Warda Youssouf

Djibutian Poet, puppeteer, producer (events & film) and a visual artist

She is sometimes credited as | Parfois créditée sous le nom de
Warda "Muna" YOUSSOUF
Warda MOHAMED YOUSSOUF

Warda Rose is a Filmmaker and Visual Artist based in Toronto, born in Djibouti and raised in the UK.

Warda Youssouf is a poet, puppeteer, producer (events & film) and a visual artist living in Toronto. Born in Djibouti and raised in the UK. She was the recipient of the David Maltby Award in 2019 for her exhibition "Roots", and of a Toronto Refugee Mentorship Grant, to help develop her first feature film, "People from Nowhere in" (2019). Her practice is engaged with themes of home, identity and displacement. Warda engages her local and artistic community through production and curation of story-telling shows and art therapy events at venues across Toronto. In under 2 years in the film industry, she has produced 4 shorts "Where are you from ?" (2021), "Confessions" (2020), "Emancipation of Egbert" (2019), "Menagerie" (2019) and 2 children's plays. Nowadays, you can find her working on her radio documentary "The Power of Names" and building her non-profit organization @thehouse.of.arts.



Quelle / Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
- Africiné Magazine
- www.linkedin.com/in/wardayoussouf
- https://wardayoussouf.com/
- https://vimeo.com/lifetastessour
- https://cinefam.ca/woc-database/warda-mohamed-youssouf/
- https://theatredirect.ca/warda-muna-youssouf/
- www.imdb.com/fr/name/nm11475337/
Updated by Thierno Dia, 05 March 2025