Toronto Lit Up: This is Us

Natasha Adiyana Morris

Toronto Lit Up: This is Us

Natasha Adiyana Morris

5:30pm

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

West Bays

15 mins

Meet the Toronto authors defining and redefining who we are as citizens of this exciting city. The authors will present a short excerpt from their books and share the role Toronto has played in their writing journey.

This reading will feature Natasha Adiyana Morris.

 

Toronto International Festival of Authors logo - Festival Dates: September 21 to October 1, 2023       

Free
Reading

How to attend

This FREE event is open to the public.

Meet the Toronto authors defining and redefining who we are as citizens of this exciting city. The authors will present a short excerpt from their books and share the role Toronto has played in their writing journey.

This reading will feature Natasha Adiyana Morris.

 

Toronto International Festival of Authors logo - Festival Dates: September 21 to October 1, 2023       

Free
Reading

Featured Authors

Natasha Adiyana Morris is a soft-spoken, dramatic storyteller. Born in Winnipeg and raised in Toronto’s West End—in the most encouraging and full’up Jamaican household—being (h)extra is in her blood. Recognized for founding PIECE OF MINE Arts, an initiative that presents works in progress by Black play creators, she owes a great deal to the esteemed tutelage of b current, anitafrika! dub theatre, Obsidian Theatre and Volcano Theatre. Her debut production The Negroes Are Congregating (PIECE OF MINE Arts, Theatre Passe Muraille) was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. She is honoured to be a Soulpepper Academy and York University (Sociology B.A.) alumni.

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5:30pm

Wednesday, September 27

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15 mins

How to attend

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