d'bi.young and di dubbin gang.stars dubreggae concert fri oct 30th @ 10:30pm @ the distillery district

http://www.canwestcabaret.ca/information.aspx?concert=dbiyoung

Written in Colour Writer's Symposium

The Toronto Women's Bookstore hosts its annual event: "Written in Colour Writer's Symposium" on

Saturday, November 14, from 9:00am to 9:00 p.m. at 918 Bathurst

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=182641683342&mid=15289c6G26820774G3f8df76G7

Gas Girls at Theatre Passe Muraille for ten days only!

We hope that you can join us for this award winning play!

Winner— Enbridge Emerging PlayRites Award 2009

Second place winner— Herman Voaden Award 2009

November 5 -14, 2009 Theatre Passe Muraille 16 Ryerson Ave, Toronto

Love for gas Gas for cash Cash for living Living for love...

Click here to buy tickets online for only $15 *seating very limited* Or call the Arts Box Office at 416-504-7529

Click here to visit newharlemproductions.wordpress.com

Sarena Parmar in Flashpoint

Sarena Parmar was mentored as a playwright in the Diaspora Dialogues program in 2008. She performed her piece, "Inheritance" at a reading at Palmerston Library in February 2009 as part of Diaspora Dialogues partnership with the Toronto Public Library in Keep Toronto Reading.

FLASHPOINT

Episode 303 - JUST A MAN

Model prisoner Anton Burrows (Roger Cross, THE L WORD) is up for parole but is denied when the victim’s family, the Amiris, speaks against him. Moments later, a ruthless gang incites a riot at Langstaff Maximum Security and takes the Amiris hostage.

WATCH ONLINE

http://shows.ctv.ca/FlashPoint.aspx.

Click Watch.

Episode 303 - Just a Man

FOOL - Festival of Oral Literature

http://www.foolfestival.ca/about

Thursday, October 22 to Sunday, October 25, 2009

FOOL – festival of oral literatures is a place where listeners and performers can explore the art of making mind-movies with voice, music, body, and story. We believe storytelling is an ancient and an avant-garde art, with branches in dance, puppetry, spoken word, dub, recitation, hip hop, and theatre. Intimate and direct, the storyteller conjures reverie by giving voice to our collective dreads, dilemmas, and dreams. Thank you for joining us for our first-ever FOOL!

Fresh to Def weekly parties at the Gladstone Hotel

Fresh to Def brings you Unruly Twin playing the best in rnb, hip hop, soca reggae and more. You'll be dancing peeps be chillin and its free.

*****

Fresh to def is a weekly party by and for 2-Spirit, Trans//Queer Indigenous, Black and Peeps of Colour. Everyones welcome.

OCTOBER PARTIES:

October 7th: Fresh to Def ft. Swagger with Lissa Monet

October 14th: Roots! A Raucous Night of Fundraising ft performances by Nat n Kim, Troy, House of Monroe, Ayo Leilani and more

October 21st: Fresh to Def ft. Unruly Twin

October 28: DANCE CREW night w/DJ Blackcat n House of Monroe
Us on Myspace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=485546662

Wednesday Nights at 11pm
Gladstone Hotel,1214 Queen W.

freshtodefwednesday@gmail. com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169762914440
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=97878904560

Dare to Remember: African Jazz Night

With the help of my friend Waleed Kush, we are taking on a A Dare to Remember for the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

I dare you to come and hear great live Pan African Jazz music at the Trane Studio!

What: Pan-African Jazz Night at Trane Studio
When: Thursday October 22, 2009, 7:30 pm onwards
Where: Trane Studio - 964 Bathurst street (2 blocks North of Bloor St.)
Cover charge: $10

The money we raise will go directly to African grandmothers, children, and women – ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things to turn the tide of AIDS in Africa.

If you are unable attend please support us in reaching our fundraising goal by sponsoring mr and donating on line now by going to:
http://stephenlewisfoundation.akaraisin.com/pledge/Participant/Home.aspx?seid=2660&mid=9&pid=156923

Donations of over $20 will receive tax receipts. (if you are not planning to attend).

Yoga Cannibal

YOGA CANNIBAL

Created & Performed by nisha ahuja

Directed & Dramaturged by Yvette Nolan

Theatre Passe Muraille Back Space

October 22nd - October 24th, 2009, 8pm

TICKETS

$10 At The Door (CASH ONLY)

Reservations: nisha@nishaahuja.com, 416.531.1402

Info: www.nishaahuja.com

Join Yoga Cannibal on Facebook

Feeling a little empty? Needing to fill a void?

*Ting!*

Welcome to Omega Orange Yoga Studio, and to our most successful yogini’s class. Yes, Monica may be heartbroken, but her success, fame and patented yoga can still lead almost anyone to enlightenment – for a price.

