Canada’s best performance poets show us their strongest two and three minute poems to decide who will advance to finals. These Day Two bouts at Cafe Deux Soleils are two of eight preliminary competitions that take place on Thursday and Friday nights here and at Havana Theatre during Verses Festival. The scores from these eight bouts determine the twelve poets who move on to compete in the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship (CIPS) final match on Saturday night.

(Bouts 6 and 8 take place at Havana Theatre down the street at the same time as these bouts at Cafe Deux Soleils.)

BOUT 5 / Doors 6 pm / Show 6:30 pm / Cafe Deux Soleils

BOUT 7 / Doors 8 pm / Show 8:30 pm / Cafe Deux Soleils

Tickets for this night (both bouts included) are $10 at the door, cash only.
No advance tickets for this event.
Admission to this event is included in your Verses Festival Pass but get there early to get in and get a seat.
Verses Festival of Words 2018 Early Bird Passes are available at Brown Paper Tickets here.

Note the 6:30 start. Doors at 6. Arrive early!

Accessibility Info:

Café Deux Soleils has been the main venue for the Vancouver Poetry Slam since 1999. It is sold out every Monday by fans of spoken word poetry. It is an iconic venue run by a staff that are friendly and promote progressive values.

Café Deux Soleils is a semi-accessible venue to wheelchairs and scooters. They have recently completely renovated the bathrooms, installing three ungendered stalls. However there is no wheelchair-accessible bathroom. Please read the full report from the Radical Accessibility Mapping Project for more details.

BOUT 5: (order of draw only; order on stage drawn before bout on Friday, April 27)
Zaire Sealy
Liberty Skye
Frankie McGee
Pam Stewart
Sonya Littlejohn
Emory Oakley
D’Scribe the Poet
Optimus Rhyme
jaye simpson

BOUT 7: (order of draw only; order on stage drawn before bout on Friday, April 27)
Nolan (NoNo Ryan) Janssen
Poetik with a silent
Rhube Know
Altogether Lisa
Andres Jack Livsey
Victoria Inglis
Anomaly
Tawahum
Kathleen Driscoll