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  • Hullabaloo Slams: Bouts 5 & 6

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    8 teams get back at it to determine who will make Hullabaloo Finals. A mix of individual poems and group pieces.

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  • Hullabaloo Slams: Bouts 5 & 6 + 7 & 8

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    The second slate of prelims kicks off, with eight teams competing in their second slams! Location: Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye rooms (downstairs from the main concourse). Bouts 5 & 6 - Doors: 1:00 PM; Start: 1:30 PM; End: 3:00 PM Bouts 7 & 8 - Doors: 3:00 PM; Start: 3:30 PM; End 5:00 PM Every … Continued

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  • Hullabaloo Slams: Bouts 7 & 8

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    The preliminary rounds wrap up, with two more simultaneous bouts to determine who makes finals. A mix of individual poems and group pieces.

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  • Hullabaloo Finals featuring Jeremy Loveday

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    Following a feature by Victoria's Jeremy Loveday, the top four teams compete for the title of Hullabaloo 2017 team champions and ownership of the fabled Billy Sharkspeare trophy!

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  • Hullabaloo Finals featuring Jeremy Loveday

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    The 7th annual HULLABALOO FINALS NIGHT will determine which school has the best poetic chops in all of British Columbia. Jeremy Loveday 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 … Continued

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  • Saul Williams Masterclass

    “Williams has been breaking ground since his debut album, Amethyst Rock Star, was released in 2001.  After gaining global fame for his poetry and writings at the turn of the century, Williams has performed in over 30 countries and read in over 300 universities, with invitations that have spanned from … Continued

    $40 – $50

  • Jangle & Shout HullaVerses Remixer

    A literary afternoon delight! Music and words from many of the artists performing throughout the 2017 Verses Festival of Words, with the best of performers from Hullabaloo youth spoken word competition thrown into the mix. Feast your ears on an all-you-can-handle buffet of words. Get a taste of the festival … Continued

    $12 – $15

  • “Oceans to Sail” Showcase with Saul Williams and Guests

    "Oceans to Sail" Showcase Featuring Saul Williams and Guests Saul Williams is no stranger to conversations that permeate the collective minds of the diaspora. Reparations are within reach and he has a list of demands waiting to unravel from the tip of his revolutionary tongue. Bolstered by the work of … Continued

    $25 – $30

  • Black Lives Matter Showcase

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    Black Lives Matter Vancouver is the local chapter of the international group of activists calling for an end to police brutality, and aiming to lift up Black voices. Curated by Cicely-Belle Blain and hosted by Holly Bishu, this showcase gives space to the artists within the movement, paying respect to … Continued

    $10 – $12

  • Van Slam Team Finals 2017

    Wise Hall 1882 Adanac St, Vancouver, BC, British Columbia, Canada

    Van Slam Team Finals  Celebrate the 21st annual Van Slam Finals Night with visiting feature Desireé Dallagiacomo. Vancouver's top nine slam poets of the season compete for a spot on this year’s team to represent Van Slam at major tournaments and festivals across North America. Poets gain points by ranking … Continued

    $12 – $15
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    Youth Poetry Slam featuring Justin Bige & Molly Billows

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    Our monthly youth poetry slam series continues in April but with an extra special bit of spice and hot sauce as we are also part of the Verses Festival of Words. Now that our playoffs are complete we’re going to have a fun slam for cash and prizes. We’ll also … Continued

    $10

  • Youth Poetry Slam featuring Indigenuity Poet Justin Bige

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    Our monthly youth poetry slam series continues in April but with an extra special bit of spice and hot sauce as we are also part of the Verses Festival of Words. Now that our playoffs are complete we're going to have a fun slam for cash and prizes.  We'll also … Continued

    $4 – $10

  • 2017 Van Slam Team Finals

    2017 Van SlamTeam Finals is part of Verses Festival of Words again! #VS17 #VersesFestival Celebrate the 21st annual Van Slam Finals Night with visiting feature Desireé Dallagiacomo. Vancouver's top nine slam poets of the season compete for a spot on this year’s team to represent Van Slam at major tournaments … Continued

    $12 – $15

  • Geist 104 vs Oratorealis 3 Launch

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    Geist is the Canadian magazine of ideas and culture — fact + fiction, photography and comix, essays, reviews, and the weird and wonderful from the world of words. Issue 104 will be launched this night.  Oratorealis publishes biannually Canadian spoken word and experimental poetry. Oratorealis is thrilled to be launching their … Continued

