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January 9, 2023 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Hey poetry peeps!

It’s our first Slam of the new year! Come join us and get the new year started well as always in our hybrid live & online format. Bring your selves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space.

Poets in our slam will win cash & collect points toward the playoffs March 2023.
Also we will have a live feature set from KP Dennis!

A bit about them:K.P Dennis a Black, non-binary, writer, theatre creator, and inter-dispclinary artist based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. They were the 2016 Youth Poet Laureate of Victoria, the 2017 recipient of the VACCS Community recognition Award, and in 2020 they received the Witness Legacy Award for Social Purpose and Responsibility Through Art. Their work explores future building through a queer afro-surrealist lens, using magic and fantasy to explore what we will have to do and who we have to become, to liberate our futures.

Doors will open @ 7 pm both in person & online, show starts @ 8 pm.
Sign up to slam will start at 7:30 both in person and online.
Tix for our live event are $10-15 sliding scale, online tix are pay what you can.
Both online and live tix in advance can be found here: Tickets
Or just head on down and get a ticket at the door!

Masking Policy:

Masks are strongly encouraged, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless.

Details

Date:
January 9, 2023
Time:
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Venue

community pizza
1191 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5N 4A8
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