Vancouver Poetry House

Jangle & Shout: The Hulla-Verses Remixer
2015-04-26 19:30 (America/Vancouver) | The 10 Best Poem of 2015
A literary soirée with a wild side! Get a sneak peek sampling of the music and words of many of the artists yet to come in the festival, with the best of Hullabaloo thrown into the mix. Feast your ears on an all-you-can-handle buffet of words at the York Theatre, a venue new for this year’s Verses.
(Photo by Evil Patrick. Actual crowd shot from last year’s festival.)
Feature performers include:
Ivan Coyote
Kinnie Starr
Robert Priest
Amber Dawn
David McGimpsey
Tanya Evanson
Ian Ferrier
Mutya Macatumpag
Molly Skye Ancel
Wes Nahanee
Barbara Adler
Morgan Purvis
Russell Wallace
Pam Bentley
Lucia Misch
Youth poets from Hullabaloo
Youth poets from Zaccheus Legacy Project
& more to be announced soon!
Tickets can be purchased through The Cultch’s Box Office or you could see this show with a Verses Festival Pass.
Accessibility info:
The York Theatre has not had an accessibility audit. The new renovation to the space was made with the aim of creating a wheelchair accessible space. There are a few options for wheelchair seating (although none on the balcony). Call The Cultch for details. There are stalls marked as wheelchair accessible in the men’s & women’s washrooms; however, these have not been verified by an accessibility auditor.

Jangle & Shout: The Hulla-Verses Remixer
2015-04-26 19:30 | Agendas & Minutes
A literary soirée with a wild side! Get a sneak peek sampling of the music and words of many of the artists yet to come in the festival, with the best of Hullabaloo thrown into the mix. Feast your ears on an all-you-can-handle buffet of words at the York Theatre, a venue new for this year’s Verses.
Buy tickets for Jangle & Shout.
(Photo by Evil Patrick. Actual crowd shot from last year’s festival.)
Feature performers include:
Ivan Coyote
Kinnie Starr
Robert Priest
Amber Dawn
David McGimpsey
Tanya Evanson
Ian Ferrier
Mutya Macatumpag
Molly Skye Ancel
Wes Nahanee
Barbara Adler
Alex Lu
Morgan Purvis
Russell Wallace
Sean Cranbury
Pam Bentley
Lucia Misch
Youth poets from Hullabaloo
Youth poets from Zaccheus Legacy Project
& more to be announced soon!
Tickets can be purchased through The Cultch’s Box Office or you could see this show with a Verses Festival Pass.
Accessibility info:
The York Theatre has not had an accessibility audit. The new renovation to the space was made with the aim of creating a wheelchair accessible space. There are a few options for wheelchair seating (although none on the balcony). Call The Cultch for details at 604-251-1766. There are stalls marked as wheelchair accessible in the men’s & women’s washrooms; however, these have not been verified by an accessibility auditor.

