Poet, community-engaged artist & arts manager.
About her
Elizabeth Mudenyo is a Scarborough-based poet, community-engaged artist and arts manager. She has worked all sides of the film festival circuit, with groups like the Regent Park Film Festival, Hot Docs, and the Racial Equity Media Collective, among others. She managed Home Made Visible, an award-winning nationwide archival project capturing the joys of BIPOC home movies. She continues to immerse herself in arts programming engaging the voices, imaginations and knowings of BIPOC, LGBTQQIAS2+ communities and others on the margins.
Elizabeth is a fellow of The Watering Hole and the Poetry Incubator. Her work has appeared in Write Magazine, Arc Magazine, The Ex-Puritan, Canthius, CV2, and elsewhere. Her first poetry chapbook, With Both Hands, was published through Anstruther Press. She is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph.
Community Arts
Elizabeth works professionally in arts projects and event management with a focus on community outreach and programming. Her main areas of interest include film, theatre, literary and community arts.
“when we can,
we take joy
with both hands”
— from clear throat (let us)