Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae

Project Groundings (a.k.a. “Youth and Community Development in Canada and Jamaica: A Transnational Approach to Youth Violence“) opens its first photo exhibit this evening at the Beaver Hall Gallery.  Naila Keleta-Mae is excited to be one of the artists and scholars working on this project envisioned and led by Dr. Andrea Davis, the Deputy Director of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at York University.  Project Groundings is well grounded and just keeps growing.

Performance Writing Justice is a three-part workshop, launching today, developed and taught by Naila Keleta-Mae for the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario’s Solidarity Study Group.  Performance Writing Justice aims to prepare 10 women/women-identified elementary teachers from Ontario to locate, develop and perform texts they have written about social justice.  The hope of the work is that they will then use the knowledge and skills that they hone and acquire to teach students in their classrooms how to do the same.  Part of today’s workshop will include reading excerpts from Gloría Anzaldúa’s insightful and provocative text “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers” published in Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean and elsewhere.