🚨 SAVE THE DATE: SEPT 28-OCT 4, 2025 We are heading to BOSTON, MA for #DW2025! 🎉 Please join us in exactly 1 year for our 5th annual #DouglassWeek! 🥰 Follow us & sign up for our newsletter to stay in the loop! ❤️A HUGE THANKS to all our friends, sponsors & supporters #DW2025

We’re thrilled to support our friends & partners at @MassHumanities at the Governor’s Awards in the Humanities tonight, Sept 26! This celebration is extra special, with performances by #DouglassWeek’s very own Paul Oakley Stovall, Nicole Morris & Kenneth B. Morris Jr. 🙌 #MH50

This year, a repost of these powerful words seems particularly appropriate. #FrederickDouglass ➡️ Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=NBe5qbnk…

🎶 TONIGHT!! HARMONIES OF FREEDOM: Honouring #FrederickDouglass in Belfast 7:30-10:00PM GMT (DOORS at 7:00PM!) 💛 Join us for the grand finale of #DouglassWeek 2024 at the Duncairn Centre in Belfast! 🎟️ Tickets: £12 on the Duncairn website #HarmoniesOfFreedom #Belfast

😍 TODAY 1:30-3:00PM GMT: Interactive, Creative Workshop about Queer Utopias at the Cafe at @ulsteruni @belfastschoolofart 🌈 Only 2 TIX LEFT! Led by Dónal Tabbot, this workshop delves into the concept of queer utopias as a powerful response to rising hate crimes! #DouglassWeek

😍 TODAY AT 12.00PM: Fun walk & cupakes with @sportingprideireland 👍 45 min walk from Ormeau Park to @2RoyalAvenue which includes #FrederickDouglass-related highlights in #Belfast! We'll stop for photo! ➡ Meeting point: Ormeau Park (on the green next to Ozone Tennis Centre) 🥳

😍 AT 11AM TODAY: Join us for a friendly, LGBTQIA+ inclusive rounders match with @SportingPrideIE ➡ Meeting point: Ormeau Park (on the green next to the Ozone Indoor Tennis Centre) 🏳️‍🌈 This is the groups 2nd training session, so beginners are very welcome! #DouglassWeek

JOIN US LIVE AT @2RoyalAvenue NOW for an amazing panel about #lgbtqiaplus rights and social justice as part of #DouglassWeek2024! 😍

😍 LIVE NOW: JOIN US FOR THIS HYBRID EVENT! ➡️ LINK ON OUR WEBSITE & you will find a button to WATCH LIVE on the event page! "Frederick Douglass: Illuminating Minds Across Borders – A Timeless Story of Literacy, Liberation & Universal Empowerment" #DouglassWeek @UCC @UCCEquality

📷 JOIN US LIVE ONLINE & IN PERSON AT 12PM at @UCC Organized & hosted by @UCCEquality "Frederick Douglass: Illuminating Minds Across Borders – A Timeless Story of Literacy, Liberation, & Universal Empowerment" LINK TO HYBRID EVENT ON OUR WEBSITE! ➡️ UCC, North Wing Council Room

😍Today at 2PM @QUBelfast: PANEL DISCUSSION: POLICING BLACK BODIES! 🗣️Speakers: Andy George, President of the UK National Black Police Association, Jesee Karanga, Vice President of the National Black Police Association, Mohamed Idriss & Henri Mohamed! ➡️ JOIN THE CONVERSATION!

😍 HAPPENING NOW! @PRONI_DFC Join us between now-1.30pm! 🩷 Free & open to anyone! Star line-up of local & international guest speakers! 💡 The symposium brings together community members, activists, academics, archivists & others for a dynamic exchange of ideas & perspectives!

🤩 It's here: Happy #DouglassWeek, all! Join us for DAY 1 and enjoy this week of talks, walks, discussions and collaborations with us! 💜 12PM: Welcome from the #Douglassweek team 💙 1.30-4.00PM: Anti-Slavery Belfast walking tour 💛 3.00-5.00PM: New exhibition & panel discussion!

😍 #DouglassWeek2024 begins TODAY & we couldn't be more excited to be in Belfast!! 🗓️ Full schedule of events on our website: douglassweek.org/events2024 ➡️ 7 days of talks, walks, performances & other events commemorating Frederick Douglass & other changemakers, join us this week!

We are so excited that this amazing musician & long-term #DouglassWeek friend and supporter will be joining us LIVE and IN PERSON on Saturday for our closing event! Go check her music out & join her today at Victoria Square! 😍 You will want more, so come join us on the 20th! 🥳

Can’t wait for this fantastic event THIS SATURDAY!!! 😍 🤩 It’s gonna be a very special event, come join us! 📣 THE FIRST EVER READING FREDERICK DOUGLASS TOGETHER EVENT IN IRELAND! So delighted to be collaborating on this with @MassHumanities & @CorkMigrant ❤️👏 #DouglassWeek

1️⃣ MORE WEEK TILL #DouglassWeek2024! 😍 Hard to believe, but we are almost ready to go! 🤩 This time next week, we'll be kicking things off in #Belfast with our wonderful team & so many local/ international contributors, we are bursting with excitement! 💻 douglassweek.org/events2024

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😍 SARAH MCCREEDY LIVE TODAY at 3:05PM GMT! Our wonderful friend & co-founder of #DouglassWeek, @sarahmccreedymusic will be playing some of her fantastic music, talking about her new album & her participation in #DouglassWeek2024! 👂LIVE: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xvm… @bbcradioulster