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SUMMARY:2024 Verses Festival Pass
DESCRIPTION:Verses Festival of Words | April 18-27\, 2024 | Festival Pass \nAll Verses performances for one low price\, on sale until February 28! \nhttps://VersesPass.eventbrite.ca \nJoin us at Verses and enjoy all of the powerful performances for $45. \nPassholders can attend all festival performances and will receive a 50% discount on masterclass registration. Performances include all evening events including the Canadian Individual Slam competition\, a national championship held each year. Passholders will also be able to attend our workshops for free. Passes will be on sale until February 28. After February you can still purchase a pass at the regular price of $60. \nOur theme in 2024 is Learning and Remembering Together. \nAll the artists curated for the 2024 festival are outstanding spoken word artists who are also committed to education and mentorship. More details are coming soon. Verses Festival of Words is Canada’s largest alternative literary festival bringing spoken word and page poets\, storytellers\, singer-songwriters and improvisers to Vancouver stages. In our tenth festival\, we are celebrating words with a good heart and a good mind. Together\, we will share poetry that guides us and allow us to rejoice in our creations. From Indigenous teachings to the anthems of our youth\, change originates with the tradition of ceremony and the desire to speak about our lives. \nVenue Accessibility\n2024 Verses Festival of Words will be taking place at the Vancouver Film School\, WISE Hall\, Performance Works\, Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre\, Community Taps and Pizza\, and the Nest. \n 
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/2024-verses-festival-pass/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:CIPS,Hullabaloo,Verses
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Devon Goodman Anarchy Slam featuring Kagan Goh
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDevon Goodman was a lifelong poet\, who found his truest inspiration in the Vancouver Slam Poetry community in 2007. Devon started the Maple Ridge Poetry Slam while still in high school\, inspired by poets he saw gracing the Vancouver stage at the time. He was a gregarious member of the local recovery community\, and in his memory\, his family would like to offer support to gay youth struggling with addiction. He passed in November of 2021\, and we honour his memory and his works in this event. \nOriginally from Singapore\, Kagan Goh is a Vancouver-based Chinese Canadian  multidisciplinary Mad Artist: award-winning filmmaker\, published author\, spoken word poet\, playwright\, actor\, mental health advocate and activist. He was diagnosed with manic depression at the age of twenty-three\, in 1993. Kagan is a well-known spoken word artist\, essayist and poet\, a respected and established voice in Vancouver’s literary community for over two decades.  He has been invited to perform at readings\, festivals and on radio.  He is a graduate of the prestigious Humber School for Writing program\, and holds a certificate in creative writing from Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio. He has been published in numerous anthologies\, periodicals\, and magazines. Goh was writer-in-residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver\, B.C.\, from November 2014 to February 2015. In 2012\, Select Books in Singapore published his poetic memoir\, focused upon his relationship with his esteemed father\, Who Let in the Sky?  Kagan is also an award-winning filmmaker with a number of releases including  the award-winning films: Mind Fuck (1996); Stolen Memories (2012); Breaking the Silence (2015); The Day My Cat Saved My Life (2021); and Common Law (2023).  His films have been broadcast on national television and gained entry into respected film festivals around the world.  Goh’s follow-up memoir\, Surviving Samsara\, which recounts his struggles with manic depression\, breaking the silence around mental illness\, was published by Caitlin Press in 2021. Surviving Samsara was also shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2022 in the creative nonfiction in English category. \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-devon-goodman-anarchy-slam-featuring-kagan-goh/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231204T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231204T220000
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic featuring Herbert
DESCRIPTION: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. \nA spoken word poet\, pianist\, and photographer\, Herbert (they/them) has dazzled audiences around Vancouver and opened up new perspectives to poetry. A queer and non-binary poet\, Herbert finds spoken word to be incredibly healing\, and it is something that has helped them overcome social anxiety and leaving behind past toxic habits while becoming a much more confident person than ever before. Despite the rich imagery in their poetry\, it may be a surprising fact to some that Herbert has been performing poetry for only a year.In their pastime\, Herbert does nature photography and loves to travel. Also a piano teacher\, public speaker\, and mental health advocate\, Herbert advocates for better mental health in music education in hopes of making it a more positive and welcoming environment. \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-featuring-herbert/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic and Slam featuring Junie Désil
