Peña: Alameda Theatre's Annual Fundraiser

We are pleased to announce our Peña: Alameda's Annual Fundraiser! Come and enjoy an authentic Latin American experience! Hosted by the award winning Martha Chavez! Featuring Latin American artists and musicians including a very special guest, Latin Jazz sensation Amanda Martinez!

Each year we celebrate the country of origin of the playwright whose play will be produced by Alameda Theatre Company in the coming season. This year we celebrate Mexico to honour our first playwright-in-residence Amaranta Leyva, whose play The Intruder will be showcased at the 2010 De Colores Festival of New Works in September 2010 and which will have a world premiere with us in 2012!.

Funds raised through the event will go directly to the development of excellent new work by Latin American-Canadian playwrights through our De Colores Festival of New Works, to inaugurate our youth program- Nueva Voz: A Latin American Youth Theatre Initiative and to enable Alameda Theatre Company to continue producing landmark and groundbreaking plays by Canadian Latin Americans. This year we will also be sending a portion of the proceeds raised at the peña to Habitat for Humanity: Chile to help victims of Chile's recent earthquake.

Join us! You won't want to miss this peña! (Have you ever hit a piñata! Who knows what goodies it will hold!)

LAL - in Toronto

1. WED MARCH 31ST - OCIC - E-MAG LAUNCH - NIC & ROSE FROM LAL 10 MINUTE PERFORMANCE (5-6PM) - LAUNCH TILL 8PM

2. WED MARCH 31ST LAL FREE SHOW AT RYERSON - 1 HOUR! 8PM

3. FRI APRIL 2 - RAFEEF ZIADAH & LAL - 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM - Beit Zatoun - 612 Markham St.

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1. OCIC Invites you to the launch of its annual E-Magazine:

iAM: Ideas, Actions, Movements

Perspectives for Global Change

Featuring live performaces by:

abstract Random

Brescia Birdthroat Bloodbeard

Nic & Rose of LAL (10 minute performance!)

Stacey B

Wednesday March 31, 2010 from 5-7 pm

Naco Gallery Café

1665 Dundas St. West (East of Landsdowne)

***This event is FREE. Everyone is welcome***

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2. LAL + Ryerson University FREE!

LAL is a Toronto based band that drew our curiosity not only because of their unique sound, but also because they are always fighting for change in our communities. When I met Rosina for tea one day, I learned that LAL has been in the Toronto music scene for 10 years and their socially conscious music has taken them around the world to places like Pakistan and India.

They will be making an appearance at Ryerson University’s Oakham House (55 Gould St., Toronto) on Wednesday March 31st from 8pm-10pm. The show is FREE, so bring your family and friends.

Join their Facebook Fan Page for more details.

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3. RAFEEF WITH LAL AT

Rafeef Ziadah and Lal at Beit Zatoun

Friday, April 02, 2010

8:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Beit Zatoun

612 Markham St.

Toronto

What

With audience favourites like "Baghdad" and "Shades of Anger" and new pieces including "Trail of Tears". Come hear pieces from Hadeel performed live with music by the incredible "Lal". Also appearing is Reena Katz.

Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian spoken-word artist and activist. Rafeef started performing poetry in Toronto in 2003 with the spoken word collective Pueblo Unido and is the winner of the 2007 Mayworks Festival Poetry Face-Off. Rafeef’s poetry speaks to the struggle of immigrants to “make it to/in Canada ” and the politics of exile. Being Palestinian she reflects, in the CD, on the realities of her homeland today, a homeland to which she is not allowed to return.

Learn more about Rafeef and Hadeel at: www.rafeefziadah.ca

Need to know:

- Admission $10 ($5 unwaged)

- Sorry, no reservations

- Doors open at 7:30 pm

- Sorry, not wheelchair accessible

Tasty refreshments (non-alcoholic) and oliveoil+za'atar dipping, included in admission.

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Diaspora Dialogues - Open Call for Submissions 2010

Looking for emerging writers of short stories, poetry and drama in the GTA.

