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POT POURRI SHOW (Sundays 11:00AM – 1:00PM) celebrates Francophonie all month long! To kick-start these events, a panel discussion on “France and the University of Toronto: Inter-Institutional Collaborations” will be held this Thursday, March 14^th at U of T Campus followed by an official signing ceremony.

Listen to Pot Pourri Show this Sunday and receive latest information on concerts, events, and enter your chance to win free tickets to live concerts, to Toronto’s best French restaurants, and to Cinéfranco‘s Francophone International Film Festival in Toronto.

The International Day of the Francophonie is celebrated annually on March 20^th all over the world. French is the primary language of 220 million people worldwide, and is used by 900 million people in 77 member states and governments!

Contact pot.pourri@sympatico.ca or go to www.potpourrishow.com for more information.

Dubmatix is one of Canada’s premiere dub, reggae & electro artist/producers & the 2010 JUNO Award Winner for Best Reggae Recording.  He also won the 2011 Best Dub Album of the Year in France, and other recording awards from different music academy’s in Germany, Portugal, and elsewhere.

The Bassment Sessions

The show features a mix of interviews, and the best in “Bass Music” ranging from classic reggae, dub, electronic, future step, and ragga with the common element of bass and groove.  Interviews, too.

Host:  Dubmatix
Thursdays from 10 pm-12 am
Start Date:  Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Wednesday March 27, 2013

12pm (doors open at 11:30am)/ Debates Room, Hart House (second floor)

Admission: $30 / Purchase tickets from the UofT Tix box office online here

or by telephone at (416) 978-8849

David Barsamian will speak about and sign his new book of interviews with Noam Chomsky, Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire.

Power Systems is a compelling new set of interviews with Noam Chomsky on our changing and turbulent times.

The latest from a long-established, trusted partnership, this collection of interviews shows once again that no interlocutor engages with Noam Chomsky more effectively than David Barsamian, local author as well as Founder and Director of Alternative Radio.

These interviews will inspire a new generation of readers, as well as longtime Chomsky fans eager for his latest thinking on the crises we now confront.

Interview Len Henry, Creative Director of A Moving History of Canadian Blacks in Dance

EVI-DANCE

Saturday February 9, 2013 at 2pm 

Liturgical Dance with Nicole Hamilton, Artistic Director of Inica Dance Industries and Founder and Sabrina McKenzie, CEO of the International Dance Commission (IDC), where she oversees hundreds of dance ministries and has established over 40 Chapters world wide. Founder and Director of the Dancing Preachers International Annual Dance Conference, bringing together the Nations through worship.

Saturday February 16, 2013

Interview with Vivine Scarlett of Dance Immersion, a not-for-profit promoting/cultivating dance of the African

HOWL – Tuesday February 26th, 2013 at 10pm

Host Nik Beat features AfroAmerican award winning Gospel singer songwriter Ameir Smith and canadian Hip hop Alberta based rapper, Wakefield Brewster!

 RESISTANCE ON THE SOUND DIAL – all month long! Saturdays at 11am

Saturday February 2, 2013 – Music spanning from old soul to reggaton to drum and base and beyond exploring social messaging and activist lyrics in the last 50 years.

Saturday February 16, 2013 – Interview with Troy Jackson

Saturday February 23, 2013 – Panel discussion about Black trans activism

MOONDOG’S BALLROOM- all month long! Tuesdays at 5pm with your host Daibhid James 

Tuesday February 12, 2013 – “The Old Time Gospel Hour” – an exploration of the evolution of black vocal music from the Gospel of the 1920s to the 1950s and 1960s. Featuring The Blind Boys of Alabama, Dixie Hummingbirds, Soul Stirrers, and Sam Cooke.

Tuesday February 19 & 26, 2013 – A two part full-length interview with noted music historian and archivist Tim Brooks on his Grammy Award-winning book “Lost Sounds: The History of Blacks and the Birth of Recording” with never before heard recordings from the 1890s to WWI including The Fisk Jubilee Quartet, WC Handy, James Reese Europe, Bert Williams and more!

 AMALGAMATION IN SOUND – Saturday February 23, 12-2am

Tune in for a special show called U.K Blakk in celebration of the heritage and culture of black music as part of Black History Month.