The Watah School, through its Artistic Director d’bi.young anitafrika, designed and is currently facilitating a Youth Artist Mentorship at Oakwood Library for fall 2014. d’bi.young was awarded one of 5 Artist In The Library grants in 2014 jointly from the Toronto Arts Council and Toronto Public Library.

Workshops for up to fifteen youth accessing the Oakwood Library are conducted on Mondays and Tuesdays after school and Saturdays during the day. The youth workshop series culminate in a final dubtheatre play, written, directed, stage-managed, designed and performed by the youth under d’bi’s mentorship and is open to families, friends as well as the community to come and support and celebrate the work of the young people.