Valerie Mason-John

Valerie Mason-John ( opera 22 Nọvemba 1962) [1] bụ nzere Bekee na onye rụpụtara mgbake elo - Iji nkuzi Buddha merie ahụ riri ahụ, [2] ọzọ na mmemme mmemme iri na abụọ maka ahụ riri ahụ.

 Tesis 
akwụkwọ e akwụkwọ ahụ site na Windhorse Publications na 2013, ọ kwuru onye nnata ihe nrite akwụkwọ kacha mma USA 2014 [1] na akwụkwọ akwụkwọ kacha mma 2015 [2] na ngalaba mkpali onwe na onye onwe onye.  nsogbu ọchịchị na-eme ugbu a na UK, USA, Canada, India na Finland.  Mason-John bụkwa onye mmekọ nke Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery (MBAR), nke sitere na Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression sitere n'aka John D. Teasdale, Mark Williams, na Zindal Seagal.

Mason-John na-eji ha/ha isiaha ma bụrụ onye otu LGBT obodo.  [1] Ha bụ onye dere akwụkwọ amị [2] ma na-arụ ọrụ dị ka onye na-ekwu okwu ọha na eze na Mindfulness for Addiction and Emotional Well Being, ma bụrụ onye na-enye ihe na-ejedebe mmegbu na ọrụ.  Valerie ka echiri echichi na Triratna Buddhist Community, ebe ha natara aha ime ohere ha, Vimalasara.  [3] Ha bụkwa onye isi oche nke Triratna Vancouver Buddhist Center.  [4] Aha Buddhist ha bụ Vimalasara, nkeere "onye isi ya bụ igwe agba nchara na nke dị ọcha".  Ha na-abụbu onye na-ede akwụkwọ na- matchghị akwụkwọ maka akwụkwọ ndị Voice ma bụrụ onye na-eme ihe nkiri na onye na-ede uri na-ekwu okwu na-eji aha ọkwa "Queenie".  [5] Black British site n'emekiri, ha player onye Canada ugbu a.

 Akụkọ ndụ 
Amụrụ na Cambridge, England, nye nne na nna Sierra Leone Creole, Mason-John mmegharị n'oge ọ bụ nwata "na-elekọta ya" - n'ahụ obibi na ebe a na-elekọta ụgbọ, [1] ụlọ ụlọ Orphanages Barnardo  na Britain, e obere oge ya na ya bi.  nne ha na nwa afọ iri na mma.  Mason-John tupu ya enweta akara ugo mahadum na 1980, mana ọ gara n'ihu na- , alakaso na ike akwụkwọ ruo ugbu a.  akwụkwọ ozi 1990, ha na-arụ ọrụ dị ka onye edemede, onye na-ese ihe na onye nkuzi.  Ụlọ nkuzi nkuzi na Mahadum South Bank nke London, ma na-eduzi amụ ihe a na-ahụ maka njikwa iwe na idozi nsogbu .

Ka ọnwa 18 gachara ụdị nkà ihe ndị na-eso agha na Mahadum Leeds n'oge 1980, Mason-John akwụkwọ akwụkwọ post-gụ akwụkwọ, akwụkwọ MFA na edemede okike na diplọma na-eme ihe nkiri na Mahadum Sussex [1] na Desmond  Ụlọ akwụkwọ Jones.  Ka ọ na-erule 2003, dị iche ha nwere na iko na-amị ha n'ime iwu Buddhist nke dị n'Ebe Ọdịda, dugara ha n'ịde na ime ihe, na Francis onwe ha na ndị ọzọ na-ahụzịaka iwe na guba.  Na Disemba 2007, Mahadum East London hụrụ Mason-John Honorary Doctor of Letters.  [2] Mason-John na-aga n'ihu na-ede akwụkwọ, na-arụ ọrụ dị ka onye na-enye ihe onwe onye;  ha na-eme ma na-ezo okwu na mba ụwa

