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“Awesome day! My students were so pumped and spoke about it for days afterwards.” - Lorisse Humphries, Chilliwack Middle School The always popular Hullabaloo All Star Slam at the Rio Theatre returns this year, featuring a battle between Canadian spoken word all stars! The 2018 edition of the All Star Slam sees … Continued
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“Awesome day! My students were so pumped and spoke about it for days afterwards.” – Lorisse Humphries, Chilliwack Middle School The always popular Hullabaloo All Star Slam at the Rio Theatre returns this year, featuring a battle between Canadian spoken word all stars! The 2018 edition of the All Star Slam sees … Continued
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The preliminary rounds erupt, with all 16 teams competing in four heats of four! Location: Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye rooms (downstairs from the main concourse). Doors: 6:00 PM Start: Bouts 1 & 2 6:30 PM Bouts 3 & 4 8:30 PM End: 10:00 PM Every team in Hullabaloo will perform in … Continued
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The second slate of prelims kicks off, with all 16 teams competing for the second time in less than 24 hours! Following Round 1 of preliminary competitions on Friday night, some teams are still in it to win it and some teams are going out with a bang, so Round 2 is bound to be mind-blowing! … Continued
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The 8th annual HULLABALOO FINALS NIGHT will determine which school has the best poetic chops in all of British Columbia. Moe Clark will start the evening with a feature set of her award-winning spoken word poetry. Then the top four teams from the preliminary bouts will face off against each other … Continued
![[ID: Christopher Michael is standing on stage speaking into a microphone on a stand in front of him. He is bearded. His eyes are closed behind glasses and his eyebrows are raised. His left arm is stretched toward audience palm up at a 45 degree angle with his right hand indicating the inside of his left elbow. He is wearing a black t-shirt with a black vest over it and jeans. /endID]](https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/media/Christopher-Michael.jpg "Christopher Michael")
Celebrate the 22nd annual Van Slam Finals Night with visiting feature Christopher Michael. Vancouver's top nine slam poets of the season compete for a spot on this years team to represent Van Slam at major tournaments and festivals across North America. Poets gain points by ranking in the top four … Continued
![[ID: Photograph of Vancouver Story Slam organizer and host Susan Cormier standing on stage behind a microphone. She holds a clipboard in her right hand with a Vancouver Story Slam label while gesturing with her left hand. She has bright blue and red nail polish. She is wearing a red dress. Her long hair is clipped back at the top. An insert of the Verses Festival of Words poster is at the bottom left with an array of stylized red salmon, arrows and dots moving from right to left across a blue background. It includes the words Eighth Annual Verses Festival of Words April 19 - 29, 2018. /end ID]](https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/media/Story-Slam-Susan-Verses-smaller-scaled.jpg "Story Slam Susan + Verses smaller")
A special invitational edition of the Vancouver Story Slam storytelling show just for Verses Festival of Words! Ten storytellers share original short stories in a competition for cash and prizes. 50 audience members will receive voting ballots to select the night's winning storytellers. Vancouver Story Slam is Canada's longest-running live … Continued
Canada’s best slam poets sling metaphors and match wits in four-minute and one-minute rounds. These Day One bouts at Havana Theatre are two of eight preliminary competitions that take place on Thursday and Friday nights here and at Cafe Deux Soleils during Verses Festival. The scores from these eight bouts determine the … Continued
Canada’s best slam poets sling metaphors and match wits in four-minute and one-minute rounds. These Day One 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 … Continued
Live at the WISE and Verses Festival of Words is proud to present The Fugitives album release Show for "The Promise of Strangers" . PLUS Introducing the Verses Festival of Words "Little Death Match" (a 17 syllable slam) During intermission we dip our toes into a tantalizing tiny pool of … Continued
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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 Havana Theatre are two of eight preliminary competitions that take place on Thursday and Friday nights here and at Cafe Deux Soleils during Verses Festival. The … Continued
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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. … Continued
This event is originating from the Unceded Ancestral Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. For the 2021 edition of Hullabaloo we keep some of the past and forge ahead with something new. Once again we will be having our Spoken Word Jamboree to kick off the festival. … Continued
Hullabaloo is BC’s Youth Spoken Word Festival featuring workshops, showcase performances and some of BC’s finest high school aged poets all sharing work for peers and audiences alike. The 2021 Festival runs April 22-24th online via Zoom. Registration is open for all schools to take part in Hullabaloo 2021. Participating … Continued
Vancouver Poetry Slam's new home is at Next Door part of Slice of Life Gallery, 1636 Venables. You can also perform or watch online! Doors at 7, Show at 8 June Features June 6th - Wordcraft Jon Hedderwick & Saleem Ansari June 13th - Catherine Garrett June 27th - Ronnie … Continued
Doors at 7, Show at 8 Next Door on Venables or the Van Slam zoom space In-Person Tickets $10 or $15 We will have 5 sponsored tickets If you don't have the means just ask, we want you there! Online Tickets$6-10 or by donation Catherine Garrett (they/she) is a bisexual … Continued
Doors at 7, Show at 8 In-person TICKETS, $10-15, Next Door, 1636 Venables Street We will have 5 sponsored tickets If you don’t have the means just ask, we want you there! Online TICKETS, $6-10 or by donation Ronnie Dean Harris aka Ostwelve, is a Stō:lo/St’át'imc/N’laka'pamux artist based in New Westminster, … Continued
Hey Vancouver poetry peeps! It's time to meet up once more in our hybrid live & online format! Bring your selves and your words to Next Door on Venables or to the Van Slam zoom space. Poets in our slam will win cash & collect points toward the playoffs later … Continued
Hey Vancouver poetry peeps! It's time to meet up once more in our hybrid live & online format! Bring your selves and your words to Next Door on Venables or to the Van Slam zoom space. Poets in our slam will win cash & collect points toward the playoffs later … Continued
Hey Vancouver poetry peeps! It's time to meet up once more in our hybrid live & online format! Bring your selves and your words to Next Door, 1638 Venables St. or to the Van Slam zoom space. Poets in our slam will win cash & collect points toward the playoffs … Continued
Hey Vancouver poetry peeps! It's time to meet up once more in our hybrid live & online format! Bring your selves and your words to Next Door, 1638 Venables St. or to the Van Slam zoom space. Poets in our slam will win cash & collect points toward the playoffs … Continued
Hey Vancouver poetry peeps! It's time to meet up once more in our hybrid live & online format! Bring your selves and your words to Next Door, 1638 Venables St. or to the Van Slam zoom space. Poets in our slam will win cash & collect points toward the playoffs … Continued
Hey Vancouver poetry peeps! It's time to meet up once more in our hybrid live & online format! Bring your selves and your words to Next Door, 1638 Venables St. or to the Van Slam zoom space. Poets in our slam will win cash & collect points toward the playoffs March … Continued
TICKETS Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. A bit about our feature artist: Braedon George Lowey was … Continued
TICKETS Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. This event will include an open mic as well as … Continued
TICKETS Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. This event will include an open mic and slam, as … Continued
TICKETS Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. This event will include an open mic as well as … Continued
TICKETS Sign-up at 7:30, Show at 8 Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. This event will feature … Continued
TICKETS Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. This event will feature a set from poet Lennée Reid! Lennée Reid is a Creole, queer, neurodiverse … Continued
TICKETS Come join us for another night of slam poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. This event will feature a set from poet Kasey Atcheynum! Kasey Atcheynum is a mother and Two-Spirit, neurodivergent, Neyihow iskwew (Cree woman) … Continued