Penticton鈥檚 Brown Bag Lecture Series is back for 2024, and a local resident committed to ending racism will kick things off with a special presentation.

Lynn Walford will be joined on stage by Rosemary Mupambwa on Jan. 9, when the Penticton Museum Auditorium hosts 鈥楬ow to be an Anti-Racist.鈥�

鈥淎ntiracism holds the principles and language that dismantle the hierarchy,鈥� representatives from the museum write. 鈥淎t this lecture, you will widen your circle of language and understanding to recognize racial groups as equals, there is nothing inherently right or wrong with any racial group.鈥�

Walford is a Penticton resident and attended SOICS鈥� Anti-Racism Community Forum earlier in 2023 and went back to the Oasis Church to create the Anti-Racism Passion Cluster.

Mupambwa, meanwhile, is the executive director of the Roses Life Women Centre Foundation in Okanagan Falls.

The Brown Bag Lecture Series features weekly discussions on topics related to heritage, culture and history.

鈥楬ow to be an Anti-Racist鈥� is the first of 12 scheduled talks set to take place between Jan. 9 and March 26.

The lecture runs from noon to 1 p.m. and admission is by donation.

Penticton Museum and Archives will also upload each of the talks on its .