Vancouver Poetry House

Vancouver Individual Poetry Slam Playoffs
2015-09-09 20:00 - 23:00 (America/Vancouver) | DMP-300×190
Vancouver Poetry House presents…
Wednesday night, the top-scoring 10 poets (9 plus the winner of the LAST CHANCE slam on Monday the 7th) duke it out to see who will be crowned the best individual poet in Vancouver. That person will get to represent Vancouver at IWPS in Washington DC from October 7th-10th and at CIPS during the Verses Festival at the end of April in 2016.
The list of competing poets are:
Sahara Rose
Jo
Fernando
Al Mader
Tasha Receno
Siling Zhang
Coral More
Liam McGuigan
Mitcholos
Matt Loeb
There will be no open mic, two sacrifice poets, a four-round poetry slam (1 min, 2 min, 3 min and 4 min) between 10 poets, with the two lowest-scoring poets being dropped each round. The scores will be cumulative.
Cafe Deux Soleils and the Van Slam strive to be a trans friendly place and a hate speech free zone. Help us with that. We also acknowledge that this event takes place on unceded First Nations Territory.
Also, be kind to our VOLUNTEER door staff. They have to follow BC Liquor Board Rules and once we are sold out we can’t let anyone in unless someone leaves. You cannot save seats for people in line. Let them know if you are leaving. Also no ATM at the door, it’s cash ONLY.
Get there early if you want a seat. It’s going to be electric! Come before 7pm to guarantee entry.
Cover Charge: $6-10, sliding scale

Vancouver Individual Poetry Slam Playoffs
2015-09-09 19:00 - 23:00 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

LAST CHANCE SLAM featuring Erin Cotton. The winner is automatically entered into the IWPS Playoffs on the 9th
2015-09-07 19:00 - 23:00 | DMP-300×190
Erin Cotton’s poetry is a handwritten love letter filled with dirty jokes and queer politics. She was Victoria Slam Champion for 2014 and competed at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word as part of the Victoria Slam Team. She has one too many poems about genitalia and is secretly a bit proud of it. Super queer and super weird, she’ll bring all the absurdist sexual politics you can handle.
There will be an open mic and three-round poetry slam: 2 min, 1 minute and 4 minute rounds where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Vancouver Individual Poetry Slam championships.
Cafe Deux Soleils and the Van Slam strive to be a trans friendly place and a hate speech free zone. Help us with that. We also acknowledge that this event takes place on unceded First Nations Territory.
Also, be kind to our VOLUNTEER door staff. They have to follow BC Liquor Board Rules and once we are sold out we can’t let anyone in unless someone leaves. You cannot save seats for people in line. Let them know if you are leaving. Also no ATM at the door, it’s cash ONLY.
Get there early if you want a seat or want to slam. Before 7pm.

LAST CHANCE SLAM featuring Erin Cotton
2015-09-07 19:00 - 23:00 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Erin Cotton’s poetry is a handwritten love letter filled with dirty jokes and queer politics. She was Victoria Slam Champion for 2014 and competed at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word as part of the Victoria Slam Team. She has one too many poems about genitalia and is secretly a bit proud of it. Super queer and super weird, she’ll bring all the absurdist sexual politics you can handle.
This is also THE LAST CHANCE SLAM. . The winner is automatically entered into the IWPS Playoffs on the 9th.
There will be an open mic and three-round poetry slam: 2 min, 1 minute and 4 minute rounds where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Vancouver Individual Poetry Slam championships.
Cafe Deux Soleils and the Van Slam strive to be a trans friendly place and a hate speech free zone. Help us with that. We also acknowledge that this event takes place on unceded First Nations Territory.
Also, be kind to our VOLUNTEER door staff. They have to follow BC Liquor Board Rules and once we are sold out we can’t let anyone in unless someone leaves. You cannot save seats for people in line. Let them know if you are leaving. Also no ATM at the door, it’s cash ONLY.
Get there early if you want a seat or want to slam. Before 7pm.

