The submission deadline for the 2017 Short Form Mentorship Program has been extended to: Tuesday, September 5th! Don’t forget to email your short story or poems by 11:59 on that day! For more information visit our “Programs” section of the website.
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Open Call! Manager for Marketing & Outreach
To support the expansion of our work, DD seeks a Marketing and Outreach Manager. This is a contract position (3 days per week), located in downtown Toronto, reporting directly to the President.
RESPONSIBILITIES
This position is responsible for publicity, marketing, design, web management and community outreach.
Working closely with the President and Programs Manager, the ideal candidate will have a passion for literature and theatre specifically, and the arts more generally. This position requires flexibility, excellent time management and organizational skills, and the ability to set and meet deadlines and manage competing priorities.
For more information, check out this link: http://www.workinculture.ca/The-Job-Board/jobs/Manager-Marketing-and-Outreach-(1)
Book Launch Announcement!
Faye Chisholm Guenther launches her new chapbook, Flood Lands, published by Junction Books.
The launch is on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 at the Supermarket, 268 Augusta Ave.
Doors: 7:30 p.m. | Readings and a short musical performance: 8:00 – 8:45 p.m.
The event will be hosted by singer-songwriter Alejandra Ribera With special guest Marianne Apostolides
FREE Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/242606312905599/
Congratulations, Terri Favro!
Earlier this month, ECW Books published a second book, “Sputnik’s Children”, by Terri Favro from the 2011 short form mentorship. Since then it has been included on the CBC Books Spring Reading List: http://www.cbc.ca/books/2017/04/the-cbc-books-2017-spring-reading-list.html and was one of four books selected by Canadian Living as top picks for May: http://www.canadianliving.com/life-and-relationships/culture-and-entertainment/article/4-amazing-page-turners-that-celebrate-women
There is a launch party on Thursday, May 4 from 7 pm to 9 at Bar Italia: 582 College Street. All DDers are warmly invited!
‘Rootless’ a Workshop by Tijiki Morris
On October 30th, in the TPM Backspace, 2016 Diaspora Dialogues Playwright Tijiki Morris along with her dramaturge Jivesh Parasram will be presenting ‘Rootless’ as part of Theatre Passe Muraille’s Buzz Series.
The workshop:
Spinning with djin (spirit), nostalgia and half memories, Rootless follows Roya as she tries to ground herself and her mother years after they have come to a new country. In an attempt to hold on to roots and to protect themselves, her mother tells stories of the heart-land. Roya travels through these stories and myths, encountering a rabid mermaid, inquisitive crows, and goats. She discovers that the stories are broken and that the land has changed from how she remembers.
Rootless grew out of an exploration of displacement, which has been unjustly thrust on many, and permeates all of our lives. Who do we become and how do we redefine ourselves when we are separated from the earth that shaped us?
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Diaspora Dialogues at Camp Wavelength!
Join Diaspora Dialogues from August 19 to 21 as we ascend into Camp Wavelength, the only Toronto music festival to offer overnight camping at the Toronto Islands! The 3 day festival will feature performances and activities by various artists including our very own literary fortune telling event! Stay tuned for more details!