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Recitation Test: Illustrating a poem by Chidera Ikewibe
The Visionaries created vibrant images to illustrate “Recitation Test” a poem by Windsor’s Youth Poet Laureate Chidera Ikewibe.
About the Workshop
We created vibrant images to illustrate “Recitation Test” a poem by Windsor’s Youth Poet Laureate Chidera Ikewibe. Chidera’s poem was created as a response to the AWE exhibits Black Drones in the Hive and North is Freedom: Descendants of the Freedom-Seekers on the Underground Railroad.
In our workshop we used multimedia techniques (with an emphasis on paper cut-outs and collage) to create an illustrated zine of Chidera’s inspirational work. The poem was laid out as a chap book with a stanza or two on each page. Each of these pages were then given to a participant to illustrate. Once each image was completed, they were collected into the chapbook.
Read Recitation Test by poet Chidera Ikewibe and illustrated by the Sandwich Visionaries
Download Recitation TestSome of the original artwork created for Recitation Test:
About the Artist: Chidera Ikewibe
Chidera Ikewibe or CHI.IKE is an Igbo Nigerian Canadian born artist and poet whose work often combines her experiences and cultural identity. Her works often incorporate NSIBIDI — an ideographic/pictographic writing system from the south-eastern region of Nigeria. Chidera is also the Youth Poet Laureate for the city of Windsor. When she is not making art she can be found listening to Kendrick Lamar, Kojey Radical, Fela Kuti and FKA Twigs who she cites as poetic inspirations. Her interests span from Third Cinema to African Anarchism and Anti-colonial movements.
As an artist and community-builder, Chidera’s areas of interest are race and ethnicity, Anti-Black racism, institutional decolonization, poetry as performance, spoken-word radio, Black Diaspora, playwriting, mask making, and mixed media. She is pursuing her Bachelor of Arts (BA) in psychology and BA in English and creative writing at the University of Windsor.
The Youth Laureate program is supported by the City of Windsor.
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