We’re excited to announce and invite you to our first event ever!
“The Persona” is an amalgamation of all of our students’ work and will feature their personal/thesis projects!
The event will be taking place at Basement, through The Manifesto, at 37 Bulwer Street, on Friday, June 1st at 6:00 PM and will be ending late. Film screenings will begin at 9:00 PM, music will be provided by DJ Combo and catering will be provided by The Big Norm Show!
Thank you to all of our gracious sponsors, supporters and affiliates, including ArtReach Toronto, HipHopCanada, Peace Quest, The Remix Project, Schools Without Borders, The City of Toronto, The Grassroots Youth Collaborative, Detonate Group, ArkMedia, Stolen From Africa, Lighthouse Innovations and a j a n i photography: digital image solutions!
We would also like to thank our own Tanisha Clarke for designing the above digital advertisement/flier!
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Annie Leibovitz is arguably the most prolific photographer of our time and she is certainly the most accomplished portrait photographer that the 21st century has seen. With that being said, we have studied a great deal of her work through The Young Visionaries and recently, all of our students received a digital copy of “Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens” — an amazing documentary about the artist’s life (in its complex entirety).
In the above video, Seattle’s KCTS 9 public television station sits down with Leibovitz to discuss her evolution as a visionary, over the course of the last six decades.
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Tanisha Clarke is a multi-talented visual artist who is well-versed in the areas of graphic design and photography and she has recently begun her studies as a cinematographer through The Young Visionaries.
Her Young Visionaries personal project is undoubtedly going to be awesome and she has an incredibly bright future ahead of her.
Please be sure to check back for more of her work!
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