THE WATAH THEATRE
presents
Audre Lorde Works-in-Progress Theatre Festival
March 7th - 13th, 2016
The Watah Theatre PRESENTS
Sage Lecture with Lillian Allen
Lillian Allen, one of the great mothers of dub poetry, Lectures at The Watah Theatre's Audre Lorde Works-in-Progress Festival.
Lillian Allen is a Creative Writing Professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design University in Toronto Canada. Allen emerged from the grassroots in the seventies to become a leading influential figure on the Canadian cultural landscape.
She is an award winning and internationally renowned poet. As one of its lead originator and innovators, she has specialized in the writing and performing of dub poetry, a new genre of English Literature which is a highly politicized form of poetry preferring a black aesthetic and specific cultural codification. Dub poetry is a poetic form, which stylizes vernacular language, the emotive quality and inherent musicality of words and is sometimes set to music. It is considered a literary godmother of rap, hip-hop and spoken word poetry.
Sage Secrets is Watah's Monthly Lecture Series honoring our sages amongst us; stalwarts of the community who have and continue to lay an impeccable foundation and example for us to emulate. Distinguished guest artists impart their knowledges through a lecture, interview and Q & A with current Artists-In-Residence as well as attending community members. Lectures are documented and published in a Sage Secrets anthology for the following season.
Session Two of The Watah Theatre Professional Development Residencies explores the questions Who Am I? How Am I? What is my purpose? The Audre Lorde Works-In-Progress Festival, named in honour of self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” African-Caribbean-American r/evolutionary Audre Lorde.
Monday, March 7th
Location: Watah, 9 Trinity Street #317, Toronto, ON
6:00 Doors | 7:00pm - 10:00pm show
Tickets: $10ADV | $15DOOR
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Wednesday March 09th | 6:00 - 10:00PM
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Thursday March 10th | 6:00 - 10:00PM
Mahlet Gebreyohannes, Alexandra Sproule &
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Friday March 11th | 6:00 - 10:00PM
Natasha Adiyana Morris, Kareen Weir &
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Saturday March 12th | 1:00 - 4:00PM
Wholistic Health Day
@ The Watah Theatre
Saturday March 12th | 6:00 - 10:00PM
ShOYA Simpson, Danielle Smith &
Oughtism by Faduma Mohamed
@ Dancemakers Theatre
Sunday March 13th | 1:00 - 4:00PM
Najla Nubyanluv, Paul Ohonsi &
Oughtism by Faduma Mohamed
@ Dancemakers Theatre
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