Event overview
Join us for a Revolutionary Tea Party exploring deep rooted spirit and the poetics of decolonization in the work of acclaimed writer and educator Lillian Allen.
Allen says that dub poetry 'goes to the language of the heart and of the people ... and it creates meaning as it creates culture.' Combining the musicality of oral traditions and aural exploration, with contemporary themes, Allen will perform from her classic poetic publications, discuss the empowering nature of modern day spoken word culture.
Lillian Allen is a Creative Writing Professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design University in Toronto, and is an award winning and internationally renowned poet and writer of short stories and plays. In 2013 she was a featured speaker at Harvard University and her latest CD Anxiety was released to critical acclaim in 2012, with a successful European tour for appreciative audiences in France, England, Wales, and Ireland. A key originator of dub poetry, a highly politicized form of poetry, which is sometimes set to music, she opened up the form to engrave feminist content and sensibilities. A Professor of Creative Writing at OCAD University in Toronto, Lillian’s recordings ‘Revolutionary Tea Party’ (acclaimed by Ms Magazine as a landmark album) and ‘Conditions Critical’ won Juno awards in 1986 and 1988 respectively. Featured in films Revolution from de Beat, 1995; Unnatural Causes, 1989; Rhythm and Hardtimes 1987, Lillian is co-producer/co-director of Blak.. Wi Blakk… (1994), a film on Jamaican dub Poet Mutabaruka.ee
All welcome
see also the Creative Writing workshop following the talk.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 25 Nov 2015 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm |
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