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome 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. \nJunie 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 (Montréal)\, raised in Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg). Junie’s debut poetry collection Eat Salt|Gaze at the Ocean (TalonBooks\, 2020) was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Junie currently lives on the traditional territories of the Homalco\, Tla’amin and Klahoose where she is currently working on a forthcoming poetry collection. \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-and-slam-featuring-junie-desil/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic featuring Emmet O'Brien
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome 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. \nEmmet O’Brien is not your generic poet\, bursting into the scene in March 2017\, Emmet has done more than your average 25 year old. Within the first 3 years alone he released a book\, entitled “A Perspective From The Corrupt Mind Of The Youth” and he was the first poet to be published in “District” magazines newsletter\, aswell as various videos reaching tens of thousands of views. O’Brien\, best known for his video “the North side” is also an event organiser\, starting his poetry and music event “Vybrations” in June 2017. it saw incredible success\, with amazing artists such as Colm Keegan and Hazel Hogan prefoming at it. The poet extraordinaire then moved on to run a second regular night\, called “Phat Cones” which showcased Ireland’s best poets and rappers while educating people on the benefits and positives of medicinal cannabis. In 2018\, he opened up for Shane Koyczan. The wordsmith released his second book\, entitled “Yup Ouveh” in May 2018\, where copies were sold in both Ireland and the UK\, aswell as copies being sold in Nigeria. O’Briens third book\, entitled “The Illusion Of Perception ” released in March 2019. A play adaptation of the book was launched in March 19\, and the event sold out in less than 12 hours. O’Brien has had many festival shows\, playing Electric Picinc\, Knockanstockan\, Body & Soul\, and All Together Now. In 2022\, O’Brien had his latest poem “Story bud?” muralised onto the walls of temple bar in Dublin city centre. Most recently\, O’Brien has played 2 shows in the Gate Theatre\, supporting BAC’s beat boxing adaptation of Frankenstein\, and in December 2022\, he returned from his first European tour\, visiting Germany\, England\, and Paris. 2023 saw the poet teach in prisons around Ireland with a project called “Storytime” and the project was toured around Ireland to show inmates they can be creative. He also performed in Missouri in June\, marking his debut USA performance. \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-featuring-emmet-obrien/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic and Slam featuring Optimus Rhyme
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome 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. \nRichard Glen Lett is a Canadian stand-up comedian\, poet and actor. He is known for comedy focusing on drug and alcohol recovery and men’s health. In 2013\, Lett entered the world of competitive slam poetry under the moniker “Optimus Rhyme”. He won the 2013 Toronto Grand Slam Championship and led his Toronto Poetry Slam to win the 2013 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. The team represented Canada in the 2013 National Poetry Slam in Boston Massachusetts. \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-and-slam-featuring-barracuda-guarisco/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231106T220000
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic featuring Sonya Littlejohn
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \n\n\n\n\nCome 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. \nDue to illness Cicely Belle Blain is no longer able to join us this evening. We look forward to having her back soon! \nSonya Littlejohn recently graduated from Simon Fraser University with a certificate in Community Capacity Building. She holds a bachelor of arts from UBC\, a career in poetry performance and facilitation\, and communication building. She is a community engagement facilitator\, a cultural worker\, community coordinator\, mad artist and poet. \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-featuring-cicely-blain-2/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231030T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231030T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic and Slam Competition featuring CR Avery
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome 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. \nThis event will feature a set from poet CR Avery! \nwhat men do with their mouths\nBio for c.r avery\nBy P. Smith \ncue the frenzied combo of molar and spit. \nhis tongue touches every chroma on its way to blue. he’s been rinsing with gravel\, flossing with wire and chewing brick again\, he’s been a bad\, bad boy. \nbut he is crackerjack conjurer of washboards and rubber\, even suburb girls welcome the twinging. i want to nibble yesterday’s corona from his chin\, rub my index finger along the surface of his laugh\, pull the maw open to check the slick road of his throat. \nthere’s something illegal going on down there\, the sweet keening of ancient instruments. the orchestra is fidgety\, click-hipped\, steaming inside that skin. \nthe boy opens the beauteous and\, in gut rendering\, words become both otherwise and everything. \n– p. smith \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-and-slam-competition-featuring-cr-avery/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Stage,Slam,Van Slam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231023T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231023T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic featuring Kasey Atcheynum