*Ting*

nisha ahuja’s Yoga Cannibal is a playful and cutting look at the consumption of culture in the quest for spiritual fulfillment.

"The crowd really ate this one up. …Good Pace…Good Energy…a lot of fun"

- CBC Radio One, Ottawa

Yoga Cannibal premiered as a workshop at Buddies in Bad Time Theatre’s Hysteria Festival in October 2007 and at Ottawa and Vancouver Fringe Festivals as a “Must See” (Xtra Toronto), and to enthusiastic audiences who called the production “powerful”, “funny”, “fresh”, “smart”, and “a rollercoaster of emotions”. Directed by Yvette Nolan (Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts), Yoga Cannibal delivers you enlightenment (for a price) this fall at FemFest (Winnipeg) and Theatre Passe Muraille (Toronto).

Diaspora Dialogues + OAC Writers Resreve

Diaspora Dialogues is again a third-party recommender for the Ontario Art Council Writers' Reserve program!

The program runs from October 1, 2009 to February 16, 2010. You may apply at any point within that time period. However, we encourage you to send your application in early!

For more information, eligibility, guidelines and forms, visit the Ontario Arts Council website: http://www.arts.on.ca/Page119.aspx

Writers' series looking for writers

he Brockton Writers Series is a new monthly literary night held at Zoots Cafe (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115054399574&ref=ts) in Toronto's Little Portugal neighbourhood on the first Tuesday of the month, from 7-9pm.

Our aim is to highlight the work of emerging and published writers who live and work in the Brockton neighbourhood (which is the areas within Gladstone-Lansdowne, Queen to College, but we're flex about geography!). We program three fabulous writers and reserve some time at the end for open mic. All genres welcome. There's lots of time for neighbourly mingling and to chat one-on-one with the writers.

Are you a writer who lives in and around Brockton in Toronto? We're currently accepting applications for our next dates: November 3rd and December 1st. Open mic readers don't need to apply--just show up 10 mins early to sign up. Contact farzanadoctor@rogers.com with some details about you and your writing.

PULSE 2010 Youth Scholarship Awards

Are you a secondary student based in east Toronto? Are you an artist?
Submit your artwork to PULSE - the 11th annual Youth Scholarship Awards, presented by the Scarborough Arts Council.
You could win a scholarship, have your artwork featured in two group exhibitions and be profiled in an upcoming issue of Surface & Symbol.

1st Prize: $300 - Nikita Marner Award for Youth;
Group exhibition at the Bluffs Gallery;
One year membership to the Scarborough Arts Council.
*Additional prizes to be announced


SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

Submissions will be reviewed by a professional juror. Work in all mediums is eligible.

All entries must include:
-artist statement
-current CV/Art Resume
-3 - 6 high quality images of current work (.jpeg on CD)
-->include title, medium, size, date, and artist’s name.


Please send submissions to : PULSE: 2010
c/o Scarborough Arts Council
1859 Kingston Road
Toronto, Ontario, M1N 1T3

Deadline for Submissions: Monday, November 30, 2009

For more information or for an application form, please contact the Scarborough Arts Council at 416.698.7322 or programs@scarborougharts.com

--
Benedict Lopes

Program Coordinator
Scarborough Arts Council

New Dates for Gili Haimovich's Writing Studio

10 classes, from October 15th to November 17th, on Thursdays from 7 p.m. – 9p.m.

(Changed from October 8th to November 10th)

For more info and registration contact: gili@poetryon.com 416 566 3524 www.poetryon.com

Poetry Parade - with Canada's Poet Laureate, Pierre DesRuisseaux, and Toronto's Poet Laueate, Dionne Brand!

Sunday November 8, 2009 at 7 pm
The Annex Live (296 Brunswick Avenue - just south of Bloor Street)
Pierre DesRuisseaux
Dionne Brand
Max Layton
Armand Garnet Ruffo

Music: Local Jazz duo Norm Amadio & Julie McGregor

Artwork: Canadian landscape art pieces by Mario Ricci

High School Poetry Contest: sponsored by Book City in the Annex

fu-GEN's fourth annual Fire Gala

This year’s menu features a delicious, traditional Chinese Banquet in Chinatown’s Bright Pearl restaurant, live entertainment by the hilarious Asiansploitation sketch comedy troupe, our coveted silent auction, a kick-ass raffle, tons of fu-GENers and lots of laughs.

The Details

When:
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Doors open 6:00 pm with dinner to follow at 7:00 pm

Where:
Bright Pearl Restaurant
346 – 348 Spadina Avenue (North of Dundas Street)

How Much?:
$50/ticket or $400/table of 10 (CHARITABLE TAX RECEIPT AVAILABLE)
Tickets can be purchased at www.fu-gen.org.

Asian Arts Freedom School online magazine

Volume 1, Issue 1

http://schoolmagazine.ca/2009/10/issue-11-decolonize-this-shit-oct-2009/