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Creation Then Devise: The Joy of Comm-Poetics

Join Saskatchewan Poet Laureate, Peace Akintade, in a celebration of poetry and storytelling. You'll discover the baseline of your poetry, and the fundamentals of creating on-the-spot poetry.

Part of the Writes of Spring programming series.

This is an in-person program.  Register to receive a reminder and any other resources.

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. 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.

Presenter Information: 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.

This workshop is offered in partnership with the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild.

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