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SUMMARY:Adventures in Poetryland
DESCRIPTION:The 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? \nThere’s a lot to discover and if you’re a young\, aspiring poet\, this is your chance to travel through these lands with an experienced spoken word poet as your guide. \nAlma VanDusen & Peter Kaye Rooms (downstairs from main concourse).\nStarts at 10am and ends around 12:30pm. \nAdventures in Poetryland is a series of workshops on the different aspects of spoken word poetry. You sign-up for the whole three-hour session\, during which you’ll circulate through a series of games\, lessons\, and exercises that will help you expand your poetic range and learn a whole lot more about how wide and varied the territory of poetryland is. \nOur feature poets\, Lucia Misch and Morgan Purvis\, will be leading workshop stations at this event\, along with veteran versifiers from our WordPlay Poetry-in-Schools team. \nThis is event is open to all BC Youth aged 14–19 free of charge. You must preregister to attend by sending an email to wordplaypoets@gmail.com with: 1) you name 2) your age\, 3) the school you attend\, and 4) a couple of sentences about your prior experience with writing or performing. Participants in the Hullabaloo team competition have spots reserved for them in this event. \nAccessibility info: \nThe VPL Central Branch has elevators to reach the downstairs rooms where the Hullabaloo events are being held. There are wheelchair accessible bathrooms. For more details\, refer to their list of facilities.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/adventures-in-poetryland/
LOCATION:What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry House
CATEGORIES:Development,poetry,Verses 2015,Workshop,Youth
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SUMMARY:Hullabaloo Underground Indies
DESCRIPTION:Underground Indies is the chance for individual slammers to show the breadth and depth of their poetic skills. After day one of prelims on Friday April 24th\, we’ll take the poetry off the stage and put it into a different format. The audience will be arranged in a circle around the performance area. There will be no stage and no microphone. Instead 16 poets will compete in a head-to-head format to determine the best slam poet at Hullabaloo. \nAlice MacKay Room (downstairs from the main concourse).\n Starts after Day One Team Bouts\, around 10:30pm.\nEnds around midnight. \nRules:\n\nEach school can nominate one poet to represent them at Underground Indies. This might be the winner of your school slam or your team captain. The selection process is up to the school or organization. If we have less than 16 reps\, then we will have an open sign-up directly proceeding the competition to bring the number of slammers up to 16. \nThere are no judges\, or rather\, everyone is a judge. 16 poets are randomly chosen into 8 pairings. In each pairing\, the two poets play rock/paper/scissors to determine who goes first. After both poets have performed\, the winner is determined by audience applause. \nTo go all the way and complete the final match at Underground Indies\, a poet will need four poems. \nThe time limit of 3 minutes and 10 seconds is still in effect. If a poet goes over time\, the host will enter the circle and interrupt their poem. \nAs in previous Indies Finals\, the final round has no rules. It is the Anarchy Round. You can have multiple people\, music\, props\, costumes\, whatever you like. However\, unlike previous years\, breaking the rules is no longer a requirement of the Anarchy Round. And yes\, the time penalty is still in effect in the Anarchy Round. That is one rule you can’t break. \nAccessibility info \nThe VPL Central Branch has elevators to reach the downstairs rooms where the Hullabaloo events are being held. There are wheelchair accessible bathrooms. For more details\, refer to their list of facilities.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/underground-indies/
LOCATION:What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry House
CATEGORIES:poetry,Slam,Verses 2015,Youth
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SUMMARY:Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day One
DESCRIPTION:This night will kick off the poetry slam section of Hullabaloo. \nAlma VanDusen & Peter Kaye rooms (downstairs from the main concourse).\n Doors at 6pm.\n6:30pm–8pm – First slate of preliminary team bouts.\n8:30pm-10pm – Second slate of preliminary team bouts. \nEvery 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. \nThe poems will be judged by five random members of the audience who are not directly affiliated with any of the poets or schools. They will give each poem a score between 0 and 10. We will drop the high and low scores\, and each poem will receive a total score out of 30. Each bout has four rounds (three rounds of solo poems and a group piece round) so the highest possible team score is 120. \nOpen to the general public. All Ages. General seating. Seating cannot be reserved in advance. \nAccessibility info \nThe VPL Central Branch has elevators to reach the downstairs rooms where the Hullabaloo events are being held. There are wheelchair accessible bathrooms. For more details\, refer to their list of facilities.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/hullabaloo-team-bouts-day-one-2/
