Bermuda will mark the centenary of the late Nelson Mandela’s birth with community events tomorrow.

A “Bermuda adventure” will set out from the Cenotaph on Front Street at 6.50pm with a 20-minute Hamilton walk that closes at the Harbour Nights festivities on Front Street.

Short stories of significant local events will accompany the walk, which is to be followed on Thursday next week with a “community dialogue” at the Bermuda College library, from 6pm to 7pm, on the theme of heroism and vision.

The dialogue will end with a draw for a $100 prize to enjoy a “friends and family meal” at either Chopsticks or Rosa’s restaurants in Hamilton.

The South African hero, who was a leader of the anti-apartheid struggle and a political prisoner, later became president of the country. He died in 2013.

He would have celebrated his 100th birthday tomorrow.

The commemorative walk is to end at about 7.15pm at the Bird Cage on Front Street, where participants will be met by the H & H Gombeys for a performance at the Flagpole.

The Front Street festivities will end with the singing of Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday, at 8.27pm — chosen to highlight Mandela’s 27 years in prison.

Participants are encouraged to hold up their lit mobile phones to mark the occasion.

Artists taking part will include Gene Steede, Joy Barnum, and young Indigo Adamson — whose father, Ben Adamson, will contribute to storytelling along with historian Michael Bradshaw and Dale Butler, an author and former minister.

The band Working Title will finish the night’s performances.

The celebration will be a collaboration between the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, the Chewstick Foundation and Walk Together Bermuda.

Glenn Fubler, founder of Imagine Bermuda, said the events were organised after discussions among 16 groups on ways to revitalise the community.

Mr Fubler added that tables would be set up at the No 5 car park for participants to sign up for “community projects from varied charitable organisations”.