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Paulina O’Kieffe-Anthony is an award winning Toronto writer, performer, producer, arts educator and community advocate. 

A member of the League of Poets and Associate member of the PlayWriters Guild, her high level accomplishments include being featured in When Sisters Speak on stage at the St Lawrence Centre for the Performing Arts (2017 and 2019), producing the Words by the Water Literary Festival and representing Toronto as a national team finalist in the Canadian Festival Of Spoken Word in 2015 and 2017. Paulina continues to be one of the main artist educators developing curriculum and teaching for established arts organizations including Lakeshore Arts and in schools across a number of school boards. Her work has been featured in media on Bell Fibe TV, Huffington Post Canada, AfroGlobal TV, Metro Morning and CBC Morning.

Paulina was recognized as one of 150 Black Women Making Herstory (as featured on CBC)  for her contribution to building the arts scene in Toronto.

 

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Paulina O’Kieffe-Anthony is an award winning Toronto writer, performer, producer, arts educator and community advocate.

A member of the League of Canadian Poets, some of her high level accomplishments include being featured in When Sisters Speak on stage at the St Lawrence Centre for the Performing Arts (2017 and 2019), producing the Words by the Water Literary Festival (a 3 day festival that was a Spark project of the City of Toronto’s Cultural Hot Spot in 2016) and representing Toronto as a national team finalist in the Canadian Festival Of Spoken Word both in 2015 and 2017. Paulina continues to be one of the main artist educators developing curriculum and teaching for established arts organizations including Harbourfront Centre, Lakeshore Arts and in schools across both Toronto School boards and beyond. Her work has also been featured in media on Bell Fibe TV, Huffington Post Canada, AfroGlobal TV, Metro Morning and CBC Morning.

Paulina’s role as an artist educator and spoken word artist has allowed her to teach, support, engage and inspire youth in a way that is outside of an education system that sometimes presents barriers to learning for young people simply because alternative methods of education are not available.

The Founder/Artistic Director of the Words by the Water Collective Paulina is influenced by her diverse descent and her work in multiple communities, bringing her passion to the page and the stage. Her poetry, which covers a diverse range of topics from love to revolution, appears in print in ‘Guerillas of the Word,’ “If I Ran the School, and Feminism: Revisit, Revise, Revolutionize.

Paulina is the recipient of the Toronto Community Foundation’s Vital People Award and was recognized as one of 150 Black Women Making Herstory (as featured on CBC)  for her contribution to building the arts scene in Toronto.