Of Haitian origin, Murielle Jassinthe grew up in Quebec City (Quebec) before settling in Iqaluit (Nunavut) in 2014. A member of the Canada Research Chair in African and Francophone Literatures (Universit\u00e9 Laval), she is pursuing a bachelor’s and master’s degree in literary studies. In October 2010, her poems were published by Bruno Doucey in the anthology Terre de femmes, 150 ans de po\u00e9sie f\u00e9minine en Ha\u00efti. Winner of the Premi\u00e8re Ovation grant from the Institut canadien de Qu\u00e9bec in 2011, her love of words has led her to embrace poetry, short stories, narrative and essays, as well as playwriting and screenwriting. In 2014, she co-authored the essay \u201cNouvelle dramaturgie ha\u00eftienne et les mots du chaos\u201d in the scientific journal Inter-lignes – Ha\u00efti : la r\u00e9volte en mots et en couleurs, from the Institut catholique de Toulouse. She also published the literary short story \u201cNukaliak \u2013 le carnet\u201d, in 2016, in Possibles magazine, as well as the poetic suite \u201cMon corps pour tout royaume\u201d, in 2024, in no 11 of the literary magazine \u00c0 ciel ouvert. Her poetry collection, Trouble optik, is awaiting publication. An interdisciplinary artist (writing, photography, performance and media arts), she combines creativity with social awareness. She also coordinated, hosted and performed at the Cabaret de la parole L’art de la r\u00e9sistance, in 2023, for the Maison natale de Louis Fr\u00e9chette. In April-May 2024, she also completed an interdisciplinary artistic residency at Le Labo \u2013 center d’arts m\u00e9diatiques francophone de Toronto for the project La peur du noir, combining poetry, music, performance and media arts. Finally, in October 2024, she performed as a poet and actor at the cultural and poetic evening celebrating the 50th anniversary of Le Temporel caf\u00e9, presented at the Maison de la litt\u00e9rature.<\/p>\n
Her keen interest in the performing arts is confirmed by her experience in cultural mediation. She held the positions of Chair, Artistic Director, Director and Playwright at Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Uiviit (2015-2018). Socially committed to promoting diversity, equality and inclusion, she became director of public relations at the Nunavut Black History Society (NBHS, 2019-2021). She was then driven by a desire to become more involved in social justice and the representation of Afrodescendant, Aboriginal, racialized and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. She also co-founded the BLM Organizing Committee working group at NBHS and the Nunavut Theater Company (2020). From 2021 to 2022, she will be the company’s president responsible for creative projects. Finally, since 2023, she has been a founding member and board member of the Regroupement des \u00e9crivain\u2022e\u2022s du Nord et de l’Ouest canadiens and the Chair of this organization since 2024.<\/p>\n
Believing that pride of identity is best cultivated at an early age through the arts and cultural practices specific to a given culture, she founded a program exploring the performing arts. In 2019, she creates and volunteers live arts workshops in Masaka for the non-profit organization We Are Home Free. Inspired by this experience, she founded Boda Boda Camp, to offer theatrical workshops for young people based on the mindfulness approach and trauma-informed practices that celebrate participants’ cultural and linguistic identities.<\/p>\n
In 2019, in keeping with her entrepreneurial spirit, she founded Black Lantern Inc. an interdisciplinary arts and culture consulting company whose mandate is to support artists and cultural organizations in their strategic and creative development through public relations, performing arts and multimedia. In 2021, in response to her passion for artistic creation, she launched Black Lantern Media Inc, dedicated to the production and dissemination of performing, screen and interdisciplinary arts that explore the possibilities of the body as a vehicle for individual and societal identity consciousness; that cultivate decolonizing approaches to the body and mind; and that ensure the representation of the experiences and realities of Afrodescendant, Aboriginal, racialized and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6260,"menu_order":0,"template":"","team_designation":[],"team_department":[],"class_list":["post-6215","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n