{"id":38211,"date":"2021-02-11T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=38211"},"modified":"2021-02-11T10:35:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:35:30","slug":"the-godmother-of-dub-to-speak-at-viu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/the-godmother-of-dub-to-speak-at-viu\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;godmother of dub&#8217; to speak at Vancouver Island University"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Vancouver Island University is welcoming a two-time JUNO Award winner and dub poet deliver the annual Gustafson Distinguished Poet Lecture on Thursday. Lillian Allen's lecture is also part of VIU's <a href=\"https:\/\/international.viu.ca\/global-engagement\/global-citizens-week\">Global Citizens' Week<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The chair of VIU's creative writing and journalism department, Sonnet L'Abbe says Allen was selected for her important contributions to poetry in Canada and around the world:<\/div>\n<div>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-38211-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sonnet.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sonnet.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/sonnet.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div>Allen says Amanda Gorman's reading at US President Joe Biden's inauguration was an important moment for spoken word poetry:<\/div>\n<div>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-38211-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Lillian-Allen-Biden.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Lillian-Allen-Biden.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Lillian-Allen-Biden.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div>Allen's lecture begins at 5 p.m. on Thursday.\u00a0 You can register to attend at <a href=\"https:\/\/ah.viu.ca\/gustafson-trust\">ah.viu.ca\/gustafson-trust<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver Island University is welcoming a two-time JUNO Award winner and dub poet deliver the annual Gustafson Distinguished Poet Lecture on Thursday. Lillian Allen&#8217;s lecture is also part of VIU&#8217;s Global Citizens&#8217; Week. The chair of VIU&#8217;s creative writing and journalism department, Sonnet L&#8217;Abbe says Allen was selected for her important contributions to poetry in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":38226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219,221],"tags":[5952,5953,5928,4886,5954],"radio":[240],"origine":[280,265,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38211"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=38211"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=38211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}