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  • Last Chance Youth Slam featuring Relevant

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    We acknowledge this event will be taking place on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. This will be our "last chance slam" for poets who have not yet qualified for the youth slam playoffs in March. Poets still needing to slam twice or earn more points … Continued

    $4 – $10

  • Christine Bissonnette features at the Vancouver Poetry Slam

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    The Vancouver Poetry Slam presents this week's feature, Christine Bissonnette!! About our feature: Christine Bissonnette is an acadian poet, writer, teacher, and children’s entertainer originally from Nova Scotia, the unceded traditional ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Since 2011, she’s lived in Vancouver, on the unceded traditional ancestral territories of … Continued

    $6 – $10

  • Rob Mitchel Features at the Vancouver Poetry Slam

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    The Vancouver Poetry Slam presents this week's feature, Rob Mitchell!! A bit about our feature: "Rob Mitchell is a poet born and raised in the south, originally heralding from Atlanta, GA. Growing up a quintessential, middle-class blerd (black nerd), writing has always been a form of catharsis. Recently, Rob has … Continued

    $6 – $10

  • Award winning poet, Adele Barclay features at the Vancouver Poetry Slam

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    The Vancouver Poetry Slam presents this week's feature, Adèle Barclay!! A bit about our feature: Adèle Barclay’s writing has appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Puritan, PRISM, The Pinch, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award for Poetry and the 2016 Walrus Readers’ Choice Award for … Continued

    $6 – $10

  • Youth Slam Finals featuring Rachel Taylor

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    We acknowledge this event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Well this is it, our youth slam finals where we find out who will be on the 2018 youth slam team and which poet will be crowned our youth slam grand slam … Continued

    $6 – $10

  • Full Festival Program Page 1

    It's here! Below is a web version of page 1 of our #VSFestival18 program. Click on  it so that you can move around in it.  Navigation ease may vary according to your device. Print versions of this program will be available as soon as Monday, April 16 at Van Poetry … Continued

  • Full Festival Program Page 2

    It's here! Below is a web version of page 2 of our #VSFestival18 program. Click on  it so that you can move around in it.  Navigation ease may vary according to your device. Print versions of this program will be available as soon as Monday, April 16 at Van Poetry … Continued

  • Andrea Gibson Q + A with Molly Billows at Massy Books

    Massy Books 229 East Georgia St, Vancouver, Bc, Canada

    “Do you want to hear the best story you’ve ever heard in your life?” Andrea Gibson asks into the microphone. The audience leans forward in silent anticipation. “So I met this woman and I went home to her house with her.” They pause, “already a great story.” The audience erupts … Continued

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  • Spoken Word Jamboree feat. Molly Billows

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    Part meet'n'greet, orientation, and showcase, the Spoken Word Jamboree is your chance to meet the teams involved in Hullabaloo 2018 - as well as take in a set from the stellar Molly Billows!

    FREE
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    Spoken Word Jamboree feat. Molly Billows

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    The Spoken Word Jamboree kicks off not only Hullabaloo, but also Verses Festival of Words!   All teams will be invited to perform a one-minute intro poem to tell us more about themselves and their school, and Molly Billows will rock the house as the night's feature. Alice MacKay Room (downstairs … Continued

    FREE
  • Verses 2018

    See you April 19 – 29 for Verses Festival of Words 2018!

    You can purchase your Verses Festival pass for $75 here. Pass-holders must arrive at events early. All events are general admission.  A portion of event capacity has been held specifically for passholders. 15 minutes before show time, spots unclaimed by passholders are released to be sold at the door. This means that … Continued

    $75

  • Underground Indies!!!

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    The first slam event of Hullabaloo - and it's a doozy!! A head-to-head off mic and in-the-round poetry slam where winners are chosen by sound of applause. 16 poets enter. 1 emerges victorious. Everyone wins.

    FREE

  • All Star Slam Showcase #1

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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

    $6
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    Hullabaloo All Star Slam Showcase #1

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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

    $6

  • All Star Slam Showcase #2 SOLD OUT

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    A chance to watch some of the best in the business throw down on the big stage at Rio Theatre!

    $6
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    Hullabaloo All Star Slam Showcase #2 – SOLD OUT

    Annual General Meeting on May 25th

    “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

    $6

  • Hullabaloo Slams: Round 1!

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    All 16 teams throw down in the first of two rounds of competition to determine who goes to Hullabaloo Finals!

    FREE
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    Hullabaloo Slams: Round 1!

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    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

    FREE
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    Adventures in Poetryland Workshops

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    The land of poetry spreads far and wide: you could spend days traveling from Metaphor to Extended Metaphor. And that’s before you even reach Rhyme and Alliteration! Poets have spent years investigating the nooks and crannies of these regions and beyond. Have you been to the magical land of improvisation? Or explored … Continued

    FREE

  • Adventures in Poetryland Workshops

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    A journey into both the charted and uncharted territories of Poetryland under the guidance of festival artists Moe Clark, Molly Billows, Zoey Pricelys Roy, and Erin Dingle.

    FREE

  • Hullabaloo Slams: Round 1!

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    All 16 teams throw down in the second of two rounds of competition to determine who goes to Hullabaloo Finals!

    FREE
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    Hullabaloo Slams: Round 2!

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    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

    FREE

  • Hullabaloo Finals feat. Moe Clark

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    Following a set by festival artist Moe Clark, the four top-ranked teams in the tournament lovingly battle it out for the fabled Billy Sharkspeare Trophy!

    FREE
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    Hullabaloo Finals feat. Moe Clark

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    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

    FREE
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    Jangle & Shout: HullaVerses Remixer

    A literary afternoon delight! Music and words from many of the artists performing throughout the festival, including a selection of Hullabaloo performers featured from our youth events. Bear witness to festival highlights as we celebrate their creative minds in one shared space, where participating artists and organizers, established and up-and-coming, … Continued

    $12 – $15
  • [ID: Buffy Sainte-Marie sings into a microphone on a stand in front of her. Her eyes are closed. Her right hand is raised. She is wearing a breastplate with an unbuttoned black vintage brass-buttoned jacket. She has a turquoise ring on each finger of her left hand. /endID]

    Buffy Sainte-Marie and Special Guests

    Call resistance an act of love, name activism as belief in restoration, trust as resilience, music as medicine; there is alchemy in the work of Buffy Sainte-Marie. Utilizing a generous body of work spanning half a century, Buffy Sainte-Marie reminds us that the truest wealth we can accumulate is in … Continued

    $30 – $35
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    Moe Clark – Masterclass: “Looping Landscapes”

    "Spoken word performance and looping pedal workshop exploring body and voice as landscape. Add new dimension to your spoken word poetry and written works. Combine your poetry with sounds, songs, and performance tools to create works that are stage-worthy and audience approved. Moe Clark will take you on a journey … Continued

    $25 – $30
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    Thursdays Writing Collective Discussion and Workshop

    Thursdays Writing Collective has been writing together at the Carnegie Centre at Main and Hastings for 10 years. Over that last decade, TWC members have met to share the acts and products of writing, improve their writing skills and make connections within Vancouver’s literary community. "TWC includes writers identifying as Indigenous, … Continued

    $8 – $10