Gifted: Black Joy Workshop Series - APPLICATION FORM
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About the Gifted: Black Joy Workshop Series 

This five-week virtual workshop series aims to challenge anti-Blackness by exploring Blackness specifically through the lens of art and Black joy.

Gifted aims to invite Black youth to recognize their Blackness as something that inherently makes them special, blessed, unique— something that makes them gifted!

Participants will learn and work with from Black artists to use different areas of art to express their own personal Black joy. They will have the opportunity to present their work at our online showcase, and have their work published in our online gallery.

Participants will also receive a $250 honorarium to support their work.

The workshop series is being offered by Rivers of Hope (www.riversofhope.ca), an arts-based educational organization based in Toronto, and funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Workshop Schedule (all workshops will be ONLINE)

Session 1: Saturday April 1, 4:00-6:00pm --- Introduction to Black Joy and the Gifted workshop series 

Session 2: Saturday April 8, 4:00-6:00pm --- What is anti-blackness?

Session 3: Saturday April 15, 4:00-6:00pm --- Black Joy through poetry with Joshua "Scribe" Watkis

Session 4: Saturday April 29, 4:00-6:00pm --- Black Joy through photography with Dwayne Sybbliss

Session 5: Saturday May 6, 4:00-6:00pm --- Black Joy through Conversation with Cadar Mohamud from The Digital Sisterhood

FINAL SHOWCASE: Saturday May 13, 4:00-6:00pm

Who is Eligible to Apply?
This program is designed for Black youth ages 14-18 years old, who live in the Greater Toronto Area or in Hamilton. 

If you are selected to be a part of the workshop series, you will also need a signed permission form from a parent or guardian if you are under 18 years old. After you sign up for the program, you will be emailed a permission form for your parent or guardian's electronic signature.
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Program Attendance and Honorarium
It is important for participants to attend ALL of the online workshop sessions, and to be there on time! If you are unable to attend a session due to an emergency, you must let the facilitator know. After successful completion of the poetry workshop series, you will receive a $250 honorarium to support your future work and development as an artist.
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ALL of the online workshop dates and times are listed below. Please check off ALL the dates that you will attend.
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