In the attempt to offer more than just amazing poetry show’s to the youth community
The Vancouver Youth Poetry Slam is hosting a 1 day poetry writing workshop with acclaimed Toronto poet, Lara Bozabalian
http://larabozabalian.com/The workshop is Sunday July 25th from 3-6pm at the Purple Thistle
#260-975 Vernon Street
http://www.purplethistle.ca/It’s a free workshop and open to youth poets 13-19 years of age.
Pre registration is required though. The first 20 applicants are in.
If you can attend please email
rcarcee@yahoo.ca to confirm.
It does not matter if you have competed at a poetry slam before to participate in this workshop.
It does not matter if you think you don’t write performance poetry.
What does matter is that you are interested in challenging yourself and your writing skills with this workshop.
It will be fun. It will be free. And so if you can make it please register at
rcarcee@yahoo.caLara Bozabalian has represented Toronto at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, the American National Poetry Slam, and the Individual World Poetry Slam Championships. Her poetry has been featured in journals, newspapers and magazines, and was recently released in the full length collection The Cartographer's Skin (Piquant Press, 2010). She is a founding member of the Toronto Poetry Project, and founded and runs Be Heard, a spoken word festival for high school students across southern Ontario.
And the workshop is…..
“entitled Bridge of Language, which focuses on streamlining and strengthening poems with metaphors and memory/association.”
More about Lara
http://larabozabalian.com/or contact RC Weslowski at 604 215 9230 for more info.
