The Watah School fundraising campaign receives fund matching partnership

TORONTO - Nov. 28, 2014 - PRLog -- November 28, 2014 (Toronto, ON) The Watah School (watah.org (http://www.watah.org)) is excited to announce from Friday November 28 – Tuesday December 2, 2014 all donations made towards the $7000 #WatahOurRoots fundraising efforts will be matched as part of Indiegogo’s generous GivingTuesday campaign.

Since opening The Watah School (previously anitafrika dub theatre) in 2008, over 500 artist have benefitted from workshops, courses, conferences, events, one-on-one mentorship and residenceis. Our largest artist-in-residence program, Performing Arts Training Intensive (PATI), offers tuition-free arts training to young emerging artists. PATI is not funded by any external funding bodies. The #WatahOurRoots fundraising campaign is to raise basic essentials to support the PATI residency. The entire funding campaign ends on Monday December 22, 2014.

Dates to have donation matched:
Friday November 28 – Tuesday December 2, 2014

Date of to make final online donation:
Monday December 22, 2014

Link to make an online donation: www.tinyurl/watahourroots (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/watah-black-trans-disc...)

For sponsorship packages please contact: Communications@watah.org

Link to message from founder and artistic director, d’bi.young: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89rh9gB_Hs



Available for interviews:
d’bi.young anitafrika, internationally awarded artist, founder and artistic director of The Watah School.  Past and current artist-in-residence are also available for interviews.

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About The Watah School
Previously anitafrika dub theatre, The Watah School was founded in 2008 by award winning artist d’bi.young anitafrika and was officially incorporated as a not-for-profit in 2014. The centre is a w/holistic artist development institute, grounded in the Sorplusi Method, with a mission to cultivate and nurture artists as healers, mentors, and keepers of the sacred. Arts-engagement sits at the core of the organization’s commitment to providing people who are newly emerged, mid-career and established artists such as Black women, racialized young adults, new immigrants, first nations and LGBTQQIP2SAA people, with the tools to self-actualize, create urgent art and uncover crucial mentorship skills for each one to teach one.

Lovingly curated artist residencies, Watah workshops, one-to-one mentorship with d’bi and a host of dynamic artist-educators, make The Watah School a womb-oasis in the city of Toronto and the world.