The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery

231 Queens Quay West, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2G8

At the core of Beth Stuart's exhibition Length, Breadth Thickness and—Duration, is a critical engagement with the Victorian-era bathing machine which emerged as members of the European gentry began to take to the seaside. In this spoken word program, four poets use the Bathing Machine as a point of departure to reflect on the structures, both literal and figurative, that upheld Victorian-era cultural values. Through poetic questioning, these artists deconstruct the themes of bodies, privilege and public space while reimagining their role in the present.

FEATURING MAHLIKAH AWE:RI

CHARLES MARCO DIOKNO MANZO

MONA-FAITH MOUSA

HEATH SALAZAR

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Red Slam Collective, a TD~Toronto Arts Foundation Diversity Arts Award Finalist is an indigenous hip hop fusion arts movement formed in 2009 and based in Tkaronto; whose 4Directions Urban Arts workshops, musical projects, artist residencies and audience engaged performances uplift, self-identify and promote unity through Spoken Lyricism which Arranges Meaning (SLAM). Red Slam is a collaborative cipher of medicine wheel Poets, MC's, Musicians, Dancers, Graf Writers and Beat Makers they represent Indigenous nation affiliations across Turtle Island and Internationally.