Past Events: Past Events
We explore human rights from many different angles and perspectives. Check out our past events (since March 2018).
Past Events listing
November 2023
Housing is a human right
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Cost: Free
Location: This virtual dialogue will be held on Zoom.
![A group of people walking down a street. One person holds a sign that reads: “Housing is a human right.”](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.51%2C0.39%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0.3%2C0.07%2C0.68%2C0.79%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-11/housing-is-a-human-right-2.jpg?itok=ziXy9sjb)
Innocents Behind Bars: Systemic Racism and Wrongful Convictions
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Cost: Free
Location: MTS Classroom, Canadian Museum for Human Rights
![An simple illustration of a white hummingbird picking the lock of a door and opening it. The door is in a row of doors.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.5%2C0.5%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0.02%2C0.21%2C0.77%2C0.74%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-10/Hummingbird.jpg?itok=IkepubzU)
Holiday wreathmaking workshops
November 25 & 26 and December 2
Cost: $39.99 per kit/person, tax included. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Museum’s United Way Campaign.
Location: Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1
![Gros plan de deux personnes en train de fabriquer une couronne. L'une d'elles tient un sécateur et s'apprête à couper du fil.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.57%2C0.24%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2022-11/Wreathmaking%20workshop_horizontal_Hillary%20Ungson_Unsplash.jpg?itok=wpdvNyzP)
Freezing Water Moon – Ni Kiskinohamâson – Strength and Hope
Saturday, November 25, 2023
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.
![Water sprays onto rock formations from an unseen opening above, causing a dramatic array of icicles and mounds of ice on boulders.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.57%2C0.56%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0.01%2C0%2C1%2C1%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-10/frozen-water.jpg?itok=fxy31yDK)
Iranian woman’s resistance captured in Seven Winters in Tehran
November 24 to 30, 2023
Cost: CMHR Members: Free, General Tickets: $10
Location: Cinematheque 100 Arthur St., Suite 304, Winnipeg
![A smiling young woman in a headscarf stands in a crowd. The image has a date-stamp: 25-10-2006.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.69%2C0.54%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0.14%2C0.1%2C0.88%2C0.99%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-11/Seven-Winters-in-Tehran-photo1.jpg?itok=Jnl20XkT)
Friends Gala 2023: Raising our voices
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Cost: $500 per person
Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Bonnie & John Buhler Hall
![In a large hall, hundreds of diners sit at round tables while a woman speaks at a podium.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.53%2C0.38%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0.23%2C0.12%2C0.81%2C0.73%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-10/FCMHR-2022-Gala-047.jpg?itok=7Iywy1OT)
Human‐made at the Museum
Saturday, November 11 and Sunday, November 12, 2023
Cost: See below
Location: Throughout open areas in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
![A group of people gathering and chatting in a large hall. One person is shopping at a kiosk.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.32%2C0.39%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0%2C0.17%2C0.88%2C0.68%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-10/Lucky%20Girl%20pop%20up%20event%20at%20CMHR%20-%20Aug%202023.jpg?itok=dhyMPpw8)
![A female musician dressed in a red, sleeveless dress is playing a gold saxophone.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.5%2C0.5%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0%2C0.28%2C1%2C0.77%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-12/AdobeStock_434793239_Claudio-Divizia.jpg?itok=yq5j8_bW)
In conversation with Indigenous veteran Devin Beaudry
Friday, November 10, 2023
Cost: Free
Location: Canadian Journeys gallery, Level 2, Canadian Museum for Human Rights
![A close-up of a fiery red poppy in a field of poppies. The picture has been stylized so that only the red flowers are in vivid colour and the surrounding field is in black and white.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.5%2C0.5%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0.25%2C0.19%2C0.71%2C0.73%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-10/poppies-indigenous-vets.jpg?itok=jinIYZWb)
Remembering Indigenous veterans
Friday, November 3, 2023
Cost:
Location: Manitoba Teachers’ Society Classrooms, Level 1, Canadian Museum for Human Rights
![The National Aboriginal Veterans monument, an outdoor statue featuring three Indigenous veterans, a bear, a wolf and an eagle taking flight on top.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.48%2C0.39%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0.31%2C0.15%2C0.64%2C0.69%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-10/national-aboriginal-veterans-monument.jpg?itok=HxV00akR)
October 2023
Brunch at Drag-ula’s Den
Sunday, October 29, 2023 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $36 per person.
