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.
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.
Are your students finding poetry boring? Unexciting? An archaic form practiced by old people obsessed with nature? Try All-Star Slam. It brings the poignancy, hilarity, and immediacy of slam poetry competitions to the stage. The All-Star Slam pits three former poetry slam champions head to head to head in an all-out battle of poetic verve and wit.
Are your students finding poetry boring? Unexciting? An archaic form practiced by old people obsessed with nature? Try All-Star Slam. It brings the poignancy, hilarity, and immediacy of slam poetry competitions to the stage. The All-Star Slam pits three former poetry slam champions head to head to head in an all-out battle of poetic verve and wit.
Every team in Hullabaloo will perform in one bout this night, either the first or second slate of prelims. The bout draw, determining the time for each school’s bout, will be conducted before the tournament begins. All teams are encouraged to attend the entire evening.
This night will kick off the poetry slam section of Hullabaloo. 16 teams from across BC show off their poetic best with solo poems and team pieces.
Every team in Hullabaloo will perform in one bout this night, either the first or second slate of prelims. The bout draw, determining the time for each school’s bout, will be conducted before the tournament begins. All teams are encouraged to attend the entire evening.
The audience will be arranged in a circle around the performance area. There will be no stage and no microphone. Instead 16 poets will compete in a head-to-head format to determine the best slam poet at Hullabaloo.
Underground Indies is the chance for individual slammers to show the breadth and depth of their poetic skills. After day one of prelims on Friday April 24th, we’ll take the poetry off the stage and put it into a different format. The audience will be arranged in a circle around the performance area. There will be no stage and no microphone. Instead 16 poets will compete in a head-to-head format to determine the best slam poet at Hullabaloo.
The land of poetry spreads out far and vast. There’s a lot of territory to cover. You could spend a whole day just traveling from metaphor to extended metaphor. Then there’s rhyme and alliteration. Poets have spent years investigating the nooks and crannies of those areas. What about the presentation of the text? Or the magical land of improvisation?