Emancipation Arts

07/19/2024

🌟 Save the Date! 🌟

Join us on August 1st at Union Station to celebrate 190 years of Emancipation Day in Canada! 🎉

DJ sets, live performances, trivia, Freedom Portraits, and more! Let’s FreeUp! and make unforgettable memories together! ✨

📅 Date: August 1st, 2024
📍 Location: Union Station (TD Stage at Union Summer)
🕛 Daytime DJs: 1:30pm-2:30pm
🕔 FreeUp! Party: 5pm-9pm

08/01/2021

MC Thelonius up next at the FreeUp! After-Party. Come thru! Let's celebrate Emancipation Day. https://vimeo.com/579498862
Live NOW on Vimeo

Let's keep the celebration going! Come through to our FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2021 After Party when we livestream a stacked line-up of huge talent from the…

08/01/2021

JOIN THE LIVESTREAM NOW - https://vimeo.com/579498862

WHAT DOES FREEDOM MEAN TO YOU? To answer this question, internationally celebrated DJ and music curator, L'Oqenz has hand-picked some of Toronto's hottest DJs + MCs: Renzen, Thelonius, rvzon, didicious, DJ Doll, Cailitoo, DJ SSNAP, and Ishmail Raheem.

Hosted by the GlammaGirlSwag and featuring special guests Ngozi Paul, Rosemary Sadlier and Asher Leach.

FREEUP! YOURSELF AFTER-PARTY (Vimeo livestream)
Sun Aug 1 from 2PM-5PM ET
https://fb.me/e/17pgcMY1y for details

08/01/2021

WATCH NOW - https://gem.cbc.ca/live/1925907011695

From Toronto's Little Jamaica to Africville, Nova Scotia and the fields of Saskatoon, FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2021 is NOW on CBC Gem.

Hosted by award-winning stage actor, writer, director and producer Ngozi Paul, FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2021 is a performance-driven and youth-led celebration of spoken word, dance, theatre and music.

This year's lineup includes some of Canada's most exciting performers including Michie Mee, Haviah Mighty, Silla + Rise, Aquakultre, Randell Adjei, Peace Akintade, and d'bi.young anitafrika, who will also be presented with this year's Rosemary Sadlier Freedom Fighter Award.

Visit https://freeup.online/ for more information

08/01/2021

WATCH NOW - https://gem.cbc.ca/live/1925907011695

From Toronto's Little Jamaica to Africville, Nova Scotia and the fields of Saskatoon, FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2021 is NOW on CBC Gem.

Hosted by award-winning stage actor, writer, director and producer Ngozi Paul, FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2021 is a performance-driven and youth-led celebration of spoken word, dance, theatre and music.

This year's lineup includes some of Canada's most exciting performers including Michie Mee, Haviah Mighty, Silla + Rise, Aquakultre, Randell Adjei, Peace Akintade, and d'bi.young anitafrika, who will also be presented with this year's Rosemary Sadlier Freedom Fighter Award.

Visit https://freeup.online/ for more information

08/01/2021

Huda Hassan of Refinery29 sits down with Michie Mee, Ngozi Paul and d'bi.young anitafrika to talk about FreeUp!, Emancipation Day and art as an act of resistance - https://www.refinery29.com/en-ca/2021/07/10597883/emancipation-day-celebration-free-up-cbc-gem-interview

Watch FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2021 on CBC Gem, available today at 1PM ET - https://gem.cbc.ca/live/1925907011695



Michie Mee Dbiyoung Anitafrika Ngozi Paul Huda Hassan Khadijah Salawutang CBC Arts

R29 Unbothered spoke with Ngozi Paul, d’bi.young anitafrika and Michie Mee about their CBC gem show, using performing arts as an effective method to shape social change, and what freedom means to them on Emancipation Day.

08/01/2021

FreeUp! asks what does freedom mean to you? In this Freedom Portrait, Executive Director of the Africville Museum Juanita Peters, dancer/choreographer Hollywood Jade, and artist/curator Ashley McKenzie-Barnes share what freedom means to them.
https://youtu.be/JjDJjLUvZpY

Watch the entire FreeUp! 2021 Emancipation Day Special on CBC Gem, available TODAY at 1PM ET - https://gem.cbc.ca/live/1925907011695

08/01/2021

FreeUp! asks what does freedom mean to you? In this Freedom Portrait, actress Lisa Berry, DJ Renzen and visual artist Ayo Tsalithaba share what freedom means to them. https://youtu.be/5iVkNTpwxcA

Watch entire FreeUp! 2021 Emancipation Day Special on CBC Gem, available TODAY at 1PM ET - https://gem.cbc.ca/live/1925907011695

08/01/2021

FreeUp! asks what does freedom mean to you? In this Freedom Portrait, Executive Director of the Africville Museum Juanita Peters, dancer/choreographer Hollywood Jade, and artist/curator Ashley McKenzie-Barnes share what freedom means to them. https://youtu.be/JjDJjLUvZpY

Watch entire FreeUp! 2021 Emancipation Day Special on CBC Gem, available TODAY at 1PM ET - https://gem.cbc.ca/live/1925907011695

What does freedom mean to you? Executive Director of the Africville Museum, dancer/choreographer Hollywood Jade, and artist/curator Ashley McKenzie-Barnes sh...

08/01/2021

FreeUp! asks what does freedom mean to you? In this Freedom Portrait, music artists Shah Frank, Wayne Tennant and FreeUp! Artistic Director, Khadijah Salawu, share what freedom means to them. https://youtu.be/HIlOSyDRIQg

Watch the entire FreeUp! 2021 Emancipation Day Special, available TODAY at 1PM ET - https://gem.cbc.ca/live/1925907011695