Honor Ford-Smith — Reflections

Dr. Honor Ford-Smith is Associate Professor Emeritus in Environmental Arts and Justice at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto. She has produced, co-created, directed and acted in numerous plays and performance interventions. She was founding Artistic Director of the Sistren Theatre Collective, an early Black and Caribbean feminist organization where she developed an approach to collaborative, community-based performances drawing on oral history, testimony, dialogue, ceremonial, and symbolic action. Her publications include “3 Jamaican Plays” Kingston, Jamaica, Paul Issa Publications; and “My Mother’s Last Dance” an anthology of poems and numerous academic articles in journals such as Caribbean Quarterly, Interventions, parallax and Small Axe.