If you are interested in developing your writing skills then look no further. We here at Diaspora Dialogues are looking for emerging writers of short stories, poetry and drama in the GTA. Diaspora Dialogues invites submissions to its annual publishing/mentoring program from emerging GTA writers of short stories or creative nonfiction less than 3,000 words in length; plays of any length; or up to 5 poems, with each poem being no more than 75 lines. Applicants are welcome to enter more than one category, but no more than one submission per category, please.

For full details: http://diasporadialogues.com/docs/DD-OpenCall2010.pdf

ARE ASIANS THE IGNORED MAJORITY?

TORONTO, ON – Sat. April 3rd, 2010, 7:30-10:30pm

The Asian Summit invites Asians and South-Asians to come together to discuss issues that effect our community. This is one of the few times both communities will unite on a shared platform to address challenges that are quite different although Asians and South-Asians come from the same wider continent.

A popular and talented Korean spoken word artist, rapper and singer, sun a.k.a The Real Sun, is the Summit’s featured performance artist. Gifted South-Asian Toronto Poet who leads Ignite Poets and studied cultural issues, like those the Summit will address, for her Masters thesis - Sheniz Janmohamed - is the special guest artist. Both will also act as hosts of the Asian Summit, which poses several questions of Asians and South-Asians under the umbrella question, ‘Are Asians the Ignored Majority?’ on the talk show. “I like the question because its broad enough to ask many other important questions of the talk show panelists, whether they are east Asian or South-Asian,” said Sheniz Janmohamed, “Like, Is Canada’s multi-culturalism real or are Asians and South-Asians expected to keep discussions of issues in our communities to ourselves? Shouldn’t we be able to discuss things out in the open like this event provides us an opportunity to do?”

The Asian Summit will be held at University of Toronto’s George Ignatieff Theatre at 15 Devonshire Place, just south of St.George subway station, just east of Spadina and south of Bloor, downtown Toronto. The Summit will be held as the talk show component of Toronto Poets’ 86th Saturday Night Love night of talent, talk and teaching. Both sun a.k.a The Real Sun and Sheniz Janmohamed have been featured at Saturday Night Love in the past. In addition to closing with a talk show component, each Saturday Night Love event consists of talent acts and a teaching component. There will be other Asian performers accompanying sun a.k.a The Real Sun and Sheniz Janmohamed, and an open mic component for new talent that registers to perform leading up to the event.


Our panelists will include the talented South Asian actress and playwright Anita Majumdar (The Misfit, Fish Eyes). Don't miss this opportunity!


Mortgage-broker Tricia Trotter will be the teacher for the evening, educating first time home buyers and taking questions from the theatre on establishing and re-establishing credit, and all the steps involved with buying a home and preparing to do so. Toronto Poets thanks the its generous sponsors, The Dream Decade Challenge, Arang TV and Asian Freedom Arts School.

Toronto Poets started the Increase the Peace campaign in 2002 east of Toronto, and has taken it across the GTA, sending poets east to Ottawa, north to Brampton, south to New York, and as far west as Guelph since then. Toronto Poets is a registered non-profit corporation whose mission is to Increase the peace by helping people to be healthy, wealthy and wise, first in Toronto, and then worldwide. For more information visit www.torontopoets.com/poetry/. View the video preview of this event on Toronto Poets’ video channel: www.youtube.com/TorontoPoets/ , along with videos from past Toronto Poets Increase the Peace events. Toronto Poets helps people rise out of poverty by giving free financial, job-search and career planning advice out in the Saturday Night Love Inspirer in print and online: www.torontopoets.com/inspirer/

Media Contact: Toronto Poets Asian Summit featured performer and Asian Summit co-host sun a.k.a The Real Sun sun@therealsun.com and Toronto Poets Media Relations Officer, Special Guest performer and Summit co-host Sheniz Janmohamed shenizjanmohamed@torontopoets.com 416-737-0843 416-737-0843.

Brockton Writers' Series 7

Join us Tuesday April 6, 7-9pm at Zoots Cafe, 1438 Dundas Street West, to hear readings by:

CLAUDIA DEY is a novelist, playwright and columnist. For two years, she wrote the weekly ‘Group Therapy’ column for the Globe and Mail, and during its brief but illustrious life, Claudia also wrote the sex column for Toro magazine under the pseudonym Bebe O’Shea. Her plays have been translated into French and German and produced internationally. They include Beaver, Trout Stanley and The Gwendolyn Poems, which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Award. Her debut novel, Stunt, has been praised by – among others – Time Out Chicago, which called it ‘deeply weird and totally beautiful.’

