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21 Black Futures
''21 Black Futures'' is a Canadian film and theatre project, broadcast by CBC Gem in 2021.Victoria Ahearn"Black creators explore 'the future of Blackness' in '21 Black Futures' on CBC Gem" CityNews, February 17, 2021. Created in conjunction with the Black Canadian theatre company Obsidian Theatre to mark both Black History Month and the 21st anniversary of Obsidian, the project commissioned 21 short film adaptations of theatrical monologues on the theme of "the future of Blackness" by Black Canadian writers, each performed by a Black actor on the stage of Meridian Hall in Toronto. The project was commissioned in part because the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada had prevented the staging of a traditional theatre festival. The project aired over three weeks in February 2021, with seven films premiering each week on February 12, 19 and 26.Glenn Sumi"New work imagines a world without white supremacists" ''Now Now most commonly refers to the present time. Now, NOW, or The Now may also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Gem
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. With main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres, and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television providers. CBC Television can also be live streamed on its CBC Gem video platform. Almost all of the CBC's programming is produced in Canada. Although CBC Television is supported by public funding, commercial advertising revenue supplements the network, in contrast to CBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries, which are commercial-free. Overview CBC Television provides a complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment and childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shauntay Grant
Shauntay Grant is a Canadian author, poet, playwright, and professor. Between 2009 and 2011, she served as the third poet laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is known for writing ''Africville'', a children's picture book about a black community by the same name that was razed by the city of Halifax in the 1960s. "Africville" was nominated for a 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award. The book also won the 2019 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and was among 13 picture books listed on the United States Board on Books for Young People's 2019 USBBY Outstanding International Books List. Early life and education Grant was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has a degree in music from Dalhousie University and a degree in journalism from the University of King's College. Career Grant began publishing her work after she was approached by Sandra McIntyre, a senior editor at Nimbus Publishing, during an event where she read a poem from her teenage years. The poem, called "Reme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Sealy-Smith
Alison Sealy-Smith (born 1959) is a Barbados-born Canadian actress best known for her role as Storm in various Marvel animated TV series. Early life and education Sealy-Smith was born in Bridgetown, Barbados and raised in Toronto. She attended Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada, where she studied psychology on a scholarship. Career She is the founding director of Obsidian Theatre, a company that specializes in Black Canadian drama. Sealy-Smith was awarded a Dora Mavor Moore Award for her 1997 star turn in Djanet Sears' ''Harlem Duet''. Her film and television credits have included the series '' Street Legal'', '' This is Wonderland'' and ''The Line'', and a recurring role in ''Kevin Hill''. She also had a small role in the 1998 film ''My Date with the President's Daughter''. Sealy-Smith also voiced characters in various animated series such as Storm on the 1990s ''X-Men'' and Scarlett on the Teletoon series ''Delilah and Julius''. She played Sergeant Rose i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Motion Brathwaite
Wendy Motion Brathwaite is a Canadian musician, writer and activist from Toronto, Ontario. She is most noted as cowriter with Charles Officer of the screenplay for the 2020 film ''Akilla's Escape'', for which they won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021. She also wrote the short films ''A Man's Story'' (2016) and ''Theodore'' (2020), and has worked as a writer and story editor on the television series '' Coroner''. In 2022, she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Writing in a Drama Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards for the ''Coroner'' episode "Eyes Up", and in 2023 she received a nomination for Best Writing in a Web Program or Series at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards for "The One Who Dies First", an episode of the comedy web series '' Revenge of the Black Best Friend''. She has performed as a hip hop artist and spoken word poet under the stage name Motion, and released the CD ''Motion in Poetry: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djanet Sears
Djanet Sears is a Canadian playwright, actor and director, nationally recognized for her work in African-Canadian theatre. Sears has many credits in writing and editing highly acclaimed dramas such as ''Afrika Solo'', the first stage play to be written by a Canadian woman of African descent; its sequel '' Harlem Duet''; and ''The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God''. The complexities of intersecting identities of race, and gender are central themes in her works, as well as inclusion of songs, rhythm, and choruses shaped from West-African traditions. She is also passionate about "the preservation of Black theatre history," and involved the creation of organizations like Obsidian Theatre, and AfriCanadian Playwrights Festival. Early life and education Born (1959) in England, to a Guyanese father and a Jamaican mother, Sears lived there until 1974 when her family moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and then settled in Oakville, Ontario in 1975. Her birth name was Janet — ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weyni Mengesha
Weyni Mengesha is a Canadian film and theatre director, based in Toronto, Ontario. She is known as the director of the plays ''da kink in my hair'', and ''Kim's Convenience''. Mengesha married American actor Eion Bailey in 2011. The couple have two children. In 2018, she was hired as the artistic director of the Soulpepper Theatre. Observers applauded her appointment, and that of her colleague, executive director Emma Stenning, as it meant the two senior posts at the theatre would be filled by women, after the previous male director Albert Schultz resigned after actors accused him of preying on female subordinates. Mengesha's parents were immigrants from Ethiopia. She is the cousin of actor Araya Mengesha. While she was born in Vancouver, Mengesha grew up in Scarborough, Ontario. She graduated from Soulpepper Academy. Mengesha has been nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award five times, winning the award in 2014. Mengesha co-signed a letter of support to the Black Lives M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Amponsah (actor)
