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Verses Festival of Words

Join us for Verses Festival of Words 2022 April 21 to May 30. See you there!

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Hullabaloo

A Celebration of Spoken Word by BC Youth featuring the BC High School Poetry Slam Championship. Join us April 22-24th 2021 online via Zoom.

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Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship

The Canadian Individual Poetry Slam (CIPS) championship determines the best poetry slammer in the nation each April. Pictured is 2017 CIPS Champion Ifrah Hussein.

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Vancouver Poetry Slam

Canada’s longest-running poetry slam happens every Monday night – for the rest of your life.

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Add Your Voice

Join Us!
”To have great poets, there must be great audiences.” – Walt Whitman

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WordPlay

Poetry in Schools
Contemporary, active poets give relevance and immediacy to poetry in the classroom.

Vancouver Poetry Slam

Vancouver Poetry Slam

The poetry slam was invented by Marc Smith, a construction worker in Chicago in 1984. He was frustrated by snooty, elitist poets who appeared to have no interest in connecting with a live audience, and decided to stage a poetry reading in which the audience would have a way of giving the poets direct feedback – through scores.

Hullabaloo | BC's Youth Spoken Word Festival

BC’s Youth Spoken Word Festival

Hullabaloo is BC’s Youth Spoken Word Festival featuring workshops, showcase performances and some of BC’s finest high school aged poets all sharing work for peers and audiences alike.

Verses Festival of Words

Verses Festival of Words

Canada’s largest alternative literary arts festival, Verses Festival of Words offers up dynamic programming celebrating a broad definition of literary arts, including spoken word poetry, storytelling, page-based poetry, singer-songwriters, improvisers, and more. Come be swept away in a wave of word-bending wonder, where activism and art take centre stage. Experience the transformative power of words, written, spoken, and sung.

Wordplay

Wordplay

Contemporary, active poets give relevance and immediacy to poetry in the classroom.

Legends Slam

UPCOMING EVENT

Legends Slam

November 18 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

The Vancouver Poetry Slam is back Live! On November 18th come to C-lab at The Cultch to see the Live Legends Slam! Our 4 legendary slam icons: RC Weslowski, Magpie Ulysses, Johnny MacRae & Johnny Trinh will take on 4 challengers in a head to head slam battle. Along with … Continued

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