Sneaking up on Yourself: A Confessional Poetry Workshop
2015-09-06 13:00 - 16:00 | Mosaic, 1720 Grant Street, Vancouver, BC, V5L 2Y7, Canada
There are many ways to tell the truth and many ways to approach the self. In this workshop you will learn to tell your story through poetry, captivate an audience with your words and most importantly of all, adjust a microphone stand. A 3-hour workshop intensive on how to write about yourself indirectly and approach your inner truth from a new direction. For beginners and long time poets. $20 for adults, pay as you can for youth 21 and under.
Taught by Erin Cotton,the 2014 Vic Slam Champion who is featuring at Van Slam on September 7th.

Brendan McLeod features at the Van Slam
2015-08-31 19:00 - 23:00 | DMP-300×190
Brendan McLeod is the author of a novel, a play, and a couple of monologues. He’s the founder of The Fugitives, a folk group signed to Light Organ Records, that tours internationally and have been nominated for multiple Canadian Folk Music Awards and a Western Canadian Music Award. Way back in 2004 (Jesus) he was the Canadian SLAM champ and world runner up. He was the 2012 Poet of Honor at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and the 2015 Poet of Honour at the Victoria Spoken Word Festival. He’s performing his monologue “Brain” at the 2015 Vancouver Fringe from Sept. 9-20. Photo credit: Mike Savage.
There will be an open mic and three-round poetry slam: 2 min, 1 minute and 4 minute rounds where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Vancouver Individual Poetry Slam championships.
Cafe Deux Soleils and the Van Slam strive to be a trans friendly place and a hate speech free zone. Help us with that. We also acknowledge that this event takes place on unceded First Nations Territory.
Also, be kind to our VOLUNTEER door staff. They have to follow BC Liquor Board Rules and once we are sold out we can’t let anyone in unless someone leaves. You cannot save seats for people in line. Let them know if you are leaving. Also no ATM at the door, it’s cash ONLY.
Get there early if you want a seat or want to slam. Before 7pm.

Brendan McLeod features at the Van Slam
2015-08-31 19:00 - 23:00 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Youth Poetry Slam featuring Joshua "Scribe" Watkis
2015-08-24 20:00 - 22:15 | DMP-300×190
Our new youth slam season is underway and poets are hitting the stage and torching the mic with their words trying to make it into the Youth Team Playoffs next March.
The age limit to compete is 13-20 years of age. To make the team YOU CANNOT be turning 21 before September 1st 2016.
There are 2 rounds of competition. 3 minute time limit in each round. No props, costumes, musical accompaniment allowed in your performance. No cover poems either. First time poets are encouraged to attend.
Besides the poetry slam we will have a feature performance from Joshua Scribe Watkis
“Armed with an arsenal of pain, passion and a pen, Scribe is a vivid storyteller through the arts of Hip-Hop & Spoken Word. His sharp lyricism and bold presence give his audience a clear picture of the world through his eyes when he takes the stage. The young Toronto artist is one third of the Spoken Word collective ‘The Uncharted’, a budding Arts Educator/Youth Mentor and is probably known best for his fascinating ability to burst into full song without any kind of warning. While performing for humble crowds of 20 to upwards of 1000, the Emcee/Poet brings the same electric vibe to every show. Reminiscent of his influences Kendrick Lamar and Lecrae, Scribe always leaves the place with more energy than when he stepped in. ”
Sign up at 7pm. Show at 8. $4 for 18 and under. $6-$10 for 19 and up.
We acknowledge this event takes place on unceded Coast Salish territory. We also strive to have our events be trans friendly events. There are 3 non gendered washrooms on site for everyone to use.
Please be nice to our door staff as they are only following BC Liquor Laws as far as capacity at the venue goes. Cash only at the door.

