Spotlight on Soko Negash—This Is Worldtown’s Behind The Dust Artist

Guest post by This Is Worldtown

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we are shining the spotlight on our grantee This Is Worldtown (TIWT), a digital hub featuring the first person expression of women of colour, globally, across storytelling mediums. TIWT’s latest endeavour, Behind The Dust supports women of colour media makers who are reshaping the Canadian media landscape through visual storytelling.  Artist Soko Negash is a Toronto-born artist of Chinese-Eritrean descent, who grew up making things on the floor of her parents’ arts studio. Soko currently divides her time between working as a Talent Producer at a documentary production company and working on her own personal photo projects. Her focus is telling stories of under- or misrepresented communities in all parts of the world through a lens of authenticity and truth.

Learn more about Soko’s work by following her on Instagram at @socacola or by visiting her website, www.sokonegash.com. Don’t forget to check out Behind The Dust artists Samah Ali, Aleia Robinson-Ada, Aniqa Rahman, Shazlin Rahman and Elizabeth Farinango.

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Join TIWT in celebrating its first anniversary and introducing Behind The Dust artists at ARCHV RMX: A night curated by This is Worldtown on March 15th, 2018 (6:30PM – 9:00PM) at Artscape Youngplace.