QWF’s Writers in the Community program pairs small groups of young people with a professional writer or literary performance artist who can teach them and, more importantly, motivate them, to use language to express themselves in productive ways. In each project, a writer-facilitator works with a small group for 10 weeks, teaching them language tools, giving them writing prompts, and ultimately, boosting their self-confidence by showing them that they are capable of producing literary work of value.
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Meet the writer-facilitators
Banafsheh Hassani
Banafsheh Hassani بنفشه حسنی (any/all pronouns) is an Iranian Montreal-based feminist theatre creator and practitioner. They have a BFA in Performance Creation from Concordia University with distinction. Banafsheh is preoccupied with home, memory, dreams, identity, un/changing and relations (blood and otherwise), and all that would happen if only “home [was not] the mouth of a shark” (home, Warsan Shire). They are currently nurturing their growing creative concern and longtime inquietude for diasporic and immigrant lives and experiences. His plays have had readings through Teesri Duniya Theatre’s Fireworks playwriting program and Playwright Workshop Montreal’s Young Creators Unit. As an actor, she most recently appeared in Wine&Halva by award-winning playwright Deniz Başar. As a teacher, they are also working at Geordie Theatre School.
Participation was perfect! All students were engaged.
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Program sponsors
We would also like to express our gratitude to the following sponsors, without whom the Writers in the Community program would not be possible
