PAST EVENT: Poetry as Practice with Britta Badour

March 25, 2026 | 12:30pm EST

All levels of experience welcome. Together we’ll review the work of Black-Canadian poets like Dionne Brand and Stedmond Pardy,  as we consider this question: How does making time for poetry also make time for mindfulness and well-being? 

In this affirmation-centered workshop, all prompts and exercises are merely suggestions you can engage with in a way that sparks your pen across the page. 

About the Presenter

Britta Badour, better known as Britta B. is an award-winning artist, public speaker, and poet living in Toronto.  Her debut poetry collection and audiobook, Wires that Sputter, was celebrated as a Trillium Book Award Finalist for Poetry and shortlisted for several other awards.  She’s currently serving as the Poet-in-Residence for Poems in Passage, responsible for the poems millions of people see on their daily TTC commute. Britta holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph and teaches part-time at various schools and universities.