Crackerjack Lipsmacker Youth Poetry Slam #92 featuring SCRIBE from Toronto
2015-08-24 19:00 - 22:15 | DMP-300×190
Our new youth slam season is underway and poets are hitting the stage and torching the mic with their words trying to make it into the Youth Team Playoffs next March.
The age limit to compete is 13-20 years of age. To make the team YOU CANNOT be turning 21 before September 1st 2016.
There are 2 rounds of competition. 3 minute time limit in each round. No props, costumes, musical accompaniment allowed in your performance. No cover poems either. First time poets are encouraged to attend.
Besides the poetry slam we will have a feature performance from Joshua Scribe Watkis
“Armed with an arsenal of pain, passion and a pen, Scribe is a vivid storyteller through the arts of Hip-Hop & Spoken Word. His sharplyricism and bold presence give his audience a clear picture of the world through his eyes when he takes the stage. The young Toronto artist is one third of the Spoken Word collective ‘The Uncharted’, a budding Arts Educator/Youth Mentor and is probably known best for his fascinating ability to burst into full song without any kind of warning. While performing for humble crowds of 20 to upwards of 1000, the Emcee/Poet brings the same electric vibe to every show. Reminiscent of his influences Kendrick Lamar and Lecrae, Scribe always leaves the place with more energy than when he stepped in. ”
Sign up at 7pm. Show at 8. $4 for 18 and under. $6-$10 for 19 and up.
We acknowledge this event takes place on unceded Coast Salish territory. We also strive to have our events be trans friendly events. There are 3 non gendered washrooms on site for everyone to use.
Please be nice to our door staff as they are only following BC Liquor Laws as far as capacity at the venue goes. Cash only at the door.

Crackerjack Lipsmacker Youth Poetry Slam #92 featuring SCRIBE from Toronto
2015-08-24 19:00 - 22:15 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Toaster features at the Van Slam
2015-08-17 19:00 | DMP-300×190
Vancouver poetry house presents feature poet, Toaster.
Toaster is a performace poet who has competed in the Individual World Poetry Slam, National Poetry Slam, Ink Slam and other “big money” poetry competitions. He has also
performed in a large variety of literary showcases such as Literary
Death Match, The Encyclopedia Show, Lit Quake and Beast Crawl. Toaster
was featured in SF Weekly, on All Def Digital’s youtube channel and Season 4 of Lexus Verses and Flow. You can find his work on his website (idcarthouse.squarespace.com/toaster), his Instagram (@Toastersmodernlife) and his Twitter (toastersCANfly).
Brennan ‘B Deep’ DeFrisco likes words and the way they move. He is an organizer and performer at the Berkeley Poetry Slam and will represent them in the upcoming 2015 National Poetry Slam. He is co-founder of Lucky Bastard Press and author of Highku: 4 & 20 Poems About Marijuana. His work can be found or is forthcoming in Words Dance, TheThe Poetry’s Infoxicated Corner, Drunk Monkeys, JMWW’s Exquisite Duet, Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, Yellow Chair Review & Revolution John. He loves a particularly beautiful and talented woman, movies, poker, whiskey, and Firefly.
There will be an open mic and three-round poetry slam: 2 min, 1 minute and 4 minute rounds where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Vancouver Individual Poetry Slam championships.
Cafe Deux Soleils and the Van Slam strive to be a trans friendly place and a hate speech free zone. Help us with that. We also acknowledge that this event takes place on unceded First Nations Territory.
Also, be kind to our VOLUNTEER door staff. They have to follow BC Liquor Board Rules and once we are sold out we can’t let anyone in unless someone leaves. You cannot save seats for people in line. Let them know if you are leaving. Also no ATM at the door, it’s cash ONLY.
Get there early if you want a seat or want to slam. Before 7pm.