IBI KASLIK is an internationally published novelist, freelance writer and teacher. Her most recent novel, The Angel Riots, is a rock n’ roll comic-tragedy and was nominated for Ontario’s Trillium award in 2009. Her first novel, Skinny, was a New York Times Bestseller and has been published in numerous countries. Ibi teaches creative writing at The University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies.

MO PIGEON is an emerging Canadian Writer of Ojibwa First Nations, and Celtic Descent. Her father was a Story Teller and Teacher of the Old Stories and Legends which was a time honored position within tribes that was passed from one generation to the next. Mo learned the gift and responsibility of becoming the next generations’ Story Teller around the fire as a child, and was trained for three decades by Elders in The Ojibwa, and Seneca Teachings, Ceremonies, Legends and Stories. She is columnist for May Day Magazine, and is working on her first fiction novel, Strange Things Done.

SUDHARSHANA RAJASINGAM has been writing for many years. Her first book of poems “Call of the Sea” was published in 2006 . She writes both in Tamil and English. Her work reflects her experiences with migration, loss, grief, rebirth and love.


There will also be a 15 minute open mic session at the end. Hey don't be shy! Prepare a five minute reading/performance, and show up by 6:55pm to sign up!

Free! Books, drinks and other goodies available for sale. Lots of time for neighbourly chat.

If you a writer who'd like to get involved in a future event, contact farzanadoctor@rogers.com. We give some preference to those who live, work, and hang out in the Brockton area (loosely defined as the West Toronto neighbourhood bordered by Lansdowne, College, Queen and Gladstone)--but we're no longer making this a requirement.

All genres, experience level, ages, styles etc welcome!

Diaspora Dialogues - April Events as part of Keep Toronto Reading

Friday Nights with Diaspora Dialogues as part of Keep Toronto Reading Festival

Diaspora Dialogues returns with its popular Friday night series of free readings and performances. Sample a captivating cross-section of writers, performers, and artistic forms, including fiction, poetry, spoken word, theatre and music. With Edeet Ravel, Jaspreet Singh, Brenda MacIntyre, Drew Hayden Taylor, Ibi Kaslik, Rachel Zolf, Kaie Kellough and many more.

Where: Palmerston Library, 560 Palmerston Avenue Toronto, ON, M6G 2P7

When: April 16, 23, 30

Time: 7-8:30 p.m.

Cost: Free - First come, first served

For more information about this upcoming event, visit www.diasporadialogu es.com or call 416 944 1101 ext 363

Priscilla Uppal and Meaghan Strimas launch their poetry collections

Priscila Uppal and Meaghan Strimas are launching new poetry collections- - Traumatology and

A Good Time Had By All--and you're invited to the party!

It will be at the Monarch Tavern in Toronto on 12 Clinton St (at Henderson)

on Wednesday March 24th, 8pm.

Nibblies will be provided.

Cash bar. Cash book table.

Feel free to bring friends and to pass this evite along to lists.

Everyone is welcome.

Also: Uppal's dispatches and sport poems are still being produced

for The Literary Review of Canada (games.reviewcanada. ca) and for

Canadian Athletes Now (canadianathletesnow .ca). You can also

visit priscilauppal. ca for links to other venues featuring the poems.

Past entries and poems are still up on the websites. She'd love

to hear from you about them!

She will return from Vancouver on March 22nd.

Persian New Year at the Pomegranate Restaurant

Nowruz

Saal-e Now Mubarak

In Celebration of the Persian New Year

The Pomegranate Restaurant and Storyteller Ariel Balevi
invite you to join us for the telling of

THE LEGEND OF SIYAVASH

PART II: THE BLOOD OF SIYAVASH

The Shahnameh is a vast epic central to the cultures of Persia. 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 celebrated and important particularly in Iranian cultural spheres. It has been remarked that the legend has some parallels with the narratives of the martyrdom of Hussein which are so important to Shi'a Islam. As well, to this day, in certain remote areas of Iran, the legend of Siyavash is sometimes re-enacted in a ritual known as Siyvushun.

