{"id":13500,"date":"2024-02-24T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T14:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=13500"},"modified":"2024-02-24T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T14:10:18","slug":"black-history-black-excellence-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/black-history-black-excellence-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History\/Black Excellence Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our celebration of Black History\/Black Excellence Month. Please see our previous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/b7baefba468d\/allenby-update-september-6-6163846?e=e15ef796fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for resources that you can explore with your family.<\/p>\n<p>The TDBS&#8217;s theme is<strong>\u00a0Our Black Is\u2026\u00a0<\/strong>Our Black Is Resilient, Community, Beautiful, Unity, Joy, Self-Determination, Excellence, Empowering, Purpose, Brilliance, Engaging, Creative, Belonging, Tenacious, Powerful, Faith, Audacious, Powerful, Me\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Black Excellence in the spotlight: Artist Curtia Wright<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week, we would like to highlight the work and talents of a local artist\u00a0<strong>Curtia Wright<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/curia-wright-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Curtia Wright<\/a>\u00a0is a multi-disciplinary fine artist, mural artist and arts educator based in Toronto. Her artwork re-imagines our reality using elements of fantasy and surrealism. Using bold and vibrant colour, she aims to transport audiences to her alternate worlds. Wright\u2019s narratives focus on telling stories of Black peoples of the African diaspora, primarily speaking about her own heritage and history as a Jamaican-Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>Curtia Wright has completed murals throughout the city, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stepspublicart.stqry.app\/en\/story\/193922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this one<\/a>\u00a0within a short drive to the Allenby community.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage you to spend and afternoon visiting one of many murals. See the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=curtia+wright+art&amp;rlz=1CDGOYI_enCA831CA831&amp;oq=curtia+wright+&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCAgCEAAYFhgeMgoIABBFGBYYHhg5MgoIARAuGAoYFhgeMggIAhAAGBYYHjIICAMQABgWGB4yDQgEEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyDQgFEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyDQgGEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyBwgHECEYoAEyBwgIECEYnwUyBwgJECEYnwXSAQg1NzIxajBqNKgCALACAOIDBBgBIF8&amp;hl=en-US&amp;sourceid=chrome-mobile&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link\u00a0<\/a>for more information on her work.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you would like to contribute to future newsletters, and\/or share about your traditions and celebrations please email us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:allenbydei@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allenbydei@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our celebration of Black History\/Black Excellence Month. Please see our previous\u00a0newsletter\u00a0for resources that you can explore with your family. The TDBS&#8217;s theme is\u00a0Our Black Is\u2026\u00a0Our Black Is Resilient, Community, Beautiful, Unity, Joy, Self-Determination, Excellence, Empowering, Purpose, Brilliance, Engaging, Creative, Belonging, Tenacious, Powerful, Faith, Audacious, Powerful, Me\u2026 Black Excellence in the spotlight: Artist Curtia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1054,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dei","category-tdsb-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13501,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500\/revisions\/13501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}