Davie Studios Presents: aja monet
Schedule
Sun Jun 30 2024 at 05:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Longboat Hall | Toronto, ON
About this Event
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aja monet is a Grammy-nominated Surrealist Blues Poet. Her poems are a work of gravity. They are a fundamental for which all things are attracted, considered upon and enacted towards. Her work moves, constantly, between origin and outcome, allowing them to exist in converse. On her debut album when the poems do what they do, we glimpse her indefatigable commitment to speak. Those thematic origins of this album at times center around Black resistance, love and the inexhaustible quest for joy. The songs throughout are insistent and unrelenting, with some reminiscent of jazz club virtuosity and melee while others act as a healing balm in gilead, moving like that of the call to intercessory prayer.
As a community organizer and poet, aja monet moves between mediums, each one an element to her writing. Organizing and activism manifest as part of a process toward liberation, with the poems, the music, and the art serving as the scribe of the time. Building off oratorical traditions, aja is the conduit for her predecessors to channel through. At any given time you’ll find the revolutionary spirit of Audre Lorde and the Last Poets, you’ll feel June Jordan, Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez and even the expressive ephemerality of a passing blue note.
The album when the poems do what they do was released on June 9, 2023, on drink sum wtr, a new Secretly Canadian imprint and nominated for a Grammy Best Spoken Word Poetry Album.
Where is it happening?
Longboat Hall, 103 Dovercourt Road, Toronto, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 30.00