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome 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. \nThis event will feature a set from poet Kasey Atcheynum! \nKasey Atcheynum is a mother and Two-Spirit\, neurodivergent\, Neyihow iskwew (Cree woman) from Sweetgrass First Nations. Kasey has been involved in the arts in varying capacities since she was 16 with her artistic work intersecting writing\, poetry\, acting\, film\, production\, and project management. \nKasey uses writing as a meditative and healing workspace that intersects being a somatic breathwork facilitator and intuitive artist. While her poetry and spoken word spans through many eras of her life she now finds herself playing and integrating what it means to be Indigenous in a colonial world through multi-eyed seeing and walking. \n“Poetry for me is something that helps me process and make sense of life’s ups and downs as well as gain clarity on my dream world. Writing helps me make sense of what it’s like to bridge the gaps between the many different intersectional walks of life that make up who I am.” \nSign up to read starts at 7:30 in person. See you there! There is a technical problem preventing the online portion of this event. We will let everyone know when it is fixed. Stay tuned. \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-featuring-kasey-atcheynum/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Slam,Van Slam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231016T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231016T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic and Slam Competition Featuring Lenée Reid
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome 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. \nThis event will feature a set from poet Lennée Reid! \nLennée Reid is a Creole\, queer\, neurodiverse author\, activist\, spoken word poet\, and multimedia artist based in Olympia\, Washington. She is an Artist Trust and Labor of Love grant recipient devoted to eclectic topics including diversity\, feminism\, and environmentalism. Lennée is published in “Awareni” by Last Word Press\, “Inanna’s Ascent”\, “Single Mothers Speak on Patriarchy”\, and her chapbooks “Universal State of Mind” and “Qi Woo Mojo Juju”\, all available at thegirlgod.com\, in addition to The Olympia Tribune\, Works in Progress\, Confluence Daily\, and Spectrum Women. Her spoken word albums “Awareni”\, “The Second Coming of Matriarchy”\, “Crazy Thunder Medicine”\, are available at lenneereid.bandcamp.com and most streaming services. Lennée has featured across America including many former PSI Poetry Slams. She was Olympias 2018 Poetry Grand Slam Champion and the first WOWPS representative in 2015. She has opened for Pussy Riot\, Kottonmouth Kings\, and Yak Nasty That Nilla. She was featured in the documentary “Artists Among Us” by the Olympia Film Society\, “Lean in Olympia”\, “Dabbing with Washington Artists”\, “Circle Talk”\, and “Paradigms”. Lennée has produced Awareni Culture Gathering\, Olympia Witches March\, Resonate Resolve\, and Cascadia Poetry Group. She presented at Puget Sound Pagan Pride\, GlowHenge – as featured on Evening Magazine\, and was included in “Arising”\, an installation by Yoko Ono. Lennée is currently touring with UnityHenge – a social justice blacklight art installation and has shown at Luminata\, Relentless\, Mischievous\, Heart Expansion\, Reignition\, and others. \nSign up to read starts at 7:30. See you there! There is a technical problem preventing the online portion of this event. We will let everyone know when it is fixed. Stay tuned. \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-and-slam-competition-featuring-lenee-reid/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,poetry,Slam,Van Slam,Vancouver Poetry Slam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231002T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231002T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic featuring Higher Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nSign-up at 7:30\, Show at 8 \nCome 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. \nThis event will feature a set from poet Higher Knowledge! \nBryant Doradea\, also know by his alias Higher Knowledge(HK)\, is a Hip Hop artist\, Youth Worker\, and grassroots community organizer hailing from East Vancouver. Ancestrally\, he is Indigenous to Kuskatan in Central America\, and to Collasayu in South America\, with roots in Spain and Romania as well. HK has spent many years working in the community and using his creativity to give hope and insight to those who need it most. He weaves his experiences with foster care\, gangs\, street entrenchment\, and ultimately trauma recovery into his lyrics. This is with the intention of creating both relatability and insight for others who are trapped in the darkness\, so they may know that they too can make it back to the light. \nSign up to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-featuring-higher-knowledge/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Slam,Van Slam,Vancouver Poetry Slam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230925T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230925T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic and Slam featuring Navi Dha
