The land of poetry spreads out far and vast. There’s a lot of territory to cover. You could spend a whole day just traveling from metaphor to extended metaphor. Then there’s rhyme and alliteration. Poets have spent years investigating the nooks and crannies of those areas. What about the presentation of the text? or the magical land of improvisation?
There’s a lot to discover and if you’re a young, aspiring poet, this is your chance to travel through these lands with an experience spoken word poet as your guide.
Adventures in Poetryland is a series of workshops on the different aspects of spoken word poetry. You sign-up for the whole three-hour session, during which you’ll circulate through a series of games, lessons, and exercises that will help you expand your poetic range and learn a whole lot more about how wide and varied the territory of poetryland is. These workshops will be led by poets featuring in Hullabaloo along with veteran versifiers from the WordPlay Poetry in Schools team.
This is event is open to all BC Youth aged 14–19 free of charge. You must preregister to attend by sending an email to wordplaypoets@gmail.com with: 1.) your name, 2.) your age, 3.) the school you attend, and 4.) a couple of sentences about your prior experience with writing or performing.
Participants in Hullabaloo have reserved spots in this event and will have a chance to sign up for specific sessions at the Spoken Word Jamboree on Tuesday, April 10th.