FIRST INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF POETRY OF RESISTANCE In Honour of the Cuban Five

FIRST INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF POETRY OF RESISTANCE In Honour of the Cuban Five

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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution

Innis Town Hall – 2 Sussex Avenue

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009, 7:30 p.m.

Masters of Ceremony: Nancy Morejon, poet, and City Councilor Maria Augimieri, Her Excellency Teresita Sotalongo, Ambassador to Canada from Cuba.

Presenters: Elizabeth Palmeiro, wife of Ramon Labañino, one of the Cuban Five Orlando Silverio – sings songs of poetry of Ramon Labañino

Diamela Prado – Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples; Rev. Debra Faulk – Unitarian Church; Rev. Philip Cable – Emmanuel Howard Park United Church; James Cockcroft – International Commitee to Free the Five; Thomas Maracle – flautist and musician, Mohawk of the Six Nations Confederacy of Tyendenaga; Pablo Armando Fernandez – poet; Keith Ellis – poet, professor emeritus; Nancy Morejon – One of Cuba’s foremost poets; Bernardo Toscano – North America Counsellor, External Affairs Ministry , Cuba; Carlos Angulo, poet; Janet Phelan – poet, journalist and emigre from the US; Pablo Pompeyo Saavedra – poet from Chile; Francisco Santos – poet from Nicaragua.

ALSO: Come to our Closing Event at Lula Lounge , Thursday, April 30,
dinner at seven o’clock, phone for reservations 416 588 0307, free admission.

ABOUT THE CUBAN FIVE: The Cuban Five have been sentenced to a total of four lifetimes plus 77 years for their attempts to prevent terrorist attacks against innocent victims by para-military groups operating out of south Florida. The Five were found guilty of conspiring to commit espionage and, in one case, of conspiring to commit murder. There was no evidence or witnesses against them; no crimes were committed: no injury, no theft, no property destruction. Information gathered was in the public domain. www.thecuban5.org;www.freethefive.org