Past Observances
- 2015: "Women and Slavery"
- 2014: "Victory over Slavery: Haiti and Beyond"
- 2013: "Forever Free: Celebrating Emancipation"
- 2012: "Honouring the Heroes, Resisters and Survivors"
- 2011: "The Transatlantic slave trade — The living legacy of 30 million untold stories"
- 2010: "Expressing Our Freedom Through Culture"
- 2009: "Breaking the Silence: Beating the Drum"
- 2008: "Breaking the Silence: Lest We Forget"