THE POP-UP EXPERIENCE - A New Black Poet
The Pop Up Experience
1282 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M6H 1N8, Canada
Ontario
43.6587103
-79.44154
Description
Langston Hughes’ ashes are buried under the floor of the New York Public Library beneath a mosaic engraved with lines from his poetry. Elijah, an aspiring poet who has taken to wandering the stacks alone after hours, has visited this engraving many times repeating the lines “my soul has grown deep like the rivers”. One evening, after a difficult birthday, Langston Hughes comes to him as if in a dream. And so begins A New Black Poet.
A New Black Poet is a love letter from the living to the dead. It is a celebration of the poets Bill Gunn, Jean Toomer, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison and Gill Scott Heron. Throughout The Pop-Up Experience, Jordan Laffrenier will be working in collaboration with Co-Conspirator and Multidisciplinary Composer and Musician Beau Dixon, Co-Director Aaron Jan and choreographer Shakeil Rollock, to explore setting some of the poems of Langston Hughes to music, and the immersive potential of modelling this piece off of a series of academic lectures.
Created by Jordan Laffrenier as part of Outside the March's TD Forward March Program.
A limited number of tickets are reserved for audience members who use American Sign Language for the Sunday, August 29 3pm performance. If you require ASL interpretation please email boxoffice@summerworks.ca to reserve one of these tickets.
The Pop-Up Experience is an indoor experience with a small capacity of distanced audience members who must remain masked at all times. There will be up to 20 people distanced in the space at any time. The performance plus a brief talk-back will run 45-minutes or under. Unfortunately there is no on-site audience washroom. The space is wheelchair accessible. If you have further access questions you can get in touch with our access team at outreach@summerworks.ca.
If you want a glimpse into the artistic process, stop by 1282 Bloor Street West at our Pop-Up location, where you'll be able to engage in the creative process and peek through the windows to watch the Forward March artists at work throughout the month of August.
Part of the SummerWorks Lab programming – a place for exploration, experimentation, and process. In the Lab, you can experience new works in development from artists exploring new possibilities in performance.
Presented in association with the Stratford Festival Lab
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