Oakville student's screenplay wins national contest Danielle Roy's A Tomato in the Sun a hit with Passages Canada's Write and Mark Art! by Julia Le Oakville Beaver Staff Artscene 27 | Thursday, September 4, 2014 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com "Connected to your Community" giving her and her peers freedom to write whatever their imaginations could dream up. Contest reflects new generation of artists Anthony Wilson-Smith, president of Historica Canada, the largest charitable organization that created the storytelling initiative Passages Canada, said the contest reflects a new generation of Canadian artists and storytellers who are "defining crucial questions of citizenship and identity. "The results are impressive not only in creative terms, but in broadening the discussion of how we as Canadians define ourselves," he said in a press release. The Passages Canada Write and Make Art! Challenge, in its second year was juried by a panel that included representatives from Passages Canada, The Canadian Encyclopedia and Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Passages Canada is a forum for people to share their personal accounts of cultural identity and heritage online and in person with schools and community groups. Since 2002, more than 1,000 speakers have created dialogue on Canada's rich diversity with more than 250,000 youth and adults. Danielle Roy's imaginative screenplay about fruits and vegetables has been selected as a national winner of Passages Canada's Write and Mark Art! Challenge. The former St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary School Grade 12 student, who is currently studying Biomedical Engineering at Guelph University, won the top prize in a special category for her clever satirical screenplay A Tomato in the Sun, which looks at issues of race and discrimination through an unconventional lens. It was selected out of 400 submissions from students in Grades 1-12 across Canada. Roy, who was born and raised in north Oakville, has received a scholarship with the Vancouver Animation School to complete an online certificate in Writing for Animation. "I just love writing and it's something I definitely want to pursue over the summer and the opportunity to do the course is amazing," said the 19-year-old, who had also told the Oakville Beaver about her plans to start the online courses before she headed to university in Guelph. Surprised, humbled and thankful She said she's surprised, humbled and thankful to be recognized through the contest. Roy applied for the Passages Canada's Write and Mark Art! Challenge earlier this year when she stumbled across it while researching online about scholarship opportunities. She said she had already crafted the screenplay for her Grade 12 Writer's Craft class and felt it was worth a shot to enter the challenge that encourages students across Canada to explore issues of immigration, identity and racism through writing and art. "I'm excited about the opportunity to learn," she said, explaining how screenplay writing is definitely the type of writing she'd like to learn more about. She credits her Writer's Craft teacher Mary Salvo for Former St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary School Grade 12 student Danielle Roy has won a scholarship to complete an online certificate in Writing for Animation at the Vancouver Animation School thanks to Passages Canada's Write and Mark Art! Challenge. | submitted photo Michael Enright to speak at CFUW event Sept. 15 by David Lea Oakville Beaver Staff Michael Enright, host of CBC Radio One's The Sunday Edition, will speak about his career in journalism during a meeting of the Canadian Federation of University Women Sept. 15. The event, which will be held at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, 2302 Bridge Rd., begins with social time at 6:45 p.m., followed by the speaker at 7:45 p.m. New members are welcome. Enright has served as host of The Sunday Edition since September 2000. Prior to, he hosted This Morning for three years and spent 10 years hosting CBC Radio's As It Happens, which he joined after two-and-a-half years as managing editor of CBC Radio News. He also previously held a number of editorial positions with leading Canadian magazines and newspapers. His past work includes time spent with the Toronto Star as a political writer and Globe and Mail as a Washington, D.C. correspondent. Enright hosted several specials following the events of Sept. 11, and on the war in Afghanistan. In the spring of 1991, he, along with co-host Alannah Campbell and international affairs specialist Hal Jones, provided extensive Gulf War coverage -- start- ing with five hours of live, continuous broadcasts the night the war began. The Canadian Federation of University Women is a non-partisan, voluntary, self-funded organization with more than 100 clubs located across every province in Canada. Since being founded in 1919, it has worked to improve the status of women, and to promote human rights, public education, social justice and peace. The Oakville chapter was formed in 1949 and has more than 200 members. It performs numerous community activities and offers scholarships and bursaries for both local high school students and graduates. Visit http://cfuwoakville.ca, for more. AND SAVE! Browse flyers from your favourite national and local retailers Visit flyers. coupons. deals. savings tips.