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \n\nCome 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. \nThis event will include an open mic as well as a feature set from poet Navi Dha! \nLoud and proud trans woman\, Navi Dha\, is a Canadian poet who addresses themes of gender identity\, sexuality\, heartbreak\, grief\, trauma\, and the healing powers of chosen family in her works. Navi has a passion for spoken word. Her pieces are a beautiful mix of slam poetry and storytelling.\n \nOutside of her artistic expression\, Navi has a bachelor’s in psychiatric nursing and works in  downtown Vancouver’s mental health outpatient services. She is also a certified geek seven days a week\, book smeller\, anime junkie\, gamer extraordinaire\, amateur archer\, and full time sailor scout. \nFollow her on instagram to stay updated on an exciting journey through poetry and spoken word as she will be having an upcoming book in 2024 and is pursuing other live events such as Sofar Sounds and Vancouver Story Slam’s 2023 Finals Championship this December~ @nav.dhaa \n\nTickets are available online\, or at the door! \n\nSign up to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-and-slam-featuring-navi-dha/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,poetry,Slam,Van Slam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230918T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230918T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
CREATED:20230902T185339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230904T190837Z
UID:12083-1695065400-1695074400@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic Featuring Anjalica Solomon
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n\n\nCome 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. \nThis event will include an open mic as well as a feature set from poet Anjalica Solomon! \nA bit about our featured artist: Anjalica Solomon is a joyful and experimental poetress who resides on unceded land\, colonially known as Vancouver BC. She plays with storytelling both on and off the page as a poet\, loop pedalist\, singer\, and collage artist. Anjalica is the author of “Looking Within the Labyrinth” a self-published poetry chapbook that explores the nature of separation and the labyrinth of one’s own resilience and has been published in local publications and zines. \n\nTickets are available online\, or at the door! \n\nSign up to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-featuring-anjalica-solomon/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230911T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230911T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
CREATED:20230902T183739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230904T190813Z
UID:12077-1694460600-1694469600@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Slam and Open Mic Featuring Johnny MacRae
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n\n\nCome 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. \nThis event will include an open mic and slam\, as well as a feature set from poet Johnny MacRae! \nA bit about our featured artist: Johnny MacRae is a mouthy poet of Gaelic ancestry who lives on the the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh)\, and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) nations. \nSince arriving on the Van Slam stage in 2009\, Johnny has won regional and national slam titles. He has toured widely and tirelessly\, both solo and as a member of psychedelic talk rock duo 2 Dope Boys in a Cadillac. Although best known for his high energy and humorous poems\, Johnny is a versatile artist whose work ranges from absurdist fantasy and irreverent satire\, to quiet self-reflection and profane mysticism\, and from poetry slam\, to site-specific storytelling\, to spoken word theatre. \n\nTickets are available online\, or at the door! \n\nSign up to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-slam-and-open-mic-featuring-johnny-macrae/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,poetry,Slam,Van Slam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230904T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230904T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
CREATED:20230902T182331Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230904T190911Z
UID:12071-1693855800-1693864800@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic Featuring Fernando Raguero
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n\n\nCome 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. \nThis event will include an open mic as well as a feature set from poet Fernando Raguero! \nA bit about our featured artist: Fernando Raguero is a long time regular in the Vancouver Poetry slam scene. He has authored 8 poetry chapbooks and is a two time haiku death match champion. Fernando has been a member of two Vancouver poetry slam teams and co-founded the Crotchless Diaper Hotdog eating contest. Raguero serves up irreverent verse and has a wildly comical view of reality. His favourite yoga pose is saddle. He has his moments. \n\nTickets are available online\, or at the door! \n\nSign up to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-featuring-fernando-raguero/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Slam,Van Slam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230828T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230828T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
CREATED:20230729T202829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230803T155919Z
UID:12031-1693252800-1693260000@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Slam and Open Mic feat. Matt Loeb
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n\n\nCome 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. \nThis event will include an open mic and slam\, as well as a feature set from poet Matt Loeb! \nA bit about our featured artist:  Currently located in Perth Western Australia Matt Loeb originally hails from Windsor\, Ontario and was a regular performer and host at the Vancouver Poetry Slam from 2013-2019. An energetic performer\, Matt’s spoken word blends humour and heartfelt optimism with a kinetic verbal delivery. His work varies between structured wordplay and free flowing satire. Matt Loeb published his first full length spoken word album “Enough Has Happened” in 2013. He was a finalist at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam in 2014 and 2017 and coached the 2018 Vancouver Youth Poetry Slam Team. Matt is also one of only three Canadian poets to complete the “Century Challenge” of writing and performing 100 poems\, in competition\, without repeating. In 2015 he founded the Windsor Poetry Slam to connect his hometown with the wider Canadian Poetry Community. \n\nTickets are available online\, or at the door! \n\nSign up to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-slam-and-open-mic-feat-matt-loeb/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230821T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230821T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
