This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.
We will be listening to and then discussing a TEDx talk by Chinonye Chukwu, a Nigerian-American writer, producer, and director. In 2019, she became the first Black woman to receive the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival for her film Clemency. Then, in 2022 she released TILL, the first feature-length drama about Mamie Till Mobley and her son Emmett Till, whose lynching in 1955 galvanized the civil rights movement in the U.S. Chukwu’s film TILL has also been nominated for and won numerous awards.
In the TEDx talk we will be listening to, Chukwu talks about her experience of severe depression that forced her to, in her words: “make a choice: to float through this life existing by living by other people’s expectations or just go ahead and choose to embrace my life doing things on my terms.”
The video and topic were selected and intro & outro will be provided by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.
We will also be having live music this Sunday! Our featured musician will be Cassie Norton, a Toronto-based singer-songwriter, violinist, teacher and climate activist. Cassie is also the music director of Toronto Oasis.
Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:
https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/297617452/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
This meeting has two recordings of our guest musician:
GMT20231217-162507_Recording_640x360.mp4
GMT20231217-173413_Recording_640x360.mp4