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 legend, which tells of the conflict between Siyavash and his stepmother Queen Sudabeh, was told at the Pomegranate for Shab-e Yalda. The second part, which will be told for Now Ruz, tells the tragic end of Siyavash. Defying the military orders of his father King Kay Kavus, Siyavash is forced to seek exile at the court of the King of Turan, Afrasyab. There he becomes the favorite of the king. Yet this inspires the jealousy of the king's brother Garsivaz. In the end Siyavash becomes at once a martyr and a symbol of renewal in the world.

Sunday March 28^th 8pm. Sharp

Thursday April 1^st 8pm. Sharp (repeat)

* You can still enjoy Part 2 even if you’ve missed Part 1

^{The Pomegranate Restaurant will be serving dinner from 5:00 pm. until the start of the storytelling.}

^{Please call ahead for reservations 416.921.7557}

Sing for Your Supper - TONIGHT!

THE TIME HAS COME
FOR OUR FIRST ROUND OF SEMI-FINALS
BE SURE TO COME OUT AND VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE
AT THE ONE AND ONLY

Here with a brand new format and an exciting new venue.

The next Sing For Your Supper will take place on

Monday, March 22n

at

The Lower Ossington Theatre
100a Ossington ave

followed by a reception and announcements across the street at

THE OSSINGTON PUB.

with live music by Virghost

Doors open at 7:30pm, show starts at 8pm.

This months semi finalists are:
Doug and Sally by Murray Foster

Invaders of the Heart by Kia K.

Movie Reviewers by David Goodman

Syd by Chris Kay-Fraser

Red One Theatre Collective is offering a $500 prize for the development of a new script.
The winner will be determined by YOU, the audience, at each of our monthly SFYS installments!

• Each month, at the end of the night, everyone will fill out a ballot, voting for their favourite piece of the evening.
• In March 2010, we'll have our first semi-final, where the 4 winners (from November, December, January and February) will stage their pieces again. Everyone will vote, and the top TWO pieces will advance to the next round.
• In August 2010, we'll have our second semi-final, where the next 4 winners (from April, May, June and July) will stage their pieces again. Everyone will vote, and again the top TWO pieces will advance
• In September 2010, Red One Theatre will put together a gala evening, where the top FOUR finalists (the two from each semi-final) will stage their pieces. The audience at the gala will vote for their favourite, and the winner will win $500 to help develop their script!

Sound confusing? Don't despair, we'll explain it all again
Now more than ever it's time to come out and support new writing by VOTING for your favourite piece!
It's up to YOU to make sure that the best piece wins!

Otherwise, the SFYS set-up will stay the same. We want to stress that while a little healthy competition is good for the soul, SFYS remains a collaborative, enthusiastic, welcoming environment for new writers and actors to test out their chops. Actors ranging from seasoned pros to those with little or no experience are still encouraged to take on a role, and new writers are still encouraged to submit - you never know, you might end up a winner!

So come on down to the Cameron House on Monday, November 16th and join us for this exciting new writing series! Let the singin' begin!

As always, contact us at singforyoursuppertoronto@gmail.com

Scripts should be submitted as document attachments in either pdf or Microsoft Word format. 12 point Courier is the preferred font for readability. Scripts may be segments of larger works or complete unto themselves however, they should be no longer than ten or twelve minutes in duration (5-10 pages). Submissions will be read by members of Red One Theatre Collective and slots will be filled based on availability, duration, and readability…. Scripts not read during the month in which they were submitted may be read in the following month.

Writers will be notified by e-mail if their piece is to appear in that month’s line-up.
Writers are strongly encouraged to attend the reading of their work.

Sing for your Supper gives playwrights and actors--even those with little to no experience--a chance to meet each other, share ideas and workshop new scripts before an audience, outside conventional theatre venues.

This COLD READING SERIES is a unique opportunity to have your play
musical
movie
experiment
new idea
or selected excerpt read in a new light. With no pressure or expectations. Give us your treasured gems or new ideas.

All materials and genres are welcome.

How does your work stand up to the test of spontaneity?

Are the relationships real and engaging enough to hold the crowd?

Is your strength dialogue or storytelling?

