Peace Akintade
Saskatoon, SK
Peace.akintade@yahoo.com
Instagram: s.ole.peace
Mandate
To introduce the power of traditional African (Yoruba) oral literature, storytelling, and performance art to the growing public of Saskatchewan and beyond.
To make Poetry and Spoken Word accessible to youths by integrating the creativity and resourcefulness of the poetry language to music, dance, plays, on stages with thousands, or inside the classroom.
Selected Publications
2023 “Earth Skin”, Remai Modern Gallery, Turning Tide, Saskatoon SK
Mansa Musa, Dunlop Gallery, Regina SK
Madness with Rocks, 21 Black Future Anthology, Canadian Playwriting Press, Toronto CA
Do I Intimidate, BlackFlash Magazine, Regina SK
2022 Rooster Calls, Free Up, CBCArts
My Beautiful Hair, St. Clair Detrick-Jules Anthology
Poet’s Dying Monologue, Praire People’s Poetry, Creative City Centre
2020 Rainbow and Sunflower Grave, CBC, Saskatoon, SK
Romantic Ditch and Ooma and Venifica, Voices of Today, Toronto CA
Awards and Honored Position
2023 Queens Jubilee Award
RBC SaskArts Emerging Artist Award
READSaskatoon Poet Laureate
2021 Saskatchewan Youth Poet Laureate
Speakers Bureau with the Office of the Treaty Commissioner
Short List IBPOC Commission with Persephone Theatre
2014 RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrants Award
Poet-In-Residence / Exhibition
2024 BAM Art Residencies, Bridges Art Movement
2023 Here and Now: Artist Cohort for the Remai Modern Gallery
All-Together Now, Lugo Exhibition with Remai Modern Gallery
2022 Do I Intimidate, Public Exhibition for Art Gallery of Regina
Sleeping Lover, 525 Studio Art Exhibition
2021 Bunkhouse Residence, Forestry Farm, Saskatoon SK
The Sun Hums, Outdoor Exhibition, Outsaskatoon “Winter Festival”
Cosmos, Shakespeare of Saskatchewan
2019 Saskatoon Poetic Arts Festival, Poet Ensemble
If Love Was an Echo, Living in Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society
2018 Little Stories on the Prairie, Saskatoon, SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival
2016 Canadian Council for Refugees, Open Door Society
2015 Moving Stories YXE Bus Tour: An Interactive Inter-cultural Art Exhibit, City of Saskatoon
Selected Theatre Position
2017 Writer, Here, Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon SK
2019 Actor, Romeo Project, Fringe Festival, Saskatoon SK
2020 Playwrighter, Madness with Rocks, 21 Black Future, Obsidian Theatre, Toronto CA
2021 Producer and Writer, Painted Elephant, Fringe Festival, Saskatoon SK
2022 Playwright Mentee, Black Theatre Workshop (AMP)
2023 Actor, Theatre in the Park, SumTheatre, Saskatoon SK
Dramaturge, The Maids, Whirlygig Theatre
Intimacy Director, The Maids, Whirlygig Theatre
Dramaturge, A Take of Two Bundles, Thou Art Here