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TOK Winnipeg Symposium 2019

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Diaspora Dialogues is delighted to share details of TOK Winnipeg 2019, a two-day symposium taking place November 15-16, 2019. TOK, the digital magazine of Diaspora Dialogues, publishes fiercely honest, freshly original writing from our cities, and from around the world.

Day one includes an two writing masterclasses and a a professional development workshop. Emerging writers can gain vital writing which will help them develop as a writer in YA and poetry. Participants can also be exposed to industry insight on Pitching to an Agent or Publisher.

Day two consists of live podcast tapings of two on-stage author interviews and two panel conversations. Black Writers in CanLit and Vulnerability & The Public Space

*This discussion is not to be confused with Writing While Black, the creative writing series created by Whitney French*

All events are FREE to attend on a first-come, first-served basis, but registration is required. Location: The Manitoba Museum.  https://tokmagazine.ca/tok-winnipeg-2019/

Participants include writers David Alex Robertson, Karmen Wells, Catharina de Bakker (Great Plains), Sally Ito, Arthur Anyaduba, Chimwemwe Undi, Norma Dunning, Zalika Reid-Benta, and more.

Remixing the Night – DD at Nuit Blanche

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Join Diaspora Dialogues on October 5th, 2019, for Nuit Blanche at the Scarborough Civic Centre, Skate Room.

In 2018, DD partnered with Orpheus Choir of Toronto to adapt four poems into choral music for the Raising Her Voice concert. Poets include Phoebe Wang, Shadi Eskandani, Priscila Uppal and Yaya Yao; and choral composers Katerina Gimo, Christine Donkine. Anika-France Forget and Tawnie Olson

Diaspora Dialogues will be presenting “Remixing The Night” as a sound and visual installation that continues this process of adaptation. Join Scarborough based DJ’s, Martian and Eric Slyfield along with graphic artist Dominika Grzesik as they remix the original choral compositions into contemporary audio and visual adaptations. Attendees will have the opportunity to manipulate the visual projections that reflect the sound in the room.

As a primarily literary organization with a mandate to bring artistic, cultural and geographic communities together, Diaspora Dialogues is excited to partner with Nuit Blanche for the twelfth year in a row.

TOK Toronto: Three Day Symposium

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With successful pilot symposiums in Winnipeg and Ottawa, Diaspora Dialogues is launching TOK Toronto. Join us in our hometown for a three-day symposium dedicated for writers and readers On September 20 – 22, 2019. TOK, the digital magazine of Diaspora Dialogues, publishes fiercely honest, freshly original writing from our cities, and from around the world.

Day One will be at the Heliconian Hall and includes workshops for emerging authors about pitching to agents and publishers. These sessions will be taped for later podcasts. All events are free but registration is required.

Day two includes four on-stage interviews with eight authors, at Harbourfront Centre – Studio Theatre. Authors include Leslie Shimotakahara, Rebecca Fisseha, Melanie Florence, Joanne Vannicola, Zalika Reid-Benta, Becky Blake, Derek Mascarenhas and Anar Ali. These are free and open to the public but registration is required.

Day three we will have two panel discussions for Word On The Street Toronto at the Harbourfront Centre  – City of Toronto Book Awards Tent. Black Writers in CanLit and Writing In The Age of #MeToo.

For more information visit: https://tokmagazine.ca/tok-toronto-symposium/

Open Call for Cymatics Artists: Nuit Blanche 2019

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DD is looking for visual or multimedia artists able to work in cymatic art to take part in Diaspora Dialogues’ 2019 Nuit Blanche event “Remixing the Night”. 

In 2018, DD partnered with Orpheus Choir of Toronto to adapt four poems into choral music. “Remixing The Night” is a sound and visual installation that continues this process of adaptation through sound artists who will recreate the choral compositions into contemporary music and through a visual representation of the sound, which is where you come in!

We are looking for artists who can visually represent the four choral compositions specifically through cymatic art. If this piques your interest, we would love to hear from you.

Please submit a paragraph telling us a bit about yourself, your experience as an artist and why you’d be a good fit for our event. If you have any support material to go along with your submission, please send them along as well.

Deadline for submissions is May 16th 2019.

Submissions and questions about the project can be sent to: zalika@diasporadialogues.com

Open Call for 2019 National Short Form Mentoring Program

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Diaspora Dialogues invites submissions from emerging writers of short stories or creative nonfiction less than 3,000 words in length; or up to 5 poems, with each poem being no more than 75 lines. (See below for definition of “emerging.”) Applicants are welcome to enter more than one category, but no more than one submission per category, please.

Through an adjudicated process, selected writers will receive feedback from a rotating writer-in-residence at Diaspora Dialogues, over the course of a month.

Once completed, pieces can be submitted for consideration to TOK, a new digital magazine that has been soft launched earlier this year and will be officially launched in June.

The writer-in-residence will address issues of story, character, structure, pace, writing style, structure and substantive aspects of the work. No copy or line editing will be provided until the time of publication (for those ultimately featured in TOK).

Deadline: May 1 2019

Submissions must be received via email by this date to: zalika@diasporadialogues.com 

Download the submission form.

Open Call for Scarborough-Based DJ’s: Nuit Blanche 2019

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Diaspora Dialogues is looking for Scarborough-based DJ’s to take part in our event “Remixing the Night” as part of Nuit Blanche Scarborough, which is on Saturday October 5th 2019.

In 2018, DD partnered with Orpheus Choir of Toronto to adapt four poems into choral music. “Remixing The Night” is a sound and visual installation that continues this process of adaptation, which is where you come in!

DD is looking for sound artists to take the four choral compositions and remix them into new contemporary music. On October 5th, at Nuit Blanche, the sound artists will play their remixes on a sound controller so NB audiences have the opportunity to further the process of adaptation by manipulating the music themselves.

If you are a Scarborough-based sound artist and would like to participate in our event we’d love to hear from you.

Please submit a paragraph telling us a bit about yourself, your experience as a sound artist and why you’d be a good fit for our event. If you have any support material to go along with your submission (music samples, past events, etc…) please send them along as well. Fees will be discussed upon further communication.

All applicants must be available the night of Saturday, October 5th.

Deadline for submissions: May 6th 2019

Submissions can be sent to: zalika@diasporadialogues.com

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