Julie Peters features at Vancouver Poetry Slam
Café Deux Soleils 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, CanadaThe George Carlin of Yoga - she mostly writes poems about flowers. But, like, mean flowers. No rainbows.
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Julie Peters features at Vancouver Poetry Slam
DMP-300x190The George Carlin of Yoga - she mostly writes poems about flowers. But, like, mean flowers. No rainbows.
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Dewey Decibel April Fool's Day Youth Slam & Workshop with RC Weslowski
Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, CanadaThis 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.Free -
Shirley Gnome features at Vancouver Poetry Slam
Café Deux Soleils 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, CanadaThis 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.
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Shirley Gnome features at Vancouver Poetry Slam
DMP-300x190This 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.
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KT Job features at the Last Chance Slam
Café Deux Soleils 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, CanadaA 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.
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KT Job features at the Last Chance Slam
DMP-300x190A 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.
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That One Thing You Said: an exhibit of visual poetry
We are hiring a Volunteer CoordinatorThis 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.
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Allo & The Goodgetters feature at Van Slam Semi Finals 1
Café Deux Soleils 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, CanadaThe 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.
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Allo & The Goodgetters feature at Van Slam Semi Finals 1
DMP-300x190The 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.
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Allo & The Goodgetters feature at Van Slam Semi Finals 2
Café Deux Soleils 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, CanadaThe 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.
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Allo & The Goodgetters feature at Van Slam Semi Finals 2
DMP-300x190The 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.
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Spoken Word Jamboree
What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry HouseThe 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!
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Spoken Word Jamboree
Vancouver Public Library Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, CanadaThe 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.
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Spoken Word Jamboree
Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, CanadaThe 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.
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All-Star Slam
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.$6 – $10 -
All-Star Slam
HeadingAre 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.
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Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day One
What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry HouseEvery 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.
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Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day One
Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, CanadaThis 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.
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Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day One
Vancouver Public Library Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, CanadaEvery 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.
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Hullabaloo Underground Indies
What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry HouseThe 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.
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Hullabaloo Underground Indies
Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, CanadaUnderground 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.
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Adventures in Poetryland
What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry HouseThe 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?
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Adventures in Poetryland
Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, CanadaThe 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?
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Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day Two
What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry HouseBy 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.
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Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day Two
Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, CanadaBy 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.
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Hullabaloo Team Bouts: Day Two
Vancouver Public Library Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, CanadaBy 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.
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Hullabaloo Team Finals featuring Lucia Misch
What’s Happening at Vancouver Poetry HouseThe 5th annual Hullabaloo Finals Night will determine which school has the best poetic chops in all of BC. Lucia Misch will be the feature poet.
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Hullabaloo Team Finals featuring Lucia Misch
Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, CanadaThis team finals 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.
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Hullabaloo Team Finals featuring Lucia Misch
Vancouver Public Library Central Branch 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, CanadaThe 5th annual Hullabaloo Finals Night will determine which school has the best poetic chops in all of BC. Lucia Misch will be the feature poet.
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