Introducing The Watah Lecture Series
Sage Secrets of...
Sage Secrets is Watah's Monthly Lecture Series honoring our sages amongst us; stalwarts of the community who have and continue to lay an impeccable foundation and example for us to emulate. Distinguished guest artists impart their knowledges through a lecture, interview and Q & A with current Artists-In-Residence as well as attending community members. Lectures are documented and published in a Sage Secrets anthology for the following season.
Sage Secrets of Lillian Allen - Dub poet, Scholar, Activist, Academic & Founding Mother of Dub poetry in Canada.
Sage Secrets of Owen Blakka Ellis - Theatre Practitioner, Dub poet, Comedian, Writer, Director, Dramaturge & Activist.
Sage Secrets of Frances Anne Solomon - Filmmaker, Activist, Founder & Artistic Director of Caribbean Tales & Caribbean Tales Film Festival.
Sage Secrets of Mumbi Tindyebwa - Director, Theatre Practitioner, Activist, Founder & Artistic Director of IFT Theatre.
Sage Secrets of BaKari I. Lindsay - Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher, Scholar, Activist, Founding Member & Co-Artistic Director of Coba, Collective of Black Artists.
Sage Secrets of Monique Mojica - Storyteller, Theatre Practitioner, Activist, Playwright & Founding member of Native Earth Performing Arts & Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble.
Sage Secrets of Honor Ford-Smith - Activist, Scholar, Academic, Theatre Practitioner & Founding member of Sistren Women's Theatre Collective.
Sage Secrets of Rhoma Spencer - actor, director and play creator from Trinidad and Tobago (TNT). Founder and CEO of Archipelago Entertainment, her works - with an emphasis on Caribbean theatre in form and content - have been critically acclaimed in the Globe and Mail, Now Magazine and the Toronto Star.
MOTION is a, emcee, poet, playwright, screenwriter whose aural/sonic storytelling is a fusion of word, sound & drama for the stage and screen. With performances across Canada, the U.S, the Caribbean and in South Africa, her inter-creativity has been read in Motion in Poetry (Women’s Press), seen on stage with Aneemah’s Spot (MotionLive Collective), & experienced in Nightmare Dream (ift Theatre/Obsidian). Upcoming productions: Oraltorio, A Man’s Story (Bravo), SoundGirl & Motherland.