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INTERGENERACIAL is proud to announce an upcoming performance of its work-in-progress play, ‘From Their Lips,’ on Thursday, December 1, 2016, 7:30pm, in the Hart House Debates Room, University of Toronto Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3. ‘From Their Lips’ is created by group of seven youth learning about oral history and theatre techniques. The play comes from their interviews of 22 leaders in the Black Toronto community, whose stories of identity, struggle and self-love fully inform the play. ‘From their Lips’ is presented in partnership with Hart House’s Social Justice and Senior Members Committees. All are welcome to attend this free public performance and post-show talk-back with the group. Refreshments will be served (www.intergeneracial.wordpress.com).
INTERGENERACIAL was founded by Fiona Raye Clarke and is funded by ArtReach and the Toronto Arts Council, and supported by Jumblies Theatre and mentor Ruth Howard. “INTERGENRACIAL is the impressive result of the strong vision and commitment of project director, Fiona Raye Clarke, and ‘From Their Lips’ is a brave, compelling, engrossing and moving performance,” says Ruth. Clarke is INTERGENERACIAL’s founder and is a playwright, community artist, and writer: Basodee: An Anthology Dedicated to Black Youth (2012) and the forthcoming Black Like We: Troubleshooting the Black Experience.
Amanda Nicholls (Piece of Mine Festival, Living Black Genius) directs the ‘From Their Lips’ ensemble: Jaymie Sampa, a dancer, singer, actor and research coordinator in Toronto; Bianca Morgan, a digital artist and graphic designer and intern at Jumblies Theatre; Katasha James, a singer and musician who was a participant in the summer acting apprenticeship program Shakespeare in the Ruff where she was mentored by LAMDA trained actress Kaitlyn Riordan; Dena Henry, a lifelong student of the human condition, committed to health equity, social justice and anti-oppression issues who works and volunteers extensively within the African Caribbean Black Community around issues of race, health and sexuality; Isiah Lea, an artist, activist, and community leader who channels his passion, drive, talent, and purpose in life into art, community building and social justice; and musician Hopeton LaTouche, who uses his expertise in the field of architecture to construct production studios and commercial spaces.
Approaching 22 leaders in the Black Toronto community ranging in age from their late 20s-80s, INTERGENERACIAL asked everyone the same ten questions about their lives and experiences of Blackness in Canada, using their words verbatim as the basis for the text and stories of the resultant play ‘From Their Lips’. Some of the elders that members of INTERGENERACIAL were able to interview include Sandra Whiting (Storyteller), Anthony Morgan (Lawyer), Tiki Mercury-Clarke (Performer), Gloria Swain (Visual Artist), Ajamu Nangwaya (Professor) and Dianah Smith (Writer). INTERGENERACIAL Partners and Sponsors include ArtReach, Toronto Arts Council, Jumblies Theatre, Hart House Social Justice Committee, Hart House Senior Members Committee, and MARRAM Marketing & Communications/PR.
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Toronto: Black elders' voices dramatized in "From Their Lips", an Intergeneracial workshop on December 1