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DESCRIPTION:The Role of Art in Black Liberatory Education and Movement Buil
 ding\n\nA Lunchtime talk with co-founder and director of Toronto’s Freedom
  School\n\nLeRoi Newbold is a Toronto based educator and activist who deve
 lops arts-based Afrocentric/Black focused curriculum and has worked with c
 hildren and youth for over 18 years as a teacher\, early childhood educato
 r\, youth facilitator and arts facilitator\, including ten years as a teac
 her at TDSB's Africentric Alternative School. In 2019 he was one of three 
 recipients of the OTIP Teaching Award for his contributions to curriculum 
 development\, Black centred pedagogy\, and his work bringing principles of
  transformative justice to the classroom.\n\nLeRoi is a co-founder and dir
 ector of Freedom School - Toronto\, a free\, three week program for childr
 en aged four to ten that was created in response to a lack of humanizing\,
  self-affirming\, queer-positive educational opportunities for Black child
 ren in the GTA. Freedom school is about to enter it’s 5th year\, practicin
 g diverse arts-based programming which teaches children about Black Canadi
 an and diasporic history\, engages them in political resistance to anti-Bl
 ack racism and state violence through a trans-feminist lens\, and introduc
 es them to various approaches to community organizing.\n\nLearn more about
  Freedom School - Toronto\n\nThis event is arranged by Nadia Moss\, reside
 nt artist in  The P. Lantz Initiative for Excellence in Education and the 
 Arts.\n\n\n
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LOCATION:Student Commons\, Education Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1Y
 2\, 3700 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:The Art of FreedomSchooling
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