Performances and interviews with renowned Canadian spoken word artists published each week in October to bring awareness to mental health and celebrate the power of spoken word as a powerful therapeutic tool. Curated by Andrea Thompson.
Brickyard’s Mental Health Showcase features a series of weekly performance videos and interviews with renowned Canadian spoken word artists including Patrick de Belen – a celebrated Filipino-Canadian storyteller most known for his collaborations with the Toronto Raptors, the NFL and CBC, Jamaal Jackson Rogers – an award winning poet, arts educator, and former Poet Laureate of Ottawa, Nisha Patel – a venerated queer, disabled spoken word poet and the city of Edmonton’s 8th poet Laureate, and Sabrina Benaim – one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time whose videos have reached over 100 million people around the world.
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Week of October 3, 2022 – Various Artists
Roen Higgins: Free Your Mind
Jennifer Alicia Interview
Tanya Neumeyer Interview
Vironika Wilde: No One
Week of October 10, 2022 – Patrick de Belen
Interview
Performance
Week of October 17, 2022 – Jamaal Rogers
Interview
Performance
Week of October 24, 2022 – Sabrina Beniam
Interview
Performance
Week of October 31, 2022 – Nisha Patel
Interview
Performance
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts & the Ontario Arts Council.