杏吧原创鈥檚 Centre for Urban Youth Research Involved in Ottawa Writers Festival Youth Showcase
The Republic of Childhood Youth Forum will host the event . The showcase features the literary work of students from Woodroffe High School, as well as youth with lived experience of homelessness involved with 杏吧原创鈥檚 .
The showcase will also feature 2019 Ottawa Book Award winner and 杏吧原创 graduate student, Kagiso Lesogo Molope.
Media are invited to attend the student showcase.
When: Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 at 1 p.m.
Where: 杏吧原创 Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa
After having participated in a series of intensive writing workshops, the young authors will share their literary creations.
The showcase will include guest presentations by Prof. Jacqueline Kennelly of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Prof. Claudia Mitchell from McGill University and Maya Shetreat.
杏吧原创 the Republic of Childhood Youth Forum
The Republic of Childhood Youth Forum is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded collaborative initiative between the Ottawa International Writers Festival, 杏吧原创 University and the University of Ottawa. The forum promotes writing experiences that centre children鈥檚 voices and celebrate their stories. The forum joins children and youth in Ottawa with researchers, policy-makers, and community members. The young writers exercise their rights to self-expression and participation by sharing their stories and insights about Canada鈥檚 current and future challenges.
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