Shab-e She'r Poetry Night XXXI

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Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) XXXI

The most diverse poetry reading and open mic in Toronto

For more than two years Shab-e She’r has been bridging the gap between diverse poetry communities, bringing together people from different ethnicities, nationalities, ages, disabilities, religions (or lack thereof), poetic styles, voices and visions.

Featured poets: Karen Lee & Norman Allen + Waleed Abdulhamid

Host: Bänoo Zan

Time: Tuesday, July 28th, 2015

Place: Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St., Toronto, ON M6G 2L8

Doors open: 6:15 p.m.

Sign-up for the open mic: 6:30 p.m.

Start: 7 p.m.

Admission: $5

karen lee: A voiceover artist, actor, singer, poet and paper artist,

Karen Lee is most captivated by voice. Sound. Beat.

Art speaks freedom, bondage, fear, truth and the struggle for truth.

Her voice beats raw and bold in its telling.

Karen Lee’s Rewind My Selecta and Naked are published in Black Girl Talk (Sister Vision Press), 1995.

Karen owns Kakkoii, a small business for handmade, Japanese-inspired, blank greeting cards and shikishi paper art from her time in Japan.

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, vocalist, producer and film maker, Waleed Abdulhamid was born in Sudan. He began performing at the age of 6. In Sudan, Waleed was known for bringing traditional rhythms into popular music. When he left Sudan at age 18, he performed, recorded and toured extensively, appearing at major music festivals in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Frankfurt and Oslo as well as in Finland and Iceland. He demonstrates his versatility on guitar, bass, drums, harmonica, kirin, darabhuka, marimba, congas, djembe, dumbek and tama and has been invited to perform in festivals and conduct workshops (merging music and movement) in Spain, France, the UK and Portugal. Waleed is one of the 12 resident artists at Soulpepper Theatre . He has also played and recorded with David Clayton Thomas, the Motown Legend Band “The Drifters”, Doug Riley, Jackie Richardson, Julie Black, Deborah Cox and Zaki Ibrahim. Waleed is the film director of the awards winning documentary “Let’s Find A Way” and has been music director of a series of shows at the Caliban Arts Theatre (Freedom Live), Inner Stage as well as with various dance companies. He has also composed and produced music for several TV shows as well some main stream movies and is the winner of a “Canada New Pioneer Award” in 2011.

Norman Allen does four things:

and hopes to do them well…

first he was a scientist

(searching for the mind);

then he was a writer;

then he was a healer…

then art

and everything at once

Norman has been writing poetry, when the muse has moved him, for yonks. Al Alvarez once said that his work lacked “fuck you!” It is a fault Norman hopes he has corrected. Leonard Cohen said he thought that Norman “had not transcended his bourgeois up-bringing.” Fuck you.

Shab-e She’r acknowledges the generous donation of books by Guernica Editions & Quattro Books to our features.

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Thank you,

Bänoo

@BanooZan

@ShabeSherTO

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