Prince Amponsah is a Canadian actor.Brad Wheeler"Actor Prince Amponsah on returning to the stage after a tragic accident" ''The Globe and Mail'', February 12, 2016. Background Amponsah began his acting career with stage roles at the Shaw Festival in the early 2010s.Geoffrey Vendeville"Actor who lost his arms — and nearly his life — in fire reaches new stage" ''Toronto Star'', June 1, 2016. In November 2012, he was injured in an apartment fire, losing both of his arms near the elbow and spending several weeks in a coma, and went through a year and a half of regular surgery and rehabilitation. He underwent 40 skin grafts and other reconstructive surgeries. For weeks after the fire, he lay in the burn unit of Sunnybrook Hospital in the coma, which was medically induced, unaware that he had suffered burns to 68 per cent of his body. Career He returned to the stage in the latter half of the 2010s, beginning with a 2016 production of Brandon Crone's play ''Contempt''. In 2017 he app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syrus Marcus Ware
Syrus Marcus Ware is a Canadian artist, activist and scholar. He lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is an assistant professor in the school of the arts at McMaster University. He has worked since 2014 as faculty and as a designer for The Banff Centre. Ware is the inaugural artist-in-residence for Daniels Spectrum, a cultural centre in Toronto, and a founding member of Black Lives Matter Toronto. For 13 years, he was the coordinator of the Art Gallery of Ontario's youth program. During that time Ware oversaw the creation of the Free After Three program and the expansion of the youth program into a multi pronged offering. He has published four books and in 2020 co-edited (with Rodney Diverlus and Sandy Hudson) ''Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada,'' a bestselling collection of reflections on the Black Lives Matter movement in Canada. Early life and education Syrus Marcus Ware was born in Montreal, Quebec and is the twin brother of entomo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nunavut
Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' and the ''Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act'', which provided this territory to the Inuit for independent government. The boundaries had been drawn in 1993. The creation of Nunavut resulted in the territorial evolution of Canada, first major change to Canada's political map in half a century since the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland was admitted in 1949. Nunavut comprises a major portion of Northern Canada and most of the Arctic Archipelago. Its vast territory makes it the list of the largest country subdivisions by area, fifth-largest country subdivision in the world, as well as North America's second-largest (after Greenland). The capital Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay), on Baffin Islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inuit People
Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Alaska. Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo–Aleut languages, also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan, and also as Eskaleut. Inuit Sign Language is a critically endangered language isolate used in Nunavut. Inuit live throughout most of Northern Canada in the territory of Nunavut, Nunavik in the northern third of Quebec, Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut in Labrador, and in various parts of the Northwest Territories, particularly around the Arctic Ocean, in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. With the exception of NunatuKavut, these areas are known, primarily by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, as Inuit Nunangat. In Canada, sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982 classify Inuit as a distinctive group of Aboriginal Canadians who are not includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicia K
Alicia may refer to: People * Alicia (given name), list of people with this name * Alisha (singer) (born 1968), US pop singer * Melinda Padovano (born 1987), a professional wrestler, known by her ring name, Alicia Places * Alicia, Bohol, Philippines * Alicia, Isabela, Philippines * Alicia, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines * Alicia, Arkansas Biology * ''Alicia'' (sea anemone), a genus of sea anemones in the family Aliciidae * ''Alicia'' (plant), a genus of plants in the family Malpighiaceae * ''Drosera aliciae'', carnivorous plant native to South Africa of the family Droseraceae Others * ''Alicia'' (album), a 2020 album by Alicia Keys * ''Alicia'' (film), a 1974 Dutch film * Alicia (submarine), 6-seater submarine * ''Alicia's Diary'', short story by Thomas Hardy * Hurricane Alicia, devastating hurricane in 1983 See also * Alisha * Alycia Alycia is a female given name. The name is variant of Alicia, a form of Alice, and is ultimately from the Germanic name Adalheidis ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Berry
Lisa Berry (born November 6, 1979) is a Canadian actress, seen regularly on television with appearances in '' The Colony'', '' Northpole: Open for Christmas'', ''Combat Hospital'', '' Bad Blood'', '' Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments'', '' 19-2'' and ''Supernatural''. Early life Berry was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario. She attended the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts, graduating in 2004, returning on occasion to encourage students in their learning. The Canadian actress started her career in the entertainment industry as a make-up artist before getting her big break as an actress. Career In 2012, Berry played the role of clinic receptionist in the sci-fi thriller '' Antiviral'' which won the "Best Canadian First Feature Film" at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). In 2013, Lisa Berry starred as Nara in the Netflix film '' The Colony'' alongside Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton. Some of the highlights of Berry's extensive career include play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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