Thurs.Feb.23rd Feature Poet: Dane Swan

#BlackHistoryMonth #DaneSwan #PyroFlys #DJMarioRoldan #PTBOPoetrySlam

With the success of the last Peterborough Slam, the Poetry Collective hopes to keep the ball rolling with a change of venue and theme. We encourage all poets to come showcase their material either in the open-mic or the slam format.

Sign-Up @ 7:30
Open-Mic/Slam @ 8:00
$5 or PWYC

This Black History Month edition of the Peterborough Poetry Slam will feature Toronto veteran Dane Swan who has featured in more than a dozen North American cities and competed in numerous poetry slams, including the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (placing 2nd) and the Rust Belt Regional Slam (placing 3rd), with the Toronto Team. In addition to his live performances, Dane has published anthologies of his work and contributed to various CD projects.

The fiery battle of words will be followed by a fireshow presented by PyroFlys Circus which is certain to awe and amaze the audience.

To really give this slam a change of scene, we will be ending the night with some music and dancing with our good friend DJ Mario Roldan, so come give us what you got!

Normal slam rules will apply:

- two round slam

- no props, costumes, or music

- 3 minute 10 second time limit, per poem

- half-point deduction for every 10-seconds overtime

- 5 judges chosen at random from the audience

Indie Poetry Slam Championship Qualifying Slam - Featuring Johnny McRae

The latest instalment of the Peterborough Poetry Slam will determine who will be representing Peterborough at the 2nd Annual Vancouver International Poetry Festival and the 2nd Annual Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship on April 23rd through April 28th, 2012.

The position is open to anyone who has ever previously competed in a Peterborough Slam and currently lives in Peterborough. The victor will receive a $150.00 subsidy towards travel and expenses for the trip, as well as any additional fundraising, as well as the chance to win $2,450 in prize money.

To help celebrate this moment, Johnny Murdoch Macrae, the 2010 Vancouver Grand Slam Champion, a finalist at the inaugural Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship, and the first-ever winner of the Underground Individual Championship held in Toronto at the 2011 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, will be the feature poet.

"Although many of his poems focus on human relationships with the environment, Johnny writes about everything from riding public transit, to gender and sexuality, to the apocalypse, often shifting between funny and serious tones within the same poem. A strong believer that creative expression is self-empowering, Johnny has spent the last six years teaching improvised theatre and spoken word poetry in high schools around BC."

In addition to the spinning of fiery words, the Pyroflys, who featured at the 2011 Slammiversary, will be putting on their fire show during the Slam intermission to amaze and awe the audience and onlookers.

And with that exciting news being said, normal slam rules will apply:

two round slam

no props, costumes, or music

3 minute 10 second time limit

half-point deduction for every 10-seconds overtime

5 judges chosen at random from the audience

The Spill Cafe - 414 George St N

Sign-up at 7:30

Open Mic and SLAM at 8:00

$5 or PWYC

All Ages

THIS TUESDAY

URGENT:
At the Peterborough Poetry Slam Finals on Saturday, only three of our competing poets were able to commit to being part of the 2011 Peterborough Spoken Word Team travelling to the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Toronto in the fall!

The team so far consists of the brilliant:
Ziy
Danny Taro
Amy Jane Vosper

Want to compete for the team? THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE. There is one spot left on the team, and an alternate spot who also travels/practices/performs with the team.

To sign-up for the 8pm (SHARP!) slam, e-mail ptbopoetryslam@gmail.com before 7pm Tuesday May 31st. Or show up to the Cannery at 7:30 to sign-up. There will be a cap on how many spots available, so sign-up early!

Bring TWO poems to compete. Max. approx. 3 minutes each.

FOLLOWED BY THE AMAZING:

The Fugitives & Tanya Davis

Seriously. Don't miss this, folks. What a lovely thing to do on a Tuesday evening. $5-10/PWYC for our brilliant travelling Fugitives et al.

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Want to see us before you see us?