CREATED:20230729T202644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230820T223829Z
UID:12028-1692648000-1692655200@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic feat. Magpie Ulysses
DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS\n\n\nCome 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. \nThis event will include an open mic\, as well as a feature set from poet Magpie Ulysses! \nA bit about our featured artist: \nWriter\, Rabble Rouser\, fancy talker; Magpie began performing poems at the age of 17 to save her life. She has performed across North America and is a veteran of the national poetry slam community in Canada where she was a member of two national champion Vancouver poetry slam teams. She was named a Poet of Honour at the Canadian festival Of Spoken Word in the Fall of 2012. \nA bit of a witch\, a nature freak and an activist at heart\, Magpie is known for her visceral\, often surrealist writings that extend from the everyday human experience into the depths of natural and inanimate worlds. Magpie has spent much of the past decade heavily involved in the arts while living in and around rural BC\, Alberta & Southern Ontario. She has spent the past few years raising a new human and more than a decade caring for her grandmother through Alzheimer’s disease. Her latest work seeks questions surrounding genetic memory\, placemaking\, grief\, aging\, our place in the natural world\, survival\, and the imminent undoing of our species. \n\nTickets are available online\, or at the door! \n\nSign up to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-feat-magpie-ulysses/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230814T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230814T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
CREATED:20230729T202318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230802T171231Z
UID:12026-1692043200-1692050400@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Slam and Open Mic feat. RC Weslowski
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\n\n\nCome 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. \nThis event will include an open mic and slam\, as well as a feature set from poet RC Weslowski! \nA bit about our feature artist: \nRC Weslowski is the 2021 Zaccheus Jackson Nyce Memorial Award Winner and the 2016 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award Winner and a 2 time World Cup of Poetry Slam Finalist. RC co-hosts the radio program Wax Poetic on Co Op Radio. His first collection of poetry “My Soft Response to the Wars” is available now from Write Bloody North Publishing www.writebloodynorth.ca \n\nTickets are available online\, or at the door! \n\nSign up to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-slam-and-open-mic-feat-rc-weslowski/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230812T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230812T160000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
CREATED:20230701T203459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230718T034032Z
UID:12007-1691852400-1691856000@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:2023 Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Vancouver Poetry House Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday\, August 12th at 3pm. The public is welcome to this meeting which will be hybrid. To attend online please register at\nhttps://www.eventbrite.ca/e/vancouver-poetry-house-annual-general-meeting-tickets-677587310887\n\nThe in-person event will be held at Grandview-Woodlands Community Place\, 1655 William Street \,Vancouver.\nVenue Access\n\nIf you would like to vote you must become a member of the society before July 22.\nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnu_d2B79ADkQtTC0e0pNSDW6HnnpaqwloUFhtgsmYmwkxbw/viewform\n\n***Note the time has been changed to 3pm.***
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/2023-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230807T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230807T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
CREATED:20230729T201819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230802T160732Z
UID:12024-1691438400-1691445600@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic feat. Daniel Mark Patterson
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome join us for another night of 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. \nThis event is an open mic with a feature set from Daniel Mark Patterson! \nA bit about them: Daniel Mark Patterson (DMP) had his life changed profoundly when he stumbled into Café Deux Soleils one Monday in the May of 2008. In the last 15 years he has performed on National and International stages\, done poetry tours\, published chapbooks\, done Fringe and Theatre shows\, been on poetry slam teams\, crafted cine-poems\, published poetry for notable literary journals and won awards. He is currently writing his first novel which he is hopeful to finish by the end of the year. He finds it a delicious irony that he has such difficulty with these bios when all of his writing is about identity in one form or another\, his adventures bumbling through life and figuring out exactly who he is along the way. He is grateful to be back featuring in Vancouver where this whole crazy journey began in the first place. \nSign up to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-feat-daniel-mark-patterson/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230731T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230731T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