See where your focus should lie.

The selected pieces will then receive a cold reading from local Toronto talents who will arrive and receive the scripts an hour prior the show. This allows everyone enough time to gab a drink at the bar and introduce themselves to each other in a very casual collaborative and creative environment.

The pieces will then receive a short moderation where we will have a Q&A session with
the writers,
actors,audience
and guest moderators from the Toronto theatre community.

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO SUBMIT A SCRIPT
PLEASE CONTACT US AT
SINGFORYOURSUPPERTORONTO@GMAIL.COM

www.redonetheatre.com

NEW PLAYS

NEW FACES

"How We Forgot Here" - OPENS TONIGHT!!

It's time to board Canada's Newest Indigenous Airline - Eagle Air.

“Airlines don’t just move bodies; we move all that desperation. We fly all those dreams.”

The Movement Project presents:

How We Forgot Here

by Gein Wong, Marika Schwandt, Malinda Francis and Eva Rose Tabobondung

March 22 - 28, 2010 (one week only!)

Tuesday - Saturday 8pm, Saturday & Sunday 2pm (Monday 8pm Preview PWYC)
Walnut Studio Loft 83 Walnut St. (W. of Bathurst, S. of King - next to Stanley Park)

Tickets:
$15 advance at The Toronto Women’s Bookstore (TWBS), located 73 Harbord Street.
$20 at the door | ($2 from your advance ticket will go towards the TWBS)
Receive a free copy of Gein Wong's new CD 'Burning Money for You' with each ticket.H

Script Frenzy starts April !st!

Hi!

We're excited to inform you that April 1, 2010 is just around the corner, and that means the fourth (and biggest) Script Frenzy is nearly here!

http://www.scriptfrenzy.org

Check this out:

• Regional Forums have shiny new headers to make finding local events easier.
• We're on Facebook and Twitter.
• Website notifications now work! (Thank you, Dan. We heart you.) Visit "Edit My Notifications" on your profile page to stay tuned to what you want, and turn off the rest.

Buy these things (Come on. You love us. We're a nonprofit. We need your support!):

• Day t-shirt. It's light blue and brilliant.
• Night t-shirt. It's black and stunning.
• Travel mug. It holds the perfect amount of coffee.
• Key chain. Matches any set of keys.
• Hat. Perfectly tops it all off.

We had so much fun at the decidedly unfancy photo shoot. Check out the behind-the-scenes photos.

Get ready:

• Read a great Cameo by Greg Marcks about prepping for the month ahead.
• Do the workbooks and the boot camp (try the high school versions) at the Young Writers Program website.

Mark your calendars:

• March 12: Feed the Frenzy Day. We'll be asking for your help to spread the word about Script Frenzy via Facebook, Twitter, email, owl post, etc. As the smallest program at our parent nonprofit, Script Frenzy's advertising budget is zilch. Your help is worth buckets of gold to us!
• March 16: $250 Donor Day. We have ten killer Moleskine storyboard notebooks adorned with a Script Frenzy seal and autographed by everyone here in the office. On March 16, the first ten $250-and-up donors will get one added to their goodie package.

Party alert! (It is never too soon to plan a celebration.)
The Headquarters Sponsored Wrap Party will be held at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco on May 8. Friends and family are all welcome. The amazing folks from the sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster will be back to perform unrehearsed pages from our scripts. Last year, it was side-splittingly funny!

Head over to the website and set up your 2010 Script Frenzy profile.

Excited to see you in the Frenzy,
Jen
Script Frenzy Program Director and Chief Troublemaker

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Chile Earthquake Relief Concert

Tuesday, March 23, 8:00 p.m.
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
(190 Princes’ Boulevard, Exhibition Place, Toronto)

Tickets available through www.ticketwindow.ca and at the box office the day of the performance.

Canada's Francesca Gagnon and Chile's Inti-Illimani will present their recently completed recording Meridiano with a program that mixes the popular songs of Cirque du Soleil with works from Inti-Illimani's vast repertoire.

