Candace Amarante is an artist-researcher focused on “writing rights.” She writes stories and plays, emphasizing children’s rights, and features children with chronic illnesses. Recent works include The Dream Machine (April 2023), Let’s not talk about it anymore: a dialogue (Fall 2022), The Ugly Ones, a one-act play on children’s rights (co-written with C. Woolley, Geordie Theatre Fest 2020), and You, Me & Victor Hugo!, a play on censorship, which was a runner-up in the 2023 Playwrights for Change National Playwriting Contest. Candace holds a doctorate in political science from Columbia University.
Candace offers 2 workshops:
- Using images from McGill University Participatory Culture Lab Research, global exhibition “Youth United Will Never be Defeated, students will match them to rights outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, then create human rights-based stories generated from the images
- Creating children’s rights-based picture books generated from articles in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Candace can offer a lecture, “Coming up with ideas and writing stories for children,” which she gives annually at the Children’s Literature course in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. These activities can be integrated into arts, literature, communications and social science courses. https://sites.google.com/site/candaceamarante/