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Allo & The Goodgetters feature at Van Slam Semi Finals 1

Café Deux Soleils 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC

The Goodgetters is a start up non-profit collective of like minded artists, musicians, writers, and everything else. They do good through entertaining, education, and inspiration by way of performance, events, and workshops. The top 16 poets of the Winter Season will compete to be in the Van Slam Finals. This is the 1st of 2 semi-finals. The performing poets will be announced on this page, as soon as we know who is competing in which final.

$6

Allo & The Goodgetters feature at Van Slam Semi Finals 2

Café Deux Soleils 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC

The Goodgetters is a start up non-profit collective of like minded artists, musicians, writers, and everything else. They do good through entertaining, education, and inspiration by way of performance, events, and workshops. The top 16 poets of the Winter Season will compete to be in the Van Slam Finals. This is the 2nd of 2 semi-finals.

$6

Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day One

Vancouver Public Library Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC

Every team in Hullabaloo will perform in one bout this night, either the first or second slate of prelims. The bout draw, determining the time for each school’s bout, will be conducted before the tournament begins. All teams are encouraged to attend the entire evening.

Free

Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day Two

Vancouver Public Library Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC

By the second day of prelims, the tournament will be in full swing. Some teams will be flying high, others will be working hard to improve their ranking.

Free

Hullabaloo Team Finals featuring Lucia Misch

Vancouver Public Library Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC

The 5th annual Hullabaloo Finals Night will determine which school has the best poetic chops in all of BC. Lucia Misch will be the feature poet.

Free

Poetry Masterclass with Amber Dawn

Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia

Through a series of writing prompts and peer-to-peer reflection, workshop participants will explore the potent pairing of poetry + social justice values and personal identities.

$40 – $50

Seeding the Poem: Masterclass with Robert Priest

Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia

We will focus on techniques for writing micro or ‘seed’ poems — aphorisms, slogans, hook lines, jokes, maxims etc. with a view to also using them as centering points for longer oral/musical pieces such as spoken word poems, song lyrics or even formal poems such as sonnets or villanelles. Participants … Continued

$40 – $50

Jangle & Shout: The Hulla-Verses Remixer

The York Theatre 639 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia

A literary soirée with a wild side, this is your chance to see a sampling of many of the artists in the festival. Feast your ears on an all-you-can-handle buffet of words!

$12 – $15

Van Slam Finals

Wise Hall 1882 Adanac St. , Vancouver, British Columbia

The 19th annual Van Slam Finals Night features Vancouver's top eight slam poets competing for a spot on this year’s Van Slam team.

$12 – $15

Youth Anarchy Slam featuring Zaccheus Legacy Project

Café Deux Soleils 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC

Youth poets (aged 12–20) are asked to break one of the classic poetry slam rules. Includes a feature performance by youth presenting work inspired by Zaccheus Jackson.

$4 – $19

Spoken Word Masterclass with Sister Outsider

Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia

This workshop will explore intersectionality and the realities we experience living multiple identities at the same time. Inspired by Gloria Anzaldua’s La Fronteras/Borderlands, we will discuss the relationships various races, genders, sexualities, and languages have with each other and how we find a space to define ourselves within a world … Continued

$40 – $50

Word Circus

Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia

A whirlwind of words occurs as Robert Priest, Tanya Evanson, David McGimpsey, Barbara Adler, and Ian Ferrier blur the line between stage and page.

$8 – $10

Van Slam Finals Night 2016

Wise Hall 1882 Adanac St. , Vancouver, British Columbia

Help us celebrate the 20th annual Van Slam Finals Night! Join us at The Wise Hall to hear the top 8 poets of Vancouver’s 2015/2016 season drop their most killer poems as they vie for a spot on this year’s Van Slam team! Poets have been gaining points by ranking … Continued

$2016.

Amber Dawn features at the Van Slam

Café Deux Soleils 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

The Vancouver Poetry House presents feature poet, Amber Dawn. Amber Dawn is a writer living on unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, Canada). Her memoir How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir won the 2013 Vancouver Book Award. She is the author of the … Continued

$6 – $10