Seeding the Poem: Masterclass with Robert Priest
2015-04-26 15:00 - 17:00 | Havana Theatre, 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
We will focus on techniques for writing micro or ‘seed’ poems — aphorisms, slogans, hook lines, jokes, maxims etc. with a view to also using them as centering points for longer oral/musical pieces such as spoken word poems, song lyrics or even formal poems such as sonnets or villanelles. Participants should come away with at least one, and probably a lot more than one, micro work and and at least the beginnings of a maximally sized work containing the micro work.
Buy tickets for Seeding the Poem: Masterclass with Robert Priest
Robert Priest, is the author of fourteen books of poetry, three plays, two novels, lots of musical CDS, one hit song and many columns for Now Magazine . His words have been decried in the legislature, posted in the Transit system, quoted in the Farmer’s Almanac, and sung on Sesame Street. His 2008 book: Reading the Bible Backwards peaked at number two on the Globe and Mail’s poetry list. Rosa Rose, a book of children’s verse, in praise of inspirational figures (Wolsak & Wynn) recently won a silver moonbeam award in the U.S. and is a book of honour in the Lion and Unicorn Award for Excellence in children’s poetry in North America. A new book of poems for adults, Previously Feared Darkness, was published in Sept 2013 by ECW press.
On His Poetry For Grown-Ups:
“Poetry full of flashes of insight. Imaginative in a strange way, he takes inordinate chances with logic, countering absurdity with absurdity, and expanding our sense of human emotional possibilities.”
-The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
“Grand & Mystic”
-Jason Anderson (Eye Magazine)
“It’s lyrical, mesmerizing and not overtly melodic or word anorexic pomo, but tenderly sublime. There’s meat on the bones and it’s fresh. Priest renders the quotidian and intellectualizes it for us in a genius-sampling tool–himself.”
-Broken Pencil
“A Canadian gem. For 2-5 year olds it’s as the date perfection itself. This should be in every child’s home.”
-CBC Radio
“These poems will undoubtedly be memorized and sung for a long time to come.”
-Canadian Book Review Annual
“Rosa Rose and Other Poems is a beautiful poetry collection that needs to be on every child’s bookshelf and is sure to make young readers lovers of history and poetry.”
-Canadian Materials Magazine
Only 30 registrations are available for this exclusive workshop experience. Box office and Will Call will open with doors at 2:30pm. Box office is CASH ONLY. There is an ATM located in the building.
Advance registrations are NOT mailed out; they can be picked up at the Will Call station at the venue. Box office and Will Call will open with doors at 2:30pm. Workshop registrations are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
Festival passes do NOT give you access to masterclasses. They are the only events that require separate registration.
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Accessibility Info:
Havana Theatre is an accessible venue. To reach the theatre, you must pass through the restaurant to the gallery space. On the right, is a black door leading into the theatre. There is a narrow hallway and two doors to access the performance space, but no stairs.

Seeding the Poem: Masterclass with Robert Priest
2015-04-26 15:00 | Havana Theatre, 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

Poetry Masterclass with Amber Dawn
2015-04-26 12:30 - 14:30 | Havana Theatre, 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Can poetry disrupt the dominant narrative? Can poetry be an act of taking back and paying forward power? Can poetry help us heal ourselves and our communities? Damn right! Through a series of writing prompts and peer-to-peer reflection, workshop participants will explore the potent pairing of poetry + social justice values and personal identities.
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Amber Dawn’s memoir How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir won the 2013 Vancouver Book Award. She is the author of the Lambda Award-winning novel Sub Rosa, and editor of the anthologies Fist of the Spider Women: Fear and Queer Desire and With A Rough Tongue. Amber Dawn was 2012 winner of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers. She currently teaches creative writing at Douglas College and the University of British Columbia, as well as volunteer mentors at several community-driven art and healing spaces.
Only 30 registrations are available for this exclusive workshop experience. Box office and Will Call will open with doors at noon. Box office is CASH ONLY. There is an ATM located in the building.
This show may contain strong language, controversial issues, and words that make you re-evaluate your life. Advance tickets are NOT mailed out; they can be picked up at the Will Call station at the venue. Box office and Will Call will open with doors at noon. Workshop registrations are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
Festival passes do NOT give you access to masterclasses. They are the only events that require separate registration.
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Accessibility Info:
Havana Theatre is an accessible venue. To reach the theatre, you must pass through the restaurant to the gallery space. On the right, is a black door leading into the theatre. There is a narrow hallway and two doors to access the performance space, but no stairs.

Poetry Masterclass with Amber Dawn
2015-04-26 12:30 | Havana Theatre, 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

Hullabaloo Team Finals featuring Lucia Misch
2015-04-25 20:00 | Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B6B1, Canada
The 5th annual HULLABALOO FINALS NIGHT will determine which school has the best poetic chops in all of British Columbia. Lucia Misch 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 other with the 2015 Hullabaloo team championship at stake.
Alice MacKay Room.
Doors at 7pm. Show starts at 8pm.
Show followed by after party with pizza & pop.
About the feature:
Lucia Misch grew up at an astronomical observatory near San Jose, California, and began writing and performing at fifteen. She placed second at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam (2011), was a member of the Vancouver Slam Team (2012), and continues to perform and teach poetry across North America. Lucia has written and presented spoken word pieces for organizations including Human Rights Watch and the United Food Workers Union Women’s Network, regularly facilitates writing workshops with the Vancouver Poetry House’s WordPlay program, and is an ArtStarts project poet in residence. She currently lives and writes on unceded Coast Salish territory.
Open to the general public. All Ages. General seating. Seating cannot be reserved in advance.
Accessibility info:
The VPL Central Branch has elevators to reach the downstairs rooms where the Hullabaloo events are being held. There are wheelchair accessible bathrooms. For more details, refer to their list of facilities.