Toaster features at the Van Slam
2015-08-17 19:00 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Magpie Ulysses features at the Van Slam
2015-08-10 19:00 | DMP-300×190
The Vancouver Poetry House presents, Magpie Ulysses.
Writer, Rabble Rouser, fancy talker; Magpie began performing at the age of 17 to save her life. Since then she has performed across North America at hundreds of venues, is a veteran member of two national champion Vancouver poetry slam teams and was named a Poet of Honour at the Canadian festival Of Spoken Word In the Fall of 2012.
Having lived across BC in communities large and small for the better part of the past 20 years, Magpie continuously finds herself asking questions of home and what it is to be human as part of the environment she dwells in. An activist at heart, Magpie is known for her visceral writings about addictions, environmental issues and working class struggle. She recently completed a collection of prose poems telling the stories of strangers and self from her experiences of hitchhiking over 25,000km across North America in her late teens and early twenties. With an electric soundtrack composed by James Lamb, the 40 minute show is a condensed, yet expansive piece of writing exploring the themes of adaptations, space, fear, faith, place, othering and the act of storytelling while following a rich Canadian landscape.
Magpie has spent much of the past five years heavily involved in the arts while living in rural BC. She spent most of the winter of 2014/15 living in her recently alzheimer diagnosed 85 year old grandmother’s basement in Calgary, Alberta with her husband, grandma and a dog named Brandi. She has become increasingly interested in questions surrounding memory, place, body, aging and how we choose to tell our own stories. Magpie has returned to call Vancouver home for the next while and is really looking forward to buying a condo and settling down in a quantitative life surrounded by stuff (just thought I’d see if you read that far). See you soon home slam.

Magpie Ulysses features at the Van Slam
2015-08-10 19:00 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Rachel Taylor features at the Van Slam
2015-08-03 19:00 | DMP-300×190
Vancouver poetry house presents feature poet, Rachel Taylor.
Rachel Taylor is a spoken word artist currently hailing from Beyond The Wall (otherwise known as Fort McMurray, Alberta), where she fights White Walkers and attempts to understand the economic advantage of sending crude oil to Texas for refining and then buying back gasoline at twice the price. Rachel has been producing original work since her debut film “The Barbie Massacre” in 1993. Alas, the final cut of this film was lost forever when it was recorded over with Vicar of Dibley reruns by Rachel’s father in 1994. Rachel is a reading fanatic, a comic-book-movie addict, and can quote The Princess Bride nearly verbatim.
She is thrilled to come home. Photo courtesy of Reckless Photography
There will be an open mic and three-round poetry slam: 2 min, 1 minute and 4 minute rounds where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Vancouver Individual Poetry Slam championships.
Cafe Deux Soleils and the Van Slam strive to be a trans friendly place and a hate speech free zone. Help us with that. We also acknowledge that this event takes place on unceded First Nations Territory.
Also, be kind to our VOLUNTEER door staff. They have to follow BC Liquor Board Rules and once we are sold out we can’t let anyone in unless someone leaves. You cannot save seats for people in line. Let them know if you are leaving. Also no ATM at the door, it’s cash ONLY.
Get there early if you want a seat or want to slam. Before 7pm.

Rachel Taylor features at the Van Slam
2015-08-03 19:00 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

The Vancouver Poetry Slam’s 2015 Queer Slam
2015-07-29 19:00 | DMP-300×190
It’s that time of year again! We need to crown our 2015 Queer Slam Champion.
Without putting too many definitions on what a Queer Slam is, this competition will showcase, express, and celebrate the work of Van Slam’s writers of queer poetry.
We can’t wait to hear what you’ve been working on!
There will be an open mic and three-round poetry slam: 2 min, 1 minute and 4 minute rounds where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Vancouver Individual Poetry Slam championships.
Cafe Deux Soleils and the Van Slam strive to be a trans friendly place and a hate speech free zone. Help us with that. We also acknowledge that this event takes place on unceded First Nations Territory.
Also, be kind to our VOLUNTEER door staff. They have to follow BC Liquor Board Rules and once we are sold out we can’t let anyone in unless someone leaves. You cannot save seats for people in line. Let them know if you are leaving. Also no ATM at the door, it’s cash ONLY.
Get there early if you want a seat or want to slam. Before 7pm.

