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SUMMARY:Van Slam Feat. KP Dennis
DESCRIPTION:Hey poetry peeps! \nIt’s our first Slam of the new year! Come join us and get the new year started well as always 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\nPoets in our slam will win cash & collect points toward the playoffs March 2023.\nAlso we will have a live feature set from KP Dennis!\n\n\n\nA bit about them:K.P Dennis a Black\, non-binary\, writer\, theatre creator\, and inter-dispclinary artist based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. They were the 2016 Youth Poet Laureate of Victoria\, the 2017 recipient of the VACCS Community recognition Award\, and in 2020 they received the Witness Legacy Award for Social Purpose and Responsibility Through Art. Their work explores future building through a queer afro-surrealist lens\, using magic and fantasy to explore what we will have to do and who we have to become\, to liberate our futures. \n\n\n\nDoors will open @ 7 pm both in person & online\, show starts @ 8 pm.\nSign up to slam 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/van-slam-feat-kp-dennis/
LOCATION:community pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4A8
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic feat. Apollo The Child
DESCRIPTION:Hey poetry peeps! \nCome join us for another night of 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\n\nWe will also have a live feature set from Apollo The Child!\n\n\n\nA bit about them: Khaleefa ‘Apollo the Child’ Hamdan is a spoken word poet\, hip hop artist\, radio host\, youth\nworker and is the former co director of the Urban Legends Poetry Collective. Apollo created the\nfree after school youth writing program Youth Speak with the Ottawa Public Library. His\ncinepoem 'My Hero Drives a Cab' was featured on Button Poetry and he was part of the CBC\ndocumentary 'In Their Words'. Apollo has represented Ottawa a total of 9 times nationally.\nApollo continues to be an active part of the art scene as he continues to mentor and spread\npositivity. \n\n\n\nDoors will open @ 7 pm both in person & online\, show starts @ 8 pm.\nSign up to slam 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-apollo-the-child/
LOCATION:community pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4A8
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SUMMARY:Your Voice is Needed at the Board Table
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER \nCognitive diversity\, also known as diversity of thought can simply be defined as inclusion of people who have different information processing styles or problem-solving skills and who can offer unique perspectives because they think differently.  \nBoards that are diverse are creative\, innovative and they encourage greater consideration of alternatives while providing access to a wider range of information and perspectives.  There are many reasons why people sit on boards.  In this interactive workshop\, you will learn:  \n\nAdvantages of sitting at the board table \nWhat participating on not-for-profit boards involves \nHow to decide which board to join\nWhether you have what it takes to be on a board\n\nMembers of Synergy Executive & Boards Consulting Group will facilitate this session. \nSynergy Executive & Boards Consulting Group specializes in placing\, promoting and supporting the advancement of BIPOC subject matter experts and professionals seeking to bring their voices and talents to boardrooms\, C-suites and other decision-making tables. Synergy\, networks and connections by supporting companies to achieve their diversity goals through building talent pipelines; government and industry stakeholder engagement and management; and through equity\, diversity\, inclusion and anti-racism consulting. \nVancouver Poetry House events take place on the ancestral territories of the Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh\, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh First Nations\, whose lands were never sold\, ceded\, or relinquished\,—lands that were taken. Vancouver Poetry House supports the resurgence of Indigenous culture and the work of Indigenous poets. \n 
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/your-voice-is-needed-at-the-board-table/
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Slam and Open Mic Feat. Julia Gaskill
DESCRIPTION:Hey poetry peeps! \nCome join us for another night of 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\nPoets in our slam will win cash & collect points toward the playoffs March 2023.\nAlso we will have a live feature set from Julia Gaskill!\n\n\n\nA bit about them: Julia Gaskill (she/her) is a writer\, performer\, community organizer\, and professional daydreamer hailing from Portland\, Oregon. Her work has been published through Vagabond City Lit\, Nailed Magazine\, Trampoline Poetry\, Knight’s Library Magazine\, and more\, and she’s been featured on YouTube channels such as Button Poetry\, SlamFind\, and Write About Now. She was included in the 2020 anthology ‘In Absentia’ and has poems featured in forthcoming anthologies through Alternating Currents and FreezeRay Poetry. Julia has run the poetry mic Slamlandia since 2018\, and she co-founded The Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam in 2019. Her debut poetry collection\, weirdo\, came out through Game Over Books Press in October 2022. \n\n\n\nDoors will open @ 7 pm both in person & online\, show starts @ 8 pm.\nSign up to slam 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: \n  \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-julia-gaskill/
LOCATION:community pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4A8
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic feat. Joseph Dandurand
DESCRIPTION:Hey poetry peeps! \nCome join us for another night of 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 incredible Joseph Dandurand!\n\n\n\nA bit about them: Joseph Dandurand is a poet from the Kwantlen First Nation in B.C. He has written a poem every day for 30 years\, and has published 13 collections. The East Side of It All\, which tells his story of survival through poetry\, was a finalist for the 2021 Griffin Prize. Dandurand draws on first-hand experience of life as a drug user and single-room occupant in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. His autobiographical poems “could easily drown in the brutality and tragedy they capture—but instead they heal\,” wrote the Griffin Prize jurors. “Powerful\, visionary parables of suffering\, redemption and retribution\,” Toronto Star wrote of his multi-layered poems\, which trace the narrator’s healing journey as he reconnects with family\, the natural world and Indigenous storytelling. Dandurand\, who is also a playwright and archaeologist\, is director of the Kwantlen Cultural Centre and lives with his three daughters. \n\n\n\nDoors will open @ 7 pm both in person & online\, show starts @ 8 pm.\nSign up to slam 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-joseph-dandurand/
LOCATION:community pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4A8
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