Dr. D’bi.young anitafrika is a featured griot at teh 1st Annual Canadian Black Literary Festival in Ajax, Ontario, North Turtle Island. This also marks the launch event of Dr. anitafrika’s Dub Nomad Tour 2026, covering North America, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean.

Watah Theatre Presents
A 10-Year Anniversary Production
shx mami wata & the pxssywitch hunt
by d’bi.young anitafrika

Step into an intimate, ritual performance where theatre meets ceremony. Rooted in dub poetry, movement, and African diasporic storytelling, this powerful biomyth monodrama explores gender, sexuality, and the erotic through the lives of four friends navigating love, identity, and survival in present-day Jamaica.

In Honour of Black Womyn in Theatre is an evening of recognition and celebration of Black womyn whose work has shaped theatre across North Turtle Island. Held in celebration of International Womyn’s Day, the event includes the launch of the Black Womxn Theatre Digital Archive Project.

Young, Gifted, and Black is Obsidian Theatre’s arts training program dedicated to supporting Black theatre practitioners in non-performance disciplines. This four-month intensive explores Black diaspora theatre and performance aesthetics.

Watah Theatre proudly presents esu crossing the middle passage: orisha trilogy part one, a landmark work of dub theatre by d’bi.young anitafrika, returning to the stage for its 10-year anniversary at the newly established Watah Studio Theatre. The production launches Watah Theatre’s 2026 season and invites audiences to experience anitafrika’s biomyth monodrama work in an intimate studio setting.

The Black Theatre School invites applications for its nine-month immersive professional theatre training residency. Applications must be submitted electronically to contact@blacktheatreschool.com by 11:59 PM ET on February 28, 2026. We will host an Online Info Session on Monday, January 19, 2026, from 6-7pm.

Welcome to d’bi.young anitafrika’s virtuosic three-week repertory production celebrating the 20th anniversary of the critically acclaimed Sankofa Trilogy featuring the plays blood.claat, benu, and word! sound! powah!

Starring d’bi.young anitafrika, this production presents a new vision on the classic works, with each play running for one  week and all three plays running in rep for a marathon culminating weekend featuring a dancehall party at the end of Saturday night (Oct 11, 2025).

Join us in a panto dub theatre griot posse workshop presentation of d’bi.young anitafrika’s acclaimed trilogy at the Summerworks Festival, featuring a dynamic mix of mid-career and emerging artists at the Summerworks Festival, presented by the Watah Theatre.

Set in present day Toronto, the play follows Lulu Kromanti, a fun-loving headstrong girl of Jamaican descent and the only granddaughter of Grandma Clarice.

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. blacktheatreschool.com

Dear Global Village, on behalf of our Soulpepper Academy artists, we would like to invite you to a public sharing of their works-in-progress on August 3 & 4 from 7-10pm in the Tank House Theatre.

d’bi.young anitafrika teams with both their Siminovitch Playwright Award Protege nominees Sashoya Simpson and daniel jelani ellis to direct “Lulu” a new play written by Sashoya Simpson, and starring daniel jelani ellis and a phenomenal cast.

July 19-27, 2024 Westdale Theatre

Journey into the world of playwriting using the groundbreaking Anitafrika Method. This 12-week online course, led by renowned artist and Siminovitch Prize playwright finalist d'bi.young anitafrika, offers participants an opportunity to dive deep into decolonising, indigenising, and interiorising modes of playmaking, using the ground-breaking Anitafrika Method. Dismantle colonial tropes and models and unearth your unique storytelling process.