Media contact: Juanita Chacón-Snow
jchacon-snow@lacap.ca
Tel: (647) 379 2146

ESFANDARMAZ: The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: A Sufi Parable

ESFANDARMAZ: The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: A Sufi Parable

From the 13th century poet and mystic Farid-al Din Attar, author of the celebrated Manteq al Tair (The Conference of Birds) comes this story from his great Sufi epic, Elahi nameh (Book of the Divine). The frame story of the epic tells of a father who asks each of his six sons what they are seeking in life. In response to each son, the father tells a story which challenges them to understand the true nature of their ambitions. To his son who is seeking beauty, the father tells the story of Esfandarmaz; a story of justice, healing and redemption. Esfandarmaz is a woman whose provocative beauty and uncompromising integrity makes her the recurring victim of mankind. In terms of the time and place of its compositon, the story may astonish modern listeners as it can be taken at once as a protofeminist fable and a parable of the human search for the truth.

DATE: Saturday, March 27, 3:30 to 4:30 PM

LOCATION: " The 918", formerly the Toronto Buddhist Church, a centre supporting culture, arts, media and education.
918 Bathurst St. (Lower Level), just North of Bloor and Bathurst

AUDIENCE: Adult
ADMISSION: $5 adult/$4 students, seniors

For more information see the festival website at http://www.torontof estivalofstoryte lling.ca/ index.html

Telephone: (416) 656-2445

inDANCE presents BOX

Following a celebrated debut at the Joyce SoHo in New York City, inDANCE presents BOX! From Bharata Natyam to Bollywood and beyond, BOX questions every assumption about what is "traditional" and "classical" and takes us on an exotic, erotic, powerful and poetic journey.

Adults: $25-31
Students/Seniors: $18
March 18, 19, 20 at 8:00 pm

Quote "ARTSWORKERS" when you call the Box Office to get $20 tickets!

For tickets, call 416-973-4000 or visit http://www.facebook.com/l/6f9ef;www.harbourfrontcentre.com.

For more information about inDANCE and to view our video trailers, visit http://www.facebook.com/l/6f9ef;www.indance.ca.

Spoken Word and Open Mic NIght at U of T

WHEN: March 4, 2010, 5:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.

WHERE: Cumberland Room, International Students' Centre, University of Toronto
25 King's College Circle
Toronto

No Ticket & FREE Refreshments!

Featured Artists:

- Sheniz Janmohamed of Ignite Poets
- The Red Slam Collective feat. Mahlikah Awe:ri, Isaac Riverwalker and Lena Recollet.
- MC Mohammad Ali
- Azfar Hussain: "Poems Against Bayonets, Bullets, and Bombs."
And more!


About Sheniz:
Sheniz Janmohamed is a freelance writer, poet and spoken word artist. She completed her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at The University of Guelph, and was mentored by GG nominee and National Bestelling author, Janice Kulyk Keefer. Her thesis is a collection of essays and poems reflecting her triune identity as a Canadian, South Asian and Kenyan. She has also completed a manuscript of ghazals in English, and is collaborating with international dub/electronica artists on numerous musical/spoken word projects. She has written for South Asian Living magazine, City Masala Magazine and Anokhi Magazine. She is the President and Founder of Ignite Poets, an spoken word initiative that allows young poets and spoken word artists to work together for peace and partnership. She recently travelled to Kenya to work with Kenyan poets on a collaborative show that raised money for Hawkers Market Girls Centre in the slums of Nairobi. She has performed at various venues across Toronto, including the Strong Words Reading Series, Toronto Poets’ Saturday Night Love, The Mini Shebang High School Tour and Masala! Mehndi! Masti!

About The Red Slam Collective:
Red Slam™ is a collective of indigenous emerging artists expressing creativity through stories and words in the spirit of oral tradition using contemporary poetry performance infused with hip hop, rez blues, powwow reggae, and drum talk. Red Slam’s goal is to: uplift, self-identify and promote unity through Spoken, Lyricism which Arranges Meaning (SLAM). Slam members include: Lena Recollet Anishnaabe from Wikwemikong First Nation; John Hupfield Anishinaabe from Wasauksing First Nation; Miles Turner Mohawk Six Nations, Isaac Llacuachaqui Native, Spanish, Black Inca ancestry from Peru; Mahlikah Awe:ri, 9th generation Afro-Native of Mohawk and Mik’maq First Nations with Nova Scotian roots.