by Toni Adeniyi | Aug 15, 2022 | Individual Members, Members
Celeste Bernard Celeste Bernard was one of the founding members of Voices Black Theatre Ensemble in 1990 and trained as an actress with the new ensemble. She has had lead roles in several Voices’ stage and radio drama productions including Black Journey, Nova Scotia...
by Toni Adeniyi | Aug 15, 2022 | Individual Members, Members
Louise DeLisle Louise Delisle, a painter, actress, playwright, author and director is a descendant of the first group of Black Loyalists who landed in Nova Scotia in 1784 and settled in Birchtown – the very first African Nova Scotian community established in the...
by Toni Adeniyi | Aug 12, 2022 | Individual Members, Members
Evetta Thomas Evetta Thomas (Vetty) grew up in a large family with 14 siblings in North Preston- Nova Scotia’s largest Black community. Her family house was situated at the centre of the community and Vetty’s mother, Rosella ‘Mamay’ Fraser ‘kept an open house’ and so...
