The Art of FreedomSchooling

LeRoi Newbold is a Toronto based educator and activist who develops arts-based Afrocentric/Black focused curriculum and has worked with children and youth for over 18 years as a teacher, early childhood educator, youth facilitator and arts facilitator, including ten years as a teacher 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.

LeRoi is a co-founder and director of Freedom School - Toronto, a free, three week program for children aged four to ten that was created in response to a lack of humanizing, self-affirming, queer-positive educational opportunities for Black children in the GTA. Freedom school is about to enter it’s 5th year, practicing diverse arts-based programming which teaches children about Black Canadian and diasporic history, engages them in political resistance to anti-Black racism and state violence through a trans-feminist lens, and introduces them to various approaches to community organizing.

https://freedomschooltoronto.ca

This event is arranged by Nadia Moss, resident artist in  The P. Lantz Initiative for Excellence in Education and the Arts