Multimedia Winners
1st Place: Grace Munene: Ball of Light
2nd Place: Natan Tshilolo Muepu: Purple Kush
Creative Writing Winners
1st Place: Daniela Dampare - We Win
2nd Place: Roop Malhans - Why Does It Matter?
Visual Arts Winners
1st Place: Yaeseul Cho - Sync of Generation
2nd Place: Apollo Avery - Representation
Quotes to Inspire The Future
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SparkThat Inc.
SparkThat Inc. is an experiential learning and global highway to unite Africans of all generations worldwide. Through community events and collaboration with diverse business sectors, SparkThat is creating a network to imagine, create, access, connect, elevate, heal, empower, educate, exchange and barter, collaborate, commune, build collectively, build a legacy and more. By connecting with each other first, founder Tasha Chin believes a sustainable response to equity can be built.
The Black Leaders of Tomorrow (BLT)
This program is a business mentoring program for Black youth, aged 16 to 24 years from Peel Region, who wish to acquire the skills and knowledge to run a business successfully. Launched in 2018, the Black Leaders of Tomorrow program helps youth hone their communication, leadership and financial management skills. It offers Black youth the opportunity to learn and grow year-round with the support of seasoned entrepreneurs and business professionals.
Halton Black Voices
Halton Black Voices is a new grassroots collective, intended to bring youth, families and individuals together. The purpose is to create a safe space in the Halton region for all Black people including the 2SLGBTQQIA community, establish new connections and build stronger communities by raising awareness, educating, and empowering Black community members of all ages.
Imagining Futures With Sheridan Alumni
Ashleigh Montague celebrating local Black-Owned businesses and inspiring action
This month, student leaders and and Sheridan Alumni have come together to celebrate Sheridan Alumni who have created positive change in the community and laid the groundwork for imagining a better tomorrow. Sheridan graduate Ashleigh Montague (Project Management ’16), created BLK OWNED Hamilton with her sisters Abygail and Alexandria following the May 2020 police killing of an innocent Black man George Floyd on a Minneapolis street. In response to the black squares on social media, they decided to create actionable change in their community by creating a list of Black-owned businesses in Hamilton. This list encouraged us to support Black businesses through purchasing power and has since supported over 50 BIPOC-owned businesses in the Hamilton, Niagara and Brantford regions.
Gyimah Gariba creating new worlds & standing up for social issues through art
Gyimah Gariba is a social change catalyst, proud Ghanaian-Torontonian and Sheridan Animation alumni. Recently, Gyimah launched a new animated series, Big Blue, a series that follows two siblings, Lettie and Lemo, who are out to save their underwater world from an environmental disaster.
Gyimah is redefining what the next generation of climate change activists look like through his new animation series, Big Blue. Gyimah is hoping to inspire kids, especially Black Canadian children, watching his work to not only see themselves represented on screen, but to also plant a seed in their mind that like the characters (the two main characters are Black siblings), they too can help take care of the planet.
Mark Stoddart paying tribute to the past & illuminating the path ahead
Meet Mark Stoddart (Illustration '92), a Sheridan alumnus and professor in the Faculty of Animation, Arts & Design, honoured Canada's first lady of the blues, Salome Bey, by unveiling a mural and a GO bus wrap for Metrolinx.
The special edition bus, created in celebration of Black History Month, is covered in Stoddart's distinctive collage design that includes a mix of newspaper headlines, photos, interviews, and reviews of Bey dating back over 50 years, in a moving tribute to one of Canada’s best-known musicians who paved the way for Black artists in theatre.