"return and get the knowledge"
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Black Womxn Theatre Digital Archive Project
The Black Womxn Theatre: Northern Turtle Island Digital Archive Project, curated by the Watah Theatre is committed to documenting the contributions of Black womyn theatre practitioners from 1970 to the present. This internationally accessible digital archive will be interview-based, and will address a long-standing gap in the documentation of Black womyn's theatre contributions.
Black Theatre School
The Black Theatre School provides a decolonial, immersive, and interdisciplinary training ground where Black performance aesthetics, embodied learning techniques, and liberatory worldbuilding take center stage, through the Anitafrika Method's three-stage process of Self-Transformation, Creative Expression, and Community Embodiment.
PhD on Black Womxn Theatre
"Personhood, Practice, & Pedagogy in Black Womxn Theatre: A Black Queer Transfeminist Dubography, is a critical autoethnography rooted in the Anitafrika Dub Praxis. This thesis investigates how I, and other members of the predominantly English-speaking African-Caribbean descended community of Black womyn theatre makers in Tkaronto, Northern Turtle Island, decoliberate (to enact liberation through decolonial action) personhood, practice, and pedagogy, within concentric kinship circles of femtorship." - d'bi.young
Decolonial Arts Centre
UBUNTU! Decolonial Arts Centre—founded by d’bi.young anitafrika—is a holistic gathering space towards the embodiment of Ubuntu, the African philosophy from which it takes its name. Ubuntu is a Zulu/Xhosa word meaning I am because you/we are. Home to the Anitafrika Method, a trauma-aware decolonial praxis cultivated by d’bi.young, the centre aims to create a space where arts practitioners can engage with critical questions about the purpose of our work, as well as our individual and collective roles in society.
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Spolrusie Publishing
Spolrusie was founded by d’bi.young anitafrika to publish works by Black and other Global Majority artists as well as formulations emerging out of The Watah Theatre, Black womxn theatre, Ubuntu! Decolonial Arts Centre and The Anitafrika Method. The press documents, archives and distributes these works globally. In 2010, a former iteration of Spolrusie unofficially published its first anthology titled s is for storytelling. Officially launched in 2013, Spolrusie publishes poetry, plays, photography, fiction and non-fiction works.
Theatre Awards
The Black Womxn Theatre Awards honour Black womyn whose artistic, pedagogical, and cultural leadership has shaped theatre across North Turtle Island. Grounded in Ubuntu and intergenerational kinship, the Awards recognise sustained contributions to performance, mentorship, and community-building. The inaugural ceremony will take place on March 9, 2026, as part of In Honour of Black Womyn in Theatre at Watah Studio Theatre, presenting 21 Lifetime Achievement Awards to celebrate enduring legacies in Black theatre.
