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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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March 2025

Spring break 2025 at the Museum

Saturday, March 29 to Sunday, April 6, 2025

Cost: Free with admission

Location: Multiple areas in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Two children sit at a table making art while an adult leans on the table, watching.

Visas of Life and the Epic Journey

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Cost: Free, registration required

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1

An open photo album contains black-and-white headshots of seven individuals and other annotated photos

Folklorama night and human rights

Friday, March 21, 2025

Cost: $65 per ticket

Location: Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1

Thirteen Irish dancers dressed in short, black dresses are holding brooms across their chest.

Returning to ceremony, recommitting to Reconcili‐ACTION

Saturday, March 15, 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.

A lone bald eagle sits on a branch of a craggy, leafless tree. In the background, a nearly full moon shines in a twilight sky.

February 2025

Culinary Night at the Museum

Friday, February 14, 2025

Cost: $145 includes dinner, $180 includes dinner and signature drink at each stop

Location: Various locations in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

A woman with light skin and long, dark brown hair is using her cell phone to take a photo of a plate of gourmet food on a table.

Noir et fier (Black and Proud) market and events

February 8, 9 and 27, 2025

Cost:

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Théâtre Cercle Molière

A group of people of all ages, many in brightly coloured traditional African attire, dancing and smiling.

Respect, truth and community within natural law

Saturday, February 8, 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.

A walking path curves through a heavily treed wooded area that is dusted with snow.

January 2025

Webinar: Supporting Educators in Holocaust Education

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Cost: This event is free to attend but registration is required.

Location: This event is virtual.

Uneven glass walls surround a theatre with a screen and 4 benches facing it. Outside the theatre entrance is a sign indicating the film selected to play.

Hate goes viral

Monday, January 27, 2025

Cost: The event is free to attend but registration is required.

Location: Manitoba Teachers’ Society Classrooms A/B/C, Level 1

A hand hovers over a computer keyboard, ready to strike.

Folklorama night and human rights

Friday, January 24, 2025

Cost: $65 per ticket

Location: Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1

Korean dancers holding large, flower-patterned fans are grouped together so their fans form a circle.

The Frost Moon and natural law: Walking gently

Saturday, January 11, 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.

The large full moon rises over a snowy hill covered in pine trees.

December 2024

Winter break activities 2024–25

Friday, December 27, 2024 to Sunday, January 5, 2025

Cost: Free

Location: Various locations in the Museum

A group of children and youth paint with small brushes. They are gathered on both sides of a long table with different coloured paints in the foreground.

Opikinawasowin – The process of lifting children and growing sacredness

Saturday, December 21, 2024

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 traditional Indigenous structure, commonly called a tipi, made of sticks sits on a leaf-strewn forest floor, surrounded by cut logs.

Winter piñata workshop

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Cost: $19.99 per person, tax included. All materials and supplies are included in the cost.

Location: Stuart Clark Garden of Contemplation

A child making a craft works intently to pull a string. The child is dressed in a blue sweatshirt with a snowman on it.

Human Rights Day 2024

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Cost: Free all day to everyone

Location: Locations throughout the Museum

A large crowd in a Museum gallery. Most people are looking at a display on the wall of the gallery. The display consists of a series of pictures and of long rectangular text panels placed horizontally.

Holiday wreathmaking workshops

December 7 and 8, 2024

Cost: $39.99 per kit/person, tax included

Location: Stuart Clark Garden of Contemplation

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

November 2024

Annual Public Meeting 2024

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Cost: Free; registration required in advance

Location: Online via Zoom

Four individuals follow the path toward the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on a fall day. Three are on foot and one is in a wheelchair.

One Land Two Hearts

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Cost: Free, registration required

Location: Stuart Clark Garden of Contemplation, Level 3

Tall spruce trees lean together against a night sky that is alive with greenish northern lights and stars.

Freezing Water Moon: Ni kiskinohamâson strength and hope

Saturday, November 16, 2024

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 close-up of a segment of the moon’s surface.

October 2024

Chasing wrongs, defending rights

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Cost: Free, registration required

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

In the Sri Lankan city Vavuniya in 2017, Elaine Pearson meets with Tamil mothers protesting the enforced disappearance of their children during Sri Lanka's civil war.

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