Impossible Arts

Sound Poets’ Circle is a new, free hip-hop and spoken word workshop series for youth ages 16-29!

Sound Poets’ Circle runs on Monday evenings starting March 11, 2013 at the Academy of the Impossible. This is a three-month workshop on creating and recording sound and music, writing hip hop lyrics and spoken-word poetry. This three-month "use what you got to get what you want" program for young sound poets (16-29 years) will inspire group participation, creativity and resistance through art.

Participants will work with established and emerging facilitators and artists: rosina kazi (lal), Mindbender Supreme, The Grimace, and producer Nicholas Murray (lal/da grassroots). We will work individually and collectively in groups, edit and record work, polish our live performances, perform on stage, and create finished MP3s of our work.

We encourage everyone between the ages of 16 and 29 to apply. This program is geared towards anyone interested in words and sounds! Please note that we will place emphasis on marginalized, diverse voices and experiences.

Space is limited. To join, please register by sending an email to soundpoetscircle@impossiblearts.ca or calling 416-779-1448.

Sound Poets’ Circle is a new, free hip-hop and spoken word workshop series for youth ages 16-29!

Sound Poets’ Circle runs on Monday evenings starting March 11, 2013 at the Academy of the Impossible. This is a three-month workshop on creating and recording sound and music, writing hip hop lyrics and spoken-word poetry. This three-month "use what you got to get what you want" program for young sound poets (16-29 years) will inspire group participation, creativity and resistance through art.

Participants will work with established and emerging facilitators and artists: rosina kazi (lal), Mindbender Supreme, The Grimace, and producer Nicholas Murray (lal/da grassroots). We will work individually and collectively in groups, edit and record work, polish our live performances, perform on stage, and create finished MP3s of our work.

We encourage everyone between the ages of 16 and 29 to apply. This program is geared towards anyone interested in words and sounds! Please note that we will place emphasis on marginalized, diverse voices and experiences.

Space is limited. To join, please register by sending an email to soundpoetscircle@impossiblearts.ca or calling 416-779-1448.

A free hip-hop and spoken word workshop series for youth ages 16-29 on creating and recording sound and music, writing hip hop lyrics and spoken-word poetry.
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Sound Poets’ Circle is a new, free hip-hop and spoken word workshop series for youth ages 16-29!

Sound Poets’ Circle runs on Monday evenings starting March 11, 2013 at the Academy of the Impossible. This is a three-month workshop on creating and recording sound and music, writing hip hop lyrics and spoken-word poetry. This three-month "use what you got to get what you want" program for young sound poets (16-29 years) will inspire group participation, creativity and resistance through art.

Participants will work with established and emerging facilitators and artists: rosina kazi (lal), Mindbender Supreme, The Grimace, and producer Nicholas Murray (lal/da grassroots). We will work individually and collectively in groups, edit and record work, polish our live performances, perform on stage, and create finished MP3s of our work.

We encourage everyone between the ages of 16 and 29 to apply. This program is geared towards anyone interested in words and sounds! Please note that we will place emphasis on marginalized, diverse voices and experiences.

Space is limited. To join, please register by sending an email to soundpoetscircle@impossiblearts.ca or calling 416-779-1448.

Sound Poets’ Circle is a new, free hip-hop and spoken word workshop series for youth ages 16-29!

Sound Poets’ Circle runs on Monday evenings starting March 11, 2013 at the Academy of the Impossible. This is a three-month workshop on creating and recording sound and music, writing hip hop lyrics and spoken-word poetry. This three-month "use what you got to get what you want" program for young sound poets (16-29 years) will inspire group participation, creativity and resistance through art.

Participants will work with established and emerging facilitators and artists: rosina kazi (lal), Mindbender Supreme, The Grimace, and producer Nicholas Murray (lal/da grassroots). We will work individually and collectively in groups, edit and record work, polish our live performances, perform on stage, and create finished MP3s of our work.

