Lillian Allen is an awardwinning, Toronto-based writer. After meeting Oku Onuora in Cuba in 1978, she began working in dub poetry.[2] She released her first recording, Dub Poet: The Poetry of Lillian Allen, in 1983. Allen won the Juno Award for Best Reggae/Calypso Album for Revolutionary Tea Party in 1986 and Conditions Critical in 1988. Both albums were produced by Billy Bryans, the percussionist for Canadian dance-pop band Parachute Club. In 2006 Allen and her work were the subject of an episode of the television series Heart of a Poet produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge. She is a sessional lecturer at the Ontario College of Art and Design, where she teaches creative writing. She recently held the distinction of being the first Canada Council Writer-in-Residence for Queen's University's Department of English. Allen also co-produced and co-directed Blak Wi Blakk, a documentary about the Jamaican dub poet Mutabaruka.
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Black Coffee Poet presents Jamaican Dub Poet Lillian Allen (by BlackCoffeePoet)
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Adeena Karasick at OCAD University, Toronto Thursday, October 24th, 2013 at 3.15 pm OCAD University The Annex Building at The Grange 113 McCaul Street 5th Floor Room 1516 Creative Writing at OCAD University Adeena Karasick is a poet, media-artist and the award-winning author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory including Amuse Bouche: Tasty Treats for the Mouth (Talonbooks 2009), The House That Hijack Built (Talonbooks, 2004). The Arugula Fugues (Zasterle Press, 2001), Dyssemia Sleaze (Talonbooks, Spring 2000), Genrecide (Talonbooks, 1996), Mêmewars (Talonbooks, 1994), and The Empress Has No Closure (Talonbooks, 1992). Karasick has lectured and performed worldwide and regularly publishes articles, reviews and dialogues on contemporary poetry, poetics and cultural/semiotic theory. She is Professor of Global Literature at St. John's University in New York.
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Harvard, are you ready!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lillian Allen at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Monday Oct. 28th, 2013, at the Barker Center - Thompson Reading Room. 4 to 6 pm. (located between Quincy and Prescott Streets) - Canada Harvard Seminar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Dept. of English and American Literature and Language.
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Lillian Allen in The Grid
Dub poet and spoken word artist Lillian Allen has been featured in the latest issue of The Grid.
A founding member of the legendary De Dub Poets, Allen has been a key artist in the growth of Toronto's vibrant and diverse progressive Indie Music community.
The Grid article is a concise and informative article about the history of Toronto's contemporary Indie music and culture scene.
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Yesterday I chatted it up with poet Rich Ferguson on Blog Talk Radio about languages, the PBS documentary, and poems!
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Lillian Allen at Sheroes #10: Grace Jones. Event GIFs by Lorna Mills. Click here to see all 14(!) of ‘em via her G+.
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SHEROES #10: Lillian Allen & House of Monroe I shot and edited this video Juno Award-winning dub poet Lillian Allen (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Allen) performing her version of Grace Jones’s “Warm Leatherette”, with support from El Costello (twitter.com/#!/elcostello) & DJ NoLoVes (salvaged-productions.com/).
Filmed Thursday, May 24, 2012 at The Beaver in Toronto for Sheroes #10, a warm leatherette remix tribute to the Gendah Bendah (fuckyeahsheroes.tumblr.com/post/23041409709/sheroes-10-grace-jones-press-release).
Also featured in the video is live footage of a dance performance by the premier voguing house of Canada House of Monroe (facebook.com/pages/House-of-Monroe/18774751348) and projected digital animations from Les post-Gendered et les autres (fuckyeahsheroes.tumblr.com/tagged/les-post-gendered-et-les-autres) Group GIF Show curated by Lorna Mills (digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/LornaMillsImageDump/).
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UK/European Tour 2012
Dub poet Lillian Allen has just begun her sabbatical from teaching at OAC in Canada, and is preparing to visit the UK and Europe in the autumn 2012.
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