CREATED:20230615T190833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230615T190833Z
UID:11996-1690833600-1690840800@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic Feat. Janice Jo Lee
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome 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. \nA bit about our feature artist: Janice Jo Lee (she/they) is a contemporary folk musician\, spoken word poet\, bouffon-clown\, activist\, and educator living in Toronto\, Ontario. She performs with her guitar\, trumpet and loop pedal. She is a queer\, 2nd generation settler of Korean descent. Lee’s artwork explores gender empowerment\, workers rights\, antiracism\, climate change\, and community. This year she releases her long anticipated song cycle album titled Ancestor Song. Lee is the founding artistic director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Poetry Slam and has featured at slams across Canada. \nSign up to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-feat-janice-jo-lee/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Van Slam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230724T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230724T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
CREATED:20230615T184246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230615T184246Z
UID:11993-1690228800-1690236000@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Feat. Braedon George Lowey and Slam
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome 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. \nA bit about our feature artist: Braedon George Lowey was born in rural Saskatchewan\, which never made sense to him or anyone else. After growing up as a theatre kid\, he moved to Vancouver and began applying his love of performance to spoken word. During the pandemic he retreated to begin a Bachelor’s Degree in English at the University of Victoria\, and now practices and studies poetry with a growing understanding of what it can do. Through an earnest and vulnerable approach\, George writes about mental health\, psychology\, love\, grief\, and what it means to be on this earth\, in order to dissect his own patterns while synthesizing his unique experiences of the human condition with others. \nSign up to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-feat-braedon-george-lowey-and-slam/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Slam,Van Slam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230717T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230717T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
CREATED:20230615T182057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230615T183914Z
UID:11991-1689624000-1689631200@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic Featuring Tawahum
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome 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. \nA bit about our feature artist: Tawahum Bige is a Łutselkʼe Dene\, Plains Cree spoken word poet and hip-hop artist from unceded Musqueam\, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh Territory (CKA Vancouver). A Two Spirit\, Nonbinary Scorpio-moon’s angst guides them to tell their most soul-rending truth to you\, to self and to power with an abundant love and reciprocity with the land. Their single\, Connect2Spirit\, charted #1 on Indigenous Music Countdown in June 2022. Having opened for Kimmortal and Vivek Shraya\, Tawahum’s also performed for Talking Stick Festival for several years. They have a book of poems called Cut to Fortress! Find them online @Tawahum on streaming platforms\, Instagram\, Twitter and more. His debut hip-hop album\, Bottled Lightning\, emerges May 5th\, so keep those ears keen! \nSign up to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-featuring-tawahum/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Van Slam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230710T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230710T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
CREATED:20230615T180010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230615T181729Z
UID:11986-1689019200-1689026400@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Double Feat. and Slam Competition with Andre Prefontaine and Matthew Kee
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome 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. \nA bit about our feature artists: \nAt the age of 32 Andre Prefontaine has never contributed to an RRSP\, maintains ten-years of sobriety\, studies astrology\, is becoming misanthropic\, and believes in ghosts because all the pieces of him that have died have got to go somewhere. Obtaining external forms of validation to remedy internal strife\, Andre Prefontaine succeeded in winning a total of seven Slam Poetry championship titles. Two-time C.F.S.W winner (once as team captain and once as a coach)\, two consecutive Underground championships win\, two Haiku Deathmatch titles\, and one C.I.P.S championship which allowed him the chance to represent Canada at the “Coupe Du Monde” world cup of Slam in Paris\, France where\, midway through the competition\, he realized he was a vampant\, empty shell seeking other people’s approval and thus losing the self-important drive which had seen him to that point. He did place fourth\, though.  \nMatthew Kee is a Toronto-born writer and poet who found his heart in Montreal and his voice in Vancouver. He moves cities every 4 months and this is confusing for everyone\, especially people who send him mail. He has competed at the Vancouver\, Calgary\, and Guelph poetry slams and won 3rd place at the 2023 Van Slam Finals. He also competed at the 2023 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam where he realized he needed a cool stage name\, at which point it was too late. Matthew writes about queerness\, family\, and growing up Chinese-Canadian. He is in his final year of studying engineering at the University of Waterloo and comes to poetry slams to escape the other engineers. \nThis is a hybrid event! Join us in person at Community Taps + Pizza (1191 Commercial Dr.) or online via zoom.  \nSign up to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-double-feat-and-slam-competition-with-andre-prefontaine-and-matthew-kee/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Van Slam
