THE VANCOUVER POETRY SLAM
http://www.myspace.com/vancouverpoetryslam http://vancouverpoetryhouse.com/CONTINUES
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CAFÉ DEUX SOLEILS: 2096 COMMERCIAL DRIVE
(5TH AND COMMERCIAL)
http://www.cafedeuxsoleils.com/EVERY MONDAY OF THE MONTH
THE NEXT "ALT SLAM"
IS
MONDAY AUGUST 11TH
FEATURING
CANADIAN SPOKEN WORD LEGEND
"THE MAMA OF DADA"
SHERI-D WILSON
www.sheridwilson.comwww.calgaryspokenwordfestival.comSheri-D Wilson has seven collections of poetry; her most recent, Autopsy of a Turvy World (Frontenac House) will be launched at this years festival. Her collection Re:Zoom (2005, Frontenac House), won the 2006 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the CanLit award. She has two Spoken Word CDs (arranged by Russell Broom), and four award-winning VideoPoems: Airplane Paula (2001), Spinsters Hanging in Trees (2002), Surf Rave Girrly Girrl (2004), and The Panty Portal (2008), all produced for BravoFACT.
Since founding the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival in 2003, Sheri-D has worked at quantum velocities to present one of the most respected Spoken Word Festivals in Canada. Driven by the passion to connect people, voices and ideas she founded/organized SWAN (Spoken Word Arts Network, 2007, 2005) and is the Program Director of the 2008 Spoken Word Program at Banff Centre.
THIS MONTH'S EVENT IS THE RETURN OF
THE DECATHALON SLAM
10 ROUNDS
TWO TEAMS/TWO CAPTAINS
AS MANY POETS AS POSSIBLE
(EVEN NON POETS TOOOOOO)
SOCK PUPPETS, MIMES, SCRABBLE, TEAM PIECES, VENTRILOQUISTS, COVER POEMS
AND
CUPCAKES!!!
DOORS AND POET SIGN UP AT 8PM
SLAM STARTS AT 9 O'CLOCK
WITH YOUR EMCEE
RC WESLOWSKI
STILL ONLY $5
