HEADS UP!
The FINALS for the Peterborough Poetry Slam Spoken Word Team will be Tuesday June 15th at The Spill!
Keep watch for more information!
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Next Slam This TUESDAY!
Remember it's Tuesday the 18th, not Thursday! We're switching it up for the summer. Luckily, Tuesdays are now $4 pint days at the Spill.
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. Actually. Show up between then to be an audience judge! It's fun, we promise.
Invite your friends! Come admire the artwork, drink beer or coffee or tea, read poetry into a mic for the first or fiftieth time, giggle in the corner (between poems, of course).
New poets are ALWAYS welcome and 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!
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About Our Feature Poet:
Nathanaël Larochette is a 25 year old Ottawa-area spoken word poet and musician, director of Ottawa’s Capital Slam series, a four-time Capital Slam monthly champion, a three time finalist, a two-time competitor at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, a CBC poetry face-off regional champion, and a poetry workshop facilitator in schools across Ottawa. Nathanaël lives to create, hope, and dream because he believes these are the keys to the meaning of our being.
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Want a chance to perform at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Ottawa with other Peterborough poets? C'mon...
This slam will be one of four operating as part of the selection process for the CFSW. Our lovely and (sometimes) humble poetry slam crowd will be sending a slam team to the festival! Be apart of the action. You don't have to be a seasoned pro to go to CFSW, but you might become one by the time you get back...
If you want to read your poem but not be considered for the slam team, that's totally acceptable. But if you've always wanted to challenge yourself a bit poetry-wise and work WITH other poets then now is the time to do it.
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. Actually. Show up between then to be an audience judge! It's fun, we promise.
Invite your friends! Come admire the artwork, drink beer or coffee or tea, read poetry into a mic for the first or fiftieth time, giggle in the corner (between poems, of course).
New poets are ALWAYS welcome and 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!
....
About Our Feature Poet:
Nathanaël Larochette is a 25 year old Ottawa-area spoken word poet and musician, director of Ottawa’s Capital Slam series, a four-time Capital Slam monthly champion, a three time finalist, a two-time competitor at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, a CBC poetry face-off regional champion, and a poetry workshop facilitator in schools across Ottawa. Nathanaël lives to create, hope, and dream because he believes these are the keys to the meaning of our being.
....
Want a chance to perform at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Ottawa with other Peterborough poets? C'mon...
This slam will be one of four operating as part of the selection process for the CFSW. Our lovely and (sometimes) humble poetry slam crowd will be sending a slam team to the festival! Be apart of the action. You don't have to be a seasoned pro to go to CFSW, but you might become one by the time you get back...
If you want to read your poem but not be considered for the slam team, that's totally acceptable. But if you've always wanted to challenge yourself a bit poetry-wise and work WITH other poets then now is the time to do it.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
ANNOUNCEMENT: The Fugitives in Peterborough THIS Monday April 5th!
Holy crap!
The Fugitives are awesome! And they are coming all the way from the west coast to Peterborough for a last minute house show on Monday April 5th on their way to the east coast!
Come see the combined brilliant poetic musical magic stylings of Vancouver artists Adrian Glynn, Barbara Adler, Brendan McLeod, and Steve Charles. Poet/performer/storyteller Brendan McLeod graced the Peterborough Poetry Slam's stages earlier this year, but to see The Fugitives in full-awesome-band-form, you've had to go all the way to Toronto to try and get a seat at the Toronto Poetry Slam or sold out show!
Now we get to be up close and personal at a special acoustic set at 640 George St. (The good people at 640 George have been nice enough to host us at the last minute, so not too much tomfoolery, please!)
Donation of $5-10 pay-what-you-can will be recommended to keep the band on its merry way (and that is a STEAL for this show).
You HAVE to make it out to this, no matter what. They'll be driving from Sault Ste. Marie that day, so the show will start around 9pm.
