Genelle Levy

Jan 20, 2025 | narratively.com | Genelle Levy

During a weekend in which we’re immersing ourselves in all things Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one anecdote we love is that in the 1960s, King used to frequent Overton House, a Victorian mansion in Oak Bluffs, the town in which this story is centered. The house was nicknamed the “Summer White House of the Civil Rights Movement” because of the many prominent Black leaders who spent time there, and King is said to have done a lot of his work there.

Jul 2, 2024 | theguardian.com | Genelle Levy

When Robert Laboucan pictured his son taking his first steps he imagined it would be at home, maybe even in front of a camera in their living room. Instead, the one-year-old first walked in the hallway of the Flamingo Inn in High Level, the tiny Alberta town where the family have been living for more than a year after escaping the massive wildfires that devastated the Indigenous-owned Fox Lake Reserve. “It was really hard,” said Laboucan, a member of the Little Red River Cree Nation.

Nov 30, 2023 | cbc.ca | Genelle Levy

ArtsThe executive director of Toronto's new Black arts space saw the possibilities early for a space that could foster new generations of Black artists. The executive director of Toronto's new Black arts space saw the possibilities as an intern Google "art gallery Toronto" and you are sure to get at least nearly 30 good suggestions, with a total of over 92 million Google search results.

Oct 27, 2023 | cbc.ca | Genelle Levy

Briana Brown-Tipley can recall the exact moment her life was no longer synchronous with her twin sister Hilary Brown-Istrefi. It's this moment that inspired the choreographer duo's work "Upstairs, In Our Bedroom," a multidisciplinary dance piece with virtual reality components that will be discussed as part of a Q&A at Toronto's Rendez-Vous With Madness festival taking place on Oct. 28.

Sep 22, 2023 | cbc.ca | Genelle Levy

There's a type of fear that comes with being a Black man, one that can be hard to voice, let alone showcase. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning Canadian Stage production Topdog/Underdog, that fear is not only given a platform but is intuitively examined in the form of a complicated relationship between two Black brothers. The play highlights Lincoln and Booth, siblings comically named for the historical president Abraham Lincoln and his notorious assassin, John Wilkes Booth.