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** INDICATES TICKETED EVENTS
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Thu. May 28 | 08:00 pm – 11:00 pm
In The Beginning… **
| Lula Lounge | 1585 Dundas St W. / Dufferin
Featuring:
Adrian Green (Barbados) | Britta B (Toronto) | El Jones (Halifax) | Winston Farrell (Barbados)
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Fri. May 29 | 06:00 pm – 07:00 pm
ACTION! Stage to Screen: Spoken Word in Film & Video
Harbourfront Centre | Studio Theatre  | 235 Queens Quay W.  

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Fri. May 29 | 08:00 pm – 11:00 pm
The Griots Lounge** 
| Harbourfront Centre | Brigantine Room | 235 Queens Quay W.  
Featuring:
Ahmed Knowmadic | Andrea Thompson | Eddy Garnier | Kym Dominique-Ferguson |
Mahlikah Aweri | Shauntay Grant | Scruffmouth | Tanya Evanson


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Sat. May 30 | 09:00 am – 10:00 am
Opening Keynote
Harbourfront Centre | Studio Theatre | 235 Queens Quay W.   
Featuring:
George Elliott Clarke

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Sat. May 30 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Session 1 – Spoken Word & Education
Harbourfront Centre | Studio Theatre | 235 Queens Quay W.   
Panelists/Presenters:
Dasha Kelly | John Akpata | Deonte Osayende | Whitney French | Motion


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Sat. May 30 | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Building Blocks: The Word on Community Engagement
Harbourfront Centre | Loft 1 | 235 Queens Quay W.   
Panelists/Presenters:
Mahlikah Aweri | Jaydamann  | Mtima Solwazi | Ahmed Knowmadic


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Sat. May 30 | 10:30 am –12:00 pm
Session 3 – Career Development: Taking Care of Business
Harbourfront Centre | MBCS | 235 Queens Quay W.   
Panelists/Presenters:
Eddy DaOriginalone  | Amani | Dwayne Morgan | Jamaal St. John
| Quentin Vercetty | Tanya Evanson



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Sat. May 30 | 12:30 pm  – 02:00 pm
Nia Presents: Urban Poets with a Purpose
Harbourfront Centre | MBCS | 235 Queens Quay W.   
Featuring:
David Delisca | Lola Bunz | Quentin Vercetty | Randell Adjei |Teddy Osei |
Whitney French



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Sat. May 30 | 02:30 pm – 04:00 pm
Spoken Word Fusion
Harbourfront Centre | Studio Theatre | 235 Queens Quay W.   
Panelists: 
Kat Francois (theatre) | Winston Farrell (theatre) | Rachael Collymore (music) |
Kym Dominique-Ferguson (film/video)



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Sat. May 30 | 02:30 pm – 04:00 pm
Speak the Change!  Spoken Word & Political Activism
Harbourfront Centre | MBCS | 235 Queens Quay W.   
Panelists/Presenters: 
El Jones | Jessica Care Moore | Scruffmouth | Yasus afari



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Sat. May 30 | 02:30 pm - 04:00 pm
Youth InterAction Co-creation Workshop
Harbourfront Centre | Loft 1| 235 Queens Quay W.   
Facilitators:
David Delisca | Ikenna Onyegbula 

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Sat. May 30 | 04:30 pm – 06:00 pm
Presenters Forum
Harbourfront Centre | Brigantine Room | 235 Queens Quay W.   
Panelists/Presenters: 
Kym Dominique-Ferguson | Tanya Evanson (Montreal) | Ikenna Onyegbula | Sergio Guerra (Ottawa) | Kevan Cameron ( Vancouver ) | Mtima Solwazi | Yasus Afari (Caribbean) | Randell Adjei,| Dwayne Morgan  (Toronto) | Dasha Kelly (US) | Kat Francois | Tuggstar (UK)



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Sat. May 30 | 06:00 pm – 07:00 pm
ACTION! Stage to Screen: Spoken Word in Film & Video
Harbourfront Centre | Studio Theatre | 235 Queens Quay W. 



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Jessica Care Moore
Sat. May 30 | 08:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Spoken World: Features **
Harbourfront Centre | Brigantine Room | 235 Queens Quay W. 
Featuring: 
Jessica Care Moore (USA) | Kat Francois (UK) | Yasus Afari (Jamaica)
| Ian Keteku (Canada) Ikenna Onyegbula (Canada) | Jamaal St. John (USA)


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Sun. May 31 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Griot Impact on Contemporary Diaspora
Harbourfront Centre | Studio Theatre | 235 Queens Quay W.
Panelists/Presenters:
Eddy Garnier | Adrian Green | Osei Alleyne


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Sun. May 31 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Vocal Poetry Pan-Americas
Harbourfront Centre | Miss Lou’s Room | 235 Queens Quay W
Panelists/Presenters:
Andrea Thompson | Itah Sadu |Mahlikah Aweri |
Hyf the GypsySun
| Yasus Afari | Rachel Collymore | Klyde Broox


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Sunday, May 31 | 12:00 pm – 01:30 pm
One Mic Groundations café   
Harbourfront Centre | Brigantine Room | 235 Queens Quay W.


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Sun. May 31 | 02:00 pm – 03:30 pm
Telling Our Story/Closing Keynote
Harbourfront Centre | Studio Theatre | 235 Queens Quay W.
Keynote\ Presenters:

Presentation by the Northern Griots Network, and closing keynote address by Lillian Allen


 Northern Griots Network  (NGN), founded in 2003. an African-Canadian collective of spoken word poets and poetry presenters that connects culturally diverse spoken word artists and activists nationally across Canada and the Diaspora, through tours, workshops, events and international artist exchanges .


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