River of Words Art and Poetry January 2018 Cook County Library
Encounter the Coaches: Verse Saved Our Lives
Verse Saved Our Lives (PSOL) is back at eight Toronto Public Library branches this Jan. These easily-on workshops provide an amazing opportunity to work directly with a motorbus to develop your writing, verse or stories, and so nosotros recently defenseless up with the coaches to ask a few questions.
Participants at a Poetry Saved Our Lives issue.
Randell Adjei
What I'm reading: vii Habits of Highly effective people (2nd time).
What I'1000 listening to right at present: I'm listening to Mindset (audiobook).
Pet peeve: People who eat with their mouth open up.
Secret Passion: Cooking delicious vegan meals.
The best park of working with PSOL: Helping youth find their vox in meaningful ways. Learning from this generation of youth.
Randell Adjei will exist leading the Poetry Saved Our Lives workshops at Kennedy/Eglinton and Morningside.
Randell is a spoken word practitioner & Edutainer who uses the spoken word to empower and create community through Edutainment. He is the founder of i of Toronto's largest youth led initiatives; Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere (R.I.Southward.E Edutainment).
Patrick de Belen
What I'm reading: Thank you for Arguing - The Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs.
What I'one thousand listening to right at present: Kash Bag past Akil Elijah.
Pet Peeve: People who sneeze without roofing their mouth.
Underground Passion: Comedy.
The best function of working with PSOL: Information technology is an attainable space for young people of all backgrounds. Seeing my people at PSOL is the best part of a poet'due south week.
Patrick de Belen will be leading the Poetry Saved Our Lives workshops at Fairview and Cedarbrae.
Patrick de Belen is a Toronto-based Filipino spoken word poet, performer, speaker, host and educator. Patrick was national slam champion at the 2012 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, and a performer of note on such platforms as CBC, TED Talk, NEXE and others.
Nasim Asgari
What I'grand reading: Revolutionary Suicide.
What I'm listening to right now: A lot of J.Cole & Lupe Fiasco always, Narcy & Lowkey.
Pet Peeve: Getting through the twenty-four hours.
Hole-and-corner Passion: Acting/singing/dancing.
The all-time part of working with PSOL: THE YOUTH POETS.
Nasim Asgari will exist leading the Poetry Saved Our Lives workshops at Albion.
Nasim Asgari is a thinker and dreamer, built-in in Tehran and based in Toronto. Nasim has shared her poems at events, poetry slams and protests including TEDX Rouge River, R.I.S.E. Edutainment, Gardiner Museum, Creative Time Summit and Fine art Gallery of Ontario.
Patrick Walters
What are you lot reading correct now: Right now I'm rampage listening to a financial podcast called "We Report Billionaires- The Investors Podcast". They discuss interviews done by Billionaires and look for the trends in business concern and in life that they all share.
What are yous listening to: Daytona - Pusha T. Any song that Shenseea drops. My album which I'm dropping on the 26th of October!
Pet Peeve: People who try to cut the line, whether at a store or on the highway! I'm all for rebelling against systems simply a lineup is actually a useful arrangement! Pick some other thing to deed the fool with.
Hole-and-corner Passion: Cooking. I consider cooking to be my second art form and I have it very seriously. My knives are probably some of my more than expensive possessions and I call up a well cooked meal for others is every bit fulfilling for me as performing on stage, which is the just other time I can say that.
Best Part of working with PSOL: Seeing the youth evolve from people who may accept problem expressing their emotions, to youth who can express and share with others and themselves. Plus, free snacks!!!
Patrick Walters will exist leading the Poetry Saved Our Lives workshops at Jane/Dundas.
Patrick Walters is a poet and arts educator who is dedicated to sharing stories that speak to the issues we all battle daily. After graduating with a caste in Psychology from York University, Patrick has been focused primarily on his arts education career as well equally sharing his works of poetry on stages across Canadian and American cities as well as St. Kitts & Nevis in the Caribbean where he grew upward.
Joshua Watkis
What I'thou reading: I simply finished Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward & Blood brother by David Chariandy. My next read is Long Mode Downward by Jason Reynolds.
What I'm listening to right now: I'm listening to a lot of different Toronto artists from dissimilar genres & styles right now. Devontée (WOE), Leila Dey, Maccie, Just John, The Sorority, Justin Nozuka. I'yard also diving into Chicago Rap across Chance The Rapper. Noname, Mick Jenkins, SABA.
Pet Peeve: People who enquire questions by making statements or giving commands.
Hush-hush Passion: I'm starting to get actually into skin and hair care, more often than not because I want my skin to be clear & my beard to be full and moisturized.
The best office of working with PSOL:I dear long-term writing relationships. They requite you the ability to see and then much of a person, to share ideas and develop the way everyone involved sees the world. You lot can't develop trust or space similar that, anywhere else. It literally creates life saving community.
Joshua Watkis will exist leading the Poetry Saved Our Lives workshops at Oakwood Hamlet and Richview.
Using passion, pain and a pen, Joshua "Scribe" Watkis is a storyteller who practices the arts of Hip-Hop & Spoken Word. The Toronto native is one third of the Spoken Word collective 'The Uncharted' and an Arts Educator/Youth Mentor.
Here is the full list of Poetry Saved Our Lives events. Feel free to drib in and try it out. Nosotros're looking frontward to hearing the words you take to share.
A poet performing at a Poetry Saved Our Lives poesy slam.
Source: https://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/teens/2019/01/meet-the-coaches-poetry-saved-our-lives.html
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