Hello practitioner, welcome to I am my black joy: self-transformation through creative expression with d'bi.young anitafrika. I am my black joy: self-transformation through creative expression was designed specifically for Black womxn and non-binary creatives. The course aims to cultivate a sense of joy, self-love, and empowerment through creative expression, while also fostering personal growth and healing. Catalysed by the Anitafrika Method, the curriculum is informed by intersectional, decolonial, trauma-informed, and self-care-centred principles to create a safe, inclusive, and nurturing environment for practitioners. The course provides a supportive space for Black womxn and non-binary creatives to explore their identities, experiences, and emotions through creative explorations including writing, drawing, and visioning. You will be guided through the first stage of the Anitafrika Method, Self-Transformation by d'bi.young anitafrika.

UPCOMING 2024 PROGRAM DATES

• Sun Jan 14, 21, 28, Feb 4, 11, 18

  6-8pm (Eastern)

$900USD

Payment Plan available

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Course Facilitator

d’bi.young anitafrika is a queer nonbinary African-Xaymacan-Tkarontonian dub poet, monodramatist and Black feminist decolonial scholar. They are committed to embodying liberatory art practices that ritualise acts of emancipation from oppressions inflicted upon the people and the planet. The three-time Dora-award-winning Canadian Poet of Honour, author of twelve plays, seven albums, and four collections of poetry, was recently celebrated as a Global Leader in Theatre and Performance by Arts Council England and is the 2021 recipient of the Rosemary Sadlier Freedom Award. d’bi.young’s PhD research investigates how Black womxn theatre-makers in Canada, cultivate pedagogies of transformation through performance. Their doctoral thesis further develops the Anitafrika Method—a Black-queer-feminist decolonial performance framework that emerges out of the dub theory of Anita Stewart (d’bi.young’s mother).

Course Praxis

The Anitafrika Method is a decolonial trauma-informed Black Queer Feminist framework and performance praxis originated by d'bi.young anitafrika and inspired by the foundational dub poetry theory of their mother—pioneer dub poet Anita Stewart. The integrative creative praxis is used to support the growth and development of people, including artists, educators, healers, innovators, leaders and everyday practitioners of living. Using arts-based interventions to nurture self-transformation, creative expression & community embodiment in its practitioners, the method is practitioner-centred and critically reflexive. The nine fundamental principles that ground the method include Self-Knowledge, Orality, Language, Politics, Rhythm, Urgency, Sacredness, Integrity and Experience which are explored through the Physical, Emotional, Mental, Creative, Exchange, Spiritual, Community, Energy, and Earth Bodies.