Peace Akintade

Upcoming Events

Ori Ara Emi (My Head, My Body, My Soul) - Poetry Exhibition

31 七月 @ Studio C

About

Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye (she/her), Saskatchewan Poet Laureate, is an African-Canadian Interdisciplinary Poet, Public Speaker, Chorus-Poem Playwright, and Facilitator residing in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Author of Earth Skin, Equanimity in Sonder, Equanimity in Conversation and The Taste of Sonder. Recipient of the RBC SaskArts Emerging Artist Award and the Platinum Jubilee Queen's Medal. The past 2020-2021 Saskatchewan Youth Poet Laureate and 2022-2023 READSaskatoon Poet Laureate, and recently worked as Poet-in-Residence with the Remai Modern Gallery, City of Saskatoon, and Persephone Theatre. Her manuscript, “The Goat’s Tongue,” is shortlisted for the Metatron International Poetry Prize. Co-organizing Write Out Loud, a Youth Poetry Collective. Other playwrighting credits include Maddeness with Rocks with Obsidian Theatre and CBCGem, Painted Elephant with Black Theatre Workshop AMP, I Am Who I Am with SUMTheatre's First Monday, and But First Let Me Breathe with Theatre on the Beat. Organically from Yorubaland, Nigeria, Peace explores the intersectionality of the artist community from an explorer's perspective, dipping her honey-stained fingers into poetry, dance, performance art, critical research, and the theatre world.