Hullabaloo Team Finals featuring Lucia Misch
2015-04-25 20:00 | Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6BB61, Canada

Hullabaloo Team Finals featuring Lucia Misch
2015-04-25 20:00 | What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry House

Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day Two
2015-04-25 13:00 | Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B6B1, Canada
By the second day of prelims, the tournament will be in full swing. Some teams will be flying high, others will be working hard to improve their ranking.
Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye rooms (downstairs from the main concourse).
Doors at 12:30pm.
1pm–2:30pm – First slate of preliminary team bouts.
3pm-4:30pm – Second slate of preliminary team bouts.
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 poems will be judged by five random members of the audience who are not directly affiliated with any of the poets or schools. They will give each poem a score between 0 and 10. We will drop the high and low scores, and each poem will receive a total score out of 30. Each bout has four rounds (three rounds of solo poems and a group piece round) so the highest possible team score is 120.
Open to the general public. All Ages. General seating. Seating cannot be reserved in advance.
Accessibility info:
The VPL Central Branch has elevators to reach the downstairs rooms where the Hullabaloo events are being held. There are wheelchair accessible bathrooms. For more details, refer to their list of facilities.

Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day Two
2015-04-25 13:00 | Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6BB61, Canada

Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day Two
2015-04-25 13:00 | What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry House

Adventures in Poetryland
2015-04-25 10:00 | Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6BB61, Canada
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?
There’s a lot to discover and if you’re a young, aspiring poet, this is your chance to travel through these lands with an experienced spoken word poet as your guide.
Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye Rooms (downstairs from main concourse).
Starts at 10am and ends around 12:30pm.
Adventures in Poetryland is a series of workshops on the different aspects of spoken word poetry. You sign-up for the whole three-hour session, during which you’ll circulate through a series of games, lessons, and exercises that will help you expand your poetic range and learn a whole lot more about how wide and varied the territory of poetryland is.
Our feature poets, Lucia Misch and Morgan Purvis, will be leading workshop stations at this event, along with veteran versifiers from our WordPlay Poetry-in-Schools team.
This is event is open to all BC Youth aged 14–19 free of charge. You must preregister to attend by sending an email to wordplaypoets@gmail.com with: 1) you name 2) your age, 3) the school you attend, and 4) a couple of sentences about your prior experience with writing or performing. Participants in the Hullabaloo team competition have spots reserved for them in this event.
Accessibility info:
The VPL Central Branch has elevators to reach the downstairs rooms where the Hullabaloo events are being held. There are wheelchair accessible bathrooms. For more details, refer to their list of facilities.

Adventures in Poetryland
2015-04-25 10:00 | What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry House

Hullabaloo Underground Indies
2015-04-24 22:30 | Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6BB61, Canada
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.
Alice MacKay Room (downstairs from the main concourse).
Starts after Day One Team Bouts, around 10:30pm.
Ends around midnight.
Rules:

Each school can nominate one poet to represent them at Underground Indies. This might be the winner of your school slam or your team captain. The selection process is up to the school or organization. If we have less than 16 reps, then we will have an open sign-up directly proceeding the competition to bring the number of slammers up to 16.
There are no judges, or rather, everyone is a judge. 16 poets are randomly chosen into 8 pairings. In each pairing, the two poets play rock/paper/scissors to determine who goes first. After both poets have performed, the winner is determined by audience applause.
To go all the way and complete the final match at Underground Indies, a poet will need four poems.
The time limit of 3 minutes and 10 seconds is still in effect. If a poet goes over time, the host will enter the circle and interrupt their poem.
As in previous Indies Finals, the final round has no rules. It is the Anarchy Round. You can have multiple people, music, props, costumes, whatever you like. However, unlike previous years, breaking the rules is no longer a requirement of the Anarchy Round. And yes, the time penalty is still in effect in the Anarchy Round. That is one rule you can’t break.
Accessibility info
The VPL Central Branch has elevators to reach the downstairs rooms where the Hullabaloo events are being held. There are wheelchair accessible bathrooms. For more details, refer to their list of facilities.

