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kingston will be hosting a Dub Poetry Fest on November 24 and 25.

Thanks to the marvellous Lillian Allen, Kingston is going to be buzzing those two days.

I'm helping run the fest (i've apparently been pegged as some type of poetry admin person/slave/stooge) and I'll post more details as i get them.

lillian is spending the weekend at the festival of spoken word in toronto and nailing down our line up.

i'll know tues.
but if anyone feels like driving down, it would be cool to see y'all.
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RELOADING THE CAN[N]ON
Kingston Dub Poetry Festival
Thursday, November 23 to Saturday, November 25, 2006.



Take aim! Kingston, Canada, will probably sound and feel a lot like Kingston, Jamaica, when the Dub Poets Collective (Toronto), in collaboration with Queens University Department of English and Poetry & Company and sponsored by Robert Sutherland Visitorship, John Deutsch University Centre; Queen’s Coalition for Racial and Ethnic Diversity and cultureSHOCK, present the MASSIVE Kingston Dub Poetry Festival, “Reloading The Can[n]on”, from November 23 to November 25, 2006.



Be sure to join the over fifty inter-national poets and scholars in this groundbreaking intercultural and intergenerational exchange and interchange from whence orality and various literary traditions will [e]merge to represent the literature of the new milennium. Come, be part of this synergistic experience; this weaving and celebration of creativity. Hear blended voices reloading the Can[n]on in joyous reciprocation with [em]powerful textual dexterity, displayed in multi-layered narratives that outline varied discursive trajectories of mental liberty. Experience art as a source/ force that can save us from the ravages of insularity and the dictatorship of recycled thoughts.



With readings and performances by over 50 poets during six events from Thursday night to Saturday night, two writers workshops, and panel discussions RELOADING THE CAN[N]ON will fuel your mind.


The full schedule of events is available on the Dub Poetry collective website: www.dubpoetscollective.com


Featured guests include: Canada’s dub poetry pioneer and Queen’s University’s first writer in residence, Professor Lillian Allen; distinguished dub poet and scholar, Dr. Afua Cooper; Canadian dub-icon, Clifton Josephs; vernacular scholar and dub poet of distinction, Klyde Broox and Montreal’s word-sound adventurers, Kalmunity Word Sound System and a host of other literary and spoken word luminaries.



Come give fuel to the fire!
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