DouglassWeek

Transatlantic event series featuring creative, collaborative and critical responses to Frederick Douglass and other change makers! Join us Sep 28 - Oct 4, 2025!

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🚨 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

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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

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This year, a repost of these powerful words seems particularly appropriate. #FrederickDouglass

➡️ Watch here: https://t.co/6xpNSWMVTf

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🎶 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

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😍 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

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😍 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) 🥳

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😍 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

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

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😍 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

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📷 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

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😍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!

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😍 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!

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🤩 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!

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😍 #DouglassWeek2024 begins TODAY & we couldn't be more excited to be in Belfast!!
🗓️ Full schedule of events on our website: https://t.co/zbVXk3s8qA
➡️ 7 days of talks, walks, performances & other events commemorating Frederick Douglass & other changemakers, join us this week!

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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! 🥳

[Dr Sarah McCreedy 🏳️‍🌈 @SarahAEMcCreedy]

Very excited to be playing a set in Victoria Square today from 3pm onwards! With thanks to the wonderful Oh Yeah Centre ❤️

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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

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Join us and celebrate with us

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Join us and celebrate with us

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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!
💻 https://t.co/TPWZo4pdcq

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👏 #DouglassWeek events are only possible because of YOUR generous support!
🥰 Any donations large or small are welcome & appreciated!
💻 To donate, please visit our website!
➡️ We are a registered USA 501c3 nonprofit; all donations are tax deductible!

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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: https://t.co/JSegUKtiN0 @bbcradioulster