Hullabaloo Underground Indies
2015-04-24 22:30 | What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry House

Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day One
2015-04-24 18:30 | Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B6B1, Canada
This night will kick off the poetry slam section of Hullabaloo.
Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye rooms (downstairs from the main concourse).
Doors at 6pm.
6:30pm–8pm – First slate of preliminary team bouts.
8:30pm-10pm – Second slate of preliminary team bouts.
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 poems will be judged by five random members of the audience who are not directly affiliated with any of the poets or schools. They will give each poem a score between 0 and 10. We will drop the high and low scores, and each poem will receive a total score out of 30. Each bout has four rounds (three rounds of solo poems and a group piece round) so the highest possible team score is 120.
Open to the general public. All Ages. General seating. Seating cannot be reserved in advance.
Accessibility info
The VPL Central Branch has elevators to reach the downstairs rooms where the Hullabaloo events are being held. There are wheelchair accessible bathrooms. For more details, refer to their list of facilities.

Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day One
2015-04-24 18:30 | Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6BB61, Canada

Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day One
2015-04-24 18:30 | What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry House

All-Star Slam
2015-04-24 12:30 | Heading
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.
Buy tickets for All-Star Slam
How does it work? Simple. The poets perform one poem each in three rounds, all of which are judged on a scale of zero to ten by the audience — in this case, the students! In the end, the winner is announced, though in effect, everyone has won. Students have been moved, inspired, and engaged by poetry, often for the first time in their lives.
As one student had it: “This is better than Metallica!” The topics are engaging, the presentation is amazing, and the competition is riveting. Guaranteed to jumpstart students into writing careers of their own.
Hosted by 2005 Slam Champion and All-Star founder, Brendan McLeod (pictured in video below).
To bring a school group to this show, contact Johnny MacRae through wordplaypoets@gmail.com.
Doors at noon.
Show starts at 12:30pm.
Show ends at 2pm.
Want to see it in action? Check out this video of the All-Star Slam (which is also called “Travellin’Slam” when it goes on tour outside of Vancouver):

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Accessibility:
Read the updated overview of The Rio Theatre (completed in February 2015) or the complete updated audit for detailed accessibility information. These documents are available thanks to the important work of the Radical Access Mapping Project​.

All-Star Slam
2015-04-24 12:30 | Annual General Meeting on May 25th
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.
How does it work? Simple. The poets perform one poem each in three rounds, all of which are judged on a scale of zero to ten by the audience — in this case, the students! In the end, the winner is announced, though in effect, everyone has won. Students have been moved, inspired, and engaged by poetry, often for the first time in their lives.
As one student had it: “This is better than Metallica!” The topics are engaging, the presentation is amazing, and the competition is riveting. Guaranteed to jumpstart students into writing careers of their own.
To bring a school group to this show, contact Johnny MacRae through wordplaypoets@gmail.com.
Doors at noon.
Show starts at 12:30pm.
Show ends at 2pm.
Want to see it in action? Check out this video of the All-Star Slam (which is also called “Travellin’Slam” when it goes on tour outside of Vancouver):
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Accessibility:
Read the updated overview of The Rio Theatre (completed in February 2015) or the complete updated audit for detailed accessibility information. These documents are available thanks to the important work of the Radical Access Mapping Project​.

Spoken Word Jamboree
2015-04-23 19:30 | Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6BB61, Canada
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.
Alice MacKay Room (downstairs from the main concourse).
Doors at 6:30pm.
Show starts at 7:30pm.
The Jamboree provides all participating poets a chance to meet each other outside of a competition setting. It’s also where all the teams will register. Poets and coaches will receive artist passes that allow them free access to all Hullabaloo events. There will be a brief orientation and then the poetry will begin. However, this is a public event. 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!
About the feature:
Morgan Purvis is is a 21-year-old poet and performing artist who loves potluck brunch, feminism, and magical realist novels. She knits, sings, and spends a lot of time trying to un-hide important things. She believes in vaginal graffiti, food, and babies; she especially believes in young people being badass, in LOUD and in quiet ways.
Morgan was the 2014 City of Victoria Youth Poet Laureate and 2014 YouthCanSlam Poet of Honour, and a member of the 2013 VicSlam Team. She has been working in arts education in Victoria on unceded Lekwungen Territory for 4 years.
Most importantly, Morgan wants to scrap with your boundaries and dance with your ugly. Badass Yippy kay yay!
Open to the general public. All Ages. General seating. Seating cannot be reserved in advance.
Accessibility info
The VPL Central Branch has elevators to reach the downstairs rooms where the Hullabaloo events are being held. There are wheelchair accessible bathrooms. For more details, refer to their list of facilities.

