THE LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS, in association with THE ONTARIO TRILLIUM FOUNDATION and SKETCH, is pleased to announce the final presentation and performance of the writing of ten youth from Toronto at the Word! Sound! Powah! Dub Theatre Festival.
Who: Street involved and homeless youth from Toronto.
What: A performance of writing produced from a series of workshops with poet mentor d’bi young.
Where: anitaFRIKA! Dub theatre, 62 Fraser Avenue (3 blocks SE of King and Dufferin)
When: Friday, July 31 at 7:30 pm (Doors Open 7:00 pm)
Earlier this year, ten youth attended a series of workshops led by Jamaican-Canadian dub poet, and Dora Award winning actor and playwright d’bi young. During a series of 6 sessions which took place at SKETCH in Toronto, d’bi and a group of 10 participants gathered to create empowering individual and collective spoken word and dub poetry pieces.
This program for workshops and performances was created by THE LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS and generously funded by THE ONTARIO TRILLIUM FOUNDATION. The purpose of this program is to partner youth with an established mentor in order help participants express themselves through writing and performance, and to encourage youth to create their own projects, events and collectives in their community.
In Toronto, these workshops took place in association with SKETCH, a community organization designed to create opportunities for street involved and homeless people ages 15-29, to engage in the arts in a cross-discipline studio environment or in the community. www.sketch.ca
“We work to build the opportunities for youth to build connections in the greater Toronto arts community thereby strengthening the capacity of young people to engage in culture, to build supportive networks for themselves and reduce long-term dependence on SKETCH or on any ‘service agency’. This workshop series has helped SKETCH and 10 young people to meet that goal,” say SKETCH organizers.
This inspired and empowering event will take place during the final performance of the Word! Sound! Powah! Dub Theatre Festival, and will include d’bi and other established performers. www.anitafrika.com
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