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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The second, vibrant event in our Literartistry series is a reading by M. NourbeSe Philip. The opening act will be Rupinder
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please join us tomorrow, </span><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thursday 24
October at 4:30pm in STJ 3027.</b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">M. NourbeSe Philip</b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> is
an unembedded poet, essayist, novelist, playwright and former lawyer who lives in the space-time of the City of Toronto. She is a Guggenheim Fellow (USA) and the recipient of many awards including the Casa de las Americas prize (Cuba). Among her best known
published works are </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Looking
for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Harriet’s
Daughter</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a young adult novel. Philip’s most recent work, </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Zong!</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
is a genre-breaking poem, which engages with the law, history and memory as they relate to the transatlantic slave trade. Her play, </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Coups
and Calypsos</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which was produced in London and Toronto, was a Dora Award finalist in 1999.</span>
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<b>For more information about the Reading Series, please visit </b><a href="http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca</a>
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<div><i style="font-size: 12.666666984558105px;">We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.<br>
</i><i style="font-size: 12.666666984558105px;">Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.</i></div>
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