Write On! Chapbook Showcase and Breakout Sessions

Featuring the work of students from Hillcrest High School

With teachers Melissa Campbell and Martin Holock, spoken word poet Apollo the Child and OPL Vanier Branch Gaming Camp with guest presenters Fikile Nxumolo and Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández.

In Person Youth

General Admission

Free

Friday

Nov , 2019

9:30am

Eastern

Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre

355 Cooper, at O’Connor • Ottawa

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Write On! Chapbook Showcase and Breakout Sessions

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

Philip Pullman

9:30am–10:30am

Write On! Chapbook Showcase and sharing hosted by Neil Wilson

After intensive writing workshops our young authors are ready to share the fruits of their labours from Hillcrest High School students with teacher Martin Holock, spoken word poet Apollo the Child and Gaming Camp Leader, Aidan Wilson with guest presenters Fikile Nxumolo and Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández.

10:40am–11:45am

Lead by Julie Garlen

Breakout sessions with student authors, teacher Martin Holock, Aidan Wilson, spoken word poet Khaleefa Hamden and Guest Presenters Fikile Nxumalo and Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández and guests. For more conversations on The Rights of the Child and Future Challenges including health and wellness, environmental change, technology and society, culture and identity.

The Authors

Fikile Nxumalo

I am an assistant professor of teacher education in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning at OISE, University of Toronto. My work is centered on environmental and place-attuned early childhood education that is situated within and responsive to children’s inheritances of settler colonialism, anti-blackness and environmental precarity. This scholarship is rooted in perspectives from Indigenous knowledges and Black feminist geographies, as well as the environmental humanities and sciences. My book, Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education (Routledge, 2019) examines the entanglements of place, environmental education, childhood, race, and settler colonialism in early learning contexts on unceded Coast Salish territories in British Columbia, Canada. www.fikilenxumalo.com

Khaleefa ‘Apollo the Child’ Hamdan

Khaleefa ‘Apollo the Child’ Hamdan is a spoken word poet, hip hop artist, radio host, youth worker and is the former co director of the Urban Legends Poetry Collective. Apollo is one half of the hip hop duo Poetic Elements and is also a member of the collective Dead Ringer. Apollo created the after school youth writing program Youth Speak with the Ottawa Public Library and he hosts the Home Invasion Show and New Jack City on CKCUFM. His cinepoem 'My Hero Drives a Cab' was featured on Button Poetry and he was part of the CBC documentary 'In Their Words'. Apollo has represented Ottawa a total of 9 times nationally and recently represented Canada in The Martin Luther King International Art Showcase in Atlanta, Georgia organized by Bernice A. King. Apollo continues to be an active part of the art scene.

Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández

Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández research and scholarship are concerned with questions of symbolic boundaries and the dynamics of cultural production and processes of identification in educational contexts. He is a Full Professor and the Director of the Youth Research Lab at the Centre for Urban Schooling of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, where he is Principal Investigator of the Youth Solidarities Across Boundaries Project, a participatory action research project with Latinx and Indigenous youth in the city of Toronto. At the YRL, he also oversees and supports several youth participatory action research projects, including the editorial board of in:cite, a youth-run online research journal, as well as a study of the practices of participatory facilitators. His theoretical work focuses on the relationship between creativity, decolonization, and solidarity.