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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: Images
iLove ver. Black Season Finale
Written and directed by the Governor Award-nominated playwright Joseph Jomo Pierre (Shakespeare’s Nigga, Born Ready), iLove ver. Black is a new web series exploring the trials and tensions of relationships, communication and Black love. Set in Toronto, the series’ five … Continue reading
BLACK & WHITE – PICTURES LEAD TO WORDS
“Looked in the paper today -saw black faces in black veils – holding up black and white pictures of a black man / killed by white cops with black guns / in the black of night as he stood in … Continue reading
TORONTO + NYC at AFRICAN VOICES “THE ARTIVIST RISES” EXHIBIT
From Toronto to NYC, the images differ but are still the same. TOronto’s Jalani Morgan’s #photography featured. #blacklivesmatter #torontostreets. America, do #blacklivesmatter?? #blackboy #blackart #painting #visualart #powerful This art piece by Malik Seneferu blew me away. Remember Lil Bobby Hutton. #blackpanthers #oakland … Continue reading
SOUNDGIRL
SYNOPSIS SoundGirl is a dramatic film that follows the adventures of Fayte, a gifted DJ and beatmaker as she navigates the tumultuous underworld of beat battles with her ambitious all-woman sound crew. Over one Toronto weekend, ignited by the chaotic … Continue reading
ORALTORIO Plays at the PIECE OF MINE FESTIVAL
About the festival The piece of mine theatre festival is a profound, imaginative and fresh production. Between September 13-15, 2013, you’ll witness 8 black playwrights present current work in development. This festival aims to stage upcoming plays with stories that boldly relay contemporary realities, while … Continue reading
