Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) XLVII

Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) XLVII

The most diverse poetry reading and open mic in Toronto
At Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) we don’t just wait for diversity to happen: we actively invite it.
Please spread the word through social media and any other way you know. Let our event become as diverse as we are.

Featured poets: Faduma Mohamed & Daniel Scott Tysdal
Host: Bänoo Zan

Time: Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Place: St. Stephen-In-The-Fields Church, 103 Bellevue Ave, Toronto, ON, M5T 2N8

Doors open 6:15 p.m.
Open-mic sign-up 6:30 p.m.
Show 7 p.m.

Admission: $5

Faduma Mohamed is a spoken word poet and storyteller who started writing at the age of eight and performing at the age of thirteen. In 2013, she interned as an editorial writer with Urbanology Magazine and in 2016, she graduated from a two year residency at Watah Theatre. She currently studies English at the University of Toronto and is the artist manager at RISE Edutainment. This fall, she completed her year long autism awareness challenge of carrying a box, every single day to change the stigma around autism. Through the #OughtTheBox campaign, she has raised over $3000 for families of autism. Above all, she believes in the power of dreams.

Daniel Scott Tysdal is the ReLit Award winning author of three books of poetry, most recently Fauxccasional Poems (icehouse 2015) and the poetry textbook The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems (Oxford University Press 2014). Online, he runs the Fauxccasional Poems Video Project (bit.ly/fauxpoemvid) and he delivered the TEDx talk, “Everything You Need to Write a Poem (and How It Can Save a Life).” Tysdal’s work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best Canadian Poetry and Best Canadian Essays, and has earned him awards including honourable mention at the National Magazine Awards and the Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence. He is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, at the University of Toronto Scarborough. In 2012, the UTSC student newspaper, The Underground, named him one of their four “Professors of the Year.” You can read more about his work at www.dstiz.com.

Both Shab-e She’r and St-Stephen-in-the Fields strongly support freedom of expression and encourage our features and open-mic’ers to use any language they wish.
This event is partially sponsored by St-Stephen-in-the Fields Church.
St-Stephen-in-the Fields accessibility information:
The venue has a wheelchair ramp entrance and is all on one level; however, the wheelchair ramp door does not yet have a pushbutton, so someone needs to hold the door open. There is one fully barrier-free washroom.
All washrooms are gender-neutral.
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