Featuring:

d'bi.young anitafrika

@ Sheba, 418 College St. at Bathurst/College

www.shebaethiopianrestaurant.com

We are excited that the new Kande Mbeu venue has great Ethiopian food! Come hungry and share food!

When: Wednesday, November 26th, 2014

Showtime: 7:30pm open mic sign up starts at 7pm!

$5-10 sliding scale, and nobody turned away for lack of funds

DO BRING YOUR POETRY, STORIES for the open mic and movement news

Bio:

dbi.young anitafrika is an internationally celebrated African-Jamaican-Canadian dub-artist, arts-educator and emerging theatre director whose trans-disciplinary explorations of identity, gender, sexuality and the human experience, through her developing pan-Africanist Caribbean-Canadian theatrical lens, have made an indelible mark upon the Canadian & global cultural landscape. Her travels have taken her to Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, North America, Europe & the United Nations, providing her with a global lab to experiment with and expand upon her intersectional human development framework called The Sorplusi Method. dbi is the published author of eleven plays, two collections of poetry, six dubpoetry albums and is anthologized in numerous publications worldwide. She is the recipient of the Canadian Poet of Honor accolade, two Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the KM Hunter Theatre Award, the Arts Council Award, the Harold Award, the Womens Resiliency Award and the Best Spoken Word Artist award. dbi. is the Artistic Director of YEMOYA International Artist Residency & the Program Designer-Facilitator of the Arts Activism & AIDS Academy of The Stephen Lewis Foundation; both rooted in the Sorplusi Method. She has worked with theatre companies, universities, cultural organizations, and social institutions across the globe as an arts practitioner, change-maker and mentor to countless youth, dedicating her life to improving the lives of people. Her latest creation is The Watah School, a non-for-profit w/holistic artist development institute in Toronto Canada, whose mission statement is to nurture the artist as healer, mentor and keeper of the sacred.

Kande Mbeu means throw the seed, an imperative to farm, to grow something, to feed our people, to raise revolutionary consciousness.

Join us at our monthly night of Kande Mbeu featuring amazing spoken word poetry and storytelling backed by talented musicians. All performers featured artists and open mic participants alike will have the opportunity to perform your poetry with the backing of our Mbira band.

So come check out our featured performers, and sign up for the open mic!