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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
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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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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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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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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
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