Say More Presents : Tawhida Tanya Evanson - Elixir of Life, Free Verse Poetry

ELIXIR OF LIFE — Free Verse Poetry

The human being is both stream and tsunami, yet we have difficulty flowing around obstacles. Engage with a free verse poetry that taps into the conscious and subconscious using a basic unifying substance as our guide: water. We will use text, videopoetry and tonal sound therapy to contemplate, meditate, write, edit, experiment, question, share, give and receive feedback, co-create safe space and predict the future of humankind.

This first SAY MORE event, part of the Coming Together Series, is a monthly lunch time gathering to connect either in person or online. Each event will have a community facilitator. Bring your lunch and join us! Coffee, snacks, and tea provided.

About the speaker

TAWHIDA TANYA EVANSON is a poet, author, performer, producer and Aşık. Her poetry collections include Bothism and Nouveau Griot, and her debut novel Book of Wings (Véhicule) won the 2022 New Contribution Literary Prize, was on the 2022 CBC Canada Reads Longlist and was one of Quill & Quire’s 2021 Books of the Year. With a twenty-five-year practice in spoken word, she has performed in over a dozen countries, released four studio albums, six videopoems, and in 2013 won the Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award and was Poet of Honour at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. As Mother Tongue Media, she produces interarts events including the upcoming spoken word concert film CYANO SUN SUITE premiering in spring 2023. Born and based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, unceded Kanien’kehá:ka Territory, she moonlights as a whirling dervish.