{"id":17882,"date":"2023-02-23T13:10:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T18:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=17882"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:44","slug":"celebrating-the-black-canadian-experience-an-evening-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/event\/celebrating-the-black-canadian-experience-an-evening-of-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Black Canadian Experience: An\u00a0Evening of Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                                                        <\/div>\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join the&nbsp;<strong>Umoja Black Community Engagement Program<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong>Institute of African Studies<\/strong>&nbsp;for an evening of poetry! The theme for the evening is \u201cThe Black Experience,\u201d where we will hear from local and student poets about the good and bad of experiencing Blackness and celebrating our differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This event is free and closed to students, staff and community members who identify as African, Caribbean, or Black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Time<\/strong>:&nbsp; Sunday, March 5th , 2023, <strong>6:30 to 3:30 PM @&nbsp; Carleton University Art Gallery&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"859\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/umoja-new-2-e1675451203224.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/umoja-new-2-e1675451203224.jpg 614w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/umoja-new-2-e1675451203224-160x224.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/umoja-new-2-e1675451203224-240x336.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/umoja-new-2-e1675451203224-400x560.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/umoja-new-2-e1675451203224-360x504.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/umoja-new-2-e1675451203224-200x280.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button \" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/seo\/cu_event\/umoja-celebrating-the-black-candian-experience-poetry-march-5-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Register Here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[282],"cu_event_audience":[189,190,191,192,194,197],"class_list":["post-17882","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-events","cu_event_audience-alumni","cu_event_audience-anyone","cu_event_audience-carleton-community","cu_event_audience-current-students","cu_event_audience-media","cu_event_audience-staff-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2023-03-05T18:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2023-03-05T20:30:00","cu_event_add_to_calendar":"show","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_building":"SP","cu_event_meeting_room":"182 Carleton University Art Gallery","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"0","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"umoja@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/17882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/17882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17884,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/17882\/revisions\/17884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=17882"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=17882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}