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Sharine’s experiences leading conversations extends past the editorial and into live or digital settings. Speaking for and with audiences in Jamaica, Bahamas, the U.K, the US and Canada, her knowledge comes to life and guides people through conversations straddling the balance of being intimate and informative.

  • 2025

    • DEAD LEF: Visions of Contemporary Jamaica Vol. 4, Toronto, Ontario

    2023

    • The Ontario Science Centre and Game Theory Films present Black History Month Becoming a Queen screening, Toronto, Ontario

    2022

    • IN-HXOUSE CONVERSATIONS with 4YE & Sharine Taylor, Toronto, Ontario

    2021

    • The Art Gallery of Ontario x AGO Next Curators Circle presents Fragments of Epic Memory (Digital)

    • ADVANCE x JUNO Talks: Caribbean influence in Black Music (Digital)

    • The Indiggo Conference presents From Hustle to Enterprise (Digital)

    • Urban Arts presents Art in Movement/Movement in Art (Digital)

    2020

    • Urban Arts presents Culture Shock 2020: The Black Creative Arts Roundtable (Digital)

    • Urban Arts presents Behind the Spotlight: Meet the Women Calling the Shots from the Sidelines, Toronto, Ontario, moderator

    2019

    • Music Amplifiers & the Secrets to Getting on their Radar, LaunchPad Summit, Toronto, Ontario, moderator

    • a love ethic, how to love a jamaican: a conversation with the author, wedge curatorial, moderator

    2018

    • Nuit Blanche presents: STYLL curated by Alyssa Fearon, Sincerely Scarborough (2018), How to Make a Black Boy Fly: Building Cavalier Noir. Director X and Ekow Nimako, moderator

    • Bashy Magazine Radio presents Jamaica To Di World!: Unpacking Jamaica's Glreobal Cultural Influence (for the annual ManifesTO Festival), moderator

  • 2024

    2023

    2021

    • Amplifia Network presents “Meet the Creators” (Digital)

    • The Role of Black Joy in the Imagining of Black Futures, The New Vanguard: Black History Month 2021 presented by OCAD’s Black Student Union, OCAD (Digital)

    • Diaspora Voices: Journalism in Africa and the Caribbean, City University London’s African Caribbean Journalism (Digital)

    2020

    2019

    • Reggae/Dancehall Lunch & Learn at FACTOR Canada (Internal company panel), FACTOR Canada Toronto, Ontario, panelist

    • Creating Space: Why Collective and Community Events are Succeeding, Canadian Music Week, Toronto, Ontario, panelist

    • #BreakTheStigmaJA presents Let’s Talk Mental Health, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, panelist

    • Sony Music’s International Women’s Day deciBELLE event, Love Child Social House, Toronto, Ontario, panelist

    2018

    • Drunk, Crazy or Your Head Real Sick Boy: A Facebook Live Discussion on Caribbean Mental Health in the Americas, panelist

    • Converge Summit: The Future of Entertainment panel - Courtleigh Auditorium, Kingston, Jamaica, panelist

    • ARCHV RMX: A Night Curated by This is Worldtown - Artscape, Toronto, Ontario, panelist

    • St. Albans Boys and Girls Club presents Bold and Beautiful - St. Albans Boys and Girls Club, Toronto, ON, panelist

    • KINDA SORTA presents Chat Bout: a conversation on femininity, the body and (mis)representation - Daniel's Spectrum, Toronto, ON, panelist

    2017

    • Art Gallery of Ontario's First Thursdays Art Parties: Calling All Familiars - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, panelist

    • Undergraduate Research Publication workshop, University of Toronto (Scarborough), "Academic Conferences and Presentations" - University of Toronto (Scarborough), Toronto, ON, panelist

  • 2025

    • Key Note Speaker, More Than a Parade: The Hidden History of Caribbean Carnival, University at Buffalo—SUNY

    2021

    • Guest Lecturer, ENGL/WGST2Q91: Black Women Writing Resistance, Brock University, “Reading Film As Text”

    • Guest Lecturer, CAR429 Caribbean Diaspora in Canada, University of Toronto (St. George), "It’s A Diaspora Ting"

    2016

    • Guest Lecturer, SOCD21 Immigrant Scarborough, University of Toronto (Scarborough), "Podcast 101"

  • 2022

    • fi di gyal dem, guest essayist

    2018

    • Sanctuary Inter/rupted, artist

    2017

    • home (funded by The University of Toronto Scarborough's Equity and Diversity in the Arts Committee), solo exhibition/curator, Toronto

    2016

    • ENUF Presents: breakin' cycles, Gallery 1265 (funded by The University of Toronto Scarborough's Equity and Diversity in the Arts Committee), curator

  • 2021

    • Bad Finales - 'Game of Thrones'

    • Don’t Alert the Stans - 'Maybe You Should Try Parenting’ Feat. Sharine Taylor (Lil Nas X Controversy, Jamaican + Wider Caribbean Cultural Production)

    2020

    • AudioMag - Episode 162: Building Community with BASHY Magazine

    • Global News Radio’s The kultur'D Show - Caribbean Culture Special Episode with Sharine Taylor & Ryan Persadie

    • CJRU - 💎Dropping Gems EP. 2💎 - Sharine Taylor & Amanda McCauley

    2019

    • ISO Radio - 2019 Year In Review: Global Sounds

    • Talk Up Yout Radio - The Power of Jamaican Music (Episode 143 - 02/16/19)

    2018

    • Ybility Podcast - S3, S6: See You at the Top

    • Kreative Kontrol - ep. #381: anti-black racism, anxiety , & the arts panel with sydanie, sajae elder, dr. keith cunningham, sharine taylor and coko galore on long night

    2017

    • CBC’s ‘The Current’ - Drake's Global Sound Under Fire for Cultural Appropriation

  • 2021

    • Black To The Future Community of Practice, CEE Centre for Young Black Professionals

    2020

    • Building an Effective Website for your Publication, CABJ Media Startup Bootcamp

    2019

    • Brand Your Pen: Getting Published in the Digital Age, Nia Centre

    2018

    • The University of Toronto's Human Library Project: Rebirth and Resiliency

    2017

    • The University of Toronto's Human Library Project: Deconstructing Communit(ies); Intersecting Identities