performances
september 03 2008
In Other Words/In Other Worlds
january 15 2008
Call & Response
november 07, 2007
Rec Room Retro
may 02 2007
"Whose Body is This?" A Survey of Illness and Healing (curator)
february 07, 2007
motherhood/motherlove
september 20 2006
ultra magnetic
Bio:
Toni Asante Lightfoot is a writer, teacher, and activist living in
Chicago, Illinois. A native of Washington, DC, Lightfoot started her
poetry career performing in its cafes and jazz clubs. Along with the
other members of The Modern Urban Griots, she co-wrote, directed, and
starred in Everything I Never Told You Became a Poem and Jazz, Wine,
and Poetry: An Almost Love Story. Alone as well as along with several
groups, Lightfoot has performed all over the US, Canada, and Trinidad &
Tobago, She has been published in several anthologies such as: Role
Call (Third World Press), Beyond the Frontier (Black Classics Press)
and is the co-editor of Dream of a Word (Tia Chucha Press). Her voice
and poetry appears on numerous CDs. For more information, check her at
out at www.myspace.com/toniasantelightfoot
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