 Mbipụta, mgbasa ozi, na ọrụ agụmakwụkwọ 
Ụbọchị Mason-John apụtala na UK na akwụkwọ nta ndị mba ụwa na akwụkwọ ndị edemede dị ka The Guardian, Voice, Curve Magazine, Morning Star, Akwụkwọ Pink, Akwụkwọ ihe enyi na Wasafiri .  Ha enyewokwa aka na Ọkara egwu: Ahụmahụ ụmụ ekere nke njem n'ụwa dum (mbipụta nke abụọ, Pandora Rough Guide, 1990), Frauen Zimmerim Haus Europa (Papyrosa, 1991), Mwakpo na Mgbakọ (Cassell, 1995), Okwu sitere na  Okwu Up Café ( akwụkwọ akwụkwọ Centerprise, 1993), na Tell Tales (Kwuo Akụkọ/Flipped Eye Publications, 2005).

Mason-John bụ onye nchịkọta akwụkwọ nke Feminist Arts News site na 1992 ruo 1997. [1] Na mgbakwunye, ha bụ onye ntụzi nka nke London Mardi Gras site na 1997 ruo 2000, wee pụta apụ dị ka onye isi ihe ngosi nka.  nke Pride Arts.  [1] Ihe nzere ha na-agụnye ọrụ na- echereghị maka BBC, Channel 4 na Vis International TV;  Ekwala ngwaọrụ na mgbasa ozi nke redio nke Britain maka BBC World Service na mmemme mpaghara Midweek, Awa Nwanyị [2] na Shelagh Rogers Gosi na-esote Isi na CBC Radio .

Na mgbakwunye na ọrụ ha na mgbasa ozi na akwụkwọ akụkọ, Mason-John malitere ọrụ na ihe nkiri. N'ịbụ ndị gụrụ akwụkwọ na Desmond Jones School of Mime and Physical Theatre, ha malitere ime na ide maka ogbo site na 1998.  Na-elekwasị anya na egwuregwu otu nwanyị, ha mepụtara otu ọrụ, gụnyere Sin Dykes, Brown Girl in the Ring, Adventures of Snow Black na Rose Red na Ị nwetara m, n'etiti egwuregwu ndị ọzọ. 

Akwụkwọ akụkọ mbụ ha Borrowed Body (2005), bụ nke e mechara maliteghachi dị ka The Banana Kid (2007), natara akwụkwọ ọgụgụ nke afọ.  Ebe ọ bụ na, Mason-John edeela akwụkwọ isii gụnyere akwụkwọ akụkọ mmụọ ha na-abụghị akụkọ ifo Detox Your Heart (2006),  nke e debere maka ntụgharị na 2017.

 The Great Black North 
. Na 2012, Mason-John n'ụdị onye na-ekwu okwu bụ Kevan Anthony Cameron deziri akwụkwọ akwụkwọ Anthology The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry, nke Frontenac House , [1] na- amị ihe 90 ndị na-ede  uri.  [2] The Great Black North bụ otu n'ime nchịkọta uri mbụ zuru oke nke ndị na-ede uri Black Canada nke oge a.  [1] Ndị na-ede uri ama ama n'ime akwụkwọ ozi George Elliott Clarke, M. Nourbese Philip, Wayde Compton, Sylvia Hamilton, Olive Senior, Fredrick Ward na d'bi Young .  Ndekọ icheta dị iche iche n'ụzọ o si pụtapụta abụ "peeji" na "stage", dịka ụzọ isi kwanyere ma omenala ederede na nke ọnụ nke ndị na-ede uri sitere na mba Africa.

