ABOUT Yannis Lobaina

Yannis Lobaina  ​is an Award-winning Toronto-based artist with more than twelve years of experience as a published author, creative visual storyteller, ​art facilitator and ​emerging filmmaker.​She is originally from Cuba. Yannis loves to explore immigration, diaspora, and motherhood themes through different storytelling tools. ​

Photo By Alex Usquiano
These boots are made for walking in the Snow. It is part of nine personal essays about my emigration stories. This personal essay was developed in The Shoe Project workshops and performance in George Ignatieff Theatre, University of Toronto, March 31 and April 2, 2019. 

She ​has published worldwide more than 25 short fiction stories and Flash Non-fiction essays. 2020​, she issued in ​Tint Journal Magazine with non-fiction called ​Canadiana Boots. ​And published a ​Short story​ Deeply rooted with Publisher​ Editorial Mapale​.​ She has produced more than 40 short fiction and documentaries in Cuba. https://vimeo.com/446279810.

Yannis received the RBC Arts Access Fund (Toronto Arts Foundation, 2019), which helped fund her photography exhibition ​‘Rebirth,’ which was showcased in August 2019 by Raw Artist Network (Toronto) at Mod Club. In 2018, she received the RBC Arts Access Fund (Toronto Arts Foundation), which helped fund her facilitate multiple creative writing and Bilingual storytelling workshops for children in the various branches. In 2017, Yannis received a Micro-Grant recipient for her short Documentary ​“Where the Magic Happens” ​as an emerging filmmaker.

Lobaina is currently working on a series of ​photo essays ​called ​“Awake.​” focusing on minimal visual storytelling photography and capturing mother nature’s fleeting moments and beauty.

2020

Canadiana Boots

https://www.tintjournal.com/nonfiction/flash-nonfiction/232-canadiana-boots

Deeply Rooted

https://www.editorialmapale.com/relatos.html.

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Quién dijo que los Domingos son aburridos? Si se tiene buena musica cubana, de mi amiga @arema.arega, y una antología de cuentos de 60 autores!! A las buenas noticias, yo les pongo buena música. Mi cuento Deeply Rooted ya esta listo,  para volar de casa en casa. Gracias, a la Editorial Mapale, Silvia Alfaro  y Ramón Sepúlveda. Relatos Entrecruzados, cuentos en español. 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 Who said Sundays are boring? If you have great Cuban music, from my friend Arema Arega, and an anthology of stories by 60 authors !! To the good news, I put good music on them. My Deeply Rooted story is ready, to fly from house to house. Thanks to Editorial Mapale, Silvia Alfaro and Ramón Sepúlveda. Crisscross Stories, tales in Spanish. #deeplyrooted #shortstories #yannislobaina @enlareddeltiempo #anthology @editorialmapale #Gratefullness #spanishwriters #writerlife #quarentine2020 #hardwork 2019 #reapwhatyousow

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Los jueves a las 7 pm tenemos encuentros con la poesía y la prosa. En esta ocasión compartieron sus escritos:   Maria Adelaida Escobar Trujillo, Yannis Lobaina, Camila Reimers, Ramón Fexas, Aspasia Worlitzky y Jorge Carrigan. Presentan: Ramón Sepúlveda y Silvia Alfaro (Editorial Mapalé)

Meet the performers at our next LITERARY READING “Tinted Tales. reading across cultures,” this October 27 at 8 PM (CET), livestreamed on our YouTube channel: Yanita Georgieva, Ana Henriques Brotas, Yannis Lobaina, Leo Newhouse, Sihle Ntuli, Skanda Prasad and Frederick Reinprecht. Click here for our video teaser!

Photo by Alex Usquiano


LECTURAS/ PRESENTACIONES

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Posted @withregram • @editorialmapale Yannis Lobaina leyendo "Deeply Rooted", #microrrelato con el que participa en la #antologia #RelatosEntrecruzados de la #Editorial #Mapale. #literatura #hispanocanadiense #latinocanadiense #español #castellano #relatoscortos Mi cuento "Deeply rooted" está juntos a otros 60 escritores en la antología Relatos Entrecruzados de la Editorial Mapalé. Pueden adquirirla aquí:  Canadá: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B088KW2XG2 México: https://www.amazon.com.mx/dp/B088KW2XG2 España: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B088KW2XG2 USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088KW2XG2 para la versión física en el sitio web desde hace ya como 2 semanas para la pre-venta: https://www.editorialmapale.com/relatos.html La editorial estará realizando conversatorios con Todos los autores durante estas fechas, organizadas por países. Argentina y Bolivia: 14 de mayo (7 autores) Chile: 21 de mayo (9 autores) Colombia: 28 de mayo (7 autores) 👇👇👇👇👇 Cuba: 4 de junio (6 autores) Ecuador, El Salvador y Honduras más dos canadienses de origen europeo (España y Polonia): 11 de junio (8 autores) México: 18 de junio (15 autores) Perú: 25 de junio (5 autores) + República Dominicana, Uruguay y Venezuela: (3 autores): (Total 8 autores)

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INTERVIEWS IN THE MEDIA_TORONTO AND OTHERS

https://lattin.ca/2018/09/26/la-escritora-cubana-yannis-lobaina-fomenta-el-espanol-en-canada-a-traves-de-los-cuentacuentos/.

https://www.lospecesfueradelagua.com/post/la-vida-es-tan-impredecible-que-mejor-te-digo-que-s%C3%AD

http://latinosmag.com/travesia-magica/

http://www.frequency5fm.com/yannis-lobaina/

https://www.hispaniccanadian.com/yannis-lobaina.html.

https://linktr.ee/Yannislobaina

https://www.instagram.com/enlareddeltiempo/

Celebrating Toronto’s Spanish-speaking community through stories, songs, and collages!
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"I can never forget that with those big ugly gray boots, I took my first steps in these beautiful lands that I now call Home" This fragment of my story "_#Thesebootsaremadeforwalkinginthesnow development in the workshop @shoeprojectcan Thanks so much to: Photo:@alexusquiano( Stamps behind me) Chris Brown( friends) and a photo of my shoes Pete Paterson! Music in my performance Mirando al mar" by @AremaArega. My amazing coach voice @KateLinch and our amazing writer lead @govierkatherinemary #womanstoryteller #storytellingmama #Performancestorytime #beyondfears #findinghome #travelstories #motherhoodinspired #footwears #motherhoodstories #immigrantstories #immigrantwomans #blundstonecanada #blundstonetoronto #artistsoninstagram #artistgoals #shoes #shoesstories #cubawriters #torontoart #ontariocanada #joy #daydream #personalstories #canadiana my #mala by @intentionaljoules

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OPINIONS AND FEEDBACK FROM STUDENTS/ PARENTS/ AUDIENCE.

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Nueve de mis podcast favoritos para escritores y artistas. (Curados por Yannis Lobaina)

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Nueve de mis podcast favoritos para escritores y artistas.
(Curados por Yannis Lobaina).

Tres cosas que NO sabías de MÍ arribo A CANADÁ. Y que te serán útiles si quieres visitar este país.

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Tres cosas que NO sabías de MÍ arribo A CANADÁ. Y que te serán útiles si quieres visitar este país. Cuando leas mi Flash Nonfiction y este primer ensayo personal, sabrás un poco más sobre mi vida en Canadá.

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