Ontario Bicentenary Exhibit
880 Bay Street
Toronto, ON M7A-2C1

FREE of charge

The Ontario provincial government is marking the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act with projects to remember, educate and commemorate the history of the abolition of slavery in Ontario. The Ontario Bicentenary Exhibit will be hosting Haiti Day – Commemorating the battle of Vertières.

A new documentary film that profiles Father Christopher Hartley, a Spanish priest who travels to the Dominican Republic to stop a modern-day slavery operation. Thousands of Haitian men are forced to work in inhumane conditions to harvest sugar cane for obscenely rich sugar barons. In the face of multiple death threats, Father Hartley works with these dispossessed workers to stand up for themselves. This screening is hosted by Toronto Haiti Action Committee.

Where: The Brunswick Theatre, 296 Brunswick Avenue, at Bloor, west of Spadina, www.brunswicktheatre.ca