The Vancouver Poetry Slam's 2015 Queer Slam
2015-07-29 19:00 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Crackerjack Lipsmacker Youth Poetry Slam #91 featuring the 2015 Youth Slam Team
2015-07-27 20:00 - 22:15 | DMP-300×190
Let the games begin! July is the start of the new youth slam season. From now til February 2016 poets will have a chance to garner points towards making the youth slam playoffs in March of 2016.
The youth slam is open to all poets who are 13-20 years of age. The youth slam happens on the 4th Monday of each month at Cafe Deux Soleils. Sign up at the day of the show only.
There will be 2 rounds of 3 minute poems. 12 poets in the 1st round and the top 5 advance to the 2nd (unless there is a tie) Each poet in the 2nd round is awarded points. Cash and prizes are up for grabs as well.
And this month we feature the debut of the 2015 youth slam team which is comprised of our grand slam champion Mariah Dear along with Vienna Claire Jeffery, Andrew Warner, Alex Montinola and Emma Field. Come celebrate their first performance as a team. It should be fun.
Doors and sign up at 7pm. Show at 8 o’clock.
$4 for 18 and under. $6-$10 sliding scale for 19 and up.
This event takes place on unceded Coast Salish Territory. We also strive to keep our events a trans friendly experience. And be kind to our door staff please. They are volunteering to help out with the show and must follow the capacity rules laid out by the venue and the City of Vancouver. Cash only at the door.
Thanks
rcarcee2@gmail.com if you have any questions

Crackerjack Lipsmacker Youth Poetry Slam #91 featuring the 2015 Youth Slam Team
2015-07-27 19:00 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Al Mader features at the Van Slam
2015-07-20 19:00 | DMP-300×190
Vancouver poetry house presents feature poet, Al Mader.
As a member of this year’s Vancouver Poetry Slam Team, Al Mader has wowed stateside audience with his unique and quirky blendy of wordplay, charm, and whimsy. AKA the Minimalist Jug Band, Al Mader is an underground legend.
Check out a couple of online reviews….this man blows people away:
http://www.litlive.ca/story/315
http://alienatedinvancouver.blogspot.ca/2010/04/minimalist-jug-band-and-such.html
Not a show to miss. A rare treat!
There will be an open mic and three-round poetry slam: 2 min, 1 minute and 4 minute rounds where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Vancouver Individual Poetry Slam championships.
Cafe Deux Soleils and the Van Slam strive to be a trans friendly place and a hate speech free zone. Help us with that. We also acknowledge that this event takes place on unceded First Nations Territory.
Also, be kind to our VOLUNTEER door staff. They have to follow BC Liquor Board Rules and once we are sold out we can’t let anyone in unless someone leaves. You cannot save seats for people in line. Let them know if you are leaving. Also no ATM at the door, it’s cash ONLY.
Get there early if you want a seat or want to slam. Before 7pm.

Al Mader features at the Van Slam
2015-07-20 19:00 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Cynthia French features at Van Slam
2015-07-13 19:00 | DMP-300×190
Vancouver poetry house presents feature poet, Cynthia French.
Cynthia French is a member of the 2015 Seattle Poetry Slam. Other award type things she’s proud of include earning her MFA in Writing from Hamline University, being the 2013 Minneapolis Women’s Poetry Slam Champion, a member of the 2010 SlamMN! Poetry Slam Team, receiving the Verve Grant for spoken word twice, receiving a Five Wings Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, being published in the Spoken Word Revolution Reduxand having one of her poems chosen by the audience to be included inAlight: Best Loved Poems of the Women of the World Poetry Slam 2014. She has been involved in the poetry slam community for 17 years.
There will be an open mic and three-round poetry slam: 2 min, 1 minute and 4 minute rounds where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Vancouver Individual Poetry Slam championships.
Cafe Deux Soleils and the Van Slam strive to be a trans friendly place and a hate speech free zone. Help us with that. We also acknowledge that this event takes place on unceded First Nations Territory.
Also, be kind to our VOLUNTEER door staff. They have to follow BC Liquor Board Rules and once we are sold out we can’t let anyone in unless someone leaves. You cannot save seats for people in line. Let them know if you are leaving. Also no ATM at the door, it’s cash ONLY.
Get there early if you want a seat or want to slam. Before 7pm.

