SPEAKout is a non-profit organization that aims to Inspire, Entertain, and Educate. In our mission to fulfill such a purpose, we are holding our first Spoken Word Flash Mob in the heart of Toronto! A flash mob is is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, and artistic expression. Read More | Comments
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December22nd
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December19th
No CommentsThe Burlington Slam Project
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Not more than a 20 minute drive from downtown Hamilton, there is a monthly poetry slam happening in Burlington, Ontario. Actively promoting outspoken poetics for more than 3 years running, the Burlington Slam Project takes place every third Thursday of each month. The Burlington Slam Project is a poetry slam series that guarantees a cash prize for the winner and a special feature artist each month for the audience. Always seeking new voices to expand its community, every year this project sends a team to National and International events. Through providing its performers with spoken word arts platform, the Burlington Slam Project is building a network of diverse and talented local artists.
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November19th
No CommentsThis past week, Libya celebrated a new kind of liberation—freedom from literary censorship.
Throughout the ages, books have been contested, feared, censored, read in secret, looked to for enlightenment, praised for beauty, reviled as testament, discarded as trash, and banned by dictators who fear their power. This recent liberation just goes to show how much the phenomenon of literary censorship (dating back to the very first days of publishing) still resonates with various cultures of our generation. Read More | Comments
