anitAFRIKA e-newsletter
edition 12_2008

dear village

ase and welcome to our anitAFRIKA! dub theatre newsletter for december 2008.

ase elegua. ase ancestors. ase orishas. ase spirit guides. ase villagers. this is our continuation. our ending. our new beginning.

some great news to share this month in the first week of december: phoenix- thomas anitafrika arrived in the world monday november 24, a big beautiful baby boy 9pounds 4ounces! ase to the universe and the beautiful birthing team, who held our hands and guided us through the rebirth.

blessings and best wishes to everyone celebrating the holidays this month. we will be celebrating our first semester in the space with a new works festival tuesday december 16 to saturday december 20, details below. our second series of classes have begun and we are finalizing our winter calendar, this is your opportunity to give us a call at 416.434.1823 or send us an email at village@anitafrika.com to discuss your interests and ideas for january 2009 programming!

this month the holidays and new interest in the space will affect some of our regularly scheduled programming: please note that the t.a.b.c. prison letter writing series sun dec 21 6pm is cancelled, as well as kim and nat's weekly pwyc meditative yoga class wed dec 10 5pm (but do come to the wrap up class on wed dec 17 at 4:45pm) and finally we will resume our film nite series in the new year if the village so wishes, this month's evenind fri dec 12 is postponed until then (please send your suggested films!)

in love and for revolushunary change
d'bi.young
artistic director and founder

big news!

-mikey smith new works festival

december 16-20

named in honour of the brilliant and political jamaican dubpoet, this festival features works-in-progress by artists-in-residence at anitAFRIKA! dub theatre. each year adt! mentors 3-5 youth and emerging storytellers, and provide them with rigorous training aimed at developing their artistic and political selves in unison.

the festival will feature raw works by resident artists with talk-balks followed by featured performances by local storytellers including ian kamau, sedina fiata and ania.

please join us at the theatre tuesday december 16 to friday december 19th with a closing ceremony of drummers, dancers and djs saturday december 20th *doors 7pm everyday*

press release click here (*.pdf)

upcoming events hosted at adt!

-tuesday nite dub session

in the tradition of the channel 1 dancehall sessions, adt! presents the tuesday dub session every first and third tuesday of the month. dec 2 & 16 8pm

* open mic all nite *

pwyc

october dubbin nite photogallery click here

-reading sun dec 14 4pm

"red snow", a play by diana tso, inspired by the 1937 nanking holocaust, a contemporary story of a holocaust survivor which weaves chinese opera in its storytelling.

three generations of a chinese family in canada. a chinese opera's love story transforms memories of youth, and innocence into the volcanic eruption of a family's and nation's pandora box of terror, shame and pain. this play gives voice to a forgotten holocaust and hopes to inspire active remembrance of all history's and herstory's genocides and respect for human rights.

adt! collaborations.upcoming events and workshops

-buy nothing life! workshops on sustainable and practical lifeways.

when: sunday december 7th, 4 - 8 pm.
where: anitafrika! dub theatre, 62 fraser avenue, liberty village, toronto.
what: an afternoon of workshops, discussions and activities focusing on alternative and anti-consumerist lifeways. topics range from vegan cooking to doll-making, stenciling to media literacy.

come with an open mind and an appetite for fun.

this event is free but donations of food or workshop materials will be gladly accepted. check out facebook group lets barter for more details. by the people who brought you the buy nothing day barter market.

-4 weeks dubpoetry/spokenword workshop at sketch facilitated by d'bi.young.

