Real Talk with Lillian Allen: A Career in Poetry, Reggae, and Education @ OCAD U Learning Zone, Toronto, ON Wed Sept 18th!

Real Talk with Lillian Allen: A Career in Poetry, Reggae, and Education

Hailing poets, spoken word artists, MCs, lyricists, linguists, and people who play with words:

Welcome to the conversation you have been waiting for: How do I turn my art tradition into a career I can maintain? How do I grow this sapling of talent I have into a tree? Come through for answers to your questions from international dub poet legend Lillian Allen, interviewed by poet-MC-soundscapist DIJAH. Oh, and the free snacks.

OCAD University acknowledges the ancestral and traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe and the Huron-Wendat, who are the original owners and custodians of the land on which we stand and create.

Location: OCAD U Learning Zone, 122 St. Patrick Street, Toronto, ON

Time:  6:30 PM – 9 PM EDT

FREE

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Keynote Lecture Charles Mudede: Visions of Black Secret Technology @ Innis Town Hall, Toronto, ON - Sat Apr 13th!

                                           Photo credit:  Images Festival‎Charles Mudede: Visions of Black Secret Technology


Keynote Lecture
Charles Mudede: Visions of Black Secret Technology

Saturday, April 13

Time:  3:00PM

Location:  Innis Town Hall – 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto, ON

Co-presented with Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto.

This talk will begin by closely examining the movie Black Panther to determine not only how black technology is visualized, but, more importantly, what this visualization tells us about our understanding, manner of coding, and modes of experiencing technology as a whole. The notion of advanced technology is, in fact, very new, and historically specific. But most of us hold, consciously or not, a Hegelian idea that it is transhistorical and progressive (rather than accidental and dispersed over the centuries). In the Hegelian view, each moment in universal history is leading to more and more improved forms of ordering and managing the human/nature metabolic exchange. This talk will also look at representations of black technology in the works of Saya Woolfalk and Sondra Perry, and will itself be structured like a movie.
— Charles Mudede

This event is FREE.

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