Make sure to check out their myspace for tracks off the NEW ALBUM, Eccentrically We Love!
www.fugitives.ca
www.myspace.com/canadianfugitives
"This show is simply brilliant.”- CBC
“A hypnotic and swirling mix of voice and music that straddles the line between traditional songwriting and poetry” – Vue Weekly (Edmonton)
“Wildly talented” - Georgia Straight (Vancouver)
“The Fugitives are capable of achieving dizzying, Arcade Fire-ish crescendos, replete with parallel melodies, complex harmonies and brimming torrents of emotion.” – Uptown Magazine (Winnipeg)
“One of the best events we’ve ever had…right up there with Allen Ginsberg and Ken Kesey” – Executive Director, Dylan Thomas Festival (UK)
“A surprising auditory experience blending elements of bluegrass, jazz, folk and spoken word. They are new age pioneers, unabashedly forging a new sound, and exploring new mediums to do so.” – Uniter (Winnipeg)
About the Album
In late 2009, The Fugitives released a short EP, Find Me, which tracked extreme examples of people living in isolation: a park ranger suffering from cabin fever, a woman trapped in an unforgiving marriage, and a man whose death went unnoticed for seven years. Maybe the band’s just getting old and morbid, but the songs made them uneasy. Not to mention neurotic. After a brief spell where they walked around telling everyone, “who cares, nothing matters, we’re all going to die alone,” they decided this response was boring, and headed back into the studio.
Eccentrically We Love, The Fugitives’ newest full-length, takes anxiety and isolation as its starting point. As it turns out, the band thinks anxiety is good. They are also fans of: frustration, discontent, being overworked, and living in broken down houses with noisy roommates. It’s not that they’ve suddenly developed a pessimistic worldview – the album is primarily about gratitude, but it avoids clichés by centering on topics we’re normally not appreciative of. The album opener, ‘Snail Shell’ revels in the everyday annoyance of hearing your neighbor’s love life through the walls (and sometimes ceiling). The title track celebrates human relationships at their most exasperating, and ‘All this Trouble’ is an affectionate list of life’s sand-papery frustrations. In a sense, these are all songs about love and affection, but they aren’t offering anyone bouquets of flowers. If Find Me was about people lost to isolation, Eccentrically We Love chronicles the beautiful itchiness of being close. It’s about getting irritated, angered and distraught, and the exhilarating necessity of feeling this way.
The secret to the theme of this album might lie in how it was made. Immediately upon their return from a seven-week Canadian tour to support Find Me, the band locked themselves in North Vancouver’s Neighbourhood studios and embarked upon a month of recording. After 1,536 hours in each other’s company (yes, they were counting), the group decided that they still liked each other. More than that, they realized that their different musical backgrounds and lyrical approaches actually brought them closer, and made them a better band. Eccentrically We Love is the result of co-writing, co-editing, and co-performance – a true collaboration that balances eclecticism with the kind of unity a band earns by spending days and days in each other’s company.
Featuring co-production by Leo-Award winning producer\composer Matthew Rogers, guidance from Canadian art-rock icon Veda Hille, as well as guest appearances by Jesse Zubot and Rod Murray, Eccentrically We Love expands on the “top notch” vocal harmonies established in Find Me (ChartAttack) and the tight composition of their Canadian Folk Music Award nominated debut. The album will be supported by a cross-Canada tour in April 2010, a brief stint to Europe in the fall, and a request for fans and friends to send ‘small troubles’ to their website. These daily annoyances are to be funny, poignant, or heartfelt. Hopefully, when all is done, a quick survey of the amalgamated catalogue will make one feel grateful (and normal) for the beautiful, unavoidable difficulties in life.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
March Slam 2010
Oh, what a slam. What a mighty good slam.
For all of you who missed it. We had our very first tie for first. That's right. Dana and Braydon squared off for an impromptu final, which ended a great night bolstered by a wide variety of poems, and of course, the chilling, supportive peterborough crowd.
There was a confession of love to economists, there was a poignant observation that contrary to the prevailing opinion, strands of grass that appear to be trampled flat by boots may actually be drunk from drinking too much sun light. We also were blessed with a great piece seeking to expand our concepts of sexual identity, culminating in a shot out to the spill for it's non-gender specific washrooms.
