Moira MacDougall reads on Tuesday, December 8th, 8pm as part of the Art Bar Reading series:
http://www.artbar.og/calendar
Clinton's Tavern
693 Bloor Street
(West of Bathurst/East of Ossington)
Hope you can join in the fun!
Monday, November 30, 2009
Pomegranate Restaurant Storytelling for Shab-e Yalda
The Pomegranate Restaurant and Storyteller Ariel Balevi invite you to join us in celebrating
From Ferdowsi's Shahnameh
The Legend of Siyavash: Part 1 The Mountain of Fire
The Shahnameh, is a vast epic central to the cultures of Iran and Afghanistan. It was completed in 1010 CE by the Persian poet Ferdowsi. The epic tells both the legendary and historical saga of Iran from the creation of the world until the Arab Conquest in the 7th century. Within the epic are self-contained stories which are epics in and of themselves.
One of them, the Legend of Siyavash is perhaps one of the most
The Legend of Siyavash draws on an ancient tradition in Central Asia of the worship of an Adonis-like god Siyavash whose destruction and return every spring represented the renewal of the seasons. In the epic, Siyavash becomes a young prince who represents innocence in the face of familial and political conflict. His legend is one of integrity in perpetual conflict with deceit.
The first part of the story, which will be told for Shab-e Yalda, recounts how the prince confronts the false accusations brought on by his stepmother, Queen Sudabeh and the conflict that ensues between himself and his father, King Kay Kavus.
Sunday December 20th Story begins 8:30pm sharp
Sunday December 27th (repeat) Story begins 8:30pm sharp
*Due to the popularity of the event, we are not able to take reservations larger than groups of 6
Pomegranate Restarant
420 College Street, Toronto
416-921-7557
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Friday, November 27, 2009
Help Write the Story of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
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| This is an invitation to participate in a roundtable discussion in Toronto, Ontario on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 from 7−9 p.m., as part of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights' content and story-gathering tour across Canada. |
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Webinar: Youth Participation and Migrant Voice
Diaspora Dialogues' Helen Walsh is launching the Q & A for this webinar!
Webinar: Youth Participation and Migrant Voice
Date and Time (By Timezone):
December 1, 2009
10:00 (Toronto, New York, EST)
15:00 (UK, GMT)
16:00 (Europe, CET)
December 1, 2009
10:00 (Toronto, New York, EST)
15:00 (UK, GMT)
16:00 (Europe, CET)
From London, Paris, Oldham, New York:
Join Cities of Migration for an open 60-minute webinar on projects from Oldham, Paris, London and Lisbon that looks at the active participation of young people in community development and their views on identity and belonging.
- Oldham’s Peacemaker organization works with young people to help move formerly deeply segregated communities towards a new, integrated "commonsense vision of Britishness."
- The Belonging project (Manifesta) uses intercultural dialogue and video to explore identity and belonging in London/Newham, Lisbon/Casal da Boba and Paris/20th arrondissement.
- Florence Laufer will provide opening remarks on PLURAL+ and tell us why the UN Alliance of Civilizations has developed special youth programming. Helen Walsh, Diaspora Dialogues (Toronto) will launch the Q&A.
How to join: To participate, you need a computer with internet access and a landline telephone, not a mobile. Online and audio instructions will be emailed to confirmed participants.
To register for free webinar, click here. (http://citiesofmigration.ca/
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Book launch: EXPLODING THE POOL by Sandy Pool
Pulbished by Guernica Editions
Where: Bar Italia, 582 College Street
When: December 6, 2009 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
For the author's bio, go to:
http://www.guernicaeditions.com/author.php?id=317
Where: Bar Italia, 582 College Street
When: December 6, 2009 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
For the author's bio, go to:
http://www.guernicaeditions.com/author.php?id=317
Anusree Roy's LETTERS TO MY GRANDMA at Theatre Passe Muraille
November 25th to December 12th (the first week has already sold out!)
http://passemuraille.on.ca/09-10-season/letters/ for information.
http://passemuraille.on.ca/09-10-season/letters/ for information.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
It's about Love.