 Ọrụ ebipụtara 

 1992–97: Onye nchịkọta akụkọ akụkọ nka nwanyị
 1992: Oji Art na Culture na Mainland nke Europe: France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Spain (onye nchịkọta akụkọ), Arts Council of England
 1993: Okwu Ndị Lesbian: Ime Black Waves (onye na-ede akwụkwọ ya na Ann Khambatta) Scarlet Press, 
 1993: Okwu sitere na Cafe Women's Cafe: Egwu Lesbian sitere na Okwu Up (onye ntinye aka; eds Bernadette Halpin na Dorothea Smartt ), Centerprise Publications, 
 1994: Oji Na-ekwu okwu: Ndị Lesbian nke Africa na Eshia Na-ekwu Okwu Anthology (onye nchịkọta akụkọ), Cassell, 
 1995: Mwakpo na Mgbakọ (onye ntinye aka), Cassell, 
 1999: Nwa agbọghọ Brown na mgbanaka: Ejije, Prose na uri, Jide Aka
 2005: Ahụ agbaziri, Ọdụ Agwọ, 
 2005: Kwuo Akụkọ (onye ntinye aka), Kwuo Akụkọ/Mbipụta Anya tụgharịa, 
 2006: Detox Your Obi, Windhorse Publications, 
 2007: Black British Aesthetic, nke Victoria Arana deziri - onye ntinye aka, 
 2008: Olu gbajiri agbaji bụ ụmụ nwanyị na-adịghị emetụ aka na-ekwu , 
 2012: Nnukwu Black North - uri African Canadian nke oge a (nke Kevan Anthony Cameron deziri), 
 2013: mbipụta ọhụrụ nke Borrowed Body, Demeter Press Canada, 
 2014: Nzọụkwụ asatọ mgbake - Iji nkuzi Buddha iji merie ihe riri ahụ - onye ode akwụkwọ, 
 2017: Mbipụta agbasawanye ọhụrụ nke Detox Obi Gị - Ntụgharị uche maka Mmetụta Mmetụta , 
 2020: A bụ m Negro gị: nsọpụrụ James Baldwin . Canada: Mahadum nke Alberta Press,  I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin, Google Books.

 Ihe nrite na ihe nrite 

 2000: Windrush Achievement Award Arts na Community ọsụ ụzọ
 2001: Onye mmeri nke Black, Asia na Chinese Shoreline/Cultureword First Chapter Award
 2005: Award Book Minds (obere ndepụta) (maka ahụ agbaziri )
 2006/7: Onyinye Maka Arts - Council Arts England
 2006: Onye mmeri Mind Book of The Year Award (maka ahụ agbaziri )
 2007: Black LGBT Community Award
 2007: Doctorate Honorary for Life Achievement - Dọkịta nke Akwụkwọ Ozi
 2014: Akwụkwọ nrite akwụkwọ Alberta akwụkwọ kacha mma (maka The Great Black North )
 2014: Onyinye Akwụkwọ kacha mma na USA (maka mgbake nzọụkwụ asatọ )
 2014: Robert Kroetsch Poetry Award (maka The Great Black North )
 2015: Onyinye Akwụkwọ kacha mma nke mba ụwa (maka mgbake nzọụkwụ asatọ )

 Ntụaka 

 Official website
 "Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha's Teachings to Overcome Addictions". The Buddhist Centre.
 Let's Talk About Bullying
 Using the Buddha's Teachings to Overcome Addiction, a Dharma Talk for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. April 2016.
 "Valerie Mason-John", Contemporary writers | British Council.
 "Valerie Mason-John inspires graduates - awarded Honorary Doctorate of the University of East London", University of East London, 2006.
 "Hoping With Compassion". Interview by Biswadip Mitra, Insight, 28 February 2008.
 "Entertainment : Books : Interviews | Valerie Mason-John", GaydarNation, 3 July 2005.
 Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, "Inside the Writing Mind - An Interview with Valerie Mason-John", The Sword Review, 2005.
 Linda Jordan, "'Detox Your Heart' by Valerie Mason-John", Wildmind, 18 April 2007.
 "Valerie Mason-John (Vimalasara)", Windhorse Publications

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