Neilson Park Creative Centre (Parkview Gallery), Etobicoke
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022,
from 6:30 - 9:00 PM EST
Please join us for the opening reception of CONFINEMENT AND CONTAGION:
COVID-19 and Health in the Prison System.
Please join us at Neilson Park Creative Centre on Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 at 6:30PM for the opening of Confinement and Contagion: COVID-19 and Health in the Prison System. The exhibition, in partnership with Myseum of Toronto’s Intersections Festival 2022, features eight multidisciplinary artists who have been impacted by incarceration. The reception will have live performances and visitors will have the opportunity to purchase works by featured artists. The reception will include:
Creative Writing Workshop
by Kamilah Haywood and G.L. Glowz
Neilson Park Creative Centre (Studio A1), Etobicoke
Sunday, April 3rd, 2022,
from 1:30 - 4:00 PM
Find Your Voice is a writing workshop for previously-convicted artists, entertainers and/or writers, facilitated by writers Kamilah Haywood and G.L. Glowz.
Register LEARN MORE ▶ MENU ▲Find Your Voice is a writing workshop for previously-convicted artists, entertainers and/or writers, facilitated by writers Kamilah Haywood and G.L. Glowz. Participants will be guided through the creative writing process to support their individual healing practices and to compose a writing piece that can be included in their portfolios. Participants will have the opportunity to share their work with peers within this private workshop and can offer constructive and uplifting insight about each other’s work to encourage growth in their creative journeys. Within this safe space, participants will bond and create in honour of their lived experience. Newly released inmates requiring programming hours are encouraged to sign up.
In partnership with Kya Publishing and F-You
Project.
Kamilah Haywood is a Toronto-based Canadian Urban Fiction writer with four novels under their belt covering difficult topics including street life, prison life, and victims of human trafficking. Haywood spent three years in the prison system but has since used their writing to give a voice to other marginalized people in Canada.
From Toronto, Gloria a.k.a. G.L. Glowz has been a dedicated short story writer for 20 years and has written poetry for 10 years. She is an author of two self published books- ‘A Kintsugi Memoir’ and ‘Hood Chronicles’. Her writing reflects on her personal experience and the lives of people surrounding her. Also passionate about building relationships with different communities, she has been an active member in community engagements across the GTA since 2010. As of 2021, Gloria has become a reporter for the Toronto Caribbean News and had her poetry be showcased in the newspaper from 2020.
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by Roberto Santaguida
Hosted on Zoom
Saturday, April 9th, 2022,
from 8:00 - 9:30 PM EST
This workshop will look at documentary filmmaking as a journaling medium. As a group, we will play a series of games with the hopes of gently lifting the veil on our lives. The goal, by the end of the workshop, is for participants to have a blueprint for a short diary film. Roberto's films are informed by methods of coping, and the human activities in which communities engage to ease pain and the disquiet of the mind.
RegisterMENU ▲ Informational Workshop by
Sena Hussein and PASAN
Neilson Park Creative Centre (Studio A2), Etobicoke
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022,
from 6:30 - 9:00 PM EST
This workshop will explore the impacts of unequal access to health care and harm reduction measures that prisoners face across Turtle Island.
Register LEARN MORE ▶ MENU ▲Health and Harm Reduction Inside of Canadian Prisons will explore the impacts of unequal access to health care and harm reduction measures that prisoners face across Turtle Island. We will also look at how COVID-19 has stressed the carceral system in unprecedented ways and how this pandemic has manifested in creating great harm to people inside. A discussion of an article in Cell Count, a health and harm reduction resource for prisoners, will then take place to look at the experiences and mindset of someone who has been carrying out a life sentence to create further understanding of the prison experience. Participants will discuss ways that people on the outside can be in solidarity with those fighting for their rights on the inside.
◀ BACK LEARN MORE ▶ MENU ▲Sena Hussain (she/her or they/them), Communications & Resource Development Coordinator at PASAN. Sena is the lead editor of Cell Count and designs resources for PASAN, manages PASAN.org, and PASAN’s social media accounts. Sena is a member of the Federal Team, accompanying colleagues on visits to federal prisons in Ontario to co-facilitate health and harm reduction groups and conducts one-on-one supports with people inside.
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