It's about Cerbral Palsy.
It's about a MAN with a disability.
CP Salon is a show Fides Krucker has been touring with Kazumi Tsuruoka for five years. Kazumi is a gifted performer who has Cerebral Palsy, a non-degnerative disorder. The performance brings together art and disability through music and theatre.
National Ballet School
Novemer 28, 2009
8 p.m.
372 Jarvis Street (Studio 5)
PWYC at the door (email fides@interlog.com for more informaton or by November 23 to ask for seats to be set aside).
Next performance: December 4, 2009
7 p.m.
York University (Joseph G. Green Theatre)
It's about Cerbral Palsy.
It's about a MAN with a disability.
CP Salon is a show Fides Krucker has been touring with Kazumi Tsuruoka for five years. Kazumi is a gifted performer who has Cerebral Palsy, a non-degnerative disorder. The performance brings together art and disability through music and theatre.
National Ballet School
Novemer 28, 2009
8 p.m.
372 Jarvis Street (Studio 5)
PWYC at the door (email fides@interlog.com for more informaton or by November 23 to ask for seats to be set aside).
Next performance: December 4, 2009
7 p.m.
York University (Joseph G. Green Theatre)
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Sarena Parmar on The Border - Tonight!!
9 p.m. on CBC - The Border
Khali becomes personally involved in the case of Mina Diwan, a strong-willed Indian 18-year-old, who arrives in Canada looking for her "runaway groom". Using a false identity, Anwar Singh had married Mina in the Punjab and stolen her family's $50,000 dowry. Unwilling to return to her strict Indian family, Mina seeks out Canadian relatives to sponsor her for citizenship, but they, too disapprove of Mina's modern ways. ICS learns that one of Anwar's previous brides is missing and presumed dead. When Mina goes missing, Khali and the Squad must race to save her.
Go to: http://www.cbc.ca/theborder/ for a trailer.
Sarena Parmar was mentored as a playwright in the Diaspora Dialogues program in 2008. She performed her piece, "Inheritance", at Palmerston Library in February 2009 as part of Diaspora Dialogues partnership with the Toronto Public Library in Keep Toronto Reading.
Khali becomes personally involved in the case of Mina Diwan, a strong-willed Indian 18-year-old, who arrives in Canada looking for her "runaway groom". Using a false identity, Anwar Singh had married Mina in the Punjab and stolen her family's $50,000 dowry. Unwilling to return to her strict Indian family, Mina seeks out Canadian relatives to sponsor her for citizenship, but they, too disapprove of Mina's modern ways. ICS learns that one of Anwar's previous brides is missing and presumed dead. When Mina goes missing, Khali and the Squad must race to save her.
Go to: http://www.cbc.ca/theborder/ for a trailer.
Sarena Parmar was mentored as a playwright in the Diaspora Dialogues program in 2008. She performed her piece, "Inheritance", at Palmerston Library in February 2009 as part of Diaspora Dialogues partnership with the Toronto Public Library in Keep Toronto Reading.
PALACE OF THE END - Opens Tonight!!
Palace of the End opens tonight and runs until November 28th.
Go to : http://www.alumnaetheatre.com/0910palace.html for more information.
Also visit Jason Maghanoy's blog at http://jsquaredtheatre.blogspot.com/
Go to : http://www.alumnaetheatre.com/0910palace.html for more information.
Also visit Jason Maghanoy's blog at http://jsquaredtheatre.blogspot.com/
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Book Launch of Bernardine Evaristo's BLONDE ROOTS
Caribbean Studies and African Studies at New College (the University of Toronto) invite you to a conversation on slavery, reading and launch of the book: Blonde Roots. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Christian Campbell.
When: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Women's Studies Lounge at New College on the downtown University of Toronto campus.
Evaristo is an award-winning writer living in London, of Nigerian and British parentage with bloodlines in other countries, which she has written about in her semi-autobiographical verse novel LARA (Bloodaxe, October 29, 2009)
Her published books include one prose novel, one novella, (Hello Mum, Penguin, 2010), two novels-in-verse and one novel-with-verse. Other produced and published works include poetry, short stories, radio and theatre drama.
