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JOHN AKPATAOttawa
John Akpata is a Spoken Word Artist, Arts Educator, and Radio Host from Ottawa, Canada. John has released 5 albums of Poetry and Music, has toured nationally and internationally, and is featured in the Great Black North Anthology of Contemporary African Canadian Poets.
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KAT FRANCOISUnited Kingdom
Kat is a well‐known
performance poet on the UK and global scene. She was the first person to win a
televised poetry slam competition in the UK, winning the BBC3 TV Slam. That
gave her the platform to compete in the World Poetry Slam Championship in
Rotterdam the following year where she was crowned 2005 World Slam Champion. As
resident poet at Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, Kat hosts and organises
a monthly poetry and music night called Word4Word. It was here that Kat,
ensuring a bar audience respected poets on stage, grew and crafted a natural
talent for asserting herself through comedy. Kat also runs a Poetry night every
first Friday of the month at The Poetry Café Covent Garden, called INTIMATES.
Kat Francois is also an educator and has 20 years experience working with young people as a youth worker, workshop leader and PHSE facilitator. Kat uses poetry, drama and creative writing to reach young people and adults; she teaches in schools, colleges, universities, youth clubs, homeless hostels, pupil referral units, and young offenders institutes. Website: www.katfrancois.com |
Scruffmouth
Vancouver
Kevan Anthony Cameron, also known as Scruffmouth is a spoken poet, performer and writer with the ability to condense issues of social justice, knowledge of self, identity, philosophy, history and freedom into creative poems for the page and the stage. He is a veteran of the North American poetry slam scene and has been published books, journals, periodicals and anthologies. He is creative director for Black Dot Roots and Culture Collective, a group of artists and professionals with the vision to connect the dots of the community through education, creation and celebration of the heritage of peoples of African descent. BDRCC produces the annual Pan African Slam showcase as well as the Hogan's Alley Poetry Festival.
He is the co-editor of The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry. Website : blackcanadianpoetry.com h |
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KLYDE BROOXHamilton
Internationally recognized dubpoet Klyde Broox, (a.k.a. Durm-I) is a Spoken Word veteran. Active since the late 70s; he has done readings, workshops and guest lectures, in Jamaica, North America and Europe. Born in Jamaica, in 1957, Broox taught and performed poetry for sixteen years in his homeland before migrating to Canada in 1993. He now lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where he is considered “an influential literary entity.” Broox, a 1992 University of Miami James Michener Fellow, won the 2005 City of Hamilton Arts Award for Literature, and the Hamilton Black History Committee’s John. C. Holland Award for Arts Achievement, in 2011. Klyde hosts PoeMagic, Hamilton’s most popular, poetry performance series. He has published two poetry volumes, Poemstorm, (Swansea, Wales, 1989) and My Best Friend is White (McGilligan Books, 2005), which was selected as the Arts Hamilton/Seraphim Editions Best Poetry Book for 2006. “Steeped in both old and new-world oral and scribal traditions; Broox invites audiences to experience poetry as social communion.”
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