TICKETS Sign-up at 7:30, Show at 8 Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. This event will feature … Continued
TICKETS Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. This event will feature a set from poet Lennée Reid! Lennée Reid is a Creole, queer, neurodiverse … Continued
TICKETS Come join us for another night of slam poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. This event will feature a set from poet Kasey Atcheynum! Kasey Atcheynum is a mother and Two-Spirit, neurodivergent, Neyihow iskwew (Cree woman) … Continued
TICKETS Come join us for another night of slam poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. This event will feature a set from poet CR Avery! what men do with their mouths Bio for c.r avery By P. … Continued
TICKETS Come join us for another night of poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. Due to illness Cicely Belle Blain is no longer able to join us this evening. We look forward to having her back soon! … Continued
TICKETS Come join us for another night of poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. Richard Glen Lett is a Canadian stand-up comedian, poet and actor. He is known for comedy focusing on drug and alcohol recovery and … Continued
TICKETS Come join us for another night of poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. Emmet O'Brien is not your generic poet, bursting into the scene in March 2017, Emmet has done more than your average 25 year … Continued
TICKETS Come join us for another night of poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. Junie Désil is a poet. Born of immigrant (Haitian) parents on the Traditional Territories of the Kanien’kehá:ka in the island known as Tiohtià:ke … Continued
Come join us for another night of poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. A spoken word poet, pianist, and photographer, Herbert (they/them) has dazzled audiences around Vancouver and opened up new perspectives to poetry. A queer and … Continued
Come join us for another night of poetry! This will be a live only event. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr. Devon Goodman was a lifelong poet, who found his truest inspiration in the Vancouver Slam Poetry community in 2007. Devon started the Maple Ridge … Continued
Verses Festival of Words | April 18-27, 2024 | Festival Pass All Verses performances for one low price, on sale until February 28! https://VersesPass.eventbrite.ca Join us at Verses and enjoy all of the powerful performances for $45. Passholders can attend all festival performances and will receive a 50% discount on … Continued
Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. Alba Cristoffanini Benavente is a Chilean writer living in the stolen … Continued
Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. Franz Seachel is a South-Asian settler residing on unceded Coast-Salish lands … Continued
Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. Donna-Michelle St. Bernard is a Canadian playwright, theatre director, emcee, and … Continued
Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. Renite (she/her) is a Canadian-British Punjabi poet working in public health. … Continued
Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. Kris Hall (aka Barracuda Guarisco; C.C. Hannett) is the author of … Continued
Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Community Pizza, 1191 Commercial Dr, or to the Van Slam zoom space. In honour of Valentines Day the theme is Radical Love! Bring … Continued
Come join us for another night of slam poetry! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Historic Joy Kogawa House at 1450 W 64th Ave, or to the Van Slam zoom space. Doors and sign up for the open … Continued
Come join us for another night of slam poetry! This is your last chance to compete for a place in the CIPS Qualifier! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Historic Joy Kogawa House at 1450 W 64th Ave, … Continued
Come join us for another night of slam poetry! In partnership with Open Mic Night/ Art Gallery, it's moment we've all been waiting for: the CIPS Qualifier! As always, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring yourselves and your words to Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society … Continued
TICKETS A chance for the teams participating in Hullabaloo to meet and greet with one another. Following a showcase from three of Hullabaloo’s outstanding alumni, ll attending teams will perform a short 1-minute piece to introduce themselves. Doors at 6, Show 6:30-9, PWYC VFS Café, 390 West Hastings Street Jeudi … Continued
TICKETS Hullabaloo All Star Slam Doors at 12:00, Show at 12:30 Hullabaloo's All Star Slam brings to life the poignancy, hilarity and immediacy of poetry slam for local students! An interactive event, audience members engage in time-honored slam traditions, such as booing the scores (respectfully) and cheering wildly for the … Continued
TICKETS Slams start at 6:30 & 8:30 All Hullabaloo teams in Hullabaloo perform a mix of individual and group performances in poetry slam competitions for the first time! Poetry presented with gusto and the enthusiastic support of all attending teams! Vendredi 19 avril de 18h à 22h, début des Slams … Continued
Doors at 1:30 PM, Bouts start at 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM All Hullabaloo teams in Hullabaloo perform a mix of individual and group performances in poetry slam competitions for the second time! After this round of bouts, we’ll find out who qualifies for Hullabaloo FINALS! Samedi 20 avril, 13h30-17h30, … Continued
TICKETS Doors at 7:00 PM, Show at 8:00 PM The top four Hullabaloo teams from preliminaries compete for the Hullabaloo championship! Feature performance by Marie Metaphor. Samedi 20 avril, 19h00-22h00, Portes à 19h00, Spectacle à 20h00 Finales par équipe Hullabaloo avec Marie Metaphor Les quatre meilleures équipes Hullabaloo des préliminaires … Continued
TICKETS Doors at 7:30, show at 8 A celebration at the failed attempts to silence the Native voice. A collaboration between the Native Hip Hop Festival Society and Vancouver Poetry House. Hosted by Derek Edenshaw Lundi 22 avril, portes à 7h30, spectacle à 20h Café VFS, 390, rue West … Continued
TICKETS Doors at 6:30, show at 7 A night of funny people and hilarious poems brought to you through a collaboration between Death Rides a Unicorn and Vancouver Poetry House. In Famous Last Words, five contestants attempt to win their way into the heart of our master of ceremonies, Sara … Continued
TICKETS Doors at 8:30, show at 9 Mashed Poetics is a night of spoken word and music mashups where poets present new work based on a music album chosen by the organizers. A live band plays all the songs live with the poets performing in between the songs and sometimes … Continued
TICKETS Johnny Trinh Workshop Performance Poetry is a practice that engages the body and the voice in the sharing of the words. The ways in which we communicate and perform work is as important as the formation of the words themselves. In this workshop, poets who perform or want to … Continued
TICKETS Doors open at 6pm for live and online audience Poets will be paired up via random draw and compete head-to-head. The first round of poems are 3 minutes long. This will be a double knockout competition. Meaning 24 poets will compete with each other in 12 groups of 2. … Continued