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Written By Black Space Media

✨Fall Update 

🍂 Hey Community!

We’re off to an amazing start this fall! This past week marked the launch of our Black Spaces Symposium and Summit 2025, and we couldn’t be more excited about the conversations, connections, and creativity that are unfolding.

From powerful dialogues to inspiring panels, there’s so much happening — and we have lots to share with you. Each week, this newsletter will keep you up to date with event highlights, community stories, and ways to get involved and stay connected.

Together, let’s make this season one of community, celebration, and resilience, as we continue to create spaces where our stories and cultures thrive. 💛

🌱 Upcoming Events

This weekend, we gather again at the Museum of Vancouver for our second panel:

Honoring the Legacy: Cultural Preservation & Celebration in African Descent Communities ✨

Join us for an inspiring dialogue as historians, artists, and cultural advocates explore how African descent communities are reclaiming narratives, safeguarding heritage, and celebrating resilience through art, storytelling, and tradition.

🎟 Only 9 tickets left! Don’t miss your chance to be part of this incredible gathering.

📍 Museum of Vancouver
🗓 Saturday, October 4, 2025
⏰ 11:30 AM | Doors Open

Reserve your spot now

  • Roots of Resilience: Afro-Indigenous Foods & Reciprocal Land Practices

🗓 October 18th, 2025
💬 A powerful panel on food sovereignty and ancestral wisdom.

📍 The Cultch Culture LAB
🗓 Saturday, October 18, 2025
⏰ 12:30 AM | Doors Open

🎥 Vancouver International Film Festival Giveaway!

We’re thrilled to share a special opportunity with our community!

The 44th Vancouver International Film Festival runs October 2–12, 2025in Vancouver, BC.This year’s expanded edition features 172+ feature films, 97shorts, and 128+ premieres (26world)across 13 screens in 10 venues.

The program is expansive, catering to the delights of cinema and arts lovers alike with a spotlight on Korean cinema, Indigenous and Canadian world premieres, and programming that spans live performance, music, industry, and creative technology, #VIFF2025 is a city-wide celebration of storytelling in all its forms.

Beyond screenings, VIFF 2025 presents VIFF Live performances blending cinema with music and art, and VIFF Amp, a summit on the essential role of music in film.

Tickets/info:viff.org/festival
#VIFF2025

To celebrate the incredible storytelling happening at the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF), we’re giving away passes to two amazing films.  🎟️

The Great North

In her dazzling debut feature, British filmmaker and artist Jenn Nkiru reimagines Manchester as a site of diasporic memory, where red brick buildings vibrate with ancestral presence and sound becomes a portal through time. The Great North moves through living rooms, nightclubs, and street corners — tracing the imprints of Black, Asian, and Irish communities across the city’s industrial past and speculative futures.

https://viff.org/whats-on/viff25-the-great-north/


BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is the hypnotic and long-anticipated feature debut of Kahlil Joseph, a visionary filmmaker and installation artist known for his radical, genre-defying approach to Black visual culture. Structured like a concept album in 21 tracks, the film blends narrative, documentary, and archival material into a time-bending odyssey across 247 years of diasporic memory.
https://viff.org/whats-on/viff25-blknws-terms-conditions/




How to Enter:

  1. Be subscribed to this newsletter (you’re already halfway there!).

  2. Share this newsletter with one friend who would love to join our community.

  3. Reply to this email with the subject line: VIFF Giveaway and tell us why storytelling matters to you.

Deadline: Entries must be received by October 5, 2025.
The winner will be announced in next week’s newsletter!

✨ Don’t miss this chance to celebrate film, culture, and community with us.


✨ Community Spotlight

Each week, we’ll highlight incredible members of our community doing meaningful work.

This Week’s Spotlight:

🌟 PATIENCE MAGAGULA, she is the Executive director and  founder of Afro-Canadian Postive Network of BC Society. Since 2009 Patience and here team have  been leading initiatives around social services and health education. Her passion for supporting and improving the lives of Immigrants. She is co-principal investigator on the Drive for Change project, a three-year participatory action research project exploring some of the challenges experienced by immigrant African, Caribbean and Black people living with HIV in the British Columbia healthcare system including HIV stigma, racism and discrimination.

👏 Thank you Patience,  for inspiring us all through your dedication to our community!

💡 Ways to Get Involved

Help us grow and create impact together:

📸 Last Week in Photos

Here’s a glimpse of the energy and love from our last gathering, Breaking the Silence: Mental Health Awareness in the African Descent Community.

Last week, we gathered for Breaking the Silence: Mental Health Awareness in the African Descent Community, a powerful and deeply needed event dedicated to addressing the deep-rooted stigma, systemic inequities, and historical trauma that have long impacted the mental well-being of Black individuals and families.

The afternoon was filled with courageous conversations, shared truths, and collective healing. Panelists and participants alike explored the barriers that African descent communities face when seeking mental health support—ranging from racism within healthcare systems and a lack of culturally safe services, to generational mistrust of institutions rooted in lived experiences.


💬 Final Words

Thank you for being part of the Afro Van Connect community. Your presence and support make every conversation, panel, and celebration even more meaningful.

Let’s continue building spaces of connection, creativity, and resilience — together. 💛

With gratitude,
AVC & the Black Spaces Team

Black Space Media https://wwww.blackspacemedia.ca
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