Poetic Fashion: Youth Building Bridges
-POETIC FASHION LINE-UP ANNOUNCEMENT –
Literature For Life announces the all-star line-up for the second annual Poetic Fashion to be held September 2, 2010 at the St. Lawrence Centre For The Arts.
Juno Award nominee KIM DAVIS (kimdavisonline.com) and Raptors TV Showtime host AKIL AUGUSTINE host a showcase of some of Toronto’s best up and coming designers – including ROD PHILIPOT of Shkank Inc. (shkank.com) whose designs have already graced the stages of The Grammys, Miss Universe, and So You Think You Can Dance and CINDY RENEE of Sodalisious (carringtonsworld.com) who has been worn by celebrities like 90210’s Anna Lynne-Mccord.
But this isn’t your average fashion show. Poetic Fashion also showcases some of Toronto’s best talent including Canadian Beatbox Champion SCOTT JACKSON (myspace.com/sjbeatbox), composer and pianist JD KEYS and Apollo Amateur Night Winner BLAKE CARRINGTON (carringtonsworld.com)alongside a host of established and up and coming spoken word artists from Toronto’s priority neighbourhoods.
Poetic Fashion is a model youth leadership initiative – run by youth for youth – and committed to building bridges not barriers between Toronto’s at-risk communities, finding commonalties, not differences.
Tickets for Poetic Fashion, which go to support Literature for Life’s core programming, are $26 each +HST available online @www.stlc.com . Or for pick-up by contacting Amiga Taylor at amigataylor@literatureforlife.org
Corporate sponsored tables are also available at www.poeticfashion.org or at www.stlc.com .
For more information or to arrange interviews:
Nicole Snape Jo Altilia
Administrative Assistant Executive Director/Founder
Poetic Fashion/ Literature for Life Literature for Life
nsnape@literatureforlife.org jaltilia@literatureforlife.org
416-203-9830 416-203-9830
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