Jacqui Du Toit is an international storyteller, arts educator and performing artist from South Africa. Storytelling has always played a big part of her upbringing in South Africa, during the harsh times of apartheid and during the freedom years of the rainbow nation, and has always guided her continuously. Our ability to learn from the past by listening and sharing stories, gives us that knowledge of making better decisions for the future.

Jamaal Jackson Rogers is a career artist living, creating and building in Ottawa, Canada. His medium of artistic practice is poetry and songwriting. He is also an artistic mentor, performance coach and arts educator. He enjoys spending time with his children, working with youth and artists, and quiet evenings on his green leather couch by himself.

Working out of diverse cultural traditions, MASC artists offer workshops, performances, artist-in-residence programs and professional development in music, dance, drama, literary, media and visual arts. MASC programs are delivered in English and French, throughout Eastern Ontario and Western Québec to students in Kindergarten to Grade 12, and to youths and adults in a variety of community settings (daycares, museums, NCC, festivals and seniors’ venues). Awesome Arts is a community engaged program that allows participants of all ages to explore issues important to their community through the arts. Held in partnership with community organizations, Awesome Arts offers an exciting series of workshops for different age groups that culminate in a public celebration.