Past Events from April 11, 2013 – April 9, 2012 | Page 2 | Vancouver Poetry House

VanSlam: Open Mic and Slam Competition featuring CR Avery

Community Taps & Pizza 1191 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada

TICKETS Come join us for another night of slam poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. This event will feature a set from poet CR Avery! what men do with their mouths Bio for c.r avery By P. … Continued

$10 – $15

VanSlam: Open Mic featuring Sonya Littlejohn

Community Taps & Pizza 1191 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada

TICKETS Come join us for another night of poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. Due to illness Cicely Belle Blain is no longer able to join us this evening. We look forward to having her back soon! … Continued

$10 – $15

VanSlam: Open Mic and Slam featuring Optimus Rhyme

Community Taps & Pizza 1191 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada

TICKETS Come join us for another night of poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. Richard Glen Lett is a Canadian stand-up comedian, poet and actor. He is known for comedy focusing on drug and alcohol recovery and … Continued

$10 – $15

VanSlam: Open Mic featuring Emmet O’Brien

Community Taps & Pizza 1191 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada

TICKETS Come join us for another night of poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. Emmet O'Brien is not your generic poet, bursting into the scene in March 2017, Emmet has done more than your average 25 year … Continued

$10 – $15

VanSlam: Open Mic and Slam featuring Junie Désil

Community Taps & Pizza 1191 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada

TICKETS Come join us for another night of poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. Junie Désil is a poet. Born of immigrant (Haitian) parents on the Traditional Territories of the Kanien’kehá:ka in the island known as Tiohtià:ke … Continued

$10 – $15

VanSlam: Open Mic featuring Herbert

Community Taps & Pizza 1191 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Come join us for another night of poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. A spoken word poet, pianist, and photographer, Herbert (they/them) has dazzled audiences around Vancouver and opened up new perspectives to poetry. A queer and … Continued

VanSlam: Devon Goodman Anarchy Slam featuring Kagan Goh

Community Taps & Pizza 1191 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Come join us for another night of poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. Devon Goodman was a lifelong poet, who found his truest inspiration in the Vancouver Slam Poetry community in 2007. Devon started the Maple Ridge … Continued

VanSlam: Open Mic and Slam feat. Alba Benavente

Community Taps & Pizza 1191 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. Alba Cristoffanini Benavente is a Chilean writer living in the stolen … Continued

VanSlam: Open Mic feat. Franz Seachel

Community Taps & Pizza 1191 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. Franz Seachel is a South-Asian settler residing on unceded Coast-Salish lands … Continued

VanSlam: Slam and Open Mic feat. Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

Community Taps & Pizza 1191 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. Donna-Michelle St. Bernard is a Canadian playwright, theatre director, emcee, and … Continued

VanSlam: Open Mic feat. Renite

Community Taps & Pizza 1191 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. Renite (she/her) is a Canadian-British Punjabi poet working in public health. … Continued

VanSlam: Slam and Open Mic feat. Kris Hall

Community Taps & Pizza 1191 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. Kris Hall (aka Barracuda Guarisco; C.C. Hannett) is the author of … Continued

VanSlam: Radical Love Slam

Community Taps & Pizza 1191 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. In honour of Valentines Day the theme is Radical Love! Bring … Continued

VanSlam: Open Mic ft. Agartu Ali at Historic Joy Kogawa House

Historic Joy Kogawa House 1450 West 64th Avenue, Vancouver, Canada

Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Historic Joy Kogawa House at 1450 W 64th Ave, or to the Van Slam zoom space. Doors and sign up for the open … Continued

VanSlam: Last Chance Slam ft. Truth Is at Historic Joy Kogawa House

Historic Joy Kogawa House 1450 West 64th Avenue, Vancouver, Canada

Come join us for another night of slam poetry! This is your last chance to compete for a place in the CIPS Qualifier! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Historic Joy Kogawa House at 1450 W 64th Ave, … Continued

VanSlam: CIPS Qualifier ft. Abdulsalam!

Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society 1607 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Come join us for another night of slam poetry! In partnership with Open Mic Night/ Art Gallery, it's moment we've all been waiting for: the CIPS Qualifier! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society … Continued

Spoken Word Jamboree and Alumni Showcase

Vancouver Film School | VFS Cafe 390 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

TICKETS A chance for the teams participating in Hullabaloo to meet and greet with one another. Following a showcase from three of Hullabaloo’s outstanding alumni, ll attending teams will perform a short 1-minute piece to introduce themselves. Doors at 6, Show 6:30-9, PWYC VFS Café, 390 West Hastings Street Jeudi … Continued

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Hullabaloo All Star Slam

Performance Works 1218 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

TICKETS Hullabaloo All Star Slam Doors at 12:00, Show at 12:30 Hullabaloo's All Star Slam brings to life the poignancy, hilarity and immediacy of poetry slam for local students! An interactive event, audience members engage in time-honored slam traditions, such as booing the scores (respectfully) and cheering wildly for the … Continued

$6

Hullabaloo Poetry Slam Round 1!

