If you could rewrite 2020 as a Black person in a positive way, what would you write?
The Writers Circle Project (WCP) is a space to express black experiences.
This collective started as a project Sola Olowo-Ake’s Design Activism Residency with the Shumka Centre at Emily Carr University.
The idea for the collective was birthed as a result of the racial injustices that our world was seeing in 2020, as it relates mostly to black lives and police brutality; as well as some difficult and unpleasant conversations that were happening in a community that Sola was a part of. Through these occurrences, she saw that there was an unwillingness to make space for black us and this was contributing to barriers to black communal development in that place.
It was important to make space for black us.
“On the 10th of June 2021, I messaged Blanes, Chelsea, Fanny, Seun and Sayo and I told them about my desire to make space for us.
I invited them to join me in rewriting our history through art and we became The Writing Circle Project [WCP]. After months of discussing, writing and making, we are proud to present our first body of work, 'Unveiling'."
-Sola Olowo-Ake
On March 21st, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, an exhibit was held at Slice of Life Gallery in Vancouver, BC displaying this body of work.
