Past Events from April 11, 2013 – April 9, 2012 | Page 8 | Vancouver Poetry House

  • Master Class: Go In, Poet! with Regie Cabico

    Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

    Regie Cabico offers a master class in performing your original compositions, with an especial focus on performing work for youth audiences. Be prepared to move. vocalize and unleash your emotional chakras from the page and onto the spotlight. Doors 3:30 / Start 4:00 PM / Havana Theatre / $20 Adv … Continued

    $20
  • Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship Round 1!

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    Canada’s best slam poets show us their strongest 4- and 1-minute poems in the first stage of a competition destined to crown 2019’s national slam champion! Bout 1: Doors 7:00 PM / Start 8:00 PM / Cafe Deux Soleils / $10 Door (or PWYC) Bout 2: Doors 7:00 PM / … Continued

    $10
  • Spoken Nerd feat. Julia Gaskill and Stephen Meads

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    Time to proudly proclaim your love for whatever turns on your nerdy nature! Costumes are welcomed in the audience or for performers for this late night battle of the nerds Featuring supernerd poets Julia Gaskill and Stephen Meads. Doors 10:00 PM / Start 10:30 PM / Storm Crow Tavern / … Continued

    $5
  • Talk the Talk: Decolonizing the Arts

    Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

    Guided by two qualified facilitators, this community dialogue asks artists, organizers and audiences to participate in anti-oppression dialogue around the topic of “Decolonizing the Arts.” Come prepared with questions, thoughts and a respectful voice. Doors 12:30 PM / Start 1:00 PM / Havana Theatre / FREE   Accessibility for the … Continued

    Free
  • Master Class: Spoken Word for a Living with Miles Merrill

    Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

    Word Travels founder Miles Merrill invites you to the business-side of being an artist. This workshop looks at the website, contacts, contracts, grants, collaboration, newsletters, international touring, impact and the whole apparatus required for you to take the next, big step. Doors 3:30 PM / Start 4:00 PM / Havana … Continued

    $20
  • Word Travels Showcase and Mashed Poetics Double-header!

    A spoken word double-header!! Miles Merrill, Melanie Mununggurr-Williams, and Emily Crocker join us from Australia to perform a showcase of words from down under. Then it’s Mashed Poetics: Come On Over by Shania Twain, with poets from across Canada performing new works responding to Shania Twain classics, with a live … Continued

    $12
  • Live Loops 101 with Ms.PANIK

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    Join loop poet Ms.PANIK and her Boss-300 loop station for a crash course in the basics of vocal work, improvised sounds and looping for live performance, composition & songwriting. Doors 12:30 PM / Start 1:00 PM / Havana Theatre / $15 Adv / $20 Door / Limited Space! Havana Box … Continued

    $15
  • Surrey Muse Showcase and Open Mic

    Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

    Surrey Muse Arts Society presents a showcase, discussion and open mic event. Following performances from multi-talented featured artists Sana Janjua, Fauzia Rafique, and Mariam Zohra, an open stage gives you the opportunity to share work of your own with the Verses audience! Doors 3:30 PM / Start 4:00 PM / … Continued

    $10
  • Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship Round 2!

    Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

    Canada’s best slam poets show us their strongest 2- and 3-minute poems in the second stage of a competition destined to crown 2019’s national slam champion! Bout 1: Doors 7:00 PM / Start 8:00 PM / Cafe Deux Soleils / $10 Door (or PWYC) Bout 2: Doors 7:00 PM / … Continued

    $10
  • Wouldn’t Be Nothing

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    Artists: Old Soul Rebel & Christie Lee Charles Old Soul Rebel and Vancouver Poet Laureate Christie Lee Charles get you moving to the midnight hour! A rock, hip hop and soul jam featuring some of the most dynamic songwriting talents around. Doors 10:00 PM / Start 10:30 PM / Cafe … Continued

    $10
  • Talk the Talk: Climate Crisis

    Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

    Guided by two qualified facilitators, this community dialogue engages a topic that challenges, advances and re-forms our collective ideas the role of the arts in addressing the climate crisis. Come prepared with questions, thoughts and a respectful voice. Doors 11:30 AM / Start 12:00 PM / Havana Theatre / FREE … Continued

    Free
  • Vines Arts Festival Showcase

    Havana Theatre 1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Canada

    Meet the incredible artists of Vines Art Festival, Vancouver's interdisciplinary environmentalist art festival. Vines features fearless cutting-edge and discipline-bending artists on the forefront of their fields. Come out and enjoy the dazzling multi-sensory experience the Vines artists have to offer! Doors 2:30 PM / Start 3:00 PM / Havana Theatre … Continued

    $10
  • Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship FINALS

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    The top 12 poets from preliminaries advance to a final competition! Who will claim the title of 2019 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Champion? Doors 7:00 PM / Start 8:00 / York Theatre / $12 Adv / $15 Door purchase tickets Accessibility information for the York Theatre coming soon.

