Creation then Devise: The Joy of Comm-Poetics with Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye

Name: Creation then Devise: The Joy of Comm-Poetics with Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye
Start: 2025-04-05T13:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-04-05T16:00:00-06:00
Location: George Bothwell Library

Schedule

Sat Apr 05 2025 at 01:30 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

George Bothwell Library | Regina, SK

Please note all times listed are Saskatchewan time. Find your time zone here: https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter

This workshop will not be recorded.

This workshop is in partnership with the Regina Public Library for their Writes of Spring programming, a month-long celebration of writers and readers.

Register through the RPL website to receive a reminder, the evaluation and any resource materials: https://www.reginalibrary.ca/attend/programs/13066701

Please note: anyone with a valid Saskatchewan library card (from all regional libraries) can register for these programs.

Creation then Devise: The Joy of Comm-Poetics

Join Saskatchewan Poet Laureate, Peace Akintade, in a celebration of poetry and storytelling. From understanding the fundamentals of community-building, the ancestral elements of oral storytelling, and the creativity of comm-poetics. Based on the philosophy of "collective one-self", Peace delves into the art of creating unique pieces of poetry for individual people. In this workshop, you'll discover the baseline of your poetry, learn to take influence from your surroundings, and discover the fundamentals of creating on-the-spot poetry.

By the end of the workshop, each participant will get a chance to write poetry for the public, on the spot.

The workshop is for all levels.

Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye (she/her), Saskatchewan Poet Laureate, is an African-Canadian Interdisciplinary Poet, Public Speaker, Chorus-Poem Playwright, and Thespian residing in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. Author of Earth Skin, Equanimity in Sonder, Equanimity in Conversation and The Taste of Sonder. Recipient of the RBC SaskArts Emerging Artist Award and the Platinum Jubilee Queen's Medal. The past 2020-2021 Saskatchewan Youth Poet Laurate and 2022 READSaskatoon Poet Laureate, currently working as Poet-in-Residence with the Remai Modern Gallery, City of Saskatoon, and Persephone Theatre. And Co-organzing Write Out Loud, a Youth Poetry Collective. Other playwrighting credits include Maddeness with Rocks with Obsidian Theatre and CBCGem, Painted Elephant with Black Theatre Workshop AMP, I Am Who I Am with SUMTheatre's First Monday, But First Let Me Breathe with Theatre on the Beat. Organically from Yorubaland Nigeria, Peace explores the intersectionality of the artist community from an explorer's perspective, dipping her honey-stained fingers into poetry, dance, performance art, critical research, and the theatre world.