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In the Studio with Paulina O’Kieffe-Anthony

DATE: Thursday, November 21st, 2024
TIME: 5pm – 8:30pm
LOCATION: 401 Riverside Dr. W, Windsor, ON

COST: This event is part of AWE at Night

  • Current AWE Members: Free admission to Art Windsor-Essex
  • Non-Members: $10

Accessibility: Accessibility and accommodation requests must be made at least two weeks in advance of the event. Please contact shinch@artwindsoressex.ca for questions.

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Join Windsor-based, award-winning artist, curator, arts educator, and creative consultant Paulina O’Kieffe-Anthony in the studio for a collaborative arts activity! Her high level accomplishments include being featured in When Sisters Speak, co-curating Scarborough: The Backbone as part of Toronto’s Year of Public Art, co-producing the Spoken Soul Festival, and representing Toronto as a 2x national team finalist in the Canadian Festival Of Spoken Word.

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Meet the Artist: Paulina O’Kieffe-Anthony

Paulina O’Kieffe-Anthony is an award winning artist, curator, arts educator and creative consultant based in Windsor, Ontario. Her high level accomplishments include being featured in When Sisters Speak, co-curating Scarborough: The Backbone as part of Toronto’s Year of Public Art, co-producing the Spoken Soul Festival, and representing Toronto as a 2x national team finalist in the Canadian Festival Of Spoken Word. In 2019 she was a TEDx speaker and in 2020 an excerpt of her play How Jab Jab Saved the Pretty Mas was featured as part of Piece of Mine’s Black Women in Theatre Festival.

Paulina’s role as an artist educator and spoken word artist has allowed her to teach, support, engage and inspire people of all ages in ways that help them to express their inner voice and encourage self expression.

Her work has been featured on Bell Fibe TV, Huffington Post Canada, AfroGlobal TV, Metro Morning and CBC Morning and has been published in a number of anthologies including “Guerillas of the Word” and “Feminism: Revist, Revise, Revolutionize.”

Her work and leadership in the community sector was recognized as she was the recipient of the Toronto Community Foundation Vital People Award and again when she was recognized as one of 150 Black Women Making Herstory (as featured on CBC).

This project is funded by the Government of Canada.
Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program
Ontario Region/ Région de l’Ontario
Department of Canadian Heritage/ Patrimoine canadien