INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED New York performance poet Remi Kanazi is coming to Dorchester Corn Exchange next month to perform poems from his latest collection Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine.
Remi is a poet and writer whose work has been featured by news outlets throughout the world, including BBC and Al Jazeera English, and has taken him across the US and the Middle East.
He is currently on a tour of America and the UK, and has recently performed in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
He has performed at the internationally-renowned Palestine Festival of Literature, as well as at Poetry International, and is coming to Dorchester as part of a UK tour which includes dates in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow.
Dorset Palestinian Israeli Peace Group member, Jessica Lousley, said: “We are really excited that Remi is coming to Dorset as part of his UK tour. This is a fantastic opportunity for people to see a performer whose poetry tackles some of the most pressing global issues of our time.”
Acclaimed novelist and Booker Prize winner, John Berger, has said of Remi Kanazi: “You want to hear a voice which refuses to be silenced, and only such voices carry the deep truth about what's happening these days, about what's happening in Gaza or Iraq or East Jerusalem? OK. If you do, listen to Remi Kanazi.” Dorset Palestinian Israeli Peace Group, which is organising the event, is a Dorchester-based group committed to raising awareness locally - through talks, films and other events - about the situation in Palestine and Israel, and to working together towards a just and peaceful resolution for all people involved in the conflict.
Lorna Low, Dorchester resident and co-founder of the group, said “The aim of the evening is to give people the opportunity to see and hear another perspective, to see the world through different eyes, and art – particularly performance poetry – is a very powerful way of enabling people to do that.”
Remi Kanazi is performing at The Corn Exchange (upstairs in the Town Hall), Dorchester on November 18 at 7.30pm. Admission on the door: £4 (unwaged £2). Bar open from 6pm. For more information contact: dorset.palestine@gmail.com
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