{"id":46869,"date":"2016-05-06T22:09:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T22:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46869"},"modified":"2017-03-26T01:25:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T01:25:22","slug":"jewishafro-caribbean-artist-explores-mixed-race-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46869","title":{"rendered":"Jewish\/Afro-Caribbean Artist Explores Mixed Race Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjnews.com\/culture\/arts\/jewishafro-caribbean-artist-explores-mixed-race-identities\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Jewish\/Afro-Caribbean Artist Explores Mixed Race Identities<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Canadian Jewish News<\/a><br \/>\n2016-05-03<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kathryn Kates<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjnews.com\/culture\/arts\/jewishafro-caribbean-artist-explores-mixed-race-identities\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1cr9883up6mem97ddj01yxgu.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/JLIFE-Sarah-Waisvis-zMonstrous-Waisvisz-Photo-by-Christopher-Snow-640x428.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><small><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarahwaisvisz\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Waisvisz<\/a> in her one-woman show &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/calaloublog.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/30\/monstrous-or-the-miscegenation-advantage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monstrous<\/a>&#8216; CHRISTOPHER SNOW PHOTO<\/small><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Jewish\/Afro-Caribbean artist, performer and playwright <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarahwaisvisz\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Waisvisz<\/a>, 34, will be presenting her one-woman show, <a href=\"https:\/\/calaloublog.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/30\/monstrous-or-the-miscegenation-advantage\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Monstrous<\/em><\/a>, which explores the often ignored mixed race identity based on her own personal experiences, and her work on her PhD thesis research about Francophone\/Anglophone literature specifically by Afro\/Caribbean women.<\/p>\n<p><em>Monstrous<\/em> made its world premiere in February in Waisvisz\u2019s hometown of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ottawa\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa<\/a> during the Undercurrent Festival. It will make its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toronto\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a> premiere on May 5, 8 p.m. at Toronto\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontoartscape.org\/artscape-wychwood-barns\" target=\"_blank\">Artscape Wychwood Barns<\/a> as part of the 14th Annual <a href=\"http:\/\/bcurrent.ca\/event\/rock-paper-sistahz-14\/\" target=\"_blank\">rock.paper.sistahz<\/a> \u2013 a black, indigenous and multicultural festival featuring new works based on social issues examined in new and unusual ways. The festival runs from May 3-5&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjnews.com\/culture\/arts\/jewishafro-caribbean-artist-explores-mixed-race-identities\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish\/Afro-Caribbean artist, performer and playwright Sarah Waisvisz, 34, will be presenting her one-woman show, Monstrous, which explores the often ignored mixed race identity based on her own personal experiences, and her work on her PhD thesis research about Francophone\/Anglophone literature specifically by Afro\/Caribbean women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,395,19,3601,8,820],"tags":[23727,23728,23729,23726],"class_list":["post-46869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-canada","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","tag-canadian-jewish-news","tag-kathryn-kates","tag-sarah-waisvisz","tag-the-canadian-jewish-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52940,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46869\/revisions\/52940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}