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SUMMARY:Lyrics for Liberation
DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin us for an evening of radical poetry and performance fe
 aturing the Queer and Trans Research Lab - Artists-In-Residence Brian Rigg
  and Jody Chan with invited guests.\nThis showcase honors the achievements
  of these brilliant writers. It is also an occasion celebrate the work of 
 future poets and creative thinkers that participated in intensive workshop
 s to nurture their craft and its importance in these uncertain times.\n\nT
 his event is a FREE and public event. *No rsvp required\n\nPresenters at t
 his event are participants of the “Black Fruit Poetry Workshop”\, cura
 ted by Brian Rigg as founder of Black Fruit Press https://blackfruitpress.
 org/ And “A Poem Is Not a Revolution” Collaborative Reading &amp\; Wri
 ting Workshops”\, curated by Jody Chan.\n\nDate: Friday May 31\, 2024\nT
 ime: 5-7pm\, Doors open at 4:45pm\nLocation: Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick A
 ve\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2M7)\n\nThis event is funded by the Queer and Trans 
 Research Lab at the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies\, Universit
 y of Toronto\n\nArtist Bios\nBrian Rigg is a Jamaican/Canadian writer and 
 poet based in Toronto. His poems have been published in magazines from the
  U.K.\, Canada\, and the U.S. They have also been\nanthologized in Ma’ka
 \, Diasporic Juks: Contemporary Writing by Queers of African Descent (Sist
 er Vision Press) and Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets (
 Arsenal Pulp Press). A False Paradise\, his first collection of poetry\, w
 as published by ECW Press in 2001. His collection of poems titled Soft Ani
 mals won the 2021 Steel Toe Books chapbook competition. He is a proud LAMB
 DA Fellow from the 2016 cohort. During his residency\, Rigg is completing 
 a collection of poems currently titled Warrior in the Garden. Drawing insp
 iration from Afro-Surrealism and the Black Fantastic\, the new poems will 
 explore how absurdism and speculative fictions inform Black queer life and
  create spaces for disruption\, resistance\, and transgressive play.\n\nJo
 dy Chan is a poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, community organizer\, and c
 are worker. They are the author of Haunt (Damaged Goods Press)\, All Our F
 utures (PANK)\, and Sick (Black Lawrence Press). They are the winner of th
 e 2018 St. Lawrence Book Award and the 2021 Trillium Award for Poetry. The
 y are also a performing member with RAW Taiko Drummers. During their resid
 ency\, Chan will work on a hybrid manuscript of poetry and essays explorin
 g crip queer narratives and rituals around birth\, death\, and suicidality
  in relation to climate crisis\, the ongoing pandemic\, and the many past 
 and future apocalypses in our and our ancestors’ lifetimes. In collabora
 tion with other artists and movement workers\, and via the multi-sensory\,
  multi-access practice and ethics of disability poetics. Their second book
  impact statement\, is recently published in Spring 2024 with Brick Books.
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