#Sexypink/Michael Lee Poy

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Sexypink - From the facebook page of Michael Lee Poy - I am excited to announce that I will be hosting a 4-day Carnival bra making workshop. Participants will be exploring Caribbean Carnival and costume making. 

This series is open to youth and adults of Caribbean and BIPOC Community. Thank you to @vibeartsto and the Desires lines program for the support. 

Looking forward to designing will you all!Dates/Times: April 26th, 27th, 28th & May 1st from 5:30 PM-7:30 PMLocation: 115 Mccaul street (OCAD Rosalie Sharp Pavilion) Deadline: April 21st @11:59pm 

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                       From the Facebook page of Michael Lee Poy

                      MOKO JUMBIE MAS CAMP - moko Monday

                                    The Bentway Conservancy 

              Biggup my OCAD U posee for jumping up last weekend

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~Sexypink~ My friend and fellow PRATT alumni Michael Lee Poy shares some great news

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OCAD U HIRES FIVE NEW PERMANENT FACULTY IN RECOGNITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DECADE FOR PEOPLES OF AFRICAN DESCENT

Michael Lee Poy is an Afro-Caribbean artist-activist and architect in Trinidad and Tobago. His practice and interests are centered on post-colonial Caribbean design and fabrication in the festival arts – especially Carnival. A graduate of Pratt Institute of Technology in architecture (B. Arch.) and the Yale Graduate School of Architecture, Environmental Design (MED), Michael aims to use interdisciplinarity to augment the innovative, creative, and collaborative process of design.

Since 2015, Lee Poy has been teaching the Hero's Journey process as a design curriculum for graduate students in the Creative Design Entrepreneurship (CDEN) program in the Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA) at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine campus.

By introducing the class to familiar and unfamiliar local icons, Lee Poy actively decolonizes learning, and deconstructs the “expert” paradigm. He does this in order to generate and inspire new and sovereign knowledge – allowing students from various backgrounds and disciplines to delve into both their historical and creative psyches.

For the past five years, Lee Poy has been incubating the Moko Jumbie Mas Camp workshops for children aged 7-17. The masquerade (mas) camps were designed and implemented as socially-conscious design/build and fabrication/studio/lab workshops. They operate like a small design incubator/facilitator – just like typical Carnival mas camps. The students learn leadership training, team building, and balance and acrobatics. Eventually, the older students become experts and mentors for the younger ones.

Lee Poy’s architectural and design portfolio includes two buildings at the UWI, St. Augustine campus, the Trinidad Hilton Conference Centre port cochère, in addition to numerous commercial interiors throughout the island. He was co-chair of the UWI Ministry of Design: From Cottage Industry to State Enterprise Symposium (2015); and his work has been featured in Caribbean Beat Magazine (January 2018).