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Thursday's virtual </span><span class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 12pt;"><i>Communication Speaks</i></span><span class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 12pt;">
event featuring Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae's research-creation project Black And Free.</span><span class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="margin:0px;font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif;caret-color:rgb(5, 5, 5);color:rgb(5, 5, 5);font-size:15px"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae's areas of research and teaching expertise are race, gender and performance.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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presentation of research findings will include performances of excerpts from her plays that explore, in process and production, what Black theatre can do in the 21st Century. Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae will be joined by Janice Anderson (York University) and Emily
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae's current artistic and research project is called Black And Free with a focus on Black expressive culture and it is funded by grants from the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and the University of Waterloo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">She has appeared as a media commentator for the BBC, CBC, CTV, The Canadian Press, the National Post, the Toronto Star, and The Fader and written op-eds for the Globe and Mail and Vice
Network. She is also an award-winning poet, recording artist, and playwright who has performed in Canada, France, Jamaica, and South Africa.</span></div>
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