Mind Forward: Navigating Wellness at the Indus Health and Wellness Fair 2024
Date: February 29, 2024Location: Queen’s Manor Event Centre. 2 Auction Lane Brampton, ON L6T 0C4Time: 10:00 am to 7:00 pm.CLICK HERE to register Mind Forward warmly invites you to join…
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day! Our Watercolouring Club showed their creativity in making these beautiful cards for all of their family and Mind Forward friends alike. We enjoy bringing a little bit…
Black History Month Spotlight: Violet King
Violet King was the first Black Woman to practice law in Canada. She was born on 18 October 1929 in Calgary, Alberta to John and Stella King. John worked as…
Chinese New Year
Saturday, February 10th, 2024 marks Chinese New Year, taking place on the second new moon after Winter solstice. Chinese New Year has great historical and cultural significance, involving many religious…
Black History Month – Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary
Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary, American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, first female Journalist, publisher, teacher and lawyer.As February is Black History Month the EDI Committee would like to spotlight Mary Ann Shadd.When…
National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia
The National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack, observed on January 29th, honors the victims of the tragic 2017 shooting that occurred at the Islamic Cultural Centre…
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
On January 27, 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp – where more than one million people were sent to gas chambers and to their agonizing deaths during the Holocaust – was…
Kwanzaa December 26 – January 1
Kwanzaa, an African-American holiday, is celebrated from December 26 to January 1. Maulana Karenga, a professor of Africana studies at California State University in Long Beach and an important figure…
Merry Christmas December 25
December 25th is Christmas Day, a Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, a spiritual leader whose teaching form the basis of this religion. There are no clues…
Woodworking 2024
Back by popular demand, Mind Forward is happy to announce woodworking programs will be offered at head office! Last October, a group of client volunteers helped renovate and refurbish the…
Human Rights Day – December 10th
Human Rights Day is celebrated annually on December 10th. It commemorates the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This…
Hanukkah December 7-15
This year, Hanukkah begins at nightfall on December 7th and ends at nightfall on December 15th. Hanukkah falls on a different day each year as the Hebrew calendar is based…