Andrea Gibson Profile – script

Intro

Andrea Gibson is an admired slam poet in America. She made her first appearance in Atlantic Canada on Thursday at the Student Union Building. Ryan Hebert has the story.

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Clip- her poetry

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After two months of touring, Andrea Gibson was able to bring her poetry to Fredericton.

Clip- I’m part of this group called Vox Feminista, who do radical political theatre and our motto is : Comfort the disturbed, and to disturb the comfortable. So I guess I hope I disturbed the comfortable, and comforted the disturbed.

Clip of Maine- I grew up right acros the border in Maine and when I was a kid I used to come to the Fredericton fair every summer. I feel like I know you people.

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Gibson used her appearance in Fredericton as a fund raiser for the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.
Clip- The fact that the planet is dying, the fact that were in an endless war, the fact that queer people don’t have equel rights, the fact that women are being assaulted, all of those things tie back to a source of dysfunction that we aren’t looking at and were not healing.
Stand-up- Gibson continues her tour across the United States, where she hopes her message will shake people up. For tour dates and samples of her work, you can check out AndreaGibson.org.

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