JustJamaal ThePoet
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About the Artist
JustJamaal ThePoet is an award winning poet, arts educator, creative entrepreneur, songwriter and recording/performance artist. He has brought his work to audiences nationally and abroad, and served as Ottawa’s poet laureate from 2017-2019 as well as Carleton University’s Music Program Artist in Residence for the 2019-2020 school year. He also founded the Origin Arts + Community Centre with fellow MASC artist Jacqui Du Toit. His defining moments occur when he makes intimate connections with his participants during workshops and performance sets. His topics range from emotional maturity to world issues, from parenting to the human condition. He resides in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife and six children.
I don’t imagine there is a more rewarding feeling than providing a welcoming space for individuals to gather and create art.
Artist's Programs
Curriculum Links
Explores thematic use of language as a portal to public speaking; supports literacy by exploring language devices such as pattern, rhyme, figurative speech and syllabic metre; explores traditional and contemporary functions of melodic language.
Artistic Disciplines
Literary Arts, Music
Diversity
Black, Culturally Diverse, Men+, Person of Colour
Age
Children ages 5 - 11, Children ages 12 - 18, Seniors, Junior Kindergarten, Senior Kindergarten, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
Language Proficiency
English
JustJamaal ThePoet in action
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Video Gallery
![JustJamaal ThePoet pointing upwards in the center of a white background. He has a black short beard, black dreads, and is wearing a purple buttoned up t shirt.](https://www.masconline.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2022-12-15-at-3.50.46-PM-1024x487.png)
![A woman with short dark blond hair standing in a class room behind a camera as well as a phone. She is filming JustJamaal ThePoet who is sitting on a table talking.](https://www.masconline.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2022-12-15-at-3.52.50-PM-1024x528.png)
![JustJamaat ThePoet, literary artist and musician, looking to the left. His hair is halfway up, he has a black beard, and black hair.](https://www.masconline.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2022-12-15-at-3.54.00-PM-1024x528.png)
![JustJamaal thePoet in front of a microphone with is hands up and eyebrows raising while. He is explaining something and his hair is tied up halfway with some strands in the back.](https://www.masconline.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2022-12-15-at-3.56.32-PM-1024x531.png)
![A group of young men, some in large jackets and one of them in a bow time and red vest, looking into a camera. It is a screenshot from Just Jamaal the Poet's music video.](https://www.masconline.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2022-12-15-at-3.58.18-PM-1024x453.png)