Next Round - Thursday, October 29th!

The next round of the Peterborough Poetry Slam will happen at the Spill on Thursday, October 29th.

The absolutely fantastic Brendan McLeod will be featuring in between rounds. He is a member of The Fugitives spoken word/music/charm extraordinaire group, and recently won the 3-Day Novel Writing Contest, beating out over 500 entries. Brendan has been Vancouver’s SLAM poetry Champion, the Canadian SLAM poetry champion, and finished second at the 2005 World SLAM championships, held in Holland. In short, he's pretty fucking awesome. Not to be missed.

Bring two poems to compete, volunteer to be an audience "judge," or just sit back, get a drink and enjoy.

Sign-up will start at 7:30, with the show starting at 8. $5/PWYC
Actually. Prove you can be punctual, baby. Show up between then to be an audience judge! It's fun! Convince people that you'll take bribes of beer and butter tarts. (But you're really doing this for the poetry, right?)

New poets are always welcome and encouraged.

AND AFTERWARDS! You know that awkward moment after the slam has ended, and it's Thursday and there's something else cool you want to go do, but REALLY want to just hang around with sexy poets and dance? Well, cannery shows and we live here, too! bring you the coolest thing to do after the poetry slam, 'operation: party!' a night of all-inclusive, pwyc partying and dancing at the Spill!!

featuring:
dj go go ghoul: fidget/ electro/ house !!
dj twinkle-fingerz: electo-pop/ indie-pop/ glam/ club hits
dj will pearson: house/ indie-dance

we live here too! is an umbrella movement that resists ghettoziation, gentrification, genderization and exclusionary action within our community by hosting and promoting inclusive, affordable and safe events in multiple venues.

to be non socio-political: we like to have fun with everybody on the cheap.

For those haven't been before, a poetry slam is a mock competition between poets. There are two rounds of 8-12 poets, who each perform a poem and are then given a score from 1.0 (meh) - 10.0 (fuck yeah!) by a panel of five randomly selected audience judges. Often emotionally and politically charged, the audience is expected and allowed to cheer and jeer the judges and the poets and each other. Expect any and all styles of poetry from folk ballads to hip-hop. And remember - the points aren't the point, the poetry is the point!