A message I got from Faye Estrella AKA Festrell:
Books to Prisoners (Ottawa) and Exile Infoshop are putting together a
show for Akili Castlin, where local performers read his slam poetry
from his book "Who Am Eye: a spokenword memoir".
The Deets:
Saturday January 30th
7pm and onwards
@ UMI CAFE (Somerset & Percy)
I was asked to help find performers who wish to participate. I'm going
to be there. How about you?
Here's more details on the memoir and Akili Castlin himself.
'WHO AM EYE is a spokenword memoir, presented in three parts, that
explores the realities of life as a multiethnic black man.
The poems combine sharp political criticism with an honest examination
of the author’s particular experiences as he tries to “navigate the
vertiginous space between being poor, black and living from paycheck
to paycheck and middle-class, white and privileged: the equivalent of
going from the field to the overseer’s house, and back again.”'
Akili Castlin is a prisoner housed in Pelican Bay State Prison’s
Security Housing Unit. He is an author, avid reader and dedicated
political activist.
http://akilicastlin.wordpress.com/about/
Send/forward this email to anyone else you think would be interested.
