d'bi.young. dub poet. actor. playwright.

for recent/additional press coverage visit bloodclaat.net or for press inquiries and interviews contact eve labi, arts coordinator

articles

• "from maxfield to malvern "
• - Geraldine Anderson - The Medium - April 2, 2007

• "from maxfield to malvern "
• - Todd Julie - BlogTO Review - March 24, 2007
  
  "Dub, Blood & the Matriarch"
  A Leda Serene Films & CaribbeanTales Production Wins the Audience Choice Award at the San Diego Women's Film Festival - October 2006
  
  "d'bi.young's revolution"
  Book Lounge Review
  - Rabble.ca - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - 2006
  
  
• "art on black review"
  Rattle Review - Moira Richards - 2006
  
  "A New Generation of Word Warriors - A Passion for Revolushun Inspires Dub Poets"
• - Sheila Nopper, Herizons magazine - Vol. 18 - #3, Winter 2005
  
  
• "Dub in the blood"
  - Jennifer O'Connor
  cover - Xtra magazine - July 24, 2005
  
  
• "Spellbinding no matter how you spell it"
• - Rita Zekas, Toronto Star - February 19, 2005

• "International Dub Poetry Festival"
• - Ron Sakolsky, The Beat - Vol. 23 - #5, 2004

• "I am oomaan"
  - Steve English, Eye Magazine - August 12, 2004

• "Young and restless"
  - Errol Nazareth, Eye Magazine - July 31, 2003

quotes

"After Marx, Freud, Marcuse, and Jung, tune to Marley, Fanon, and d'bi.young..." - George Elliott Clarke, Laureate, 2001 Governor-General's Award for Poetry

"D'bi.young is a unique talent. She is a show stopper..." - Rita Zekas, Toronto Star

"It's all in the eyes. When dub poet d'bi.young looks at you...the divine madness in her gaze reveals information far beyond what can be expressed through the limited palettes of speech and movement" - Steve English, Eye Magazine

"Blood is a recurring theme in d'bi.young's work. In the gripping track, 'blood'... on her forthcoming CD... she boldly questions the silence surrounding the once celebrated monthly ritual of bleeding, and audaciously wonders 'from where the shame around my cunt came from'."- Sheila Nopper, Horizons Magazine

"Young incorporates all these issues [race, class, gender, sexual orientation and capitalism] fusing personal and political voices with artistry and conviction"- T'cha Dunlevy, The Montreal Gazette

"...to write about her...stirring artistry makes anything I say sound like hype...since I feel compelled to at least hint at a comparison to bob marley...when I compare her to bob, I don't mean to say that she sounds like him...but that she channels the innovative spirit of his music and takes it into the 21st century." - Ron Sakolsky, Beat Magazine