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RELOADING THE CAN[N]ON
Kingston
Dub Poetry Festival
Thur., Nov.23- Sat.,
Nov. 25, 2006.
Events Schedule
The reloading begins.
Thursday, November 23, @ 6:
00!
Opening
Reception: Welcome Gathering
Union Gallery
101 University Ave.
1st flr. Stauffer Library,
Queen's University: > 6 - 7
p.m. >
Welcome:
Pat Rae: Head of English Department,
Carolyn Smart: Professor of Creative Writing, Queen's University,
Lillian Allen: Canada
Council Writer in Residence, Queen's
University/ Dub Poets Collective, Toronto,
and
Diane
Dawber (Poetry & Company, Kgn.
Speical Guests:
Paul Seesequasis (Canada
Council )
and Bushra Junaid ( Ontario
Arts Council )
Thursday, Nov. 23, PERFORMANCE 1.
Blended
Voices
Union Gallery
101
University Ave. 1st flr. Stauffer Library,
Queen's University: > 7
- 9 p.m. >
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, (Queen's University)
●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)
Thursday, Nov. 23, PERFORMANCE
2.
Dubwise and Otherwise
Coffee &
Company, Princess Street
at King Street)
> 9: 30 p.m. >
Host:
Diane Dawber (Poetry and Company)
Performers:
●Marrow
(Kingston)
●Michael St. George
(Toronto)
●Farren Gainer (Kingston)
●Michael Hurley & Teilhard Frost
(Faculty, RM, Kingston)
●Gary Raspberry
(Kingston)
●Bonita Summers
(Kingston)
●Laura Lee Orser
(Kingston)
Kingston Dub Poetry Festival
RELOADING THE CAN[N]ON
Friday, November 24, PERFORMANCE 1
Oral
Trajectories/WordSounds Empower!
Agnes Etherington Art
Centre
University Avenue at Bader Lane,
Queen's University
> 7 - 9 p.m .>
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)
Friday, November 24, PERFORMANCE 2.
SPOKENWORDING
Agnes Etherington Art Centre : < 9:30 p.m. >
Host:
SPIN (Toronto)
Performers:
●SPIN and the
R.H.Y.M.E. Collective (Toronto)
● Peculiar I
(Toronto)
******* Open Mic
*******
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RELOADING THE
CAN[N]ON
Kingston
Dub Poetry Festival
Saturday, Nov. 25, Morning Session
Workshop
- Write To Resist
Robert Sutherland Room,
John Deutsch
University Centre ,
87 Union Street
at University Ave., Queen's University)
< 11-1 > p.m. >
Facilitated
by Klyde Broox
Saturday, Nov. 25, Afternoon
Session
Panel Discussion 1:
From
Slaveship to Scholarship
Watson Hall, Room 517
49 Bader Lane,
Queen's University
1 - 2:30 p.m.
Papers:
● "Translocation and Gesture in Dub Poetics."
●Klyde Broox (DPC)
●"Phillis Wheatley: The Mother of Black Poetry."
●Dr. Afua Cooper ( (DPC)
●"Equality in Our Midst: Transforming Academia."
●Chet Singh (DPC)
●"The Type of Power of the Word"
●Maria Casas (scholar/dubresearcher)
● "Slam, Hip Hop, Spoken Word:
Private
Words, Public Discourse."
●Asha Varadharajam
(Faculty, Queen's University)
Panel Discussion 2:
Can
Art Save Us?
Watson Hall, Room 517
49 Bader Lane,
Queen's University > 3
- 4:30pm >
Panelists:
●Jan allen
●Laura Murray
●Clive Robertson
●Asha
Varadharajam
Sat., Nov. 25, Final
Festival Performance!
New-world Noises
Union Gallery
101
University Ave. 1st flr. Stauffer Library,
Queen's University: > 7:
00 p.m. >
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 (Royal
Military College, Kingston )
Locations
& updated festival info contacts:
Kingston:
Publicity/media: Wayne
613-547-1508,
Festival
information: Erin 613-328-4731
Toronto:
The Dub Poets Collective: 416.598.4932 Email: info@dubpoetscollective.com
The 2006 Kingston
Dub Poetry Festival, RELOADING THE CAN(N)ON, is generously supported by Canada Council and Ontario
Arts Council.
"RELOADING THE CAN(N)ON"(is the title of a Klyde Broox poem)
The Kingston
Dub Poetry Festival is curated by Queen's English
Department Writer in Residence, Lillian Allen with Diane Dawber of Kingston's Poetry & Company.
"RELOADING THE CAN(N)ON!" the Kingston Dub Poetry Festival, (initiated by
Lillian Allen) is a broad collaborative effort involving the DPC, a committee of student writers from Queen's University, and writers
and poets in the Kingston
community. Logistic and administrative support was ably provided by DPC staff members: Nancy Chong and Rea Mcnamara
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