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Clifton Joseph Dubzz-Poet-at-Large: Clifton Joseph
Clifton Joseph Dubzz-Poet-at-Large will perform his latest dub poetry work live!
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Wed. March 25th 2026 + Add to Calendar
The Coda
6:30pm - 8:30pm Doors at: 6:00pm
$20
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Clifton Joseph
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Come out to this special LIVE performance from Toronto's Clifton Joseph Dubzz-Poet-at-Large. Clifton will perform to a local audience for the first time in Victoria, BC. As a poet, Joseph is one of the founders of the dub poetry movement in Canada. He has performed widely across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Caribbean. His poems have been anthologized in numerous written and audio compilations, including De Dub Poets with poets Lilian Allen and Devon Haughton with the Truths & Rights Reggae Band, Poetry Nation, Vehicule Press's Paen to the spoken/word-performance poetry movement, and Word Up, Virgin Records' CD of North American spoken word poets and the accompanying Word Up poem-video series commissioned by and aired on Much Music. He's published Metropolitan Blues, a book of poems; released Oral Trans/missions, an album of poetry and music and the video PimpsJoseph is the recipient of two Gemini Awards for Best Writing in an Information Program or Series, a Freddie Award from the International Health and Medical Media Awards and a silver medal award from the New York TV Festival for his work on Undercurrents; and a Silver Fleece Award from the Chicago Film Festival for an Imprint documentary on dub poetry. He is also a two-time winner of the Best Dub Poet Award and recipient of The Peter Tosh Memorial Award from the Canadian Reggae Music Awards as well as Juno and CASBY nominations for his poetry.
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