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Creating
a space for literary artists continues to be a Festival priority.
This year The Salvador Allende Arts Festival for Peace has
partnered up with the Toronto Women's Bookstore and Tinto
Coffee House, to bring you creative writing workshops
with artists and instructors, Lillian Allen and Clelia Rodriguez,
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Alvaro Giron and Diana Cadavid have also been coordinating
"Pase La Voz" an extraordinary
literary night as well as the Festivals first meeting of Latin
American Literary Artsists.
Programming was changed from printed
poster. Please contact us for more information via
email at:
allende.literary@gmail.com
or call Diana or Alvaro at
647 998 2717.
Encuentro
Local de Escritoras/es Latinoamericanos
I nvitamos
a artistas literarios locales a traer sus opiniones e ideas
en torno a dos puntos:
1. Qué más hacer en la promoción de los escritores/as
latinoamericanas/os locales?
2. Existe la necesiadad de un colectivo, asociación u
otro tipo de organizacion de artistas literarios latinoamericanos?
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WORKSHOPS
Admission
to workshops is $10, participants must register in advance. For more
information or to register, please call 647 998 2717. Enrolment
is limited to 15 participants.
workshop 1:
Sunday, Sept 4
2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Tinto Coffee House - 89 Roncesvalles Ave.
“Creative Writing”- in English
Explore different writing exercises, learn how to access and trust
your writing voice, and start to bring your work off the page in exciting
new ways. Please bring your own paper.
Instructor: Lillian Allen
Cost: $10.
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workshop
2:
Sunday, September 4
5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tinto
Coffee House - 89 Roncesvalles Ave.
“Escritura Creativa”-en Castellano (Spanish)
Se explorará el espacio de la literatura dentro de las temáticas
híbridas en la escritura creativa contemporánea. ¿Cómo
interpretar la simbología postmoderna que aparece en la escritura
femenina? ¿Cuáles son las rutas literarias que se utilizan
para representar la realidad en América Latina y el Caribe? Entre
algunas de las escritoras que figuran en el paquete de lecturas están:
Gloria Anzaldúa, Reina María Rodríguez, Laura
Restrepo, entre otras.
Las lecturas para este taller estaran a disposicion de las personas inscritas el dia 26 de Agosto en Tinto: 89 de Roncesvalles
Instructor: Clelia Rodriguez.
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Pase
La Voz
Friday, September 9
9 p.m. Tinto Coffee House - 89 Roncesvalles Ave.
An eclectic reunion of some of Toronto's best literary artists,
including: El Machetero, Naila Keleta Mae, Simon Casanova, Sandra
Alland, Nestor Rodriguez and Carlos Bucio.
Part 1: Readings by guest artists.
Part 2: Exploratory Conjugations: guest artists and audience play and improvise + Open Mic.
Pay what you can.
$5. donation suggested. |
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Lillian Allen moved
from Spanish Town, Jamaica, to North America in 1969. She studied
at the City University of New York, and has a B.A. from York
University in Toronto. Allen is known internationally as a pioneer
of dub-poetry, and as a ground breaker for women in the field.
Her first album of poetry with music, Revolutionary Tea Party
(1986), was proclaimed a landmark album of the past 20 years
by Ms. Magazine in 1991. She won a Juno Award for that album
and a second in 1988 for Conditions Critical. Her third album,
(We Shall Take Our) Freedom & Dance, was released in 1999
by Vancouver's Festival Records.
Lillian has published three books of poetry, including Rhythm
An’ Hardtimes (1983) and Women Do This Every Day (Women's
Press, 1994). Her work for young people includes three books:
Why Me, Nothing but a Hero and If You See Truth. She has also
published the works of other poets through her company Verse
to Vinyl. As a playwright she has produced One Bedroom with
Dignity (1987), Love & Other Strange Things (1991, 1993),
and the radio play Marketplace (1995). Her creativity also extends
to film, as co-producer and co-director of Blak Wi Blakk…,
a documentary on Jamaican dub poet Mutabaruka.
Beyond writing, Allen is a recognized authority and activist
on issues of diversity in culture, cross-cultural learning,
and the arts in education. She has been consulted by, and prepared
major reports on these issues for, Canadian organizations ranging
from the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture to the National
Film Board. Her lectures and performance have taken her as far
as Jamaica and Switzerland. Allen has also been writer in residence
at Canada's University of Windsor. She is currently an educator
at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
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Clelia Rodríguez is a Salvadoran-Canadian prose
and poetry writer. She is currently a doctoral student at the
University of Toronto. She has led many literary workshops on
Cuban female writers focusing on issues such as identity, racism
and self-subjectivity. She is currently the editor of Apuntes
Hispánicos.
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