Vancouver Film School | VFS Cafe 390 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

TICKETS Slams start at 6:30 & 8:30 All Hullabaloo teams in Hullabaloo perform a mix of individual and group performances in poetry slam competitions for the first time! Poetry presented with gusto and the enthusiastic support of all attending teams! Vendredi 19 avril de 18h à 22h, début des Slams … Continued

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Hullabaloo Poetry Slam Round 2!

Vancouver Film School | VFS Cafe 390 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Doors at 1:30 PM, Bouts start at 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM All Hullabaloo teams in Hullabaloo perform a mix of individual and group performances in poetry slam competitions for the second time! After this round of bouts, we’ll find out who qualifies for Hullabaloo FINALS! Samedi 20 avril, 13h30-17h30, … Continued

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Hullabaloo FINALS featuring Marie Metaphor Specht

Vancouver Film School | VFS Cafe 390 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

TICKETS Doors at 7:00 PM, Show at 8:00 PM The top four Hullabaloo teams from preliminaries compete for the Hullabaloo championship! Feature performance by Marie Metaphor. Samedi 20 avril, 19h00-22h00, Portes à 19h00, Spectacle à 20h00 Finales par équipe Hullabaloo avec Marie Metaphor Les quatre meilleures équipes Hullabaloo des préliminaires … Continued

PWYC

Oral Traditions

Vancouver Film School | VFS Cafe 390 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

TICKETS Doors at 7:30, show at 8 A celebration at the failed attempts to silence the Native voice. A collaboration between the Native Hip Hop Festival Society and Vancouver Poetry House.  Hosted by Derek Edenshaw   Lundi 22 avril, portes à 7h30, spectacle à 20h Café VFS, 390, rue West … Continued

$10

Famous Last Words

Vancouver Film School | VFS Cafe 390 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

TICKETS Doors at 6:30, show at 7  A night of funny people and hilarious poems brought to you through a collaboration between Death Rides a Unicorn and Vancouver Poetry House. In Famous Last Words, five contestants attempt to win their way into the heart of our master of ceremonies, Sara … Continued

$10 – $15

Mashed Poetics | I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got

Vancouver Film School | VFS Cafe 390 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

TICKETS Doors at 8:30, show at 9 Mashed Poetics is a night of spoken word and music mashups where poets present new work based on a music album chosen by the organizers.  A live band plays all the songs live with the poets performing in between the songs and sometimes … Continued

$10 – $15

Embodying Spoken Word

The WISE Hall 1882 Adanac Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

TICKETS Johnny Trinh Workshop Performance Poetry is a practice that engages the body and the voice in the sharing of the words. The ways in which we communicate and perform work is as important as the formation of the words themselves. In this workshop, poets who perform or want to … Continued

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CIPS PRELIMS Bout 1

The WISE Hall 1882 Adanac Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

TICKETS Doors open at 6pm for live and online audience Poets will be paired up via random draw and compete head-to-head. The first round of poems are 3 minutes long. This will be a double knockout competition. Meaning 24 poets will compete with each other in 12 groups of 2. … Continued

$15

Da Luv Jones Showcase

The WISE Hall 1882 Adanac Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

TICKETS Produced in partnership with Fade to Black Entertainment and Vancouver Writers Fest Doors at 8:30, show at 9pm A showcase of Black poetics, featuring established and emerging poets to celebrate Black stories. Fade to Black Entertainment curates and produces events and programs that amplify and preserve historical and contemporary … Continued

$10 – $15

Love Letters for an Aching World

WISE Hall 1882 Adanac Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

TICKETS Humans are capable of simultaneously holding both the love and the mess — how can we write to honour this duality? This workshop offers space to explore writing as an act of love and to consider what it is to be human in a profoundly difficult yet terribly beautiful … Continued

How to Fnck up a Poem

The WISE Hall 1882 Adanac Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Chances are it's happened to you. You're at the mic, delivering your poem. Then something happens: maybe you stumble or say the wrong word, maybe you make eye contact with someone and get momentarily distracted, maybe an unexpected surge of emotion hits you, maybe the words simply stop coming to … Continued