CBI 24/25 Session – Rita Shelton Deverell & Ayanda Haas

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CBI 24/25 Session – Rita Shelton Deverell & Ayanda Haas

January 23 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

PGC members have been paired up with an international playwright to share their work and discuss the craft of playwriting with one another. You can tune into these live events and get a glimpse of what these theatre creators have been up to!

Craft Bites International is open and free to the public.

Please note registration is required one hour prior to each session.

Register HERE.

About the Playwrights:

Rita Shelton DeverellThroughout her career in broadcasting, journalism and theatre, Rita Shelton Deverell has stood out for her innovation, creativity, and inclusion. She co-founded VisionTV, where she produced Skylight (Gemini, Best Lifestyle Information) and It’s About Time (Gemini, excellence in mainstream television reflecting Canada’s cultural diversity). From 2002 to 2005 she was news director at APTN Network, and mentored her Indigenous successor. In 2005 she returned to drama. Her play Who You Callin Black Eh? won the Teen Jury prize at the 2019 Toronto Fringe, and she received a 2022 Canada Council grant to create a digital version. 

Ayanda HaasIn all walks of life, I believe, for a complete communication of an idea, nothing surpasses a dramatic representation of that idea you want to convey. I believe that as artists we are duty bound to always challenge the unchallengeable and inspire the uninspired. For years I have been involved with community theatre and in 2014 I went to MAGNET THEATRE to polish my skill in theatre making. Today I can proudly say that I am a developing writer,growing actor, passionate shadow puppeteer and an art teacher. TIRO’S TOUGHLOOP TESTIMONY is a play I wrote during that devastating period of our lives in 2020. In 2023, the play took part at Baxter’s Zabalaza Festival and scooped three awards respectively. 1: Best Actor. 2: Best Script. 3: Finest of the Festival. This year, the play went on to receive three niminees at the prestigious Fleur Du Cap awards and also took part at Iphulo (Eastern Cape) and Botho (Limpopo) Art Festivals. 

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Date:
January 23
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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