Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

A poetic response to: Colour Palette Guide for Mixing Makeup to Achieve Accurate Ethnic Representation from Stage Makeup by Richard Corson, 4th Edition (Archives of IT'S ABOUT TIME: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970). This response, provisionally titled "N for Nude" will comprise an audio and visual representation based on an original poem in progress.

Conversation with Otoniya J. Okot Biket, Lyse Lemieux, and Kimberly Phillips

Please join poet Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, visual artist Lyse Lemieux, and SFU Galleries' Director Kimberly Phillips for a reading and conversation around Otoniya's text artwork and installation, Made Nude, and its connections to archival records in the exhibition, It's About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 and Now, curated by Seika Boye.

Artist: Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

Otoniya J. Okot Bitek is a poet. Her 100 Days (University of Alberta 2016) a book of poetry that reflects on the meaning of memory two decades after the Rwanda genocide, was nominated for several writing prizes including the 2017 BC Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the 2017 Alberta Book Awards and the 2017 Canadian Authors Award for Poetry. It won the 2017 IndieFab Book of the Year Award for poetry and the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. A is for Acholi (Wolsak and Wynn 2022), a new collection of poetry, is her most recent publication. Otoniya is an assistant professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.