DisOrientation Slam Poetry & Musical Performance by LAL

OPIRG's Disorientation week closed off on Friday September the 5th: We held a coffee house night at Strega Café on King St to showcase the Toronto's Slam poetry team, who opened the night with some beautiful spoken word performances! Toronto Poetry Slam is all about ideas, with one in particular: people sharing poetry for everyone to enjoy. Deeply felt truths combined with a performance-centered style results in an often moving, always entertaining, evening of spoken word. The slam team as folleded by an incredible musical performance by Toronto based LAL, a protest band representing Uganda, Bangladesh, Barbados and India. They shared tracks from their new record " Deportation" which was creatively triggered by 9/11 and it's affects, the deportation of Queen Nzinga [an artist and activist who was deported to Costa Rica on International Women's Day in Toronto in 2004], and many others, Project Threadbare [a campaign to stop the deportation of 24 Pakistani men due to racist immigration and national security measures].

We are very thankful to everyone who came out to enjoy this experience and enjoy these rare talents !