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A IS FOR ORANGE is a group for queer caribbean writers that aims to strengthen and build community
by celebrating under-represented voices, sharing resources, and mentoring emerging writers.
2007 UPDATES |
| FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16 FLEX FRIDAYS
Fundraiser for "Walk Good" with DJ JOLA and special guests DJ ZAHRA (FUNKASIA and former host of CKLN's Masala Mixx) and DISCO DIVA (dancing queen and dj-in-training, Dee Smith) spinning RnB, Reggae, Old School, Latin & African Beats, Basement Bhangra, Hard-Core Soca, Spicy Chutney and Bollywood film classics. MIDNIGHT PERFORMANCES with Sexy Sabrina and Miss Trinity Ross @ GOODHANDY'S 120 Church St. (at Richmond). FLEX FRIDAYS is a 3-part series of fundraisers with all proceeds supporting "Walk Good" - A Storytelling Project building bridges between LGBTTQ and non-LBGTTQ Caribbean communities. "Walk Good" is a Jamaican saying meaning safe journey. FLEX FRIDAYS
Fundraiser for "Walk Good" with DJ JOLA and special guests DJ ETIENNE & dj-in-training K-MELLO spinning RnB, Reggae, Soca, Latin, Bhangra & Zouk. Midnight drag show by Miss Trinity Ross & dance performance by Mecca @ GOODHANDY'S 120 Church St. (at Richmond). FLEX FRIDAYS is a 3-part series of fundraisers with all proceeds supporting "Walk Good" - A Storytelling Project building bridges between LGBTTQ and non-LBGTTQ Caribbean communities. "Walk Good" is a Jamaican saying meaning safe journey. October 2007 - WOMEN WRITING LIFE
Autobiographical Writing Course for Women with Instructor Dianah Smith Tuesday evenings at This Ain't The Rosedale Library FLEX FRIDAYS
Fundraiser for "Walk Good" with DJ JOLA & special guests @ GOODHANDY'S 120 Church St. (at Richmond). FLEX FRIDAYS is a 3-part series of fundraisers with all proceeds supporting "Walk Good" - A Storytelling Project building bridges between LGBTTQ and non-LBGTTQ Caribbean communities. "Walk Good" is a Jamaican saying meaning safe journey. August 2007 - The Truth Will Set You Free
Autobiographical Writing Course for Aboriginal Women, Two-Spirited Folks, Women of Colour and Trans Folks of Colour with instructor Dianah Smith TUESDAY evenings in August (7, 14, 21, and 28) from 6:30pm to 9:00 pm Toronto Women's Bookstore www.womensbookstore.com June 14, 2007 Visions of Loving
'A' is for Orange celebrates Pride 2007 with some of Toronto’s most provocative Queer and Trans emerging writers of Caribbean descent bringing you revolutionary spoken word, sensuous and dub poetry and other rebel love stories.
MAY 25, 2007 When the Rainbow Isn’t Enough A six-month reading series and open mic featuring Queer and Trans Writers of Colour and Two–Spirited Emerging Writers. Curated by Dianah Smith, founder of 'A' is for Orange. Held the last Friday of the month at the Toronto Women's Bookstore, 7:00 - 9:00 pm. No admission, donations welcome. Partially wheelchair accessible space. Reading Series themes:
MAY 18, 2007 FLEX! Pre-Pride Warm-up Party!
Thank you to Todd and Mandy of Goodhandy's, 'A' is for Orange volunteers and performers! Excerpt from GOODHANDY'S website: "Tonight’s amazing party was called FLEX and it was a fundraiser for A is for Orange to support their June 14th Pride Celebration featuring Queer Caribbean Emerging Writers.The focus of the night was on the dancing, but there was also an amazing stage show at midnight featuring performances by Osama bin Thuggin and Leyla Al-Afghani, and incredible spoken word performances by D-lishus (who was also the hostess of the show). We love this group – they know how to dance and party and have a great time! We always like it when promoters bring new and diverse groups of people into Goodhandy’s to have a good time." MAY 3, 2007 WORKING CLASS STORIES at the Mayworks Festival
Whose stories are deemed legitimate? What narratives become part of the mainstream dialogue? Who gets left behind? Working Class Stories is an evening of passionate, inspiring and empowering storytelling, spoken word, poetry and performance by emerging and established queer, working class, artists of colour. Curated by Dianah Smith for the Mayworks Festival. Writers: Dianah Smith (founder of 'A' is for Orange) will be sharing stories about family separation, immigration and the complicating factors of racism, isolation and the struggle for self-love. janet romero-leiva's writings explore immigrant displacement/denied aboriginality/loving in dos lenguas. arti mehta began writing in the summer of 2006 and writes about growing up brown and poor in Scarborough. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about being the full scholarship daughter of a two-job working, white, mill town mom and a middle class Sri Lankan dad who lost some of his privilege in the diaspora, but not the crispness of his accent. Hosted by Leleti Tamu. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street. Presented by the MAYWORKS FESTIVAL for Working People and the Arts and co-sponsored by the Toronto Women's Bookstore and the Toronto Rape Crisis Center/Multicultural Women Against Rape FEBRUARY 17, 2007 GENERATIONS OF RESISTANCE
GENERATIONS OF RESISTANCE is a Black History Month Celebration featuring Queer Caribbean Emerging Writers and Friends of African and Caribbean descent. Hosted by OmiSoore Dryden, the evening will debut poetry and prose by Tiffany-Lethabo King, new work by dub poet, D-lishus and Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes, a Jamaican-Canadian, former nun will read from her published poetry collections. D! Smith will read semi-autobiographical short stories, Lorelei KING and Kim Quashie will read prose that explores themes of love and resistance, and community activist Mecca joins the group for the first time to perform spoken word. GLAD Voices, an African acappella singing group born of Toronto's community organization, GLAD - Gays Lesbians of African Descent - will perform songs originating from Africa, spanning various themes including liberation, hope, spirituality, and social justice. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue. Sponsored by Assaulted Women's Helpline, Canada Research Chair in Social Justice and Cultural Studies (OISE/UofT), Centre for Women and Trans People - York University, Sherbourne Health Centre, Toronto Women's Bookstore, Women's Health In Women's Hands. 'A' is for Orange in NOW MAGAZINE Best of Toronto article by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, a queer Sri Lankan writer (Consensual Genocide) and spoken word artist who organizes the Browngirlworld queer people of colour spoken word series. Many thanks Leah!
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