Introducing a brand new youth poetry slam at a brand new location with a brand new time. This event will be the perfect place for established youth poets to perform their poems in front of a new audience and for new poets to work up the courage to test out their poems. It is open to all youth poets 13-19 years of age.
This will be a last-chance slam featuring the 10 highest-scoring female-identifying poets who are competing for the wild card spot in the WOWPS Finals on Wednesday, January 14th, 2015.
Nine female identified poets from Vancouver will be going head to head to see which one of them will represent Vancouver at the Women of the World Poetry Slam in Albuquerque, New Mexico this March.
C-Command is a spoken word poet, rapper, and seeker of flow. He studied theatre performance in Montreal for four years, until one night he had a lucid dream in which he could freestyle. He left the dream slowly, and then watched his new powers vanish helplessly as his regular mind woke up… But the experience showed him a deep mystery, and he vowed to one day figure out the magnetic properties of rhythm and rhyme. He lives in Vancouver now, writing and experimenting and going for it.
Sebastien Wen is the 2013 UBC Slam Champion, the 2014 Vancouver Youth Slam Champion and the 2014 Canadian Underground Youth Slam Champion. His work has appeared in Arc, Vallum, The Dalhousie Review and others. Mostly he's just a robot searching for sparks.
THE LAST CHANCE SLAM to qualify for youth slam playoffs on March 23rd. This night's feature poet is Teeanna Munro, maiden name Phillips King Taylor, is spoken word artist and writer whose work focuses on storytelling as identity, resistance and celebration.
Isaac Bond writes poems, spits raps, refs basketball, and supports people. He organizes shows, pays artists, attends festivals, and makes new friends; you could be one of them. Come on down and join the fun.
We're back for another workshop and poetry slam at the downtown branch of the Vancouver Public Library. We'll have an open slam for poets 13-19 years of age along with an open mic for poems written in the workshop.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT!! And it's an excellent opportunity for those poets in the Youth Slam playoffs to work on their FINALS poems.
The workshop starts at 5:30 pm. The Slam starts at 7 pm.
PrufRock Shadowrunner is an Ottawa based Poet, DJ and MC. Member of Missing Linx and a staple of Ottawa arts community. Full of jokes and smiles for all, you never know what to expect when Pruf is in the House. This 2x national champion is guaranteed to having you laughing and dancing, Come out and enjoy!
Award winning poet Ahmed ‘Knowmadic’ Ali is a Somali-born Canadian. He is a full-time poet, writer, actor, comedian, speaker and youth worker. In 2014, ACGC recognized the young poet as Alberta’s Top 30 under 30.
Award winning poet Ahmed ‘Knowmadic’ Ali is a Somali-born Canadian. He is a full-time poet, writer, actor, comedian, speaker and youth worker. In 2014, ACGC recognized the young poet as Alberta’s Top 30 under 30.
Since last July poets have been competing to make the youth slam finals and a chance to represent Vancouver at the Youthcanslam Festival in August and defend the national title. This night will be presented “In the round” with the audience seated surrounding the stage much like and Underground Indies competition.
Since last July poets have been competing to make the youth slam finals and a chance to represent Vancouver at the Youthcanslam Festival in August and defend the national title. This night will be presented “In the round” with the audience seated surrounding the stage much like and Underground Indies competition.
This night will be presented "In the round" with the audience seated surrounding the stage much like the Underground Indies competition.
Patrick DeBelen delivers a fast-paced hard-hitting spoken word style that has won him a national championship, earned him the title of the inaugural Youth Poet of Honour of Canada.
Calling all poets of the nerd-like persuasion. This is your night to explain to the world your love of isotopes or Harry Potter or Star Trek or Dr. Who or Werewolves/Vampires/Ducks or Suduko or Quantum Physics or Comic Books or Grammar or anything you feel nerdy and obsessive about.
Calling all poets of the nerd-like persuasion. This is your night to explain to the world your love of isotopes or Harry Potter or Star Trek or Dr. Who or Werewolves/Vampires/Ducks or Suduko or Quantum Physics or Comic Books or Grammar or anything you feel nerdy and obsessive about.
The George Carlin of Yoga - she mostly writes poems about flowers. But, like, mean flowers. No rainbows.
The George Carlin of Yoga - she mostly writes poems about flowers. But, like, mean flowers. No rainbows.
This is you last chance before Hullabaloo to work on your poems in front of an audience and maybe write some new ones. It all happens at the downtown branch of the Vancouver Public Library.
Come be silly and foolish with 2012 Canadian Poetry Slam Champion, RC Weslowski.
We’ll have a workshop starting at 5:30 on writing unexpected things full of surprises plus a mini feature and poetry slam. There will also be an open mic for any work created during the workshop.
This divine yet profane combination has found her a devoted audience with her shameless renderings of sex and romance. Sometimes tongue-in-cheek, other times insightful and honest, Shirley weaves a live show that has people in hysterics - often in spite of themselves.
This divine yet profane combination has found her a devoted audience with her shameless renderings of sex and romance. Sometimes tongue-in-cheek, other times insightful and honest, Shirley weaves a live show that has people in hysterics - often in spite of themselves.
A proverbial gender-bending badass, KT brings light to the rainbow spectrum giving audience more than enough organically grown food for thought to chew on throughout her performances.
A proverbial gender-bending badass, KT brings light to the rainbow spectrum giving audience more than enough organically grown food for thought to chew on throughout her performances.
This exhibit explores language as an agent in pivotal moments, whether interpersonally, socially or globally. Five visual poets (Jordan Abel, Dina Del Bucchia, Lindsay Cahill, Helen Hajnoczky, and Eric Schmaltz) create works that respond to this concept. The exhibit hopes to blur the distinction between visual poetry and visual art by engaging with progressive, reactionary and confessional texts.
The Goodgetters is a start up non-profit collective of like minded artists, musicians, writers, and everything else. They do good through entertaining, education, and inspiration by way of performance, events, and workshops. The top 16 poets of the Winter Season will compete to be in the Van Slam Finals. This is the 1st of 2 semi-finals. The performing poets will be announced on this page, as soon as we know who is competing in which final.
The Goodgetters is a start up non-profit collective of like minded artists, musicians, writers, and everything else. They do good through entertaining, education, and inspiration by way of performance, events, and workshops. The top 16 poets of the Winter Season will compete to be in the Van Slam Finals. This is the 1st of 2 semi-finals.
The Goodgetters is a start up non-profit collective of like minded artists, musicians, writers, and everything else. They do good through entertaining, education, and inspiration by way of performance, events, and workshops. The top 16 poets of the Winter Season will compete to be in the Van Slam Finals. This is the 2nd of 2 semi-finals.
The Goodgetters is a start up non-profit collective of like minded artists, musicians, writers, and everything else. They do good through entertaining, education, and inspiration by way of performance, events, and workshops. The top 16 poets of the Winter Season will compete to be in the Van Slam Finals. This is the 2nd of 2 semi-finals.
The Jamboree kicks off Hullabaloo, the youth spoken word section of the festival with feature Morgan Purvis, Victoria's former Youth Poet Laureate. All teams will be invited to perform a one-minute intro poem to tell us more about themselves and their school. You don’t need to be on a participating team to attend. Don’t be shy. Come on down and help us start this festival right!
The Spoken Word Jamboree kicks off Hullabaloo, the youth spoken word section of the festival with feature Morgan Purvis, Victoria's former Youth Poet Laureate. All teams will be invited to perform a one-minute intro poem to tell us more about themselves and their school.