Venue Name

theScore Headquarters

Location Address 125 Queens Quay E,Toronto,ON

Details

The BFUTR Summit Launch Party returns. With the lineups around the block two years in a row, we are providing a CHANCE to hold your spot at the party this year! Come party with 100s of Black tech professionals and allies overlooking Sugar Beach at theScore Headquarters! Let’s celebrate the launch of BFUTR 2024! Why do you want to be there? – Drinks and good food – Live DJ and a lakefront view – Networking with executives and recruiters – Front-of-the-line access to the big reveal!! Who is performing at BFUTR this year!?!? IT WILL SELL OUT. IMPORTANT: Your registration gives you a CHANCE to attend the BFUTR Summit Launch Party! * On May 31st, if selected, we will send official RSVPs to registrants who may attend. REMEBMER: If you receive an official RSVP, you have 48 hours to respond—or you will lose your spot!

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Invest Fest 2023 is a first of its kind, in-person experience to combine investing, entrepreneurship, pop culture, and entertainment in a festival setting. Invest Fest 2023 will be bigger and better than ever. Invest Fest 2023 will include business and investing panel discussions, live performances from chart topping musicians, a food truck caravan, and interactive events. There will also be an even larger vendor marketplace showcasing over 400 small businesses and live podcast stages with interviews from more top entrepreneurs and celebrities.

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Click Here to Apply for the Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee

The Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee provides advice to City Council and serves as a convening table to advise on inter-government and institutional work on anti-Black racism in sectors such as education, child-welfare, policing and the justice system, housing, and employment. In doing so, the Committee can further build on the objectives of the Toronto Action Plan to Confront Anti-Black Racism by supporting the implementation of the themes of the United Nations’ International Decade for People of African Descent, namely, “Recognition, Justice, Development”.

Responsibilities of the Racism Advisory Committee

The mandate of the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee is to provide advice to City Council:

• To support the implementation of the principles of the International Decade for People of African Descent under the themes of Recognition, Development, and Justice
• On the elimination of barriers faced by Black communities and recommend City engagement to help improve access to provincial, federal, and community agency services and programs
• To ensure the interests and needs of Black communities are reflected in City programs and service delivery
• On emerging issues and trends of significance to Black communities as they relate to City services and programs
• In addition, the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee will enjoy a collaborative, cooperative and cohesive relationship with the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Unit’s Partnership and Accountability Circle

Composition of the Racism Advisory Committee

The Advisory Committee is composed of 14 public members and one Member of City Council. The public members will include the following:

• 8 representatives of organizations working in such fields as (but not limited to) housing, healthcare, education, employment and entrepreneurship, child welfare, policing and the criminal justice system
• 3 elder members, who self-identify and represent the wisdom of Black communities
• 3 youth members between the ages of 18 to 29

Chair and co-chair

The Chair will be a Member of City Council. At its first meeting or as soon as possible after, the Advisory Committee will elect a member of the public as co-chair.

Term of office

Public members are appointed for a term coincident with the term of City Council. The Advisory Committee will meet until the completion of its mandate or the end of the current City Council term, whichever comes first.

Qualifications for the Racism Advisory Committee

In addition to the general eligibility requirements set out in the Public Appointments Policy, members should be comprised of community and policy leaders with lived experience and/or expertise in issues of Black communities’ and reflecting the diversity of Black communities, including:

• Housing, healthcare, education, employment and entrepreneurship, child-welfare, policing and the criminal justice system
• The elimination of barriers faced by Black communities to help improve access to provincial, federal, and community agency services and programs
• Efforts to recognize and celebrate the contributions of Black Torontonians as part of the City’s contributions to mark the International Decade for People of African Descent
• Emerging issues and trends of significance to Black communities as they relate to City services and programs
• How to ensure the interests and needs of Black communities are reflected in City programs and service delivery

Meetings for the Racism Advisory Committee

The advisory committee will meet up to four times per year at the call of the Chair. Meetings take place during business hours and will be approximately 2-3 hours.

Honorarium for being on the Racism Advisory Committee

• Public members of the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee receive an honorarium of $125 per meeting attended, to the maximum number of meetings specified in the Terms of Reference for this advisory body.
• Honoraria are not intended for members who serve on the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee as representatives of organizations or businesses where they are employed.

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The BBPA is excited to have you join in recognizing the numerous contributions made locally, nationally, and globally by our Black community. This year, our theme is “DECADE LEADERS” ~ THE ART OF POSSIBLE. As we take a moment to reflect and honour our past, we are also looking forward to our very bright future.

The BBPA Harry Jerome Awards is one of the most distinguished African-Canadian awards in the country. The awards pay tribute to outstanding and inspirational African-Canadians who truly model excellence and leave their mark on the world.

2023 Harry Jerome Award
Nominations Now Open

The BBPA Harry Jerome award, presented by TD has been the blueprint for the recognition and reward of Black Excellence in Canada. For the past 40 years, we have been committed to promoting the narrative of Black success, perseverance and excellence despite the challenges that our community continues to face. As we begin a new year, we welcome the exciting opportunity to celebrate the excellence of selected Black professionals, community members, and social champions!

The award categories include but are not limited to leadership, sports, technology, business, diversity, arts and entrepreneurship. These nominees and eventual recipients model what success, accomplishment, social awareness and excellence means despite working most times, in the shadows.