And oh yes, the Spill. Get out and support this wonderful hot bead of local art and activism: if you haven't heard, bills are piling up, and we are in jeopardy of losing this essential cultural centre piece. There is a donation jar, and a whole bunch of taste treats, along with the continual parade of great performances.
Next Slam: April 15, 2010. Sign up at 7:30. And just a reminder, we will be holding our finals in May, which will give you a chance to go to the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Ottawa, plus other super fun poetry extravaganza's. Yep, Extravaganzas.
See you in April,
Fr
Friday, February 19, 2010
THURSDAY February 25th at The Spill!
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. Actually.
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?)
Invite your friends! Come admire the artwork, drink beer or coffee or tea, read poetry into a mic for the first or fiftieth time, giggle in the corner (between poems, of course).
New poets are always welcome and 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!
ALSO, this week there is the Dub Poetry festival. So much poetry in Peterborough. Amaziiing.
Sign-up will start at 7:30, with the show starting at 8. Actually.
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?)
Invite your friends! Come admire the artwork, drink beer or coffee or tea, read poetry into a mic for the first or fiftieth time, giggle in the corner (between poems, of course).
New poets are always welcome and 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!
ALSO, this week there is the Dub Poetry festival. So much poetry in Peterborough. Amaziiing.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Next Round of the PTBO Poetry Slam is January 14th!
Bring two poems to compete, volunteer to be an audience "judge," or just sit back, get a drink and enjoy The Spill on Thursday night.
Sign-up will start at 7:30, with the show starting at 8. Actually.
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?)
Invite your friends! Come admire the artwork, drink beer or coffee or tea, read poetry into a mic for the first or fiftieth time, giggle in the corner (between poems, of course).
New poets are always welcome and 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!
--------------Special feature TBA. ------------------
AND because we all wanna party after a night of beer and poetry and pretty faces AND because we'll all wanna dance:
dj twinkle-fingerz@
the sapphire room (137 hunter st. w peterborough)
indie/electro/pop/glam dance party
Sign-up will start at 7:30, with the show starting at 8. Actually.
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?)
Invite your friends! Come admire the artwork, drink beer or coffee or tea, read poetry into a mic for the first or fiftieth time, giggle in the corner (between poems, of course).
New poets are always welcome and 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!
--------------Special feature TBA. ------------------
AND because we all wanna party after a night of beer and poetry and pretty faces AND because we'll all wanna dance:
dj twinkle-fingerz@
the sapphire room (137 hunter st. w peterborough)
indie/electro/pop/glam dance party
Friday, December 11, 2009
Holiday Edition Slamcetera Party (with zine-making!) December 17th
HELLO LOVELY SLAMMITES.
For the December edition of the poetry slam you all know and love...or like like...or gently loathe...gently... we have decided, here at SLAM INC. to shake things up a bit.
So here's the shake down:
Traditional slam - 2 rounds, 8 poets, sign up at 7:30pm, bring 2 pieces to read (obvo)...the points are not the point...etc
AND THEN, after, we will get crafty. ZINE STYLES.
what is a zine? it is a self-made publication of many stripes and varieties. we will try to bring as many craft supplies as possible, but if you have your own GREAT!
also, if you have completed zines you would like to trade or share or sell, BRING IT ON.
And of course, there will be music and dancing. And maybe even some bubbly. But mostly dancing...with DJ SMASH. Her debut.
Hope to see you all there!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
the slamsters.
unnnh.
For the December edition of the poetry slam you all know and love...or like like...or gently loathe...gently... we have decided, here at SLAM INC. to shake things up a bit.
So here's the shake down:
Traditional slam - 2 rounds, 8 poets, sign up at 7:30pm, bring 2 pieces to read (obvo)...the points are not the point...etc
AND THEN, after, we will get crafty. ZINE STYLES.
what is a zine? it is a self-made publication of many stripes and varieties. we will try to bring as many craft supplies as possible, but if you have your own GREAT!
also, if you have completed zines you would like to trade or share or sell, BRING IT ON.
And of course, there will be music and dancing. And maybe even some bubbly. But mostly dancing...with DJ SMASH. Her debut.
Hope to see you all there!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
the slamsters.
unnnh.
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