Book launch of ‘dubbin poetry: the collected poems of d’bi.young anitakfrika’

As a performance artist, educator, scholar, and parent, d’bi.young anitafrika possesses a unique voice that crosses cultural boundaries and transcends artistic disciplines. Their work fiercely and compassionately navigates the personal within the political, the micro within the macro. Their poetry, theatre, and Anitafrika Method have been challenging and inspiring global audiences for over two decades. This new volume of collected dub poems chronicles the continued evolution of their Dub poetics and pedagogies as they experiment with the theatricalization of Dub. It is the first of three publications within their dubbin series, demonstrating the practice, pedagogy, and politics of their decolonial, queered feminist praxis.

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About the Artist

BIO: d’bi.young is a playwright-performer, director-dramaturge and activist-educator, who creates, embodies and teaches decolonial performance praxis. Culminating their PhD in Black womyn’s theatre at London South Bank University (LSBU), their research centres on the epistemological, ontological, cosmological, ethical, aesthetic and somatic emancipation of the oppressed self, through theatre making. d’bi.young developed the Anitafrika Method—a nurturant Black-queer-feminist pedagogy of transformation—offering arts practitioners globally, an intersectional framework of knowing, doing and being. A widely anthologised Siminovitch Playwright Prize finalist, three-time Dora award winner, and founding Artistic Director of Watah Theatre, Spolrusie Press and Ubuntu Decolonial Arts Centre in Costa Rica, d’bi.young has authored twelve plays, seven albums, and four poetry collections. Currently, d’bi.young serves as lead faculty in Soulpepper and Obsidian’s theatre training programs and as a lecturer in theatre at the University of Victoria, BC, where they guide practitioners in developing new approaches to theatre-making through Critical Dub Pedagogy.