Using performance arts, including celebratory poetry and storytelling, festive spoken word, dance and drama, and music as vehicles for educating, enlightening, and empowering, youth, elderly and intercultural communities.
The African Stages Association (ASABC) was established mainly to serve the needs of African and other at-risk and immigrant youths to confidently fit into the larger Canadian community. ASA-BC is an umbrella organization created to help educate, empower and inspire harmony in the Canadian Mosaic society through the African traditional heritage of storytelling, music, and drama. educational tool that has a rightful place in the homes, the classroom and community centres.
Mission Statement
To use performance arts, including celebratory poetry and storytelling, festive spoken word, dance and drama, and music as vehicles for educating, enlightening, and empowering, our members, including the youth. It is also to promote intercultural understanding and friendship among all Canadians in order create and maintain healthy and safe communities within a multicultural BC and Canada
About our Founder
Madame Comfort Ero is originally from Udo, Benin City, Nigeria, West Africa. Madame Ero is a Teacher, Playwright, Storyteller, and Community Settlement Worker. Advocating for People of African Descent and acknowledging a need for settled Africans, and newcomers to the community to connect with their communities through performance art.
Over twenty-five years of experience as a classroom teacher and Principal in Nigerian high schools and colleges
A teacher-on-call in Greater Victoria, Sooke and Surrey School Districts as well as community settlement worker in various establishments. She has great working knowledge of African Community issues as well as the needs and challenges. Ability to use the Performing Art skills and role-play to teach and whip up enthusiasm in children, students and adults alike. She speaks 5 languages: English, French, Edo, Yoruba, West African Pidgin English, and she has a working knowledge of German and Portuguese.
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OUR JOURNEY
African Stages of BC Board of Directors including our instructors and staff, donors, and volunteers, all play a role in African Stages of BC success. We are dedicated to the idea that storytelling, music, and poetry has the ability to connect generations, intercultural understanding and safe spaces for multicultural events.
Using the performing arts to contribute to youth leadership skills, healthy co-existence of diverse people and capacity building of artists and marginalized people in the community.
Interactive play and education
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