Jamaican-Canadian poet d'bi.young.anitafrika will lead an April youth workshop in Dub Poetry, presented by the 2008 Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Vancouver. d'bi.young sees Dub Poetry as a storytelling form with an anti-oppression framework, emerging from "the psyche/life experience of conscious ghetto youth in Jamaica and England in the late '70s-early '80s... They demanded an art form that would represent and reflect the working class linguistically, socially and politically. Coming from the roots of reggae, dub fiercely challenges capitalism, imperialism, patriarchy and other forms of oppression." The workshop will promote "the ideas of accountability and responsibility between storyteller and community: the artist as leader and revolutionary keeper of the sacred." The youth workshop is set for April 26-28, culminating at the Dub Storytelling Performance at The Cultch. [LINK]