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Contemporary Africana.Food.Fashion.Art.Music Curator: @chinedesign. Popups TO DC LDN Paris NOLA. @amplifianetwork @shebelady #WeAreGumbo #JollofWarsTo

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Saturday’s program is special and was created exclusively for members of the Black community.

We open with Dawn Grant’s therapeutic art workshop where participants are given the chance to create something new from a keepsake connected to a deceased loved one using collage, clay, or jewelry. It will be followed by a Nine-Night presentation by Lanise Lywood and then Karen Turner’s singing workshop on Caribbean burial songs.

The day ends with Kitchen Table Sesh - our community dinner, which will host our community elder and guest of honour, Chris Leonard - a longtime grief worker who has worked with marginalized communities in Toronto for over 40 years. Our dinner activity will be led by Ayoola Silvera, who will facilitate small group discussions on grief and loss. Our dinner is being catered by chef Rachel Adjei of The Abibiman Project with an African three-course menu of vegan, gluten-free, and meat dishes.

We hope you join us. Space is limited and less than 10 day passes are available for Saturday’s program. Early bird tix are available until Saturday, October 24.

Special thanks to the National accessArts Centre and Joe’s Place for Creativity for sponsoring our Remnants of Remembrance workshop. ❤️

#ancestralartscollective #blackgriefandloss #theabibimanproject #nationalaccessartscentre #joesplaceforcreativity

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Here is a breakdown of Friday night’s program, which features readings, artist talks, and presentations. This is an intimate affair and tickets are selling quickly. Early bird tix are available until Saturday. Please visit ancestralartscollective.com for full details.

Much love to all of our supporters, especially 8 80 Cities and Balsam Foundation of the Ontario Changemakers program and Balancing Act Canada’s Level UP! program. As a volunteer-run entity at this time, it has been so helpful and appreciated.

#ancestralartscollective #blackdeathdoulas #880cities #balancingactcanada #ontariocommunitychangemakers

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SC&BJ vol 1. Are you ready for vol 2?

SC&BJ Band
🎤 @jon_nvita @itsotisi
🎹 @darryljdennie
🎷 @b4saxx
🎸 @burehbk
🥁 @gabetempo
🎸 @jonathan.aristide  🎧 @mxnwayyy

Special Guest artist @dipothevoice @askaboutsewa

🎥 @k_josepph

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“When the gbedu dey enter body, enter body, Oladipupo mo Gbona feli“

@dipothevoice took a classic and added extra seasoning to it 🔥

SC&BJ Band
🎹 @darryljdennie
🎷 @b4saxx
🎸 @burehbk
🥁 @gabetempo
🎸 @jonathan.aristide  🎧 @mxnwayyy

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ADINKRA 2026 - a gathering on death, dying, and healing through Afrodiasporic creativity - takes place Nov 6-7, 2026 at the Centre for Black Canadian Diaspora at OCADU.

Please visit ancestralartscollective.com for program details. Links are also in our bio.

#adinkra2026 #blackarchives #ancestralartscollective

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Final call! Small Chops & Big Jams is almost here. Enjoy Naija bites and a live Afrobeats band playing the hits from Burnaboy to Davido and Wizkid, and throwing it back to D’Banj, StylPlus and P-Square. Sunday, Sep 20 — XNO Toronto. Come chop, come jam.

Last batch of tickets🎟️: scbj.eventbrite.com

Ps: Early Bird tickets are SOLD OUT!

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Finally, Small Chops & Big Jams is coming soon! Enjoy Naija comfort food and a live Afrobeats band playing the hits — from Burnaboy to Davido and Wizkid, and throwing it back to D’Banj, StylPlus and P-Square. Sunday, Sep 20 — XNO Toronto. Come chop, come jam.

🎟️ Tickets: scbj.eventbrite.com

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Here’s exactly what we are asking for.

The Grammys have it. The MTV VMAs have it. The MOBO Awards have it. The Western Canadian Music Awards have it. It is time Canada’s national music award had it too.

We — the Junos Afro Award Steering Committee — are formally proposing the creation of:

✨ AFRO MUSIC RECORDING OF THE YEAR ✨

A dedicated JUNO Award category for all traditional and contemporary music rooted in Continental African culture. Afrobeats. Amapiano. Highlife. Ndombolo. Kwaito. Afro-Fusion. Soukous. Gqom. Taarab and other genres rooted in sub-saharan and North African cultures!

There are 65+ eligible submissions ready for 2026. 105+ active Canadian Afro Music artists. 1.3 million Africans in Canada. A community that is growing, thriving, and long overdue for this recognition.

3 years of work. The moment is now.

Here’s how you help:
👉 Share this post
👉 Tag @junoawards in the comments
👉 Use #AfroMusicJunos everywhere

🎵 Are you an Afro music artist based in Canada? DM us @flight6ix54 — this movement is for you, and we want you involved.

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We showed the problem. Now here’s why the solution is long overdue.

- 15 billion Spotify streams per year — up 500% since 2017.
- 250,000+ concert tickets sold across just 4 Canadian cities since 2022.
- Canadian Afro artists already winning JUNOs and getting international recognition — TOBi, Ryan Ofei, TheHonestGuy, Tome, Pierre Kwenders.
- 1.3 million Africans in Canada. 105+ active Canadian Afro Music artists.

This is not a genre that needs to prove itself. It already has.
The only thing missing is a JUNO Award category that reflects what’s actually happening in Canadian music. That reflects the diversity in Canadian music. That honours the work Afro- Canadian artists put in!

We are the Junos Afro Award Steering Committee, and we’ve been making this case for 3 years.

👉 Save this post. Share it. This conversation needs to happen.
Part 3 coming soon. 👀

🎵 Are you a Canadian Afro music artist? DM us @flight6ix54 — we want to hear from you and we want you in this movement.

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🇨🇦 Canada’s biggest music awards don’t have a category for African music.

Not Afrobeats. Not Amapiano. Not Highlife. Not Afro-Fusion. Not Bongo Flava. NOTHING.

Instead, our music — one of the fastest-growing genres on the planet — gets filed under “Global Music.” A catch-all shared with dozens of unrelated genres, where it can’t be recognized or evaluated on its own cultural terms.

Afro-Canadian artists feel it. Many don’t even bother submitting anymore.

This is the problem the Junos Afro Award Steering Committee has been fighting to fix for 3 years. Swipe to understand the full picture.

👉 Save this post. Share it. This conversation needs to happen.
Part 2 coming soon. 👀

🎵 Are you a Canadian Afro music artist? DM us @flight6ix54 — we want to hear from you and we want you in this movement.

#AfroMusicJunos #JunoAwards #AfricanMusicCanada #representationmatters

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10 years of #wearegumbo excellence! Bless up! 👌🏾

To walk into a space and feel seen is everything!
Asé 🙌🏾🫶🏾

#afrodiaspora #Toronto #peopleartandmusic #spacemakers

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PSA from Rollout:
“We’re proud to partner with @wearegumbo to celebrate 10 years of dynamic, Afro-Diasporic Spacemaking.
These custom drops are some of the most joyful graphics we’ve printed in a long time, and we love how this project is coming together.”

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