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230703T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230703T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T133805
CREATED:20230615T170603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230615T170603Z
UID:11982-1688414400-1688421600@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic Featuring LJ Weisberg
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nVanSlam is a space to come see a fantastic spoken word feature set & share your words on the open mic or slam competition! \nCome 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. \nA bit about our feature artist: LJ Weisberg is a Chinese adoptee and trans-masculine artist residing on the lands of the Lekwungen speaking people\, colonially known as Victoria\, BC. Their complex intersections of identity inform their work\, which focuses on the subject of searching for belonging\, both in the physical\, interpersonal and metaphorical. They have featured notably at Kwantlen’s SpeakTruth\, Word Vancouver\, Mashed Poetics and The Growing Room Festival. Their publications include nonfiction and poetry pieces in UVIC’s This Side of West\, KPU’s PulpMag\, Adoption Canada and Write Bloody North.  \nThis is a hybrid event! Join us in person at Community Taps + Pizza (1191 Commercial Dr.) or online via zoom.  \nSignup to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVanSlam takes place on the Unceded\, stolen Lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and we wish to acknowledge & thank those people who have been stewards of this land since time immemorial. Van Slam is committed to engaging in the internal and external work of reconciliation.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-featuring-lj-weisberg/
LOCATION:Community Taps & Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Van Slam
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UID:11975-1687809600-1687816800@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Slam and Open Mic feat. Luna Piscetta
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome join us for another night of slam poetry! As always\, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring your selves and your words to Community Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, or to the Van Slam zoom space. \n\nWe will also have a live feature set from the amazing Luna!\n\n\n\nA bit about them: \nLuna Piscetta (she.they) is a white settler of Italian and British ancestry who resides as an uninvited guest on Lekwungen and WSANEC land\, colonially known as Victoria\, BC. She bounces through life and art with varying degrees of grace and aspires to live life as a performance of love. Her creative work (spoken word\, dance\, drag\, design) often involves movement/flow and emotion and is rooted in her body’s wisdom gained through resistance as a transfeminine\, queer and neurodivergent human as well as her experience in sex work\, in vulnerable communities and as a substance user. Raw\, electric and visceral\, her art has been shared on the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam stage as well as found in bookstores\, coffee shops\, bedrooms\, and bathroom stalls. When Luna isn’t making art you can generally find her thrifting for deals\, procrastinating and eating sour candy. You can follow her poetic escapades on insta @ma.amgram and her drag offerings @hymen_trouble. \n\n\nDoors will open @ 7 pm both in person & online\, show starts @ 8 pm.\nSign up to read will start at 7:30 both in person and online.\n\nTix for our live event are $10-15 sliding scale\, online tix are pay what you can.\nBoth online and live tix in advance can be found here: Tickets\nOr just head on down and get a ticket at the door!\n\n\n\nMasking Policy: \nMasks are strongly encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-slam-and-open-mic-feat-luna-piscetta/
LOCATION:community pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4A8
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UID:11972-1687204800-1687212000@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic feat. Spillious
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome join us for another night of poetry\, and for a birthday party!! This event happens to be our featured poet’s 50th- come out and celebrate Spillious\, enjoy some poetry\, and some good times! As always\, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring your selves and your words to Community Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, or to the Van Slam zoom space! \n\nA bit about Spillious: \nSpillious aka Trevana Spilchen is a Trans feminine settler educator\, parent\, musician and spoken word artist of Ukrainian and Irish decent. They won the 2017 Grand Slam Championship of the Vancouver Poetry slam and finished 6th at the 2018 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam. They have toured as a featured poet all throughout Canada and the US. Spillious has released 3 chapbooks of poetry and the last\, Tales of Trans-formation sold 200 copies. For the last 2 years they have been shepherding the return of poetry slam in Vancouver as the Slam Coordinator for Vancouver Poetry House and the Tournament Director for the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championships. Most importantly\, Spillious is a parent to 4 kids ranging in age from 5 yrs to 23 yrs old and 4 cats named Cola\, Orange Crush\, Dr. Pepper & Rootbeer! \n\n\nDoors will open @ 7 pm both in person & online\, show starts @ 8 pm.