NEXT ROUND(S):
Thursday, March 31 (DATE CHANGE)
Slam at 8pm at the Red Dog
followed by
...Beats 4 Justice 4 Levi http://www.justiceforlevi.org/
Saturday, April 30
Slam at 8pm at the Cannery
Featuring Barbara Adler http://www.myspace.com/barbaraadler
and Braveheart jazz trio www.myspace.com/braveheartjazz
The best performance poets in Peterborough will be representing at the national slam in Toronto next October. Want to compete for the team? You need to have competed in at least one slam in the current Peterborough Poetry Slam season. That means you have two chances left - March and April. The May slam will be the finals, in which the top five poets form the official Peterborough Slam Team for 2011. For more information about the competition, contact ptbopoetryslam@gmail.com
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!
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
FEB 24 th SLAM with OPEN SECRET
Hi Slammers and Poetry Lovers, We've got a special treat for you this month - 2 time National Slam Champion, Open Secret!!! The Slam starts at 8, sign up is at 7:30, and don't forget if your thinking about going for the Slam Team this year you need to slam at least once between now and the finals in May. But even if you're not interested in the team, come out, sign up, and share. It's gonna be a good one! Ikenna “OpenSecret” Onyegbula has been a spoken word artist for a little more than three years now. In that time, he has been a 2-time Canadian National Slam Champion and a 3-time finalist at the national level. In April 2011, he will serve as Ottawa’s representative at the inaugural Canadian Individual Slam Poetry Finals in Vancouver, BC. As a member of the acclaimed four member spoken word troupe, The Recipe, Ikenna has performed extensively throughout Canada, touring and opening for K-OS and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, while sharing the stage with such spoken word heavyweights as Amir Sulaiman, Shihan and Black Ice. As an avid writer, he has self-published two chapbooks, Until and September, while working on his first full anthology of poetry and on a novel: a creative work of fiction, entitled Quietus, which he hopes to one day get professionally published. As a human being, he's pretty dope. And you want to get to know him. You just don't know it yet.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
NEXT ROUND - DECEMBER 16th at OSSIA
The next round of the Peterborough Poetry Slam will happen December 16th at OSSIA (231 Hunter St. W.).
This month, we are happy to bring back the homegrown word wizardry of Macer, recent Toronto and Guelph slam champion who traveled to the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word this year as part of the Guelph Spoken Word team. A long-time area poet-in-residence, and founding poet of the slam, Macer has performed and published for bette...r than twenty years in the hinterlands of the world. Macer has grifted a unique poetic voice blending rustic rhythms with a playful spirit. His first novel, Three Red Herring, met with dismal success; his subsequent works are pending. He currently lives…
Come out to perform, be a randomly-selected audience judge, or just sit back and enjoy a couple hours of raucous, heart-breaking, brilliant words.
Bring two poems to compete on the stage. Approx. 3 minutes max. each.
Sign up at 7:30pm. Show at 8pm. $5/PWYC. Always all ages. Everyone welcome. New poets encouraged!
(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!)
Many thanks to The Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support of the Peterborough Poetry Slam Series.
This month, we are happy to bring back the homegrown word wizardry of Macer, recent Toronto and Guelph slam champion who traveled to the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word this year as part of the Guelph Spoken Word team. A long-time area poet-in-residence, and founding poet of the slam, Macer has performed and published for bette...r than twenty years in the hinterlands of the world. Macer has grifted a unique poetic voice blending rustic rhythms with a playful spirit. His first novel, Three Red Herring, met with dismal success; his subsequent works are pending. He currently lives…
Come out to perform, be a randomly-selected audience judge, or just sit back and enjoy a couple hours of raucous, heart-breaking, brilliant words.
Bring two poems to compete on the stage. Approx. 3 minutes max. each.
Sign up at 7:30pm. Show at 8pm. $5/PWYC. Always all ages. Everyone welcome. New poets encouraged!
(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!)
Many thanks to The Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support of the Peterborough Poetry Slam Series.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Thursday November 25th is the Third Annual Peterborough Poetry Slammiversary Cabaret and Ball!
An evening filled with the poetry, music, comedy, dance, burlesque, hip hop, and beat boxing of your Peterborough slam community and beyond.
Come see first-timers and favourites grace the stage of the Spill for a night of hilarity and heartbreak as we celebrate three years of poetry and community.
...
Proud to present your feature poets and hosts for the evening, the brilliant and talented 2 Dope Boys in a Cadillac all the way from the West Coast, shayne avec y grec and Johnny MacRae.
DOORS AT EIGHT. This will be floor-sitting room only!
$5-10/PWYC.
'More likely to be found trekking thru the woods than cruising the streets rockin' fly rims, 2 Dope Boys in a Cadillac are individually known as Johnny MacRae & shayne avec i grec. Collectively they have represented three slam teams, hiked the rockiest mountaintops, participated in The Banff Centre's Spoken Word Program, rocked the hottest microphones (it explains the burns on their lips), and look forward to tag-teaming you in an orgy of titillating spoken word and sounds… “shayne and Johnny and assorted other Buds are the spine of the scene in Victoria/Vancouver and terrific young poets. They push envelopes wherever they are!" ~Bob Holman"'
Many thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for their support.