Spoken Word Jamboree
2015-04-23 19:30 | Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B6B1, Canada

Spoken Word Jamboree
2015-04-23 19:30 | What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry House

Allo & The Goodgetters feature at Van Slam Semi Finals 2
2015-04-22 19:00 | DMP-300×190
Vancouver poetry house presents a feature performance by Allo & The Goodgetters.
The Goodgetters is a start up non-profit collective of like minded artists, musicians, writers, and everything else. We do good through entertaining, education, and inspiration by way of performance, events, and workshops.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegoodgetters
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegoodgetters
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thegoodgetters
Instagram: https://instagram.com/thegoodgetters/
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 performing poets will be announced on this page, as soon as we know who is competing in which final.

There will be two 3 minute rounds and all poets will compete in BOTH rounds.
As always, there will be an open mic and two-round poetry slam, (3 min) where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Van Slam team.
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.

Allo & The Goodgetters feature at Van Slam Semi Finals 2
2015-04-22 19:00 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Vancouver poetry house presents a feature performance by Allo & The Goodgetters.
The Goodgetters is a start up non-profit collective of like minded artists, musicians, writers, and everything else. We do good through entertaining, education, and inspiration by way of performance, events, and workshops.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegoodgetters
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegoodgetters
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thegoodgetters
Instagram: https://instagram.com/thegoodgetters/
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 performing poets will be announced on this page, as soon as we know who is competing in which final.

There will be two 3 minute rounds and all poets will compete in BOTH rounds.
As always, there will be an open mic and two-round poetry slam, (3 min) where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Van Slam team.
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

Allo & The Goodgetters feature at Van Slam Semi Finals 1
2015-04-20 19:00 | DMP-300×190
Vancouver poetry house presents a feature performance by Allo & The Goodgetters.
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.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegoodgetters
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegoodgetters
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thegoodgetters
Instagram: https://instagram.com/thegoodgetters/
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.
There will be two 3 minute rounds and all poets will compete in BOTH rounds.
As always, there will be an open mic and two-round poetry slam, (3 min) where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Van Slam team.
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.

Allo & The Goodgetters feature at Van Slam Semi Finals 1
2015-04-20 19:00 | Café Deux Soleils, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Vancouver poetry house presents a feature performance by Allo & The Goodgetters.
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.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegoodgetters
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegoodgetters
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thegoodgetters
Instagram: https://instagram.com/thegoodgetters/
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.
There will be two 3 minute rounds and all poets will compete in BOTH rounds.
As always, there will be an open mic and two-round poetry slam, (3 min) where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Van Slam team.
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

That One Thing You Said: an exhibit of visual poetry
2015-04-16 | We are hiring a Volunteer Coordinator
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. Created in partnership with Poetry Is Dead Magazine.
Curated by Daniel Zomparelli
Come to the launch party for this exhibit and meet the artists on Sunday, April 19th, 4–7pm. The exhibit will be at the Havana Gallery until April 28th.
Accessibility Info:
Havana Gallery is an accessible venue. To reach the theatre, you must pass through the restaurant to the gallery space. On the right, is a black door leading into the theatre. There is a narrow hallway and two doors to access the performance space, but no stairs.

KT Job features at the Last Chance Slam
2015-04-13 19:00 | DMP-300×190
Vancouver poetry house presents feature poet, KT Job, KT is lost in the LGBTQ alphabet soup and awash on a sea of androgyny. A biology graduate, recovering addict and agriculture aficionado, KT uses both the academic and life lessons she’s learned to sow the seeds of environmental consciousness while offering vulnerable glimpses of her journey. 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 recent fixture on the national spoken word community, KT has represented St.Catherines Poetry slam in CFSW, CIPS and Slamtario diligently for the last three years. An arts organizer, performer and maverick of a human being, KT is known to bring out the inner child and have them play in dirt.
THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE SLAM where the the winner is automatically entered into the Semi Finals. Only poets who are not already in the top 15 can compete.There will be an open mic and two-round poetry slam (3 min).
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.
