{"id":54741,"date":"2019-03-22T13:54:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=54741"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:38","slug":"festival-of-life-for-prof-pius-adesanmi-march-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/festival-of-life-for-prof-pius-adesanmi-march-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Life for Prof. Pius Adesanmi: March 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl 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href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/festivaloflife\/\" target=\"_blank\">Festival of Life&nbsp;<\/a>at the Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre (355 Cooper St, Ottawa, ON, K2P 0G8) on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, at 5:30 p.m. for members and friends of the Carleton community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Onyango and Adrian Harewood will anchor the festival which will feature music, poetry, readings and tributes from the Carleton&nbsp;and Ottawa community to honour the life of Prof.&nbsp;Pius Adesanmi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those unable to attend, the Festival of Life celebration will be recorded and posted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute of African Studies website<\/a>&nbsp;shortly after proceedings have wrapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may share your memories&nbsp;of&nbsp;Prof. Adesanmi by <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/submission-of-tributes-to-pius-adesanmi\" target=\"_blank\">submitting a tribute here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read the many heartfelt tributes which have already been submitted, <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/piusadesanmi-tributes\/\" target=\"_blank\">please follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To honour Prof. Adesanmi&#8217;s memory, a fund has been <a href=\"https:\/\/futurefunder.carleton.ca\/giving-fund\/professor-pius-adesanmi-memorial-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\">established to support students<\/a> and continue his&nbsp;life&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pius-8x10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/Pius-8x10.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/Pius-8x10-1024x1280.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/Pius-8x10-300x375.jpg 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