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.