The Mirror ‘Actors in Training’
June 24, 2010
YouthWorks is a Black Theatre Workshop initiative that began as a training program for black youth. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, it’s a year-round project for 10–19-year-olds of all backgrounds. Theatre-based, the program covers dance, voice, hip hop and storytelling in an “Africentric but inclusive process” that reinforces ideas of ancestry and ritual so central to black culture.
The Gazette “Archives Launch”
February 11, 2010
Photograph by: Marcos Townsend, The Gazette
Former Black Theatre Workshop artistic director Don Jordan, left, its first actress, Violet Reid-Boldon, board vice-president Clarence Bayne and founding member Ken Pilgrim were among the past and present Workshop figures on hand Wednesday for the launch of the company’s 40th anniversary website, www.blacktheatreworkshop.ca. The site features hundreds of articles and videos from the archives of BTW, Canada’s longest-running black theatre company.
The Senior Times
February, 2010
“Young Performing Artists Honoured” by Matthew Rettino
“On the Isle of Spice, a Black Princess Reigns” by Matthew Rettino
The Montreal Gazette
February 5, 2010
Photograph by: Marie-France Coallier, Montreal Gazette
“Staging Nutmeg Princess turns into a Journey for Director, Cast” by Kathryn Greenaway
