What does freedom feel like when you reclaim your place in the waves?

For Black History Month, we dive into Freedom Swell (1 hour), a story of Black youth in North Preston, NS, who are redefining what it means to belong in outdoor spaces through surfing and resistance.

Together, we’ll celebrate stories of empowerment and brainstorm how we can each help break barriers in recreation and outdoor spaces.

Celebrate African Heritage Month with a vibrant, drop-in cultural experience exploring Bahamian traditions—Junkanoo and Rake ’n’ Scrape. Enjoy music, art, and food through sound, taste, and touch. All ages welcome for an immersive, flexible space of joy, pride, and connection.

CANCELLED. This session will be rescheduled at a later date: This session is built around the idea of affirmations. Finding words that will lift up your day. Using poems and writings from various artists or from yourself you will create stamped ring magic charms that you can wear daily to remind  you that the greatest love is found within.  

I’thandi Munro is an award winning dancer, performer, visual artist and educator, who has reached International recognition. She incorporates her lived experiences of her own cultural understanding within her artwork. She has a double major in Photography + Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing from NSCAD University. Munro has been facilitating within dance studios, Halifax Regional Arts, artist centers, and community programs for over a decade. Munro continuously seeks to learn new ways of making, teaching, collaborating, and continues to educate herself in a multitude of techniques. She has spent her entire life pursuing art but dancing is the constant base of creating throughout her professional career.

Movement is at her core of making. Munro found herself naturally drawn to the research behind improv and freestyle dance. She uses the representation of line and cultural lineage as underlying concepts in her art. Her work has become an ever-changing body of work that can be explored and realized in many different ways. Munro is the founder of Drifted Collective, A co-founder of Scotian: The Collective. She has collaborated with many professional dance and theatre companies primarily based out of Mi'kma'ki and the Atlantic regions such as The Woods Professional Hip Hop Company, Mocean Dance, Kinetic, Rooted Dance (Votive) Nestutasi Story Telling, Home Economics Collective, and KasheDance.

This session invites participants to explore their own unique stories through creativity, reflection, and discovery. Sessions begin with an engaging warm-up, followed by guided exercises where participants map out personal experiences through storytelling.

Andre Fenton is an award-winning African Nova Scotian writer, performer, and arts educator who has represented Halifax at seven national spoken word festivals across Canada. He had founded The Ink Collective in 2025, a program series to help Black writers find their path in the publishing industry. He is the 2023 recipient of the Portia White Protege Award and a 2022 recipient of an Emerging Artist Recognition Award from Creative NS Awards. Andre is the author of three young adult fiction novels, Worthy of Love. ANNAKA, which was the 2022 recipient of The Community & Place Award from Digitally Lit, and The Summer Between Us, which won Gold in The Coast’s 2022 Best Of Awards. Andre has facilitated writing and performance workshops in over 100 classrooms across Nova Scotia. He is currently screenwriting the film adaptation of his novel, ANNAKA that is being produced by Fine Devils Films. Andre is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.