Dub Poets Collective. 805 St. Clair Ave. W, 2nd Floor. Toronto, Ont. M6C 1B9

RELOADING THE CAN[N]ON

Kingston Dub Poetry Festival

Thursday, November 23 to Saturday, November 25, 2006.

Events Schedule

The events schedule is also available on the Dub Poetry collective website:

A suggested donation sliding up the scale from five dollars is suggested for performances. Give fuel to the fire!

Thursday, November 23

Opening Reception

Union Gallery (101 University Ave. 1st flr. Stauffer Library, Queen’s University) 6pm

Welcome:

  • Pat Rae (Head of English Department, Queen’s University, Kingston)
  • Carolyn Smart (Professor of Creative Writing, Queen’s University, Kingston) and Lillian Allen (Canada Council Writer in Residence, Queen’s University, Dub Poets Collective, Toronto)
  • Diane Dawber (Poetry & Company, Kingston)

Speical Guests:

  • Paul Seesequasis (Canada Council) and Bushra Junaid (Ontario Arts Council)

Evening Reading and Performance - Blended Voices

Union Gallery 7pm

Hosts: Darcel Bullen (Queen’s University, Kingston) & Klyde Broox (Dub Poets Collective, Toronto)

Performers:

  • Lillian Allen with Kristie Allik (Faculty, Queen’s University, Kingston) & Jarret Prescott (Dub Mixer, Peterborough)
  • Naila Keleta Mae (Toronto)
  • May Chan (Kingston)
  • Carolyn Smart
  • Jennifer Londry (Kingston)
  • Adele Barclay (Queen’s University, Kingston)
  • Eat it (Queen’s University, Kingston)
  • STEPUP Student (S.T.E.P.U.P., Dub Poets Collective)
  • Morgan Oliviero (Royal Military College, Kingston)
  • Anthony Bansfield (Ottawa)

Later That Night – Dubwise and Otherwise

Coffee & Company (53 Princess Street at King Street) 9:30pm

Host: Diane Dawber (Poetry and Company)

Performers:

  • Marrow (Kingston)
  • Michael St. George (Toronto)
  • Farren Gainer (Kingston)
  • Michael Hurley & Teilhard Frost (Faculty, Royal Military college, Kingston)
  • Gary Raspberry (Kingston)
  • Bonita Summers (Kingston)
  • Laura Lee Orser (Kingston)

Friday, November 24

Evening Reading and Performance -Word Sound Empower

Agnes Etherington Art Centre (University Avenue at Bader Lane, Queen's University) 7pm

Host: Lillian Allen

Performers:

  • Andrea Thompson (Toronto)
  • Chet Singh (Dub Poets Collective) & Jarret Prescott
  • Clifton Joseph (Dub Poets Collective)
  • P. Sri (Faculty, Royal Military College)
  • Steve Heighton (Kingston)
  • Ritallin (Ottawa)
  • Jan Allen (Faculty, Queen’s University)
  • Erin Foley (Kingston)
  • Elizabeth Greene (Faculty, Queen’s University)
  • Rebecca-Luce Kapler (Faculty, Queen’s University)
  • Doug Roy (Belleville)

Later that Night -Spoken Wording

Agnes Etherington Art Centre 9:30pm

Host: SPIN (Toronto)

Performers:

  • SPIN and the R.H.Y.M.E. Collective (Toronto)
  • Peculiar I (Toronto)
  • Open Mic

Saturday, November 25

Workshop - Write To Resist

Robert Sutherland Room, (John Deutsch University Centre , 87 Union Street at University Ave., Queen’s University) 11-1pm

Facilitated by Klyde Broox

Panel Discussion I - From Slaveship to Scholarship

Watson Hall, Room 517 (49 Bader Lane, Queen’s University) 1 - 2:30 pm

Panelists:

  • “Translocation and Gesture in Dub Poetics,” Klyde Broox
  • “Phillis Wheatley: The Mother of Black Poetry,” Dr. Afua Cooper (Dub Poets Collective)
  • “Equality in Our Midst: Transforming Academia,” Chet Singh (Dub Poets Collective)
  • “The Type of Power of the Word,” Maria Casas
  • “Slam, Hip Hop, Spoken Word: Private Words, Public Discourse,” Asha Varadharajam (Faculty, Queen’s University)

Panel Discussion II - Can Art Save Us?

Watson Hall, Room 517 3 - 4:30pm

Panelists:

  • Jan allen
  • Laura Murray
  • Clive Robertson
  • Asha Varadharajam

Evening Performance - New-World Noises

Union Gallery 7pm

Hosted by Clifton Joseph

Performers:

  • Dr. Afua Cooper
  • Klyde Broox
  • Diane Dawber
  • kalmunity’s word sound system (Montreal)
  • Oni the Haitian Sensation (Ottawa)
  • Mary Ellen Csamer (Kingston)
  • Sankofa (Dub Poets Collective)
  • Eric Folsom (Kingston)
  • Lorne Shirinian (Faculty, Royal Military College, Kingston )

For information, locations & updated festival information, contact:

Kingston: Publicity/media call Wayne 613-547-1508, Festival Information call Erin 613-328-4731

Toronto: The Dub Poets Collective 416.598.4932 Email:

Website:

The events schedule is available on the Dub Poetry collective website:

The 2006 Kingston Dub Poetry Festival, RELOADING THE CAN(N)ON, is generously supported bythe Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council.

RELOADING THE CAN(N)ON is curated by Queen’s English Department Writer in Residence and Dub Poets Collective member, Lillian Allen with

Diane Dawber of Kingston’s Poetry & Company and organized with a committee of student writers from Queen’s University and

writers and poets in the Kingston community.