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We explore human rights from many different angles and perspectives. Check out our past events (since March 2018).

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Past events 1 – 20 of 340

January 2026

The Frost Moon and the Natural Laws That Come Before All Else

January 31, 2026

Cost: Free, registration required.

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The group will meet in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1 and proceed together to Level 6.

Event details
A snow-covered tipi sits in a hilly landscape dotted with trees and bushes against a blue sky.

Screening of Gego Mawikak: A Story of Reconciliation

January 29, 2026

Cost: Free, registration required.

Location: Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Event details
A church interior with a long red-carpeted aisle between wooden pews. Sunlight filters through stained-glass windows as several children run toward the bright entrance at the far end while an Indigenous woman sits alone in a pew to the left.

The Pitch: Women, Sport and the Fight for Equity

January 28, 2026

Cost: Free, registration required.

Location: Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Event details
People stand on a stadium field during a pre-game ceremony as large Canadian flags are held behind them, filling the background with red and white.

Be an Upstander Educator Workshop

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Cost: Free, registration required.

Location: The Manitoba Teachers’ Society Classrooms, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Event details
Students in a museum gallery display their work on easels. The focus is on one student talking with an adult who is smiling and taking a photograph with their phone of the student’s work.

Voices of Memory: Holocaust Testimony and Education

January 20, 2026 to January 31, 2026

Cost:

Location:

Event details
Audience members view a large projection screen displaying an elderly woman in a purple top and blue pants sitting in a white armchair, alongside an interactive message interface. The presentation takes place in a modern space with geometric glass architecture, and a presenter stands to the right of the screen.

The New Frost Moon: Create Your Own Sacred Bundle

January 10, 2026

Cost: Free, registration required.

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The group will meet in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1 and proceed together to Level 6.

Event details
View of earth rising above the lunar horizon, showing the blue and white planet against the dark backdrop of space as seen from the moon’s surface.

December 2025

Hope and Light: Honouring the Winter Solstice with a Pipe and Potluck

Saturday, December 20, 2025

Cost: Free, registration required.

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The group will meet in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1 and proceed together to Level 6.

Event details
View of earth rising above the lunar horizon, showing the blue and white planet against the dark backdrop of space as seen from the moon’s surface.

International Human Rights Day at the Museum 

December 10, 2025

Cost:

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Event details
A tall, illuminated glass-and-steel spire rises above the curved patterned roof of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, glowing in blue and white light against a soft grey sky.

Nurturing Under the Frozen Moon with Guest Artist Activity

Saturday, December 6, 2025

Cost: Registration required. Teaching: Free Art activity: $25.00, to be paid upon registration.

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The group will meet in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1 and proceed together to Level 6.

Event details
A full moon glows brightly in the night sky, framed by the arching tip of a green conifer branch with a few dried brown leaves hanging from it.

November 2025

Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 6:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m.

Cost: Free event; registration required

Location: The Manitoba Teachers’ Society Classrooms, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Event details
A white-haired white man with glasses and wearing a blazer is speaking and holding a microphone. Around him is a crowd of people holding cameras, protest signs and a banner.

Freezing Water Moon – Ni Kiskinohamâson – I’m Learning 

November 1, 2025

Cost: Free, registration required.

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The group will meet in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1 and proceed together to Level 6.

Event details
A snow-covered tipi sits in a hilly landscape dotted with trees and bushes against a blue sky.

October 2025

The matchup between human rights and sports

October 23, 2025

Cost: Free, Zoom registration required.

Location: This virtual dialogue will be held on Zoom.

Event details
A smiling man in a crowd of people holding a large yellow flag with a blue and white, “W” in the centre. The man is wearing a blue Winnipeg Blue Bombers jacket as he stands in front of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

Finding balance and connection through painting

October 11, 2025

Cost: $25 per person

Location: MTS Classrooms

Event details
Various sizes of paint brushes standing in a paint-brush holder against a blurred green backdrop.

Broken Promises

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Cost: Free event, registration required.

Location: The Stuart Clark Garden of Contemplation and the Level 6 Expressions gallery at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

Event details
Black-and-white image of women and children standing on a gravel road in front of a field.

The Love Notes Campaign

Sunday October 5, 2025

Cost: Free

Location: Garden of Contemplation, Level 3, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Event details
A young woman sitting at a table paints a design on a tile while a tin tray with various paints sits in front of her. An open bottle of red paint sits on the table.

Ruby Sachs Symposium on Global 2SLGBTQI+ Legal Advocacy

October 5 – 7, 2025

Cost: $50 – $250

Location: All events take place at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Event details
Pride flag pedestrian crosswalk across from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

Sharing the Migration Moon with a Fan Down Ceremony and Potluck Feast 

October 4, 2025

Cost: Free, registration required.

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The group will meet in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1 and proceed together to Level 6.

Event details
A flock of Canadian geese fly in a V formation against a clear blue sky.

September 2025

Comfort and Reconcili‐ACTION: What is your plan? 

September 30, 2025

Cost: Free

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Garden of Contemplation

Event details
A colourful textile art piece that includes embroidered flowers, branches and greenery mixed with layers of pink, blue and white fabrics.

Illuminate the Night: Nuit Blanche 2025

September 27, 2025

Cost: Free and open to all.

Location: Outside and inside on Level one.

Event details
The silhouette of a person standing in the dark in front of red and green clothed box structures lit from the inside and containing shadowed figures.

Pride vs. Prejudice: The Delwin Vriend Story

September 21, 2025

Cost: $10 per ticket; ticket includes free access to Love in a Dangerous Time: Canada’s LGBT Purge

Location: The Manitoba Teachers’ Society Classrooms, Level 1, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Event details
A man wearing a light blue shirt sits at a long table in front of a cluster of microphones, smiling. Seated on both sides of him are other people dressed in suits and facing microphones, also smiling. The name placards along the front of the table read, from left to right, “Murray Billet”, “Robinson Koilpillai”, and “Dr George Rodgers”, with too-blurry-to-read affiliations below the names. Another placard, knocked on its side, reads “Delwin Vriend” without an affiliation.

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