antiracist*

Book Club Facilitation Guide: How to be an Antiracist by Olaolu Adeleye is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. Download for free from https://opentextbc.ca/BCCAntiRacistBookClubHub/

Chapter 12 : competing interests (december)
Discussion Questions

SO EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE: PEI Community Reads is hosting a virtual event with DESMOND COLE, author of The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power on Wednesday, March 2nd at 7 PM. This event is free but registration is required at https://bit.ly/32I8Sos.

Copies of The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power are available for sale at BOOKMARK, Charlottetown’s locally owned, independent bookshop, at a 15% discount.

Presented in partnership with Bookmark, UPEI Robertson Library, UPEI International Student Office, UPEI Rotaract Club, Rotary Club of Charlottetown, Black Cultural Society of PEI, and PEI Public Library System.

Have you finished reading Chapter 11, "community policing (november)" of The Skin We're In? Here are a few discussion questions to get you thinking. Engage with us- we'd love to hear your thoughts on the chapter...

The New Black: Celebrating & Educating.

We chose this theme as a way to engage the community in a dialogue around defining or redefining Blackness in PEI in terms of the social determinants of health and wellness, and challenging the preconceived notions of others about who Black people are or what Black culture is.

Our BHM activities celebrate Black history, culture, and arts, but also educate people about the issues faced by the Black community. The Black community in PEI is growing and its members need to connect with one another, and to find or create opportunities within the larger community. Our BHM program will help to create these opportunities and address these issues through cultural engagement, the celebration of local talent and through educational activities for both the general public and in schools.

Our main goal every year for Black History Month is to give opportunities to members of the Black community to realize ideas that will foster and create a sense of community on the Island. Our BHM events and activities are structured to create an opportunity for empowerment, solidarity, acknowledgement, and cross-cultural learning, as well as an opportunity to demonstrate, educate, and inform, fostering inclusivity with the broader Island community. The activities of the month are structured inclusively to accommodate all members of the Island community in discussions that will foster inclusion and equity within the community at large. It also provides an opportunity to strengthen the ties and bonds across all Island communities through solidarity, knowledge exchange, and reflection.

Please share our calendars of events. To know more visit us www.bcspei.ca