    $12 – $14

  • Sounds Like Fire: Femme4Femme

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    Amber Dawn, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Kama La Mackerel, and Kai Cheng Thom In this femme-focussed showcase, we are gifted the opportunity to the bear witness to brilliant magic born of community and coven, care and creativity among four radical, vulnerable, and fiercely capable femmes, building each other up in a … Continued

    $17 – $22

  • Sound Out Loud Workshop with Johnny Trinh

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    Shhh… Before you speak a single word in the festival, trained stage actor and performance poet, Johnny Trinh, nourishes our understanding of breath and body, expanding our skills of projection and protecting what is for vocal performers, our most valuable instrument. Lengthen the lifespan and strengthen the health of your … Continued

    $20 – $25

  • CIPS Poets Orientation

      Poets participating in the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam are required to attend this orientation.The focus of CIPS Tournament Director Johnny Trinh will be on making sure everyone is aware of the rules and format of the tournament, the location of the venues, community resources available to them, and the … Continued

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  • Spoken Nerd

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    What better place to proclaim your love for whatever turns on your nerdy nature than at the Storm Crow Tavern, the geekiest gathering place in Vancouver? Costumes are welcomed in the audience or for performers. Go on, dress up, and step up to the mic. You will be in raucous … Continued

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  • The Body Is Not An Apology: Sonya Renee Taylor and Denise Jolly

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    An international movement cultivating global Radical Self Love and Body Empowerment. Believing that discrimination, social inequality, and injustice are manifestations of our inability to make peace with the body, our own and others, The Body Is Not An Apology fosters global, radical, unapologetic self-love which translates to radical human love … Continued

    $17 – $22

  • Mashed Poetics featuring Spice by the Spice Girls

    Mashed Poetics is a night of spoken word and music mash up.  We pick a music album, find a cover band and ask poets to write new poems based on the songs.  Then we do it all up live with the poets performing in between songs. Mashed Poetics has been … Continued

    $10 – $12

  • Talk the Talk: Activism and the Arts

    Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

    Guided by two qualified facilitators, Deirdre Lee and Melanie Matining, this talk is likely to engage with a number of topics that challenge and re-form our collective ideas of activism in the arts. "Deirdre Lee is a poet & performer, a writer & a survivor. An artist who works in … Continued

    Free
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    Spoken Word as Theatre Masterclass with Charlie Petch

    Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

    On the heels of their groundbreaking, tender, illuminating show Mel Malarkey Gets The Bum Rush, Charlie Petch breathes new life into old vaudevillian form. Learn the versatility and depth of long form cabaret-style storytelling, as Petch teaches us how to transform performance poetry into mesmerizing theatre that gives both audience … Continued

    $40 – $50

  • Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Day One Bouts at Cafe Deux Soleils

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    Forty of 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 … Continued

    $8 – $10

  • Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Day One Bouts at Havana Theatre

    Forty of 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 … Continued

    $8 – $10

  • Radical (Re)Imaginings: Visions of a Queer Future: workshop with Amal Rana and Molly Billows

    Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

    Moving beyond reacting to the systems that oppress us, and into future-building for the world/s we want to manifest, we will create work in our voices and perspectives that the universe urgently needs to hear. Youth can sign up to work with two deeply thoughtful and experienced mentors/community activists and … Continued

    $20 – $25

  • Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Day Two Bouts at Cafe Deux Soleils

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    The tension builds as Canada’s best slam 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 … Continued

    $8 – $10

  • Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Day Two Bouts at Havana Theatre

    Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

    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

    $8 – $10
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    Talk the Talk: Intersectionality and Arts Communities

    Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

    Guided by two qualified facilitators, Sonmin Bong and Jen Sung, this talk asks participants to explore Kiberlé Crenshaw’s model of intersectionality in relation to artistic communities. "Sonmin Bong is a first-generation Korean immigrant feminist who works, plays and, most importantly, loves on unceded Coast Salish territories.She is a host and … Continued

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  • Radical (Re)Imaginings: Visions of a Queer Future Showcase

    Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

    A showcase featuring recently created work by youth, and a set by each of poets Amal Rana, Molly Billows, and jaye simpson. Some of the performances will have been created the day before at the Radical (Re)Imaginings workshop with facilitators/youth mentors Rana and Billows, and some of it will be … Continued

    $8 – $10