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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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January 2024

Be an Upstander Educators Workshop

January 26, 2024 and January 30, 2024

Cost: Free, registration required

Location: Manitoba Teachers’ Society Classrooms – Level 1, 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. The artwork shows four people in a hallway with four doors, each with a sign on it.

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Cost: CMHR Members: Free, General Tickets: $10

Location: Dave Barber Cinematheque 100 Arthur St., Winnipeg

Event details
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Tearing down accessibility barriers

Monday, January 8, 2024 from 7 p.m. — 8.30 p.m.

Cost: The event is free to attend, and everyone is welcome. Registration is encouraged.

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

Event details
A portrait photo of David Lepofsky, an older man in a suit and tie.

December 2023

Human Rights Day 2023

Sunday, December 10, 10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Cost: Free

Location:

Event details
Five people in a museum gallery. Two sit on a bench. Three people, including one in a wheelchair, are on a circular area where bubbles of coloured light are projected on the floor.

Opikinawasowin – The process of lifting children and growing sacredness

December 9, 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.

Event details
A Indigenous dancer in brightly coloured Fancy Shawl regalia beside a river.

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Cost: CMHR Members: Free, General Tickets: $10

Location: Dave Barber Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg

Event details
Two bright red felt dresses are pinned to a grey background next to braided red yarn and a traditional Métis sash.

Unloved: Film remembers Huronia’s forgotten children

December 3, 2023

Cost: Free event. All welcome.

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

Event details
A black-and-white photo of a sad-looking boy is paperclipped to an institution admission form that asks his name, when he was admitted, and his mental condition.

November 2023

Housing is a human right

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Cost: Free

Location: This virtual dialogue will be held on Zoom.

Event details
A group of people walking down a street. One person holds a sign that reads: “Housing is a human right.”

Innocents Behind Bars: Systemic Racism and Wrongful Convictions

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Cost: Free

Location: MTS Classroom, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Event details
An simple illustration of a white hummingbird picking the lock of a door and opening it. The door is in a row of doors.

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

Event details
A close-up of two people making a wreath. One person is holding clippers and is about to cut some wire.

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.

Event details
Water sprays onto rock formations from an unseen opening above, causing a dramatic array of icicles and mounds of ice on boulders.

November 24 to 30, 2023

Cost: CMHR Members: Free, General Tickets: $10

Location: Cinematheque 100 Arthur St., Suite 304, Winnipeg

Event details
A smiling young woman in a headscarf stands in a crowd. The image has a date-stamp: 25-10-2006.

Friends Gala 2023: Raising our voices

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Cost: $500 per person

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

Event details
In a large hall, hundreds of diners sit at round tables while a woman speaks at a podium.

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

Event details
A group of people gathering and chatting in a large hall. One person is shopping at a kiosk.

Holiday Programming

November 11, 2023 to January 6, 2024

Cost:

Location: In the Museum

Event details
A female musician dressed in a red, sleeveless dress is playing a gold saxophone.

In conversation with Indigenous veteran Devin Beaudry

Friday, November 10, 2023

Cost: Free

Location: Canadian Journeys gallery, Level 2, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Event details
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.

Remembering Indigenous veterans

Friday, November 3, 2023

Cost:

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

Event details
The National Aboriginal Veterans monument, an outdoor statue featuring three Indigenous veterans, a bear, a wolf and an eagle taking flight on top.

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

Event details
A vampire dressed in a velvety red dress peeks through a red wooden box with her long, black nails.

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.

Event details
A large number of snow geese along with a few Ross’s geese fly across a grey sky.

September 2023

Take part in “reconcili‐action” at the CMHR

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Cost: Free

Location: Garden of Contemplation, Level 3

Event details
An image of an orange shirt with the text Every Child Matters is projected on an exterior wall of the Museum.

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