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BLACKSPACE X ON SPOTIFY
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@MOTIONLIVE ON IG
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AKILLA’S ESCAPE
In a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery. Over one gruelling night, Akilla confronts a cycle of generational violence he thought he escaped.
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LIMITED EDITION ORALTORIO TEES at BEDDOART.COM!
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Griots to Emcees: Examining Culture, Performance & Spoken Word at York University (Toronto), taught by MOTION. Explores the form, function and content of Spoken Word, in terms of language, rhythm, historical developments, social- political contexts, as well as key artists of poetry, rap, dub, slam, lyricism and spoken word as live and direct purveyors of culture.
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WATCH! CORONER~CBC TV!
From the stage to the screen! Tune In to MOTION's TV WRITING DEBUT on the brand new dramatic series CORONER. Binge watch Season 1 and 2 on CBC GEM.
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HEADSPACE ROTATES ~ TUNE IN! ON MIXCLOUD
HEADSPACE ROTATES RADIO is an eclectic combo of progressive sounds - Hip Hop to neo-soul, beat driven, electronic, funk jazz, and yet-to-be categorized experimental astral soundscapes - reflecting the new, next and now of global urban sounds. Paying homage to the classics and the contemporary, HSR tunes into Independent music scenes, the movers and shakers, groundbreakers and the rare hidden gems that must be played. Hosted by MOTION | Music by L'OQENZ| Mixed & Engineered ZOé SOUNDMIND
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LISTEN!! HEADSPACE RADIO TRIBUTE TO SON OF SOUL
Category Archives: Events
BLACK LIVES BLACK WORDS HITS TORONTO
So EXCITED to join the artists, playwrights, actor, directors of the worldwide Theatre Movement! Chicago to UK to Toronto, and beyond… Black Lives, Black Words THE 38TH RHUBARB FESTIVAL 12 ALEXANDER STREET … Continue reading
LADIES FIRST: BEFORE THE 6IX – #BHM2017 SERIES
LADIES FIRST: BEFORE THE 6ix features influential women in the evolution of Canadian Hip Hop culture – G98.7 radio personality/poet Jemeni, playwright/emcee Motion, filmmaker Alison Duke and DJ/ producer L’Oqenz. The panel discussion visits … Continue reading
The Music Gallery presents… Motion X Avant XI
https://www.musicgallery.org/music-gallery-history-series-motion/ Sunday, October 16 Event: 6pm OCADU, Lambert Lounge 100 McCaul St. Free Over the past twenty five years, Motion has been one of Toronto’s true treasures of spoken word art. Her aural/sonic works span the realms of word, sound and drama. Starting her … Continue reading
MOTION TEACHES NEW SPOKEN WORD COURSE AT YORK UNIVERSITY THIS FALL
Poet, playwright & spoken word artist MOTION joins the Faculty of the Culture and Expression Program at York University and launches her debut course. GRIOTS TO EMCEES: Culture, Performance and Spoken Word, explores the form, function and content of Spoken Word, … Continue reading
NORTHERN GRIOTS NETWORK HEADS TO GHANA!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VOCAL Canadian Spoken Word Poets Visit Ghana for Arts Festivals in August 2016 The Northern Griots Network (NGN) and Inkfluent are proud to announce the visit by the VOCAL team of Canadian spoken word poets to Accra, … Continue reading
#ORALTORIO: a Theatrical MiXtape PREMIERS AT RISER 2016!!
DJ L’Oqenz & Motion write, mix & feature in #ORALTORIO photo: Zahra Siddiqui Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape April 29 to May 12 2016 at Theatre Centre #ORALTORIO: a Theatrical Mixtape is a coming of age story that … Continue reading
MOTION TEACHES NEW COURSE AT YORK UNIVERSITY – FALL 2016
York University presents Culture & Expression Research Seminar 2016: The Culture & Expression program invites you to join its Research Seminar- Griots to Emcees: Examining Culture, Performance and Spoken Word – with poet and playwright MOTION. MOTON – Toronto poet, playwright & … Continue reading
SNEAK PREVIEW! ORALTORIO A THEATRICAL MIXTAPE @ RHUBARB FEST 2016
FEBRUARY 20th 2016 – Special Sneak Preview of ORALTORIO: a THEATRICAL MIXTAPE feat. MOTION & DJ L’OQENZ! Directed by MUMBI TINDYEBWA, experience this aural/visual mash up of word, sound & drama at Toronto’s hotbed of experimentation, Canada’s longest-running new works festival … Continue reading
WATAH THEATRE SCHOOL INAUGURAL SAGE-IN-RESIDENCE
Sage Secrets is Watah Theatre’s Monthly Lecture Series honoring our sages amongst us; stalwarts of the community who have and continue to lay an impeccable foundation and example for us to emulate. Distinguished guest artists impart their knowledges through a … Continue reading
