Monday, March 12, 2007
Please join us at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, March 12, 2007 at Factory Theatre’s Rehearsal Hall for a reading of The Five Vengeances written by Jovanni Sy and dramaturged by Guillermo Verdecchia. Factory Theatre is located at 125 Bathurst Street.
February 2, 9, 16, 2007
7pm Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston Avenue (just north of Bloor Street)
Diaspora Dialogues is thrilled to partner once again with Toronto Public Library, the busiest public library system in North America, on Keep Toronto Reading, a month long celebration of the joy of reading. Last year we packed the Palmerston Theatre Library with our signature interdisciplinary, intercultural mix of literary readings, spoken word performance and theatre and we aim to do the same again this year.
January 6-28, 2007
Singkil, a new play by Catherine Hernandez opens at Factory Studio Theatre. Catherine has been one of our Diaspora Dialogues writers over the past year, working on a fiction piece called Saint Candice, which is part of her four-part Scarborough Stories that also includes Singkil.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Dr. Vincent Lam joins four Diaspora Dialogues writers onstage in the latest of the Diaspora Dialogues multidisciplinary performance series taking place December 13, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. in the Brigantine Room at Harbourfront Centre.
Friday, November 10, 2006
Please join us Friday, November 10th, 7:00 p.m, at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore to hear Shyam Selvadurai, teenah edan, Marina Nemat, and Guillermo Verdecchia read from TOK, a new book series of short fiction and poetry that brings to life the constantly face of Toronto, through the eyes of its culturally diverse writers.
Sunday, September 3, 2006
It takes a world to fill Dundas Square with poets! Diaspora Dialogues brings writers from around the world to a 12-hour poetry reading. Dundas Square will be full of poets from around the world on Sunday, September 3rd when World Jam launches.This 12-hour marathon of poetry readings will draw together 50 writers from the many backgrounds and cultures present in Toronto. It takes place from noon to midnight at the corner of Yonge Street and Dundas Street.
Molly Peacock, George Elliot Clarke, Afua Cooper, Stuart Ross, Teenah Edan, Laila Haidarali, Sheng Xue, Sean Isaac, Amatoritsero Ede, Sonnet L’Abbé, Daniel David Moses and others will each read and perform their works throughout the day and into the evening.
