15 events found.
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Beau Sia’s Poetry Masterclass
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada
Beau Sia puts on an advanced poetry workshop. Participants are expected to have some prior experience with writing and performing poetry. -
Spoken Word Masterclass with Brendan McLeod
Verses 2017This workshop looks at how poets can connect with their audiences in-between poems through jokes, stories, snippets, and reflections in a manner that's true to their performance style.
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Spoken Word Masterclass with d’bi young
Verses 2017Based on her groundbreaking biomyth S.O.R.P.L.U.S.I. methodology, d'bi's workshop explores how writers can develop personal integrity in their artistic practice.
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Spoken Word Masterclass with Ikenna ‘OpenSecret’ Onyegbula
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaTwo-time Canadian Individual Poetry Slam champion, OpenSecret reveals some of the more nuanced and creative approaches to slam and how to turn the odds in your favour.
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Talk the Talk: Race
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaThis facilitator-guided conversation engages artists in anti-oppression dialogue Uncomfortable questions will be asked. Solutions will be crowd sourced. Come, be challenged, and share your experiences.
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Spoken Word Masterclass with Sheri-D Wilson
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaEditor of "The Spoken Word Workbook," Sheri-D Wilson leads participants in a journey to raise your voice.
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East Van Poetry Salon
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaEvelyn Lau and Sean Cranbury join us to discuss the role of publishing in the 21st century and how writers can make it work to their advantage.
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Adventures in Poetryland
What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry HouseThe 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?
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Poetry Masterclass with Amber Dawn
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaThrough 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.
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Seeding the Poem: Masterclass with Robert Priest
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaRobert Priest, aka Dr. Poetry, brings you techniques for writing micro or ‘seed’ poems — aphorisms, slogans, hook lines, jokes, maxims – with a view to also using them as centering points.
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Spoken Word Masterclass with Sister Outsider
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaThis 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 that often asks us to choose.
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Talk the Talk: Community Organizing & Power Dynamics
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaThis facilitator-guided conversation engages artists and community members in anti-oppression dialogue. Solutions will be crowd sourced. Come, be challenged, and share your experiences.
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Bothism: Spoken Word Masterclass with Tanya Evanson
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaThis workshop explores the importance of both silence and sound in the creation of spoken word – from meditation, to magical editing, to the many possibilities of the vocal body in performance.
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Talk the Talk: Accessibility
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaThis community-driven, facilitator-mediated conversation asks artists to participate in anti-oppression dialogue. Bring your ideas and your notepads!
Free
Sometimes you need to eliminate your favourite image or most clever line to create a better poem. Taught by Jillian Christmas, 2012 Van Slam Grand Champ.