We encourage everyone between the ages of 16 and 29 to apply. This program is geared towards anyone interested in words and sounds! Please note that we will place emphasis on marginalized, diverse voices and experiences.

Space is limited. To join, please register by sending an email to soundpoetscircle@impossiblearts.ca or calling 416-779-1448.

Sound Poets’ Circle is a new, free hip-hop and spoken word workshop series for youth ages 16-29!

Sound Poets’ Circle runs on Monday evenings starting March 11, 2013 at the Academy of the Impossible. This is a three-month workshop on creating and recording sound and music, writing hip hop lyrics and spoken-word poetry. This three-month "use what you got to get what you want" program for young sound poets (16-29 years) will inspire group participation, creativity and resistance through art.

Participants will work with established and emerging facilitators and artists: rosina kazi (lal), Mindbender Supreme, The Grimace, and producer Nicholas Murray (lal/da grassroots). We will work individually and collectively in groups, edit and record work, polish our live performances, perform on stage, and create finished MP3s of our work.

We encourage everyone between the ages of 16 and 29 to apply. This program is geared towards anyone interested in words and sounds! Please note that we will place emphasis on marginalized, diverse voices and experiences.

Space is limited. To join, please register by sending an email to soundpoetscircle@impossiblearts.ca or calling 416-779-1448.

Impossible Words is a new and innovative reading series, featuring a wide range of Canadian authors representing the cultural, racial, religious, sexual, and intellectual diversity of our city, our province, and our country.

This week we are very pleased to host First Nations House writer-in-residence Cherie Dimaline and gifted poet Moez Surani!

Impossible Words is a new and innovative reading series, featuring a wide range of Canadian authors representing the cultural, racial, religious, sexual, and intellectual diversity of our city, our province, and our country.

This week we are very pleased to host celebrated science fiction author and editor Nalo Hopkinson!

ABOUT THE FEATURED GUEST:

Nalo Hopkinson is the author of six novels and a short story collection. She is also the editor and co-editor of four fiction anthologies. She is the recipient of numerours awards including the Warner Aspect First Novel Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Nalo was born in Jamaica, has lived in Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana and for the past 30+ years in Canada. She currently teaches at the University of California, Riverside and spends part of the year in Toronto.

The featured author will be preceded by short readings by young writers Edil Ayan and Chanelle Hanlan-Hudson, members of the Toronto Street Writers, a celebrated local writing group for youth. After the featured reading, the two youth will interview the guest author about their experiences and their work. Audience members are also invited to ask questions.

The event will end with an open mic (interested readers will have to sign up at the beginning of the event). Light snacks will also be served, giving time for audience members to mingle.

We welcome and encourage everyone to come and participate, especially those who do not usually go to literary events!

Impossible Words is a new and innovative reading series, featuring a wide range of Canadian authors representing the cultural, racial, religious, sexual, and intellectual diversity of our city, our province, and our country.

This week we are very pleased to host two authors: novelists and educators Kristyn Dunnion and Anand Mahadevan!

The featured authors will be preceded by short readings by two members of the Toronto Street Writers, a celebrated local writing group for youth. After the featured readings, the two youth will interview the guest authors about their experiences and their work. Audience members are also invited to ask questions.

The event will end with an open mic (interested readers will have to sign up at the beginning of the event). Light snacks will also be served, giving time for audience members to mingle.

We welcome and encourage everyone to come and participate, especially those who do not usually go to literary events!

Non-Stop Impossible Hip-Hop gathers at The Academy of the Impossible to discuss, create, and reflect upon the music, videos, articles, and current cultural developments of hip hop culture in the Canadian, American and international contexts.

NSIHH is an invitation to get creatively involved in a community of like-minded hip-hop heads, and to share our speech, rhymes and life with one another to help Toronto continue being the world class hip-hop mecca that it is!

We look forward to you sharing your hip-hop thoughts, rhymes, music and energy with everyone else, cause it don't stop!

This week's topics: Jail, justice, immigration; police, crime, and the government's effect on hip-hop culture