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Word Iz Bond Spoken Word Artist's Collective
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"3rd Thursday of the month @ Ginger's Tavern!!!"

Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada

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Member Since10/25/2006
Band Websiteanyone know a good web designer?
Band MembersShauntay Grant, Reed "iZrEAL" Jones AKA The Street Preacher, Tesia Rolle, Amanda "Joi N. Payne" Carvery, and Ardath Whynacht
InfluencesMaya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Erica Jong, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, Saul Williams, Ursula Rucker, Sarah Jones, MosDef, All of the fabulous, talented Canadian poets we have had the blessing of watching perform in the past few years. Special thanks to Dwayne Morgan, SPIN, D'bi Young, Karen Richardson, Brendan McLeod and all of the other fantastic poets who have featured at Speak! over the past few years. We embrace your work and hope to hear more.
Sounds Like... Nothin' you ever heard. Book us for a show to find out. Or come to: Photobucket Speak! April Shogun Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
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   About Word Iz Bond Spoken Word Artist's Collective
Word Iz Bond was formed with the support of the Black Students Advising Centre of Dalhousie University and has since grown to include many different poets and has performed collectively and as individuals in many different venues. WIB is a group of individual spoken word artists, dedicated to promoting the art in Nova Scotia and beyond. This year, Word Iz Bond is launching the biggest-ever Speak! Series with support of the Canada Council, so stay tuned for announcements about all the fabulous poets we'll be bringin' in throughout the year. The WIB Youth Speak! Series will be happening again this year at the North Branch Library. And in 2007, the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word will be taking place in Halifax. If anyone has ideas or input, please contact us with your thoughts on the event. We will be looking for volunteers to billet poets, work the door and sell merchandise.
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Word Iz Bond Spoken Word Artist's Collective has 357 friends.
 Ardath 


 iZrEAL AKA The Street Preacher 


 Joi N. Payne 


 Shauntay Grant 


 Outlawed Matter 


 Ntozake Shange 


 Motion 


 R$ $mooth 


 Dwayne Morgan 


 Ritallin 


 Eddy da original one 


 Brendan McLeod 


 Asia&NuGruv 


 Marinda 


 tanya davis 


 Patrick Swan 


 HANDS OFF ASSATA! 


 Sharon Hodgson 


 SPIN. Soldado de America como el Che. 


 PAPA GRAND 





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Marinda





May 5 2008 10:14 PM

Oh, it was SOOOOOOooooooooooo nice to have you ladies up in Toronto this weekend. It made me feel so warm and fuzzy.

It's all sunny again, so you're just gonna have to come back this summer.

lots of love!

Marinda
Marinda





Mar 22 2008 4:12 AM

Hurray for seven years of quality spoken word from the Hali - fantastics!

xoxoxoxoxo
Sharon Hodgson





Mar 21 2008 5:14 PM

Soulgasm





Jan 19 2008 9:28 PM

Thanks for the add! Blessings & peace,
Soulgasm
Cathryn, Poeticly





Jan 17 2008 12:19 AM

Hey, thanks for the add, guys. You're really great, I need to get in contact with you. I would love to work with you. I'm a poet looking to get out there. I graduate this year and I want to make a career for myself with my writing and spoken word.

Get back to me when you can. Thank you. =]
The Art Farm





Jan 16 2008 7:32 PM

The Art Farm would like to personally thank you for your support! Please help us spread the word about the work that we are doing. There are many young artists who need inspiration, support and instruction and just can not afford it. your support, even just in thought is a great help. Blessings to you and yours and may your life be full of light!

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Damien and Melissa, Co-Founders of The Art Farm

Please check out our website!
Sharon Hodgson





Dec 22 2007 7:05 PM

Another month, another painting.


I hope you all have happy holidays, and I'll paint you in the new year!
Sharon Hodgson





Nov 16 2007 9:16 PM

Here's last night's live painting of Word Iz Bond! Paint ya next month!

Tia/The Creativ1





Oct 22 2007 5:17 PM

African American Profile Graphics SoulCityGraphics.com
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Marinda





Oct 17 2007 6:43 PM

Yey for word is bond!

I miss you guys. I wish I could be there for the next show. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

Marinda
Sharon Hodgson





Oct 16 2007 11:08 PM

live painting
Sharon Hodgson





Aug 17 2007 3:27 AM



"Poets" - live painting session three at Word Iz Bond. See you next month! Peace, Sharon
Sharon Hodgson





Jul 20 2007 3:32 AM

The paint's still wet on this one. Thanks for an inspiring evening. Cheers, Sharon
Sharon Hodgson





Jun 23 2007 1:00 AM

Had a fantastic time painting you last night. Awesome energy. Cheers, Sharon
Sharon Hodgson
T.D.





Mar 17 2007 2:05 AM

Thanks for being my friend...

T.D. Author, Shades of Blue
shayne avec i grec





Mar 16 2007 5:08 AM

thanks so much y'all for sneaking me in @ the end of the open mic tonight - i was thrill'd by the magical world of timing and travels to find that i land'd mere hours before your show. it was nice to see how halifax throws down, and i'm excited to be back for cfsw in october...

speak!
Joi N. Payne





Feb 6 2007 7:46 PM

You know our anniversary is coming up....

Can I get a chicken wing!
Pants;) U wouldn't have it ne otha way!!!!





Feb 6 2007 3:29 PM

I'm luvin what ya'll do;)
T.D.





Jan 31 2007 11:20 PM

World Iz Bond Spoken Word Artist's Collective thanks for the add, and please don't forget to check out my new book, Shades of Blue, poetry that transforms...