Location: Boreal Bistro, Level 1, Canadian Museum for Human Rights
![A vampire dressed in a velvety red dress peeks through a red wooden box with her long, black nails.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.5%2C0.5%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0.13%2C0.1%2C0.62%2C0.73%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-10/dragul-den-vampire.jpeg?itok=nAFJ-Fih)
Migration Moon: Share a pipe ceremony and potluck
October 21, 2023
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.
![A large number of snow geese along with a few Ross’s geese fly across a grey sky.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.5%2C0.5%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-08/51882004861_a471db3a0e_o.jpg?itok=dNNsKloe)
September 2023
Take part in “reconcili‐action” at the CMHR
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Cost: Free
Location: Garden of Contemplation, Level 3
![An image of an orange shirt with the text Every Child Matters is projected on an exterior wall of the Museum.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.31%2C0.33%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0%2C0.16%2C1%2C0.44%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-09/MicrosoftTeams-image%20(8).jpg?itok=Ju8WtSCs)
![Many people stand between two intricately patterned joined mirrors that reflect green lights and a throng of onlookers.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.68%2C0.75%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-09/Hero%20image%20Nuit_Blanche_Toronto_2022-Sam%20Javanrouh.jpg?itok=UUszX-k7)
The Mating Moon – How do we stay thankful in the era of swiping?
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Cost: Free, registration required
Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1
![The cut cross-section of an old tree reveals its many, many rings and splits in the wood that developed over time.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.78%2C0.47%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0.25%2C0.1%2C1%2C0.95%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-07/tree-trunk-steadman-info.jpg?itok=CEKnCQVR)
Human Rights Through Film: Someone Lives Here and discussion with the filmmakers
September 22 to 27, 2023
Cost: CMHR Members: Free, General Tickets: $10 Cinematheque is offering a pay-what-you-can option for this film.
Location: Dave Barber Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg
![A drawing of a wooden shelter is covered in strips that comprise human faces.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.51%2C0.33%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0.15%2C0.11%2C0.82%2C0.89%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-09/collage-police-young-men-someone-lives-here.jpg?itok=eLKILVhB)
Woman, Life, Freedom
September 16, 2023 to March 31, 2024
Cost: This space is free to access
Location: The Forks North Portage Partnership Classroom Lobby
![A white banner hangs on a wall, bearing the words "Woman, Life, Freedom" in black. Small coloured squares with text are attached to the banner around the text.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.23%2C0.48%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0.01%2C0.31%2C1%2C0.68%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-09/woman-life-freedom-banner.jpg?itok=8HZ6MRQX)
World Wellness Day at the Museum
September 15 and 16, 2023
Cost:
Location: Throughout the Museum
![A ballet slipper lies in a tall prairie grass field near a large glass building.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.65%2C0.52%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0%2C0.34%2C1%2C0.71%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-09/36506623605_1d5c8be4a2_k%20(2).jpg?itok=WqHGXY8v)
August 2023
Human Rights Through Film: Bones of Crows
August 25 to 31, 2023
Cost: CMHR Members: Free, General Tickets: $10
Location: Cinematheque, 100 Arthur St., Suite 304, Winnipeg
![An Indigenous woman stands in a field of prairie grasses. There is a blue sky with grey clouds behind her as the sun shines on her.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.52%2C0.27%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0.13%2C0.03%2C0.88%2C0.88%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-08/bones-of-crows-still-1.jpg?itok=h6rAiKuD)
Celebrate Emancipation Day at the Museum
Friday, August 4, 2023
Cost: Free ticket recommended
Location: Buhler Hall, Level 1, Canadian Museum for Human Rights
![A crowded hall of people.](/sites/prod/files/styles/crop%5Bwidth%5D%3D256%26crop%5Bheight%5D%3D171%26crop%5Bfp%5D%3D0.45%2C0.23%26crop%5Bfp_area%5D%3D0.05%2C0%2C0.99%2C1%26convert%5Bextension%5D%3Djpeg/public/2023-07/group-of-people-gathering-in-museum.jpg?itok=3-p2ZcOE)