TODAY!! Ontario's first Poet Laureate, Randell Adjei, is coming virtually to Fern Ave. P.S
TODAY!! We are very excited that Ontario's first Poet Laureate, Randell Adjei, is coming virtually to Fern Ave. P.S!!
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Meeting ID: 986 5928 6970
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Randell is really inspiring with an amazing story to tell. He is making a huge impact on our city and the city’s youth. If you can, jump on this zoom with your kids for an hour today! You won’t regret it.
Presented by the School Administration and the School Council's Equity and Inclusion Committee
Regardless of our age, gender, orientation, beliefs or class, we all face adversity. Adversity does not discriminate. But, what do we do when adversity comes in our lives? How do we maneuver when we feel stuck? This conversation will focus on the role of resilience in our lives and how the growth mindset developed Randell's optimism and his journey along the way. Through poetry and speech, Randell hopes to empower us all to transform our adversities into opportunities. Randell's presentation will be a family event, for kids and parents alike.
About Randell Adjei
Ontario’s first Poet Laureate, Scarborough native, Randell Adjei, is a spoken word artist, speaker, arts, practitioner and cultural curator. He discovered his gift and love for poetry thanks to the support and inspiration from one of his Grade 8 teachers who introduced him to writing as a means for self-expression to deal with challenges he was facing. This unleashed his inner spirit and led him towards a path of personal enlightenment as a budding writer. Randall is the founder of R.I.S.E. Edutainment (Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere) which provides youth with inclusive and safe platforms across the GTA to creatively express themselves through the performance arts. He was CBC’s Torontonian of the year in 2015, NOW Magazine’s May 2017 Local Hero, and The Black Canadians Awards Best Spoken Word Award winner in 2014. In 2018, R.I.S.E. was awarded the Mayor’s Youth Award by Toronto Arts Foundation. A member of the League of Canadian Poets, Randell published his first anthology I Am Not My Struggles in 2018 and was a co-author of KNew Me: 10 Men 10 Stories of Perseverance published in 2019. You can read more about Randell here - https://www.randelladjei.com/mystory
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