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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Poetry Masterclass with Amber Dawn
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaThrough 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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Poetry Masterclass with Amber Dawn
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaThrough 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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Seeding the Poem: Masterclass with Robert Priest
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaRobert Priest, aka Dr. Poetry, brings you techniques for writing micro or ‘seed’ poems — aphorisms, slogans, hook lines, jokes, maxims – with a view to also using them as centering points.
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Seeding the Poem: Masterclass with Robert Priest
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaWe 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 … Continued
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Jangle & Shout: The Hulla-Verses Remixer
Agendas & MinutesA literary soirée with a wild side, this is your chance to see a sampling of many of the artists in the festival. Feast your ears on an all-you-can-handle buffet of words!
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Jangle & Shout: The Hulla-Verses Remixer
The 10 Best Poem of 2015A 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.
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Jangle & Shout: The Hulla-Verses Remixer
The York Theatre 639 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaA literary soirée with a wild side, this is your chance to see a sampling of many of the artists in the festival. Feast your ears on an all-you-can-handle buffet of words!
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Van Slam Finals Night
The 19th annual Van Slam Finals Night features Vancouver's top eight slam poets competing for a spot on this year’s Van Slam team.
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Youth Anarchy Slam featuring Zaccheus Legacy Project
ContactYouth poets (aged 12–20) are asked to break one of the classic poetry slam rules. Includes a feature performance by youth presenting work inspired by Zaccheus Jackson.
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Van Slam Finals
Wise Hall 1882 Adanac St. , Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaThe 19th annual Van Slam Finals Night features Vancouver's top eight slam poets competing for a spot on this year’s Van Slam team.
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Youth Anarchy Slam featuring Zaccheus Legacy Project
Alessandra NaccaratoYouth poets (aged 12–20) are asked to break one of the classic poetry slam rules. Wear a costume, use props, perform a cover poem, perform a group piece, play a musical instrument or combine all those together. Whatever you do though you must break one of the slam rules. Open sign-up. Be creative, have fun! In addition to the slam, this show will feature youth performing original work inspired by, in response to, and in honour of Zaccheus Jackson Nyce.
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Van Slam Finals Night
Wise Hall 1882 Adanac St, Vancouver, BC, British Columbia, CanadaThe 19th annual Van Slam Finals Night features Vancouver’s top eight slam poets competing for a spot on this year’s Van Slam team. Poets have been gaining points by ranking in the top four at Van Slam throughout the year to qualify for this playoff event. The Van Slam team will represent Van Slam at major tournaments and festivals across North America.
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Youth Anarchy Slam featuring Zaccheus Legacy Project
Café Deux Soleils 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, CanadaYouth poets (aged 12–20) are asked to break one of the classic poetry slam rules. Includes a feature performance by youth presenting work inspired by Zaccheus Jackson.
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Spoken Word Masterclass with Sister Outsider
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaThis workshop will explore intersectionality and the realities we experience living multiple identities at the same time. Inspired by Gloria Anzaldua’s La Fronteras/Borderlands, we will discuss the relationships various races, genders, sexualities, and languages have with each other and how we find a space to define ourselves within a world that often asks us to choose.
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Spoken Word Masterclass with Sister Outsider
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaThis workshop will explore intersectionality and the realities we experience living multiple identities at the same time. Inspired by Gloria Anzaldua’s La Fronteras/Borderlands, we will discuss the relationships various races, genders, sexualities, and languages have with each other and how we find a space to define ourselves within a world … Continued
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Word Circus
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaA whirlwind of words occurs as Robert Priest, Tanya Evanson, David McGimpsey, Barbara Adler, and Ian Ferrier blur the line between stage and page.
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Word Circus
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaA whirlwind of words occurs as Robert Priest, Tanya Evanson, David McGimpsey, Barbara Adler, and Ian Ferrier blur the line between stage and page.
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Thursdays Writing Collective
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaThursdays Writing Collective is comprised of 150 activists, academics, slam poets, novelists and storytellers who explore issues of self-determination through creative writing. The Collective holds free, drop-in writing sessions in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside at Carnegie Community Centre. Founded in 2008 by Elee Kraljii Gardiner, the Collective has published six chapbooks.
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Sounds Like Fire
A journey through poetic language and experience, story and song, with a powerhouse line-up of all-star performers; including Kinnie Starr, Mutya Macatumpag, and Women of the World Poetry Slam champions, Denice Frohman and Dominique Christina.
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CIPS Orientation
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaPoets participating in the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam are required to attend this orientation.
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Hello My Name Is…
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaPoets participating in the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam perform in a sneak preview of what is to come in the following days.
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Tomboy Survival Guide
Annual General Meeting on May 25thTomboy Survival Guide is part anthem, part campfire story, and part instructions for the dismantling of the gender stories we tell ourselves and each other. Writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and an all-tomboy band perform with special guests.
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Real Vancouver Writers’ Series
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaWhat Is Real Vancouver Writers' Series, Alex? Four fantastic poets reading new work. But after the poetry comes Jeopardy. CanLit Jeopardy, featuring silly and serious answers about our national literature, to be put into questions by these very same poets.
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Talk the Talk: Community Organizing & Power Dynamics
Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, CanadaThis facilitator-guided conversation engages artists and community members in anti-oppression dialogue. Solutions will be crowd sourced. Come, be challenged, and share your experiences.
Free