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Blacklit Durham

Appropriate for adults and seniors (18+).
Hosted at the Ajax Centre for the Arts.
Advanced registration required.

Celebrate Black Canadian literary voices of all genres at an afternoon of amazing performances and Q&A with the artists. Sign-ups for open mic poetry sessions start at 2 p.m. Visit blacklitdurham.com for more information.

Featured Artists on December 6:

Pamela Mordecai writes poetry, fiction, and plays. Her poetry collections include "Journey Poem, de Man: a performance poem", "Certifiable", "The True Blue of Islands", "Subversive Sonnets, de book of Mary: a performance poem", "Up Tropic", and "A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems." Her first short story collection, "Pink Icing and Other Stories", was published in 2006, and her debut novel, "Red Jacket" (2015), was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her writing for children is widely known internationally. She lives in Toronto.

Cecil Foster is a leading author, academic, journalist, and public intellectual. His work speaks about the challenges that Black people have encountered historically in Canada in their efforts to achieve respect and recognition for their contribution to what is now a multicultural Canada. He highlights their fight for social justice and human dignity. In particular, Foster addresses the issues of immigration in his critical discussions on who is a Canadian in the ever-evolving social narrative toward a genuine multicultural Canada. He is a Professor at the University at Buffalo for the State University of New York. He splits his residence between Pickering, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.