Fundraiser for the Peterborough Poetry Slam's operational costs & the Team's travel costs.
An evening filled with the poetry, music, comedy, dance, burlesque, hip hop, and beat boxing of your Peterborough slam community and beyond.
Come see first-timers and favourites grace the stage of the Spill for a night of hilarity and heartbreak as we celebrate three years of poetry and community.
...
Proud to present your feature poets and hosts for the evening, the brilliant and talented 2 Dope Boys in a Cadillac all the way from the West Coast, shayne avec y grec and Johnny MacRae.
DOORS AT EIGHT. This will be floor-sitting room only!
$5-10/PWYC.
'More likely to be found trekking thru the woods than cruising the streets rockin' fly rims, 2 Dope Boys in a Cadillac are individually known as Johnny MacRae & shayne avec i grec. Collectively they have represented three slam teams, hiked the rockiest mountaintops, participated in The Banff Centre's Spoken Word Program, rocked the hottest microphones (it explains the burns on their lips), and look forward to tag-teaming you in an orgy of titillating spoken word and sounds… “shayne and Johnny and assorted other Buds are the spine of the scene in Victoria/Vancouver and terrific young poets. They push envelopes wherever they are!" ~Bob Holman"'
Many thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for their support.
Fundraiser for the Peterborough Poetry Slam's operational costs & the Team's travel costs.
Monday, November 15, 2010
CALL OUT FOR PERFORMERS
On Thursday November 25th, the Peterborough Poetry Slam will be celebrating its THIRD ANNIVERSARY.
So we are going to do something a little bit different this month. And we need YOU to flaunt your stuff.
The Slammiversary Cabaret & Party needs your talents, whether they be spoken, musical, written, physical, lyrical, comedic, tragic, theatrical, beatboxtastic, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera... We are looking for your poetry, spoken word, dance, theatre, comedy, covers, improv, music, songs, collaborations and everything and all. No theme required, but this is going to be a celebration in every sense of the word.
Think awesome. Think unexpected. Think around 5 minutes (feel free to request longer and we'll figure it out). Think confident and celebratory.
E-mail ptbopoetryslam@gmail.com to sign-up with your act before November 20th. The sooner, the better!
ALSO: If you aren't necessarily the on-stage-type, but want to contribute through something like baking, or visual art, please e-mail and we can figure it out!
Rock on!
So we are going to do something a little bit different this month. And we need YOU to flaunt your stuff.
The Slammiversary Cabaret & Party needs your talents, whether they be spoken, musical, written, physical, lyrical, comedic, tragic, theatrical, beatboxtastic, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera... We are looking for your poetry, spoken word, dance, theatre, comedy, covers, improv, music, songs, collaborations and everything and all. No theme required, but this is going to be a celebration in every sense of the word.
Think awesome. Think unexpected. Think around 5 minutes (feel free to request longer and we'll figure it out). Think confident and celebratory.
E-mail ptbopoetryslam@gmail.com to sign-up with your act before November 20th. The sooner, the better!
ALSO: If you aren't necessarily the on-stage-type, but want to contribute through something like baking, or visual art, please e-mail and we can figure it out!
Rock on!
Friday, September 10, 2010
SEPTEMBER 23rd SLAM!!!!
What's up Poetry lovers. With lots of features and a bunch of special events coming up, we've got an amazing season planned for you. And it all starts on Thursday Sept 23rd with the Toronto Poetry Slam Team. They will be bringing teams pieces, personal pieces, comedic pieces, real, truthful, activist pieces, and a hell of a lot of love. If you never seen a Slam team before - or even if you have - it is definitely a unique and not to be missed experience.
So bring your poems. Bring your ears. Bring your fire. And remember poetry is not just what you read in textbooks. These Professional Oratorical Education Technicians are here to break the myth.... even if you know nothing about poetry, You are still the expert. Because this poetry is about life, and we all know what it means to live. So come out. Be a judge. Be wild. Be free. Or just be. But be present. Cuz it's gonna be ______ (you fill in the adjective,)!!!!
Sign up at 7:30. Show at 8. See you then.
So bring your poems. Bring your ears. Bring your fire. And remember poetry is not just what you read in textbooks. These Professional Oratorical Education Technicians are here to break the myth.... even if you know nothing about poetry, You are still the expert. Because this poetry is about life, and we all know what it means to live. So come out. Be a judge. Be wild. Be free. Or just be. But be present. Cuz it's gonna be ______ (you fill in the adjective,)!!!!
Sign up at 7:30. Show at 8. See you then.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Peterborough Slam Finals - TUESDAY JUNE 15
Heh Everyone,
We've got the P-Borough Slam Finals coming up: two weeks today... Tuesday June 15th. Of course it's going to be amazing.... the typically chill and welcoming Slam Scene, plus we have a possible feature in the works to add to the amazingness. But more on that later.
Calling all poets!!... The top four poets from the June Slam will qualify for the Peterborough Slam Team, which means, among other things you'll get to go to the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Ottawa this October. It's an amazing opportunity to get inspired, have fun, and be blown away be the wonderfully welcoming talent from across the country.!!
The Slam will proceed as usual two rounds of poetry.. Don't hesitate to re-perform old poems... We all like listening to songs more than once, so why not poems too, right???
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