Women of Colour Poetry Salon

February 5, 2014

6:30-9 pm

Urban Gallery, 400 Queen Street East, Toronto

• Hosts:
• Brenda Clews
• Bänoo Zan

Features:

• Mahlikah Aweri
• Kanwal Rahim
• Bänoo Zan

Admission: Free, hat will be passed.

 Bios:

Mahlikah Awe:ri is a First Nations drum talk poetic rapologist; arts educator; radio host; activist, curator and founding member of the hip hop movement Red Slam Collective, inaugural nominees for the 2013 Diversity Arts Award from the Toronto Arts Foundation and TD. In 2011 she released the EP Serpent's Skin. She is currently published in three literary anthologies and was nominated for a KM Hunter Arts Award in Literature in 2013.

Kanwal Rahim graduated from Second City’s Program in Improvisational Comedy in 2012. She identifies herself as a Pakistani-Egyptian-Emirati-Canadian and her passion for music, performance and dance has always been core to her nomadic experience. She inherited her quirky sense of storytelling from her villager grandmothers. After completing Andrea Thompson’s OCAD course in Spoken Word, Kanwal participated in the Sound Poets Circle and the SpeakOut slam in 2013 (Toronto).

Bänoo Zan landed in Canada in 2010. She has published more than 80 poems, translations, biographies, and articles in print and online publications around the globe. Her book, “Songs of Exile” will appear in 2016 by Guernica Editions. She is the editor and compiler of Scarlet Thistles. She hosts Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) in Toronto and believes that her politics is her poetry.

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