Time and Date: Saturday, December 7th, 2pm
Location: Art Windsor-Essex, 3rd floor Solcz Family Suite
Cost: $10 general admission. AWE is always free for current members.
RSVP is required. To RSVP, please click on the link below and fill out the registration form.
“Honour Before Glory” is a one hour docudrama about Canada’s one and only all-Black military battalion that was formed during World War I. The battalion overcame tremendous obstacles of discrimination during the war to become an important part of Canadian history. The official name of the all-Black unit was “The Number Two Construction Battalion”, but it affectionately became known as the “Black Battalion”.
The film is based on the diary of Captain William White who was the Chaplain for the battalion and the only Black commissioned officer in the entire British Armed Forces during World War I. His diary is the only existing account of hat happened to the Black soldiers while they were serving their country. Poetic and eloquent descriptions from William White’s diary provide an emotional narrative for the film. Through compelling dramatizations, details of his story come to life in the film.
Above all, the film pays homage to the Black soldiers of the Number two Construction Battalion who showed that the measure of a man is made through the courage in his heart and not by the colour of his skin.
Anthony Sherwood is an award-winning actor, director, producer, playwright who has worked extensively in film, television and stage for the past 35 years. He was born in Halifax and is a fifth-generation African Nova Scotian. Anthony was raised in Montreal and music has always played a strong role in his life. His aunt, Portia White, was Canada’s first famous Black opera singer. His passion is telling stories from the African-Canadian experience. His accolades include the Gemini Award, Martin Luther King Achievement Award, Brampton Arts Acclaim Award, African-Canadian Achievement Award, Planet Africa Award and the Harry Jerome Award. Music In The Dark is his first novel.