We invite you to sieze this opportunity to recognize members of our community and within your networks, who have made a unique difference in the society, through your nominations. You also have the opportunity to nominate yourself, should you meet the eligibility criteria. Whether nominees are blazing the trail in the field of science, innovation, business, art, leadership, or diversity, you have the power to shed some light on their work so they can be celebrated. These nominees give us the hope and motivation to continue to strive for excellence and a better future for our community and the next generation.

Nominations for the 2023 BBPA Harry Jerome Awards open from January 17th through to February 17th. We encourage you to nominate someone today and we look forward to reviewing your nominations.

Date of the 41st Annual Harry Jerome Awards: Sat, 29 Apr 2023, 5:00 PM EDT

Location: Beanfield Centre 105 Princes’ Boulevard Toronto, ON M6K 3C3

Reception and vendors boutique from 5:00 pm EST.

Awards ceremony and dinner from 6:00 pm EST.

Afterparty to follow.

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The under-representation of Black architects and designers continues to mar the architectural profession. Today, Black people make up 14% of the United States’ population and 3.5% of Canada’s population; yet, less than 2% of the approximately 113,000 architects licensed in our country are Black.

Here are some Black Architects that you should know:

Tura Cousins Wilson

The Studio of Contemporary Architecture (SOCA) is an architecture and urban design studio dedicated to inclusive city building and the creation of beautiful spaces. Founded on the belief that architecture both shapes and is shaped by the contemporary condition, the studio is deeply engaged in research and the broader discourse of architecture’s impact on culture, the environment and the shaping of cities.

SOCA was recently listed in Wallpaper* Magazine’s 2021 directory of emerging architectural talent and selected as one of twenty emerging practices in Canada by Twenty + Change and Canadian Architect. The studio is also a contributor representing Canada at the 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Regardless of the scale, SOCA is passionate about the positive impacts of quality design.

The studio pays close attention to detail and rigorously strives for craftsmanship throughout all phases of design and construction. Understanding that architecture requires intimate collaboration, we always begin by asking questions, discussing ideas, and engaging our clients and all members of the project team to achieve design excellence. The studio is led by Shane Laptiste and Tura Cousins Wilson, who have experience in residential, institutional, and civic architecture. Both Shane and Tura are founding members of BAIDA. (Source: SOCA)

https://socadesign.ca/projects

Mariam Kamara

Initiated in 2014 by Mariam Issoufou Kamara, atelier masōmī is an architecture and research firm guided by the belief that architecture is an important tool for social change. masōmī means the inception in Hausa. We tackle public, cultural, residential, commercial and urban design projects. Our work investigates the power of design to elevate, give dignity and better people’s quality of life. (Source: Atelier Masomi)

http://www.ateliermasomi.com

David Adjaye

Adjaye Associates strives for an architecture that enriches daily life and meets the diverse needs of the communities we serve from the intimate to the expansive. We believe architecture presents opportunities for transformation—materially, conceptually, sociologically—and can act as a catalytic mechanism for bridging and creating relationships between the human body, society and the world. (Source: Adjaye Associates)

https://www.adjaye.com/works/

Afaina de Jong

AFARAI is an Amsterdam-based architectural agency that specializes in spatial design and strategy, led by architect Afaina de Jong. The studio’s aim is to cross the boundaries of the traditional architecture practice by dealing with the existing city with an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach, integrating theory and research with design. As a studio AFARAI considers itself a feminist practice that encourages change on social and spatial issues and that accommodate differences. (Source: AFARAI)

http://www.afarai.com/

Nina Cooke John

Studio Cooke John, founded by Nina Cooke John, is a multidisciplinary design studio that values placemaking as a way to transform relationships between people and the built environment. Working at the scale of the human body; individually or collectively, in the home or on the street, we respond to how we use space in our everyday lives, whether in the family unit or as a community.

We play out intimate relationships in the privacy of our homes, but in public, in the streets, we play out important relationships with our neighbors. It is where we strengthen the bonds with those whose backgrounds might be different to ours as we build community. It is in public space that we provide a place for and acknowledge the presence of those who have been systematically silenced. (Source: Nina Cooke John)

https://www.cookejohn.com/

Tosin Oshinowo

Our designs have an aesthetic signature, which retains our set of values of ‘less is more’ and ‘form follows function’. For each project, we ensure our clients needs are met, while also considering the environmental impact on the project on society at large. Our aim is to create contemporary solutions that constantly push the boundaries of Architecture in Nigeria and the African Continent. (Source: CMD+A)

https://www.cmdesign-atelier.com/

Jeffrey Adjei

Jeffrey is a RIBA chartered architect and urban designer with experience in both residential and commercial sectors in the UK, Nigeria and Ghana. He has worked as an architect and interior designer at various practices, including Assael Architecture, Sheppard Robson, Bell Associates and Harry Dobbs in London, and with Joe Osae-Addo in Accra. He holds a BA and MA from the Canterbury School of Architecture and received the RIBA Design Excellence Prize in 2013. Jeffrey is on the Advisory Board of the Margate School, an independent, post-graduate, fine art institution in the UK and hub for innovation and creativity. (Source: Studio Contra)

https://www.studio-contra.com/

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