All reception, no deception! Join us this week in the Humber Room for reception-style service. Enjoy an appetizer, entree and dessert for the low price of $18. The Humber Room is the perfect lunch idea to dine with a friend or a coworker. Our students look forward to serving you. Walk-ins welcome.

Email jessica.estrela@humber.ca for reservations. 

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Monday to Thursday
12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

'When the great Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson first toured Jim Crow America, he made a plan, and he stuck to it. Peterson said, “If the only way I was going to make it was to frighten the hell out of everybody pianistically—if that’s what it took to get the attention—then that’s what I would do my best to do.”

Footage of Peterson (1925-2007) making the comment appears in Oscar Peterson: Black + White, a new documentary by veteran filmmaker Barry Avrich that premieres on February 15 on Hulu. The film slightly recasts the great piano virtuoso. During his life, he was well known for his formidable technique and charming, even ebullient presence, but some of his peak came during an era of significant Black empowerment, and the great pianist was occasionally shrugged off as an entertainer rather than a freedom fighter, a blanket charge that even Louis Armstrong faced. But the documentary is corrective, dwelling on Peterson’s “Hymn to Freedom,” a song that was every bit as important to the Civil Rights movement as Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddamn,” though it is far less iconic. This song, and the fact that Peterson’s star has faded a bit in the music community since his death in 2007, provided Avrich’s motivation in making the film. - Martin Johnson

Please learn more here: https://www.mic.com/culture/oscar-peterson-black-white

Thank you Nancy Simms for suggesting this post. If you have Black/African histories you think we should all know, please email me at morris.beckford@humber.ca.

Humber will open the competition season for First Robotics Canada this year. We will host the opening district-level event for Ontario on March 5 to 6, 2022. 

But we need your help.

An epic combination of technology and imagination that puts robot against robot in a series of task challenges. Live DJ with play-by-play calls like a pro hockey game. Incredible energy level and focus by the competitors. You must see and experience it to believe it. Check out the 2019 live competition.  

As a volunteer, you make real impact in helping keep our event running smoothly. Volunteers needed for:  

• Safety Manager 
• Practice Field Attendants 
• Quiet Room Attendant 
• Pit Administration Support 
• Rapid Response Antigen Testers (possibly retired or new RN’s, Paramedics, etc.) 

You help create a path forward for the next generation, inspire these high school students and will make a positive impact on the community. Build a better future for all. 

Volunteer today! 

Timing is everything! Accepting volunteers up to event day. Register and declare what position you want for our event - Ontario District Humber College.

#FRCHUMBER 
#HUMBERFRC 
#OMGRobots
#morethanrobots 
#FIRSTFORWARD 

Please contact Lynn if you have a question regarding the volunteer positions.

Humber is undertaking a project to expand and modernize the Main KB Kitchen serving the Food Emporium located in KB Building at the North Campus. This project includes expanding the existing Main KB Kitchen into the adjacent event/meeting spaces currently known as Seventh Semester. The construction has now been awarded to Area Construction Inc. meaning all affected areas will be closed effective immediately. 

Seventh Semester will be closed permanently and the space will now form part of the Main KB Kitchen. A new Event Conference Centre is under construction on the 5th floor of the BCTI building.

The new combined Main KB Kitchen space will include updated cooking facilities, a new cold kitchen, gluten-free food production, dishwashing facilities, fridges and freezers, staff offices, storage rooms, a loading area to the outside, and much more. A significant component of this project is the major upgrade and modernization of the mechanical system equipment serving the Kitchen and Food Emporium. As part of a separate project, the Doris Talon Room in this area is also closed permanently and is being reconstructed in another location.

Effective immediately, the Main KB Kitchen, the Servery area, Seventh Semester and adjacent washrooms, and the Doris Talon Room are all closed. The new expanded and renovated Main KB Kitchen is scheduled to be open in late Summer 2022.

Please contact Joe Chimenti at joe.chimenti@humber.ca or Maria Miceli-Kisyk at maria.miceli-kisyk@humber.ca if you have any questions.