Cynthia French features at Van Slam
2015-07-13 19:00 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Ayda features at Van Slam
2015-07-06 19:00 | DMP-300×190
Vancouver poetry house presents feature poet, Ayda
Born in Iran, raised in Vancouver, Ayda’s work deals with the bicultural experience and pays homage to the struggles faced by her immigrant parents, as well as exploring and critiquing topics such as gender dynamics, sex, religion, existentialism, and mental illness through the lens of firsthand experience and portraits of intrapersonal relationships. Currently earning her Bachelor’s in English Literature and Philosophy, Ayda just released her first chapbook of poetry, “Canaries with Dirty Lungs”.
There will be an open mic and three-round poetry slam: 2 min, 1 minute and 4 minute rounds where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Vancouver Individual Poetry Slam championships.
Cafe Deux Soleils and the Van Slam strive to be a trans friendly place and a hate speech free zone. Help us with that. We also acknowledge that this event takes place on unceded First Nations Territory.
Also, be kind to our VOLUNTEER door staff. They have to follow BC Liquor Board Rules and once we are sold out we can’t let anyone in unless someone leaves. You cannot save seats for people in line. Let them know if you are leaving. Also no ATM at the door, it’s cash ONLY.
Get there early if you want a seat or want to slam. Before 7pm.

Ayda features at Van Slam
2015-07-06 19:00 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Lindi Nolte features at Van Slam
2015-06-29 19:00 | DMP-300×190
The Vancouver Poetry House introduces Lindi Nolte.
Lindi Nolte is a Vancouver-based spoken word artist, world traveller, story-teller and nature enthusiast. She was born and raised in Rustenburg, South Africa and immigrated to Canada with her family at age 10. Although Lindi loves the English language, Afrikaans is her mother tongue. After graduating from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts in English and Psychology, Lindi moved back to Vancouver to pursue a career in performing arts. She was first seduced by spoken word at Café Deux Soleil in 2013. After her first night at a poetry slam she wrote this of the experience: “it was like discovering the world had unicorns, and all the unicorns had a secret language and a secret club.” Lindi is honoured to now be a part of the club and to spread the language of art and poetry. She is excited to attend UBC in September for the Bachelor of Education program. Wherever she goes, she goes with all her heart.
There will be an open mic and three-round poetry slam: 2 min, 1 minute and 4 minute rounds where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Vancouver Individual Poetry Slam championships.
Cafe Deux Soleils and the Van Slam strive to be a trans friendly place and a hate speech free zone. Help us with that. We also acknowledge that this event takes place on unceded First Nations Territory.
Also, be kind to our VOLUNTEER door staff. They have to follow BC Liquor Board Rules and once we are sold out we can’t let anyone in unless someone leaves. You cannot save seats for people in line. Let them know if you are leaving. Also no ATM at the door, it’s cash ONLY.
Get there early if you want a seat or want to slam. Before 7pm.

Lindi Nolte features at Van Slam
2015-06-29 19:00 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Youth Poetry Slam featuring Thursdays Writing Collective
2015-06-22 20:00 - 22:15 | DMP-300×190
This is our last youth poetry slam before the new youth slam season begins. It will be a simple 2 round fun slam for cash and prizes. Both rounds are 3 minutes in lengths. We will also have a poetry open mic to start things off.
This month our features are the Thursdays Writing Collective featuring Donna Dykeman,Ghia Aweda, Harry Langen and James Witwick.
“Thursdays Writing Collective runs free, drop-in creative writing classes at Carnegie Community Centre for members of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, an area challenged by poverty-related issues and beloved by residents for its optimism, activism and creativity.
Since the Collective’s inception in 2008, more than 150 writers ranging in age from 18-86 years old have participated in writing sessions, events and festivals including the Heart of the City, Spirit Rising, Candahar Art Bar at the Cultural Olympiad, Word on the Street, V125 Poetry Conference, the Memory Festival and numerous artistic collaborations with diverse literary communities, including UBC Law students.
The Collective has published six chapbook anthologies with the support of Canada Council, City of Vancouver, SFU and Carnegie Community Centre.
If you would like more information about visiting or participating in any way, please contact Elee Kraljii Gardiner at thursdayseditor@telus.net.”
We acknowledge this event takes place on unceded First Nation’s territory. We also strive to have this show be a trans friendly event. Also, be nice to our door staff. They are volunteering and need to follow the occupancy rules given to us by the cafe. AND it’s cash only at the door.
