Artist Gallery 3
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DWAYNE MORGANTORONTO
Dwayne Morgan began his
spoken word poetry career while still in high school, founding Up From The
Roots entertainment to promote the positive artistic contributions of African
Canadian and urban artists. He has received both the African Canadian Achievement Award,
and the Harry Jerome Award for
Excellence in the Arts, and is the winner of 3 Canadian Urban Music Awards (2001, 2003, 2005). In 1998, Morgan
introduced regular poetry slams to Toronto, and in 2005 he was recognized as
Poet of Honour at the Canadian
Festival of Spoken Word in Vancouver.
Dwayne has published 6 books: Her Favourite Shoes, The Sensual Musings of Dwayne Morgan (2010), The Making of a Man (2005), The Man Behind The Mic (2002), Long Overdue (1999), and chapbooks, The Revolution Starts Within (1996), and Straight From The Roots (1995). In 2009, Morgan's work was translated into French, culminating in the book, Le Making d'un Homme. His albums include, Another Level (1997), The Evolution (2001), Soul Searching (2003), A Decade in the Making (2004), Mellow Mood: The End of the Beginning (2007), and Idle Hands (2011). In 2008, Morgan released a commemorative DVD entitled, Dwayne Morgan: the First Fifteen. Dwayne has performed for the former Governor General of Canada, The Honourable Michaelle Jean, and has shared the stage with many of Canada's top artists including Russell Peters, Deborah Cox, Kardinal Offishal, Jully Black, K-OS, and Nelly Furtado, while opening for international artists Alicia Keys, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Mutabaruka, Ursula Rucker, Colin Channer, and Saul Williams, and recording with Canadian artists including Grammy nominee, Drake. To further explore his creativity, Dwayne collaborated with Driftwood Studios to film,” Three Knocks,” a ten-minute film based on his domestic violence poem of the same name, which premiered in Toronto's Reel World Film Festival. In March 2008, Dwayne hosted his first photography exhibit, The Sum of Her Parts, exploring female body image. Dwayne has toured across Canada, the United States, Jamaica, Barbados, England, Scotland, Belgium, Budapest, Germany, France, Norway, and Holland. His emphasis on quality has driven his success, and has made him a well-respected component of Toronto's urban music community, as well as the North American, and Global, spoken word scenes. http://dwaynemorgan.ca/ |
EDDY DAORIGINALONE
TORONTO
Beat-box Poet | Art Educator | Event /entertainment Coordinator , recognized across Canada for his spoken word poetry, performing and producing a variety of shows and events and contributing in the studio on a number spoken word recordings as engineer, arranger and producer. He is an exceptional performer, entertaining audiences through his engaging writing style, unique talent as a beat-boxer, and charismatic stage presence.
Born in Canada and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, Eddy proudly represents his dual heritage, and has performed across North America, including Vancouver, Calgary, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, New York, and Miami. He owes his Spoken word beginnings to his mentor Oji Adisa of MACPRI International, who first put this Ottawa native on a spoken Stage in Toronto in I991presentation titled "Young Poets of the Revolution". he then went on to be artistic director of the Ottawa Chapter Young Poets Ottawa. He has featured at numerous literary and music events, including the famed “When Brothers Speak” Spoken Word Concert in Toronto, the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, the art/music/poetry series Soul Deep in Montreal, and the ‘2011 Canadian Beat-boxer Championship’ (as a VIP judge). Eddy’s work is published in various African Canadian Contemporary Poetry anthologies, including the WordLife record, and the T-Dot Griots and Great Black North print anthologies. His full-length recordings include Stories, If Yuh Heard Spread the Word, Caribbean Tales,and Renaissance Man. Eddy has appeared in the two spoken word documentary films: In the Making, (2010), and Speak (2008). He also has produced a number of spoken word performance series, the Annual Poetry through Black eyes series, then Poetic Soul Spot in Ottawa, Soul Deep in Montreal and created and performed musical/spoken word productions of his work, such as Beats, Rhymes and Lights in Toronto. In addition, he has conducted Beatbox Workshops for the Toronto Public library also writing and performing spoken word workshops as a guest lecturer/facilitator at the Literacy for Hip Hop program (Toronto), Urban Arts (Toronto), Word is Bond (Halifax), Harambee Centre (Ottawa), Dartmouth High School (Nova Scotia) and Casscadoo Spoken Word Festival (Trinidad and Tobago ). WEBSITE : www.ibeatbox.ca
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EDDY GARNIEROttawa
Eddy Garnier, born in Hinche, Haiti, became, by force of impromptu, a poet, novelist, short story writer, author of tales. He has written novels, poetry, monologue and other genres. A versatile and prolific artist, he touches on almost all areas of writing and the art of saying.
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EL JONESHALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA
El Jones is a spoken word activist and teacher who has performed all over Canada, including at the 10th anniversary all-star edition of When Sisters Speak in Toronto. In 2012, she was sponsored by Citizenship and Heritage Canada on a reading tour of Nova Scotia with George Elliott Clarke. She was the captain of the two-time National Champion HaliFAX slam team and has performed across Canada as a feature performer. Her poetry is particularly committed to political causes and social justice and El has worked extensively with organizations around Halifax performing and presenting on issues of social change. El is currently the artistic director of Word Iz Bond Spoken Word Artist Collective and can be seen performing on the third Thursday of every month at the Company House at 2202 Gottingen Street in Word Iz Bond's SPEAK! Series. She currently teaches in the African Canadian Transition Program at NSCC and in the Women's Studies program at Acadia. El Jones will serve as HRM's Poet Laureate for two years 2013-2015. WEBSITE: http://www.halifax.ca/culture/PublicArt/PoetLaureate.php |
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EMERSON ALCADEBRAZIL
EMERSON ALCALDE is from São Paulo, Brazil. He works as a coordinator of cultural projects in education. As well as being an art educator, he is an actor, Slam Master of the GUILHERMINA SLAM, and Event Curator the Sofala Slam Poetry series. He has authored a book of poetry, (A) MASS (2011).
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