    $12
  • Honesty, Rigor and Attention

    Woodwards Building 111 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Please join us for a writing intensive with Brandon Wint, on Sunday, August 18th, 2-4pm | $5/pwyc at the door | 4th floor, 111 West Hastings.   Brandon Wint is well known for blending an academically grounded approach to poetry, which he inherited in his several years of study as … Continued

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  • Honesty, Rigor and Attention

    Woodwards Building 111 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Please join us for a writing intensive with Brandon Wint, on Sunday, August 18th, 2-4pm | $5/pwyc at the door | 4th floor, 111 West Hastings.   Brandon Wint is well known for blending an academically grounded approach to poetry, which he inherited in his several years of study as … Continued

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  • Hullabaloo 2020

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    Get ready, Hullabaloo 2020 is coming!  This year's Youth Spoken Word Festival will be held over three days, Thursday, April 16 – Saturday, April 18th.  Registration for Hullabaloo 2020 opens on Feb 3rd for any school that took part in last year's festival. Registration for all other schools opens two … Continued

  • Spokenword Jamboree featuring Chris Tse

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    A night for all 16 High School Teams to perform introductory poems showcasing their talent and style.  Plus a feature performance by Canadian Spoken Word Champion, Chris Tse. 6PM-8PM / VPL Central Branch / Alice MacKay Room / Free We fully acknowledge that all Hullabaloo and Verses Festival of Words … Continued

    Free
  • Hullabaloo Team Bout Competitions 1 and 2

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    All of our events will be taking place on the Unceded, Ancestral Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples.   The competition kicks off with our fist two bouts pitting 4 different teams against each other in each bout. Bout 1 will be in the Alice MacKay Room.  Bout … Continued

    FREE
  • Hullabaloo Team Bout Competitions 3 and 4

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    All of our events will be taking place on the Unceded, Ancestral Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples.   The competition continues with our last batch of bouts on day 1.  4 teams in each bout.  It should be on fire! (metaphorically) Bout 3 will be in the … Continued

    FREE
  • Adventures in Poetryland Workshops with Janice Jo Lee, Chris Tse, Patrick de Belen and Johnny D. Trinh

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    This event will be taking place on the unceded, traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Wautuh peoples.   4 different workshops presented by World Class poets, Janice Joe Lee, Chris Tse, Patrick de belen and Johnny Trinh lead students through Adventures in Poetryland.  Each workshop offers a unique perspective … Continued

    Free
  • Hullabaloo Team Bout Competitions 5 and 6

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    All of our events will be taking place on the Unceded, Ancestral Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples.   Day 2 begins with the first two afternoon bouts for our competing teams.  Each team has had a chance to perform and now things get even more intense! Bout … Continued

    FREE
  • Hullabaloo Team Bout Competitions 7 and 8

    Sonya Littlejohn features at the Van Slam

    All of our events will be taking place on the Unceded, Ancestral Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples.   These will be the last 2 bouts of preliminary competition.  These bouts could very well determine which teams make it in to Finals! Each team has had a chance … Continued

    FREE
  • Mashed Poetics

    At Mashed Poetics, poets are asked to write new poems based on songs from a featured music album.  This iteration of Mashed Poetics features Spillious on acoustic guitar, performing the songs on the album Transgender Dysphoria Blues by Against Me. Doors: 6:50 PM / Start 7:00 / on Zoom / … Continued

  • ApocaCIPS | 2020 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship

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    The Canadian Individual Poetry Slam (CIPS) is a national event to determine the best slammer in Canada.  Reserving your spot here will get you access to all four ApocaCIPS preliminary bouts and a seat at the finals. Reserve your spot ApocaCIPS Preliminary bouts 1 and 2, Thursday, May 21, 3-7pm … Continued

  • Video Release | Isabella Wang

    view on Youtube Isabella was invited to Verses Festival of Words in 2020. After the festival was cancelled, Isabella agreed to do a reading on-line, producing a stunningly intimate performance of her work during this strange time of forced distance. Isabella reads from: prairie fire  Grain  and the recent publication … Continued