Spoken Word Performance - Janet Rogers and Apirana Taylor

Janet Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from the Six Nations band in southern Ontario. She was born in Vancouver British Columbia and has been living on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people (Victoria, British Columbia) since 1994. Janet works in the genres of poetry, short fiction, science fiction, play writing, spoken word performance poetry, video poetry and recorded poems with music.

Apirana Taylor is a writer, poet, storyteller, painter and actor who helped form Maori theatre at a time when no such theatre existed. Apirana has traveled nationally and internationally as a poet and storyteller. He has twice been invited to tour India as a poet and has also traveled throughout Europe where he was asked to participate in a three month poetry tour of Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Germany.