Episode #33: Ontario's 1st Ever Poet Laureate featuring Randell Adjei
“You know, people who've come here before, before my time and even have allowed this to be possible for me to be in a position like this.”
Randell Adjei
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Scarborough, Ontario native and spoken word artist Randell Adjei has been named as Ontario’s first Poet Laureate thanks to a private member’s bill introduced by NDP MPP Percy Hatfield and will serve a two-year term as an officer of the legislature. The bill – dubbed the Poet Laureate of Ontario Act In Memory of Gord Downie of the group The Tragically Hip who died in October 2017 after being diagnosed with a terminal brain cancer called Glioblastoma.
Randell is an author, inspirational speaker, arts educator and community leader who uses the spoken word to empower and transform, he is the founder of one of Toronto's largest and longest running youth led initiatives; Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere (R.I.S.E Edutainment).
A respected community activist, his responsibilities will include writing poems, promoting literacy in Ontario, and boosting the province’s poets.
Randell is up next on The Audacious Living Podcast to discuss the power of the arts, the tremendous honour of the position, the opportunity to raise the profile of poetry in Ontario.
For more information about Ontario’s first poet laureate and his role, visit the Ontario Legislative Assembly website:
https://www.ola.org/en/poet-laureate/randell-adjei-biography
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Randell is up next on The Audacious Living Podcast.
#NewEpisodeAlert #Podcast #Poet #Laureate #RandellAdjei #Ontario #Motivational #BestLifeEver #AudaciousLiving #BeAudacious
