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SUMMARY:Stage to Page Showcase: Intimate Dialogues
DESCRIPTION:May 2 | Chill-X Studio\n3pm to 5pm\nAdv. $10 | $15 at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds) \nAdvance tickets here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/stage-to-page-showcase-intimate-dialogues\nBUY A FESTIVAL PASS HERE \nStage to Page Showcase: Intimate Dialogues brings poets Abdulsalam\, Jeremy Loveday\, Skylar Kay\, Amber Dawn\, and Clifton Joseph together for a night of craft and performance you won’t want to miss by Stage to Page Performance Society. \nAbout the poets:\nJeremy Loveday is a poet\, arts educator\, and community builder from Victoria\, BC\, on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən People. He co-founded and served as the longtime artistic director of the Victorious Voices youth poetry festival. Jeremy’s dynamic performances earned him the title of Victoria Poetry Slam Grand Champion three times. In 2020\, he was honoured with the Zaccheus Jackson Nyce Memorial Award. His work has been published in reputable platforms such as Huffington Post\, CV2\, Funicular Magazine\, National Observer\, CBC\, Claudia\, and Best Canadian Poetry 2023. Jeremy’s first full-length book Maybe the Starling\, is now available through Write Bloody North.  \nAbdulsalam is a Syrian-Palestinian spoken word poet and photographer. His work explores themes of home\, memory\, and sometimes love. He has performed across Turtle Island\, reached the finals of CIPS 2023\, and featured at the Saskatchewan Festival of Words. He is grateful to live\, work\, and play on the unceded Coast Salish Territories. \nSkylar Kay is an Alberta-based poet and grad school dropout. Since releasing her debut collection\, Transcribing Moonlight (Frontenac House 2022)\, she has moved back home to Calgary where she looks for the magic in everyday life. Her debut collection was well-received\, earning a shortlist nod for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Poetry\, and won the Book Publishers Association of Alberta’s Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry. Her second collection\, There’s Magic Here Too (Frontenac House) released in fall 2025. \nAmber Dawn is the author of six books and editor of three anthologies. Her body-of-work largely explores queerness\, trauma-informed cultural production and madness. Her newest poetry collection Buzzkill Clamshell (2025) flaunts the chronically pained body as a source of lewd feminine power. \nDubzz/poet/at/large Clifton Joseph is a poet and journalist who has written for television\, radio\, newspapers\, magazines and the internet. \nA founding member of the dub poetry movement in Canada\, he has published a book of poems “Metropolitan Blues”\, “Oral Trans/Missions” an album of poetry and music\, the videos “Pimps” and “(Survival) In the City\, as well as a numerous  single dub poetry releases including “A Chant For Monk”\, “That Night In Tunisia” and “Shots On Eglinton”. \nHe has performed widely across Canada\, the U.S.\, U.K. and the Caribbean and his poems have been included in a number of written and audio anthologies including “Poetry Nation” and “Word Up”\, Virgin Records compilation of North American performance poets. \nAmong Joseph’s Awards are two Gemini Awards for Best Writing in an Information Program or Series; a Time-Warner “Freddies” Award for excellence in health reporting; a Silver Fleece Award from the Chicago International Film Festival; and the Best Dub Poet Award and the Peter Tosh Memorial Award from the Canadian Reggae Music Awards. \nHis latest album of poetry and music is “Shots On Eglinton”
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/stage-to-page-showcase-intimate-dialogues/
LOCATION:Chill-X Studio\, 2270 Manitoba Street\, Vancouver\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Verses,Verses 2026
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SUMMARY:Canadian Individual Poetry Slam FINALS featuring Spin El Poeta
DESCRIPTION:May 2\, | Chill-X Studio\nDoors: 7pm | Show: 8pm \nAdv. Tix: $10 | $15 at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds) \nAdvance tickets here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/canadian-individual-poetry-slam-finals-ft-spin-el-poeta\nBUY FESTIVAL PASS HERE \nJoin us for the final night of the national competition to determine the 2026 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Champion\n \nAbout the Feature:\nSPIN El Poeta is a Guatemalan-born\, poet\, cultural strategist\, and educator whose work has moved stages across Turtle Island and Latin America for over twenty years. Known for performances that fuse political clarity with deep emotional intelligence\, SPIN’s poetry explores migration\, masculinity\, healing and Immigrant–Indigenous friendship with precision and urgency. \nHe has represented Canada internationally at the 2025 World Poetry Slam\, 2024 Abya Yala Slam in Ciudad Juárez\, Mexico\, Painted By Poets in Atlanta\, and he was a member of the Growhouse Tampa Slam Poetry team in 2024.  \nBeyond the stage\, SPIN has executive produced the LA Raza BIPOC Access Podcast and co-founded One Mic Educators and LA Raza Open Mic\, platforms dedicated to uplift Black\, Indigenous\, Latin American\, and Palestinian artists.
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LOCATION:Chill-X Studio\, 2270 Manitoba Street\, Vancouver\, Canada
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