Diaspora Dialogues is pleased to return to The Word On The Street for its fourth year! From literary readings to one-of-a-kind performances to intriguing conversations, you won't find this many of Toronto's most cutting edge artists in one place anywhere else. Don't miss it...
Sunday September 27, 2009
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Queen's Park
Readings from Diaspora Dialogues
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
The Diaspora Dialogues annual mentorship program discovers the best new talent Toronto has to offer and matches them with some of our finest Canadian writers. Join us for a sampling of their city-focused stories and poetry. Featuring emerging writers Tanya Bryan, Kearie Daniel, Chang Liu, and Leslie Shimotakahara, alongside award winning writers Marjorie Chan, Emma Donoghue, Lee Maracle and Shyam Selvadurai.
Toronto Mash-Up
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Cultural remix at its most eclectic! For this special initiative, Diaspora Dialogues handed over stories, poetry and plays from its anthology series TOK to actors, performers, dancers and opera singers to reinterpret through their own artistic mediums. Come experience the creative energy that is unleashed when text meets re-interpretation – hear the original content read, and then witness the transformation.
With Archer Pechawis, Amani, Martha Baillie, Fides Krucker, Nik Beeson, Waawaate Fobister, Leah-Simone Bowen, Donna-Michelle St Bernard, Peter Bailey, Andrea Thompson and more.
Art, Revisited: Exploring Re-interpretation panel discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
In the age of audio and video remixes, mashups, YouTube responses, and altered texts, does original context matter? Does re-interpretation enrich and enlarge a text? Or does it merely bastardize? What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of different art forms in expressing the same story?
Join Archer Pechawis, Stacey May Fowles and Kerri Sakamoto in a fascinating discussion about the nature of re-interpreted work. Moderated by Helen Walsh, with live illustration by Jibola Fagbamiye.
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