T.D.
Julie-Jewels





Jan 26 2007 11:39 PM

Keep the word alive, we poets have our talent to reach the world through meaningful words! Julie :D
BARBI





Dec 11 2006 5:41 PM

THANKS FOR THE ADD.:) I THINK YOUR YOUR AWESOME ~ I WILL SHARE SOME TIME, IM JUST NOT FEELING REAL WELL AT THE PRESENT TIME, HAVE THE FLU BUG AND ITS TIME FOR SOMEMORE OF THAT NIQUIL - GOOD STUFF.:) THANKS AGAIN FOR THE ADD...

BARBI
pregmant





Dec 10 2006 11:14 PM

If u guys and girls havent checked these peeps out yet, chck 'em;

www.podslam.org

Be worth it.

I have a question;

Whose gonna redeem
the souls of white folk
?
Eddy da original one





Dec 9 2006 7:51 PM

There and black again

Question: where have you been?
Answer: THERE
Where? There
But for a long, time I was just there
Ashamed and, sorry
I ran the first mile or two
just to get hell out of there
To anywhere but that state line
I mean that state of mind has some distance to it
and its up hill both ways
So for a longtime I was just there

Searching black faces for answers wondering what was up with my black people
endeavoring to separate fiction from fact
I would ask what’s up Black.
That question became my everyday greeting
Especially if I met someone of the Negro persuasions
Without thinking I would find myself even saying it to friends of mine that was Caucasian
I would be getting back replies,
Yoyo Ed what s wrong with you; man
But It was such a part of me,
like a slang Part of my vocabulary,
But I give my man a pound and be like true dat you white
Just don’t ever think that you so comfortable with me
That you could ever call me nigger
Cause that shit wouldn’t alright

It upsets me even more when people that look like me do it
but that’s just another cultural African North American language Pandora?
and Right now I don’t have the time to really get into it
But making the choice to say, what’s up Black?, Instead of what’s up Nigga ?
was just a part of me
Part of the journey, Yuh know me paying homage to my African Ancestry
But some how, one morning when I said it to this brother
You would have sworn I cuss him out and said something about his mother
He asked if I was questioning his blackness? I quickly replied NO
Thinking to myself that his response should have just been a head nod
And him be on his our merry way
Me being me, my second reply was
“My brother if I was to question your blackness; would you have any thing intelligent to say?

Those might seem like are fighting words; it’s true
But yuh sees I don’t ask questions? I don’t answers to
At that point he looked at me and just shake his head and walked away
But to question his blackness would mean that I had the answers to my own
come to think about it but some of us been questioning ourselves all are lives
the question is where did you get your blackness from?
I know it sounds kina dumb
Your understanding of what you thought it was
Mine revolved around the characters I saw on TV
Cause growing up in Canada, it didn’t that many folks around that look like me
I was Dyno- mite JJ from Good times, and that what you talking about Willis?
Kid from Different stokes
at my tender age of seven, I supposedly looked like Gary Coleman
so my dimpled cheeks always got pinched by those non-colored folks
Who remembers the Jackson five on TV singing dancing machine? Dancing, dancing, dancing , And before Michael did the moonwalk he did the robot?
for a lot of black children, he was their first black hero; hell he was mine.
He was the embodiment of being black and guess one day he forgot
Or did he or was he like every other little black Boy and girl sitting in front of the man in the mirror
asking: "Mirror… Mirror on the Wall can I be the fairest of them all?"
Cause in my black skin life doesn't seem fair or right,
"Mirror ...Mirror on the Wall, can I be the fairest, hell can I be Snow White? This may sound like a brothers Grimm fairy tale; For a lot of black folks it real
but many of have had and still have that mentality
but our pocket books has holes and would Never-land us that reality
its our skin color getting jacked son physically
I have heard it said that ? Is beautiful?>But believed that my mirror was lying to me
All the tanning pills in the world couldn't make John Howard griffin like me A bed of roses hasn’t been the path of my journey
But if it has, my feet bare witness of their thorns to the jury
But scratching my surface only gets you my DNA under your nails
My DNA is dat Negro attitude
Ralph Ellison wrote clues, that spoke of my tails
in this world, I’m a visible minority that’s not seen,
I’m just passing through

And I still have a mile or two to get where I really want to be
Expressing my black self Uncompromising and, unapologetic without fear
But for a long, time I was just there
Where? There
But it took me a long, long, time just to get…. HERE


copyright 4/2005, E. David /Da original one
pregmant





Dec 1 2006 7:24 PM

Liking the stuff geezers and ladies.

Always quality to find someone else whose heard of the Last Poets.

If yer ever in my neck of the woods, I'll buy you all a round or two.

Peace out.

Another White Englishman.
Eddy da original one





Nov 30 2006 4:54 AM

God's Work

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SPIN. Soldado de America como el Che.





Oct 29 2006 2:56 PM

Honoured to be a part of SPEAK.

Peace my peoples' thank you again and again and again for this honour. Miss Ebony & SPIN are AMPED to come out to Halifax for this one.

peace
SPIN
Asia&NuGruv





Oct 27 2006 3:15 PM

Just showing Some Luv and thanks for the add!Cant wait to Hook up again!! Peace
Ritallin





Oct 27 2006 1:09 PM

Yo Word Iz Bond ... I love it! Get out there and on the freakin' internet! I would love to come out there and see your show so if you have some spare change to break off let me know cuz I'd be down ... anyway, keep in touch on festival stuff and hopefully we'll see y'all soon!

Peace,
Ritallin.
Marinda





Oct 27 2006 2:40 AM

Youpi!
Word is bond is up in cyber space!
Nice little mic - y picture thing too.
Can I get a.....

SPEAK!

love
Bliss
tanya davis





Oct 26 2006 4:32 PM

yesss!!!!!!! word iz a bond and you all prove it.

hoorah for poets!
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