-are you a south asian, african, caribbean, aboriginal, east asian, middle eastern, south american youth of colour who happens to be queer or trans or both?

through storytelling, dub poetry/dub theatre, performance and revolution we will explore identity, while examining what is mean to be... to have... these identities and what we can do to create positive change within ourselves and the world. starting tuesday nov 4 6pm at the griffin center, 24 silverview drive, north york. facilitated by d'bi.young in collaboration with reachOUT.

griffin-centre.org
contact jordyn samuels at jsamuels@griffin-centre.org or call 416.222.1153 ext 421

event poster click here

-chezuva african healers gathering presented by moyo wa africa

when: sun dec 14, 12 sharp-3pm
where: anitAFRIKA! dub theatre 62 fraser avenue toronto ontario m6k
search 'moyo wa africa' on facebook

a gathering for people of african descent, chezuva is an opportunity to reconnect to our culture, to our ancestors and to each other.

we welcome you into our healing circle with special guest presenter jahmez, who will share the healing power of congolese and south african dance! each session offers an opportunity for participants to share their own 'tools' for accessing spirit. this may involve sharing of ritual items or practices, songs, poems, art, dances, stories and/or experiences. *soul food provided free*

community announcements

-first hand woman discount tickets!

special offer: 10% discount on tix until dec 23!

until december 23, the next stage theatre festival is offering a 10% discount on all individual ticket orders made by phone (passes and double bills excluded) if you quote the code "the future is now" to their box office representative. this offer only applies to the $12 and $15 tickets and will apply to the entire order once the code is quoted. make sure you get your first hand woman tickets today! to order via this offer call: 416.966.1062

synopsis: first hand woman is an award-winning new stage play set within a woman's heart and mind. this is a powerful journey through heartache and healing, as told by the boisterous and unapologetic stages of grief. join denial, bargaining, anger, depression and acceptance as they unravel the secrets and truths of a love story gone bad. for more info visit sarahmichellebrown.com

-children's book author seeks illustrator

are you a visual artist? do you have a child's imagination? do the characters of a shy monster under the bed and friendly dog give you plenty of ideas? contact rachael at raibrownell@gmail.com

-toronto study on black women and depression

if you are a black women living in toronto who have self diagnosis as experiencing depression presently or in the past, between the ages of 18 and 65 and would like to share your experiences with depression, and your thoughts on resilience to create a culturally appropriate counselling model to assist counsellors in helping black women cope with depression please contact me at 416-317-8573 or email me at deonec@yahoo.com. i would be happy arrange a suitable time and space for us to meet to discuss the research, and answer any questions you may have

-men's group in the space january '09

brothers with problems destined to solve 'em (bpdse) is a group for men by men - a space where we can share, speak, laugh, cry, vent, grow and develop ourselves as men, strictly with the aim of being stronger and more complete beings who truly know what it means to live in peace. bpdse's first gathering will be sunday, january 25th, 2009 at anitafrika! dub theatre. if you have any questions and are seeking more information, please contact el machetero at 416-731-8041 or at huachaquero@hotmail.com

-support local artist kg

kg is an emerging r&b/soul artist based in toronto. she's been escribed as 'the voice of lauryn hill meets the soul of alicia keys.' hip-hop soul meets powerful r&b. this former south african idol sings songs of love, addiction and paradise. musicbykg.com. this december will see her official cd release party: dec 16, 2008 at the trane studio 964 bathurst 8:30 pm. search 'kg' on facebook.

-oppreshun awareness workshops

adt! welcomes tomee sojourner into the space for winter 2009 programming to facilitate oppreshun awareness workshops for community-based workers from all sectors; we'd like your input on courses structure: is a 4 part series preferable to one-off sessions? what kind of community work do you do? how can we best devise sessions that help process our lived experience as it relates to witnessing, perpetuating and experiencing oppreshun? what range of fees is accessible for you? please send us an email at village@anitafrika.com or give us a call at 416.434.1823 and visit tomee sojourner or contact powersojourn1@yahoo.ca for more information.

© 2008 anitAFRIKA! dub theatre.

anitAFRIKA! dub theatre is a radical arts centre founded on 7 principles of dubpoetry & dubtheatre: the use of rhythm, language, political protext, orality, urgency, integrity, and sacredness as mediums of social change through storytelling.

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