LOCATION:What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry House
CATEGORIES:poetry,Slam,Verses 2015,Youth
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SUMMARY:All-Star Slam
DESCRIPTION:Are your students finding poetry boring? Unexciting? An archaic form practiced by old people obsessed with nature? Try All-Star Slam. It brings the poignancy\, hilarity\, and immediacy of slam poetry competitions to the stage. The All-Star Slam pits three former poetry slam champions head to head to head in an all-out battle of poetic verve and wit. \nHow does it work? Simple. The poets perform one poem each in three rounds\, all of which are judged on a scale of zero to ten by the audience — in this case\, the students! In the end\, the winner is announced\, though in effect\, everyone has won. Students have been moved\, inspired\, and engaged by poetry\, often for the first time in their lives. \nAs one student had it: “This is better than Metallica!” The topics are engaging\, the presentation is amazing\, and the competition is riveting. Guaranteed to jumpstart students into writing careers of their own. \nTo bring a school group to this show\, contact Johnny MacRae through wordplaypoets@gmail.com. \nDoors at noon.\n Show starts at 12:30pm.\n Show ends at 2pm. \nWant to see it in action? Check out this video of the All-Star Slam (which is also called “Travellin’Slam” when it goes on tour outside of Vancouver): \n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sv-lUC17d0?rel=0] \nAccessibility: \nRead the updated overview of The Rio Theatre (completed in February 2015) or the complete updated audit for detailed accessibility information. These documents are available thanks to the important work of the Radical Access Mapping Project​.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/all-star-slam/
LOCATION:Annual General Meeting on May 25th
CATEGORIES:Slam,Verses 2015,Youth
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SUMMARY:Spoken Word Jamboree
DESCRIPTION:The Spoken Word Jamboree kicks off Hullabaloo\, the youth spoken word section of the festival  with feature Morgan Purvis\, Victoria’s former Youth Poet Laureate. All teams will be invited to perform a one-minute intro poem to tell us more about themselves and their school. \nAlice MacKay Room (downstairs from the main concourse).\nDoors at 6:30pm.\nShow starts at 7:30pm. \nThe Jamboree provides all participating poets a chance to meet each other outside of a competition setting. It’s also where all the teams will register. Poets and coaches will receive artist passes that allow them free access to all Hullabaloo events. There will be a brief orientation and then the poetry will begin. However\, this is a public event. You don’t need to be on a participating team to attend. Don’t be shy. Come on down and help us start this festival right! \nAbout the feature: \nMorgan Purvis is is a 21-year-old  poet and  performing artist who loves potluck brunch\, feminism\, and magical realist novels. She knits\, sings\, and spends a lot of time trying to un-hide important things. She believes in vaginal graffiti\, food\, and babies; she especially believes in young people being badass\, in LOUD and in quiet ways. \nMorgan was the 2014 City of Victoria Youth Poet Laureate and 2014 YouthCanSlam Poet of Honour\, and a member of the 2013 VicSlam Team. She has been working in arts education in Victoria on unceded Lekwungen Territory for 4 years. \nMost importantly\, Morgan wants to scrap with your boundaries and dance with your ugly.  Badass Yippy kay yay! \nOpen to the general public. All Ages. General seating. Seating cannot be reserved in advance. \nAccessibility info \nThe VPL Central Branch has elevators to reach the downstairs rooms where the Hullabaloo events are being held. There are wheelchair accessible bathrooms. For more details\, refer to their list of facilities. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/spoken-word-jamboree-2/
LOCATION:What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry House
CATEGORIES:poetry,Verses 2015,Youth
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SUMMARY:That One Thing You Said: an exhibit of visual poetry
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit explores language as an agent in pivotal moments\, whether interpersonally\, socially or globally. Five visual poets (Jordan Abel\, Dina Del Bucchia\, Lindsay Cahill\, Helen Hajnoczky\, and Eric Schmaltz) create works that respond to this concept. The exhibit hopes to blur the distinction between visual poetry and visual art by engaging with progressive\, reactionary and confessional texts. Created in partnership with Poetry Is Dead Magazine. \nCurated by Daniel Zomparelli \nCome to the launch party for this exhibit and meet the artists on Sunday\, April 19th\, 4–7pm. The exhibit will be at the Havana Gallery until April 28th. \nAccessibility Info: \nHavana Gallery is an accessible venue. To reach the theatre\, you must pass through the restaurant to the gallery space. On the right\, is a black door leading into the theatre. There is a narrow hallway and two doors to access the performance space\, but no stairs.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/that-one-thing-you-said-an-exhibit-of-visual-poetry/
LOCATION:We are hiring a Volunteer Coordinator
CATEGORIES:Community Stage,poetry,Verses 2015,Visual Art
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