Of École K. L. O. Middle School

Shimshon Obadia is an artist who’s focus lies in interdisciplinary community work educating and empowering people and their environments. In 2010, he founded the ’Best Plays Ever festival’ (Toronto, Ontario) to enable aspiring youth in the arts to generate performative works, in response to the specific lifestyles created by their urban surroundings, on a semi-professional level not normally available to them. Currently he is working with the students of École K.L.O. Middle School (Okanagan Valley, British Columbia) in a partnership with the University of British Columbia’s SSHRC funded Eco-Art Incubator research initiative to offer them an alternative mode of learning through a creative and embodied engagement of the more-then-human natural world.