Junior Fellow Pillar 1 – Workshop: Be Brave on Stage: Persuasive Public Speaking
Acclaimed performance trainer Charlie Petch will be coming to do a session with you. This is not to be missed.
Writing and performance are intimately connected. Charlie Petch will lead this interactive online session to help prepare you for the next time you stand up in front of an audience whether online or in person.
Charlie Petch award winning transmasculine multidisciplinary artist, mentor, keynote speaker, film/theatre lighting designer, sound tech & entertainer will get you on stage in this hands-on performance session.
This event for Junior Fellows and is online only. Register to attend the Zoom workshop.
Pillar 1
Engaging the Public: Empowering the Next Generation of Intellectual Leaders is for Junior Fellows across all disciplines who are interested in sharing their research and practice with a wider audience. The program’s panels and workshops are designed to be interactive and practical. The goal is to offer tips and tools so that Junior Fellows can begin to translate complex ideas into accessible formats.
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Speaker
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Charlie Petchmultidisciplinary artist - poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host,Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for SpeakNorth national festival, winner of the Golden Beret lifetime achievement in spoken word with The League of Canadian Poets (2020), and founder of Hot Damn it’s a Queer Slam. Petch is a touring performer, as well as a mentor and workshop facilitator. They are launching “Daughter of Geppetto”, a multimedia/dance/music/performance poetry piece with Wind in the Leaves in April 2022 , launched their full length poetry collection “Why I Was Late” with Brick Books which got a “Best of 2021” from The Walrus, and filmed their libretto “Medusa’s Children” with Opera QTO. They have been featured on CBC’s Q, the Toronto International Festival of Authors, and were long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2021.
