Jennifer Alicia
Burning Desire For Change | Toronto
Jennifer Alicia is a queer, Mi’kmaw and settler multidisciplinary artist originally from the Bay of Islands, Newfoundland. She is a two-time national poetry slam champion and her work has been featured in places such as Canthius Magazine, NOW Magazine, and CBC, to name a few. Jennifer Alicia co-edited a poetry anthology titled "The Condor and the Eagle Meet" and has a debut chapbook titled "Mixed Emotions". In 2024, Jennifer Alicia was a finalist for the Toronto Arts Foundation's Breakthrough Artist Award.
About the Project
The project idea is to host poetry fires around the City of Toronto inviting participants from the queer community to create poetry responses and performances that are informed by our intercultural teachings related to fire. We will come together through queerness to collaborate, co-create, write poetic responses, and share around the fire, dreaming of a queer utopia one fire at at time. Participants need to show up with an open heart and curiosity!