BLONDE ROOTS is Evaristo's first prose novel.
BLONDE ROOTS takes the transatlantic slave trade and turns it on its head: Africans
enslave Europeans.
Welcome to a world turned upside down. Welcome to the world of Doris. One minute she’s this cute little girl playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the stinking hold of a slave ship sailing to the New World. When she finally arrives on a strange, tropical island, she discovers she is a pig-ugly savage with a brain the size of a pea, whose only purpose in life is to please her mistress.
Doris observes slavery from both sides. As an adult she becomes the personal assistant of her formidable master, Bwana, a.k.a. Chief Kaga Konata Katamba I. She also experiences the horrors of life in the sugarcane fields, where slaves are worked to death under the blazing sun.
Doris dreams of escape, of finding those she has loved and lost, of returning home to her motherland: England.
When: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Women's Studies Lounge at New College on the downtown University of Toronto campus.
Evaristo is an award-winning writer living in London, of Nigerian and British parentage with bloodlines in other countries, which she has written about in her semi-autobiographical verse novel LARA (Bloodaxe, October 29, 2009)
Her published books include one prose novel, one novella, (Hello Mum, Penguin, 2010), two novels-in-verse and one novel-with-verse. Other produced and published works include poetry, short stories, radio and theatre drama.
BLONDE ROOTS is Evaristo's first prose novel.
BLONDE ROOTS takes the transatlantic slave trade and turns it on its head: Africans
enslave Europeans.
Welcome to a world turned upside down. Welcome to the world of Doris. One minute she’s this cute little girl playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the stinking hold of a slave ship sailing to the New World. When she finally arrives on a strange, tropical island, she discovers she is a pig-ugly savage with a brain the size of a pea, whose only purpose in life is to please her mistress.
Doris observes slavery from both sides. As an adult she becomes the personal assistant of her formidable master, Bwana, a.k.a. Chief Kaga Konata Katamba I. She also experiences the horrors of life in the sugarcane fields, where slaves are worked to death under the blazing sun.
Doris dreams of escape, of finding those she has loved and lost, of returning home to her motherland: England.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Mayanak Bhatt's Immigrant Blog
Diaspora Dialogues mentee, Mayanak Bhatt, was mentored in 2009 by MC Vassanji in short fiction. This is the link to his blog
http://www.canadianimmigrant.ca/immigrantstories/immigrantblogs/article/5844
http://www.canadianimmigrant.ca/immigrantstories/immigrantblogs/article/5844
Friday, November 13, 2009
Amish Patel and Daniel Stoff at the Comedy Bar
When: December 5, 2009 10 p.m.
Where: The Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor Street West (at Ossington)
Price: $10 advance www.comedybar.ca/ $12 at the door
Watch a trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EdBzEVaoxQ
Where: The Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor Street West (at Ossington)
Price: $10 advance www.comedybar.ca/ $12 at the door
Watch a trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EdBzEVaoxQ
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
TSAR Publications Fall Book Launch
Monday, November 23, 2009
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto
Doors open at 7 p.m.
BOOKS BEING LAUNCHED:
Arrival of the Snake Woman - Olive Senior
Of Hockey and Hijab - Sheema Khan
Nuff Said - Michelle Muir
Enough to Be Mortal Now - Rienzi Crusz
Wilting Laughter - Chelva Kanaganayakam ed.
Winter, the Unwelcome Visitor - Shaista Justin
Her Mother's Ashes 3 - Nurjehan Aziz, ed.
Go to: www.tsarbooks.com for details including author bios
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto
Doors open at 7 p.m.
BOOKS BEING LAUNCHED:
Arrival of the Snake Woman - Olive Senior
Of Hockey and Hijab - Sheema Khan
Nuff Said - Michelle Muir
Enough to Be Mortal Now - Rienzi Crusz
Wilting Laughter - Chelva Kanaganayakam ed.
Winter, the Unwelcome Visitor - Shaista Justin
Her Mother's Ashes 3 - Nurjehan Aziz, ed.
Go to: www.tsarbooks.com for details including author bios
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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