Introducing another Associate Artist working with us this summer, Fiona Raye Clarke:
Fiona Raye Clarke is a Trinidadian-Canadian writer, playwright and community artist. Her work features images and stories of people of colour, particularly Black youth, with a view to further weaving the Black experience into the Canadian cultural imagination. She is the editor of the youth anthology Basodee: An Anthology Dedicated to Black Youth published in 2012 and editor of the forthcoming anthology Black Like We: Troubleshooting the Black Youth Experience, which was the winner of the ArtReach Youth Arts Pitch Contest. Fiona was part of the 2014-2015 InspiraTO Playwriting Academy which produced her ten-minute play Broken Window and was the winner of the Neighbourhood Arts Network BMO Seeds Fund for her literacy project in partnership with the Parkdale Library. Fiona is currently a graduate student at Osgoode Hall Law School and has worked since January 2015 with Jumblies Theatre and its Offshoots: Arts4All, Community Arts Guild, Making Room, and MABELLEarts.
