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November 21, 2024
THURSDAY - 2:00 pm
Hybrid presentation
Hybrid presentation
- In person at Hope United Church (3055 Connaught Ave., Halifax)
- Online via Zoom webinar
Fun with Flags – A Daily Celebration of History, Flags, Fun and Community
Join Patricia Acheson and Dan Conlin for an illustrated talk about what started off as a diversion to entertain themselves and neighbours during the COVID lockdown and has turned into a four year project to mark an interesting anniversary every day with a flag flown from their house. The flags commemorate historical, cultural and scientific events – as well as the downright strange – with the beauty and quirkiness. Visiting the flags has a great community exercise and daily destination for many.
Photo - Adam Inniss (CBC) 2022
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PATRICIA ACHESON is originally from Ontario where she worked as an editor at Amnesty International in Ottawa. She came to Halifax to study journalism at the University of King’s College and worked at The Daily News and as a freelance editor.
DAN CONLIN is a historian and the curator at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax. His MA thesis explored privateering in Nova Scotia. He is the author of Pirates of the Atlantic: Robbery, Murder and Mayhem off Canada’s East Coast and War Through the Lens: The Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit: 1941-1945. |
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to acknowledge that we are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship. This series of treaties did not surrender Indigenous land, resources or sovereignty but instead established rules for an ongoing relationship between nations. We recognize the significance of these treaties and the need for continual learning and engagement in the work of the truth, reconciliation and equity. We are all treaty people. We also recognize that African Nova Scotians are a distinct people whose histories, legacies and contributions have enriched that part of Mi’kma’ki known as Nova Scotia for over 400 years.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to acknowledge that we are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship. This series of treaties did not surrender Indigenous land, resources or sovereignty but instead established rules for an ongoing relationship between nations. We recognize the significance of these treaties and the need for continual learning and engagement in the work of the truth, reconciliation and equity. We are all treaty people. We also recognize that African Nova Scotians are a distinct people whose histories, legacies and contributions have enriched that part of Mi’kma’ki known as Nova Scotia for over 400 years.