d’bi.young anitafrika is an internationally celebrated African-Jamaican-Canadian dub-artist, arts-educator and emerging theatre director whose trans-disciplinary explorations of identity, gender, sexuality and the human experience, through her developing Pan-Africanist Caribbean-Canadian theatrical lens, have made an indelible mark upon the Canadian & global cultural landscape. Her travels have taken her to Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, North America, Europe & the United Nations, providing her with a global lab to experiment with and expand upon her trans-disciplinary human development framework called The Sorplusi Method. d’bi is the published author of eleven plays, two collections of poetry, six dubpoetry albums and is anthologized in numerous publications worldwide. She is the recipient of the Canadian Poet of Honor accolade, two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the KM Hunter Theatre Award, the Arts Council Award, the Harold Award, the Women’s Resiliency Award and the Best Spoken Word Artist award. d’bi. is the Artistic Director of YEMOYA International Artist Residency & the program designer-facilitator of the Arts Academy of The Stephen Lewis Foundation; both rooted in the Sorplusi Method. Her latest creation is The Watah School, a non-for-profit w/holistic artist development institute in Toronto Canada, whose mission is to nurture the artist as healer, mentor and keeper of the sacred. dbi333.com