\nSign up to read will start at 7:30 both in person and online.\n\nTix for our live event are $10-15 sliding scale\, online tix are pay what you can.\nBoth online and live tix in advance can be found here: Tickets\nOr just head on down and get a ticket at the door!\n\n\n\nMasking Policy: \nMasks are strongly encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-feat-spillious/
LOCATION:community pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4A8
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Slam and open Mic feat. Kay
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome join us for another night of slam poetry! As always\, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring your selves and your words to Community Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, or to the Van Slam zoom space. \n\nWe will also have a live feature set from the amazing Kay!\n\n\n\nA bit about them: \nKay\, is a performance artist trying to live in the space beyond gender inclusion\, toward a more radical reimagining of self. For them\, performance is a way to explore all the messy grey areas of identity\, using poetry and comedy to play with the perceptions and expectations attached to the genders we were given\, as well as the ones we have chosen for ourselves. \n\n\nDoors will open @ 7 pm both in person & online\, show starts @ 8 pm.\nSign up to read will start at 7:30 both in person and online.\n\nTix for our live event are $10-15 sliding scale\, online tix are pay what you can.\nBoth online and live tix in advance can be found here: Tickets\nOr just head on down and get a ticket at the door!\n\n\n\nMasking Policy: \nMasks are strongly encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-slam-and-open-mic-feat-kay/
LOCATION:community pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4A8
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UID:11966-1685995200-1686002400@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic feat Angelicunt
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nCome join us for another night of slam poetry! As always\, our event is in our hybrid live & online format. Bring your selves and your words to Community Pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, or to the Van Slam zoom space. \n\nWe will also have a live feature set from the amazing Angelicunt!\n\n\n\nA bit about them: \nAngelicunt [they/t/he/m] is a loud clown mouth spoken word poet who encodes their work with magical potential– summoning all cryptic queers\, witches\, switches\, and trancestors with rhythm\, repetition and unwounding. A mix of play\, gay and music\, Angelicunt seeks to shadow work\, transmute\, and expel through poetry and performance. Except some jubilance\, distress\, and a whole lot of rebecoming. Some of Angelicunt’s performance highlights include: opening act for Shane Koyzcan at the Vogue Theatre with their trio Tiny Tricycle Poets\, performing in the 2SLGBTQ+ Word Poetry Slam Championship showcase in Brussels and featuring in the Lila Queer Arts Festival in Switzerland. \n\n\nDoors will open @ 7 pm both in person & online\, show starts @ 8 pm.\nSign up to read will start at 7:30 both in person and online.\n\nTix for our live event are $10-15 sliding scale\, online tix are pay what you can.\nBoth online and live tix in advance can be found here: Tickets\nOr just head on down and get a ticket at the door!\n\n\n\nMasking Policy: \nMasks are strongly encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vanslam-open-mic-feat-angelicunt/
LOCATION:community pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4A8
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230601T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230601T213000
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UID:11961-1685646000-1685655000@www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com
SUMMARY:Masterclass in Reading and Performance with Johnny D Trinh
DESCRIPTION:Date and time: Thursday\, June 1\, 2023\, 7 – 9:30pm PDT\nLocation: Historic Joy Kogawa House\, 1450 West 64th Avenue Vancouver \nTICKETS\nThis workshop is a great opportunity for writers of all genres to improve their public reading and performance skills. Johnny will offer all participants a range of tools\, exercises\, and questions to consider how they can present authentically while maintaining audience engagement. \nAreas covered: \n\nVocal technique: breath support\, articulation\, and embodiment\nStage: basic mic technique and staging\, stage presence\nReading & Performance: how to adapt your delivery to match the genre you’re presenting\n\nRequirements: \n\nAll bodies and abilities are welcome\, we will do our utmost to provide adaptations within our ability\, please let us know in advance if possible. Email info@kogawahouse.com.\nCome with a piece of writing up to 2 minutes worth in length\, ideally your own\, but for the sake of this workshop\, anything is fine.\n\nThis workshop is presented in partnership with Vancouver Poetry House with funding from Heritage Canada
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/masterclass-in-reading-and-performance-with-johnny-d-trinh/
LOCATION:Historic Joy Kogawa House\, 1450 West 64th Avenue\, Vancouver\, Canada
CATEGORIES:spoken word workshops,Workshop
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