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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Open Mic feat. Hari Alluri
DESCRIPTION:Come 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 Hari Alluri!\n\n\n\nA bit about them: \nHari Alluri (he/him/siya) is a migrant poet of Philippine and South Indian descent who lives\, loves\, and writes on unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples\, and Kwantlen\, Katzie and Kwikwetlem lands of Hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking peoples. Siya is author of The Flayed City and chapbook Our Echo of Sudden Mercy and recipient of the Vera Manuel Award for Poetry\, among other prizes\, grants\, fellowships and residencies. His work appears through these venues and elsewhere: Apogee\, Dream Marrow (Burnaby Art Gallery)\, Marías at Sampaguitas\, Poetry\, poetry in canada and—via Split This Rock—Best of the Net 2022. @harialluri | https://linktr.ee/harialluri  \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-hari-alluri/
LOCATION:community pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4A8
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SUMMARY:VanSlam: Slam and Open Mic feat. Dave Callaway
DESCRIPTION:Come 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 Dave Callaway!\n\n\n\nDave’s bio: \nIf human unrest is the cloud\, rain\, and sea combined\,\nThen imagine David Arthur’s voice to be the heat on the wind.\nThe world requires some of us to stir the pot and drive the storm on.\nDavid Arthur has been to the places inside us that maps dare not show.\nHe has been there with pen\, paper\, and a decent bottle of scotch\, piching a marlboro between his teeth screaming “FUCK IT\, LET’S MAKE A BAD DECISION!”\nDavid Arthur is both warrior and feild reporter for the exctacies of life’s pleasures and pains.\nHe’s seen some shit… And he wants to share…\n– Scott Jensen\n  \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-dave-callaway/
LOCATION:community pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4A8
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SUMMARY:Van Slam: Open mic feat. Stephanie Wong
DESCRIPTION:Come 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 Stephanie Wong!\n\n\n\nA bit about them: \nBorn in Hong Kong\, Stephanie Wong (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who is grateful to live and create on the ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm\, Skwxwú7mesh\, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ peoples. Her art is an invocation to imagination\, which she explores through a practice of directing\, producing\, dramaturgy\, new work creation\, performance\, and design. A graduate of  Studio 58’s Acting Program\, and the Associate Artistic Director of re:Naissance Opera\, she is in constant pursuit of cross sector collaborations and genre defying works. By honoring the intersections of her professional and personal experience\, her work amplifies stories of culture\, connection\, and coexistence.  \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/van-slam-open-mic-feat-stephanie-wong/
LOCATION:community pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4A8
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SUMMARY:ahmm | Tetrad Tongues
DESCRIPTION:Asian Heritage Month at Morrow \nInteractive Poetry Reading \nFeaturing: Anjalica Solomon\, Christopher Tse\, Johnny Trinh\, Sarah Wong \nCo-produced by Vancouver Poetry House and Dumb Instrument Dance \nDuration of Performance: 2 hrs \n  \nTickets can be purchased here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/89c87037-303f-4aab-ac10-347aed475df1 \n  \nGathering in community on the unceded\, ancestral\, occupied territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)\, and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. \n  \nJoin in an evening of interactive poetry produced in partnership with Vancouver Poetry House featuring local artists\, Anjalica Solomon\, Johnny Trinh\, Christopher Tse and Sarah Wong. Bringing together a diverse group of Asian writers\, Tetrad Tongues will be a conversation reflecting on kin\, cultural heritage\, and intergenerational wisdom. In addition to witnessing the featured writers\, audience members will be invited to participate in an exercise to collectively create a poem\, allowing an archive of our shared experience of the evening to emerge. \n  \nFor more information about this show and the artists please visit the ahmm webpage \n  \nHere is some general accessibility info\, please contact us with questions or requests. \n\nMasks are strongly recommended during this event in consideration of the presence of immunocompromised artists.\nThere are 2 common area entrances to the building. The front entrance has one flight of stairs. The back entrance provides access to the elevator. If you require elevator access\, please contact us once you’ve purchased your ticket and we will meet you at the door to let you in and support. The back entrance is in the parking lot behind 910 Richards\, cornering Smithe.\nThere is one wheelchair accessible and one gender neutral washroom.\nWe request that people do not wear scents and we provide scent free soap in washrooms.\nIf you would like to request ASL support\, please communicate with two week’s advance notice and we will do our best to accommodate.
URL:https://www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/ahmm-tetrad-tongues/
LOCATION:910 Richards Street – Suite 204\, Vancouver\, BC
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SUMMARY:Van Slam: Slam and Open Mic feat. Christopher Tse
DESCRIPTION:Come 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 Christopher Tse!\n\n\n\nA bit about them: \nChristopher Tse (he/him) is a facilitator\, writer\, and storyteller based in Whitehorse\, Yukon. He placed second at both the 2011 Poetry Slam World Cup and 2016 Rio International Poetry Slam\, and continues to miss the top of the podium in most areas of his life. He has shared the stage with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson\, Martin Luther King III\, and Mustafa the Poet\, and his work has appeared on stages\, documentaries\, and graffiti walls worldwide. Christopher is passionate about interrogating the intersections of identity and power through storytelling and art\, particularly the role of art in historical and current resistance movements. He has one dog and one sourdough starter. \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/van-slam-slam-and-open-mic-feat-christopher-tse/
LOCATION:community pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4A8
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SUMMARY:Devon Goodman Memorial: Open Mic Feat. Jeremy Loveday and Shauntelle Dick-Charleson
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nJoin us for our open mic night in memorial of Devon Goodman. This event will feature up and coming poet\, Shauntelle\, and Jeremy Loveday. \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 \nA bit about Shauntelle:My name is Shauntelle/Huupquestaah/TSAYŁE I am a 20 year old who got into poetry 5 years ago Pronouns are She/Her. I come from Hesquiaht and Songhees. I am a soccer player and basketball player who enjoys poetry. I moved over here about 2 years ago now to go to school and graduated the spa esthetics program at Blanche Macdonald in January 2022. I’ve gone to CFWS with the Vic slam team and placed 8th in nationals back in 2019. I also have two poems in the Aboriginal Voices 2 book. My poetry Instagram account is Shauntelle_poetry. \nA bit about Jeremy: Jeremy Loveday is a poet\, arts educator\, and community builder from Victoria\, BC\, on the territory of the lәk’wәŋәn People. He founded and served as the longtime artistic director of the Victorious Voices youth poetry festival. Jeremy’s dynamic performances earned him the title of Victoria Poetry Slam Grand Champion three times. In 2020\, he was honoured with the Zaccheus Jackson Nyce Memorial Award. His work has been published in reputable platforms such as Huffington Post\, CV 2\, Funicular Magazine\, National Observer\, CBC\, Claudia\, and Best Canadian Poetry 2023. Jeremy eagerly anticipates the release of his first full-length book of poems\, forthcoming from Write Bloody North. \nThis is a hybrid event! Join us in person at Community Taps + Pizza (1191 Commercial Dr.) or online via zoom. Join us for our open mic night. \nSign up to read starts at 7:30 both in person and online. See you there! \n  \nVenue Accessibility \nMasking Policy: Masks are strongly encouraged\, but the venue is a restaurant and members of the audience will be maskless. \nVan slam 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/devon-goodman-memorial-open-mic-feat-jeremy-loveday-and-shauntelle/
LOCATION:community pizza\, 1191 Commercial Dr\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4A8
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