COURAGEOUS
VOICES
Meet the heroes and heroines...
Learn more about the hero or heroine chosen by each student for the 2018 Courageous Voices production. In addition to researching and building a performance around their hero/ines words the students create a unique art piece using cross-hatching. These "busts" are used throughout the production to great effect!
Daniel as:
George Orwell
English Novelist,
Essayist and Critic
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
Carter as:
Edward Snowden
Former CIA Operative, Whistleblower
"Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows."
Veronica as:
Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani Education Activist and Youngest Nobel Prize Laureate
"When the whole world is silent even one voice becomes powerful."
Neo as:
Paul Watson
Canadian Environmentalist Activist
"I do what I do because it is the right thing to do."
Lola as:
Rosa Parks
African-American Civil Rights Activist
"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right."
Matthew as:
Ai Weiwei
Chinese Activist and Artist
"A small act is worth a million thoughts."
Roan as:
Alexander Hamilton
American Statesman, Founding Father of the
United States
"Those who stand for nothing fall for everything."
Ravi as:
Che Guevara
Marxist Revolutionary
"Better to die standing than to live on your knees."
Hayden as:
Gloria Steinem
American Feminist, Journalist, and Social Political Activist
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
Jamie as:
Nellie McClung
Canadian Suffragette, Women’s Rights Activist
"The world is suffering... from too much masculinity."
Skylar as:
Ellen Degeneres
Comedian, TV Host, and LGBT activist
"Do things that make you happy, within the confines of the legal system."
Stella as:
Cassidy Sheng
Paralympic Swimmer and Cancer Amputee
"I was thrown into the deep end, it was sink or swim, I swam."
Ani as:
Pink
Singer, Dancer, Activist
"Freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it."
Rebecca as:
Emmanuel Jal
Former Child Soldier, Rapper and Activist
"I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease."
Eli as:
Nick Vujicic
Motivational Speaker Born with Tetra-amelia Syndrome
"If you can’t get a miracle, become one."
Olivia as:
Michaela DePrince
Sierra Leonean War Orphan and Ballet Dancer
"The older I got, the more I noticed, there aren’t any dancers that look like me."
Cecilia as:
Jan Carew
Guyanese Novelist, Playwright, Poet & Educator
"We are the people of this land, and we will never die."
Ella as:
Antonina Zabinski
Jewish Protector during the Holocaust
"You do not have to be a hero to do your moral duty."
Nora as:
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Singer-songwriter, Pacifist and Social Activist
"Indigenous people never have had the relationship with Canada that we thought we had."
Caitlan as:
Pierre Dulaine
Dancer and Founder of Dancing Classrooms
"It doesn't matter what color or creed you are, dance is an international language."
Avery as:
Rachel Carson
Author of "The Silent Spring", Conservationist and Marine Biologist,
"Can man escape a pollution that is now so thoroughly distributed throughout the world?"
Carolina as:
Wangari Maathai
Kenyan Environmental, Political Activist and Nobel Laureate
"We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment."
Rowan as:
Jane Jacobs
Journalist, Author and Activist
"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."
Graeme as:
Shane Koyczan
Spoken Word Poet
"This is my voice. There are many like it, but this is mine."
Lucas as:
Ishmael Beah
Sierra Leonean Child Soldier, Author and Activist
"I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13."
Edward as:
Nelson Mandela
African Freedom Fighter
"We have waited too long for our freedom."
Randy as:
Nina Simone
American Singer-songwriter and Civil Rights Activist
"It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live."
Ian as:
Barack Obama
Past President of the United States
"We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Addy as:
Mariatu Kamara
Civil War Survivor and Activist
"I may not have hands, but I have a voice."
Wole as:
Julius Nyerere
First Prime Minister of Independent Tanzania
"There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish."
Joby as:
William Wilberforce
Politician, Philanthropist, Anti-Slave Trade Movement Leader
"You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say that you did not know."
Joe as:
Jesse Owens
Olympic Track & Field Athlete
"One chance is all you need."
Evan as:
Desmond Doss
American Conscientious War Objector
"I’m a conscientious cooperator"