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Fireside Family Chat with Story Planet

Abstract landscape painting. Dark blue and white strokes make up the sky and light green, yellow, white, blue strokes make up the land.

Kazuo Nakamura. Storm Clouds, 1958. Watercolour on wove paper, Overall: 37.5 x 54.7 cm. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. M.B. Kaplansky, Toronto, 1987. © Art Gallery of Ontario 87/97

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Family Events

Fireside Family Chat with Story Planet

Sunday, March 20, 2 pm
Zoom
Fireside Family Chat with Story Planet

Join AGO Family Facilitators and special guests, Story Planet. In this 40 minutes virtual experience, Zoom in for exploration and creativity, inspired by artworks from the AGO’s collection. It’s an afternoon of creative fun for the family.

Materials to have with you:

  • A few sheets of paper
  • Pencils, coloured pencils or crayons

Logo for Story Planet. Space ship with green text reading Story Planet and below in black text, A Universe of Storymaking

Story Planet is a nonprofit organization dedicated to amplifying the voices of children and young people in Toronto's equity-seeking communities. Our creative writing workshops inspire kids to imagine and tell stories while building literacy and confidence in the value of their words and ideas. We occupy a unique place at the intersection of the arts, social justice, and education. To learn more about Story Planet, visit their website here: https://storyplanet.ca/ 

Meet the Story Planet Artists:

Close up photograph of a person with deadlocks with beads in a white blouse with trees in a blurred background

KayGeni, Instagram @kaygeni

Fairly new to the Toronto arts scene, Bahamian born creator/storyteller KayGeni aims to continue building genuine connections with her community through her work. A strong message of self-love and acceptance within her music and artistic expression is fuelled by her own recent life-altering journey of having to undergo an emergency Mastectomy. KayGeni shares her personal experiences through an honest and vulnerable approach to performance, writing and visual arts. She attributes her eclectic style within her work, and artistic influences to her Bahamian heritage.

Head shot of artist wearing a hijab with sunglasses on top of their head. They are smiling at the camera in an indoor setting

Masooma Raza (she/her), Instagram @masooma.r.n

Masooma Raza is a Pakistani visual designer and illustrator now based in Kitchener-Waterloo. She has a bachelors in Communication Design and a PG certificate in Children’s Media. While making art, she is often distracted by all the fun that’s happening in creative learning spaces for kids and in the process, has ended up working for a few including Rahnuma, THEMUSEUM, and now Story Planet. She loves connecting random dots in her brain and ideating, and often accompanies the process with a background score of casual humming or baking. Some of her work can be found here behance.net/masoomaraza. Among her favorite pieces of writing is Rudyard Kipling’s poem, ‘If’.

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