By Neil Armstrong
Blackhurst Cultural Centre will current the 2024 My Folks Award to illustrator and artist, Ken Daley, at its four-day Black and Caribbean E-book Affair, October 16-19.
The award will is offered to an African, Black or Caribbean author or illustrator in Canada who’s excelling at their craft and telling the tales of our heritage of their work.
Daley is an award-winning youngsters’s guide illustrator and artist, and is thought for his use of daring, brilliant colors, and genuine particulars to depict Black Life, in all its iterations.
His ardour lies with tales that mirror his heritage because the baby of immigrants, his connection to the Caribbean, and the richness and expanse of the African Diaspora.
Daley believes that numerous tales are important to making a extra simply, and equitable world, and that is one thing he’s deeply dedicated to manifesting via his artwork. He has illustrated quite a few youngsters’s books and acquired an Américas Award Honor E-book and a Kirkus Finest Image E-book for Auntie Luce’s Speaking Work.
Daley was born in Cambridge, Ontario to oldsters who emigrated from Dominica. He’s an honours graduate from the Artwork Centre of Central Technical College in addition to an architectural expertise graduate from Humber School in Toronto.
The artist and illustrator has exhibited his paintings inside Canada, the US and the Caribbean, and his work may be present in quite a few personal collections. His work has additionally been featured in print publications in addition to on tv. The award can be offered to him on October 19.
Organized by Blackhurst Cultural Centre in collaboration with A Totally different Booklist, the annual Black and Caribbean E-book Affair can be held at 177 Bathurst Avenue in Toronto beneath the theme “Authors Writing into the AI Future.”
The four-day pageant begins October 16 with Chido Muchemwa’s debut assortment “Who Will Bury You? And Different Tales.” On October 17, a workshop with Gayle Gonsalves will characteristic aspiring writers. October 18 contains periods for college students led by Ken Daley and Bushra Junaid, concluding with a dialogue between Itah Sadu and Myriam J.A. Chancy on Village Weavers.
Chancy’s 2021 novel, What Storm, What Thunder, was named a greatest guide of the yr by a number of native and worldwide prestigious journals.
The final day of the E-book Affair showcases authors of youngsters’s literature, guide launches, poetry, and a panel on synthetic intelligence.
On October 19, the pageant options “Storytelling for the Children” with Njacko Backo from 10:00-11:00 a.m. Yolanda Marshall will launch My Kwanzaa Want from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The day continues with Making the Second by Diva and LeRoi Newbold, and Morgan Christie presents I, Too, Am Right here from 3:30-4:30 p.m.
A “Dialog on AI and Authorship,” a guide launch, and a guide signing ends the day. It can characteristic Lorna E. Inexperienced, ICT Entrepreneur, CEO and Chairman, Digital Transtec Ltd (DTL), and creator of the collection “Beng and Associates”, which addresses STEM (Science, Know-how, Engineering, Arithmetic) and selecting a profession. This can be adopted by a chat with Prof. Jude Kong, Director of the Synthetic Intelligence and Mathematical Modeling lab (AIMMlab), College of Toronto.
The host can be Silja Mitange, who’s pursuing a grasp’s diploma in communications and tradition at Toronto Metropolitan College and York College, the place her analysis focuses on the intersection of politics and expertise.