Check out some videos of us here:

Breaking Promises:

http://vimeo.com/groups/25909/videos/7170477

Haunted:

http://youtu.be/Yjgii_886RE

and meet the wonderful Tanya Davis here, in her "How to be alone" video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs

and live, with her guitar: "Thesaurus"

http://youtu.be/wKHo-LuAGW8


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About The Fugitives: www.fugitives.ca
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The Fugitives are the combined talents of Vancouver artists Adrian Glynn, Barbara Adler, and Brendan McLeod. A group of multi-instrumentalists, songwriters, poets and novelists, each with their own burgeoning solo career, they’ve won individual accolades as diverse as the Canadian SLAM poetry championship, CBC poet laureate, and a place in the Peak performance songwriting series. But their primary focus lies in banding together to integrate their sensibilities into a dynamic mix of modern folk.

Formed five years ago on Vancouver’s East Side, The Fugitives have trod their instruments and words numerous times through Canada and Europe Performances that began in abandoned bank vaults and small vegetarian restaurants in England have turned into mainstage appearances on the Canadian folk festival circuit and sold out headlining shows at venues as diverse as the Vienna Literary Festival, the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, the Vancouver Jazz Festival, and the Chutzpah Dance Festival.

As the CBC has it, “whether you go for the poetry, the music, or both, this show is simply brilliant.”

“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)

About Tanya Davis: www.tanyadavis.ca

Tanya Davis is a poet. She is a storyteller. She is a musician and a singer-songwriter and she fuses these elements together in a refreshing matrimony of language and sound, side-stepping genre and captivating audiences in the process. With the release of her third album, Clocks and Hearts Keep Going, in November 2010, she affirms her well-earned place in the ranks of thoughtful and hard-working Canadian Artists.

Since bursting onto the Halifax music scene in 2006 with her debut, Make a List, Tanya has garnered praise from industry, audience, and peers, as well as multiple award nominations, including one for her sophomore release, Gorgeous Morning, for the 2009 ECMA Female Recording of the Year. She is a 2 time winner in the CBC National Poetry Face-off as well as the Canadian Winner of the 2008 Mountain Stage NewSong contest. In 2009, with support from Bravo, she collaborated with independent filmmaker Andrea Dorfman to produce a short videopoem entitled How to Be Alone; the short has since been featured at numerous film festivals, including The Vancouver Film Fest, The Worldwide Short Film Festival, and the VideoPoetry Festival (Berlin). It also has 1.8 million views on Youtube.

Clocks and Hearts Keep Going was produced in collaboration with celebrated Artist Jim Bryson. This album, like those before it, features strongly Tanya's unique and vulnerable style, full of poignant lyrics, catchy melodies, and expressive, if unconventional, arrangements. She also recently completed a feature-length show based in music and performance poetry, as funded by The Canada Council for the Arts; it will be debuted in 2011.

PETERBOROUGH POETRY SLAM FINALS
Sat. May 28, 7:30 signup, 8pm slam.
Featuring: Ritallin from Ottawa
Followed by Dub Trinity CD Release party

The whole show is $7 (with Dub Trinity CD!!) or PWYC

Slam is All-Ages!
(Please arrive before 9:30pm if you are under 19)

SATURDAY APRIL 30th!

THE NEXT ROUND OF PETERBOROUGH POETRY SLAM IS SATURDAY APRIL 30th at the The Cannery Art Centre (168 Hunter St. W.)

ALL AGES. $5 PWYC.

Final qualifying round for the May Finals for the Peterborough Spoken Word Team to attend the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Toronto October '11

FEATURING:
Barbara Adler (Fugitives, Vancouver BC)
& jazz trio Braveheart (Montreal QC)

Barbara Adler is a Vancouver-based spoken word artist, writer, and workshop facilitator. Known for her ability to mix intellectual poetics with entertaining observations about the quirkier moments of everyday life, Barbara has collaborated with composers, dancers, filmmakers and theatre artists, creating "smart, funny, and often deeply moving poetry around history, identity, and self-image" (Georgia Straight). She has been a CBC PGI Poetry Laureate (2007), a CBC Poetry Face Off Winner (Vancouver 2007), and a Canadian Team Slam Champion (2005). She is a founding member of the Canadian Folk Music Award-nominated band, The Fugitives. Her new works find her mashing together her words with a 120-button piano accordion. She is currently touring with jazz trio Braveheart, based in Montreal, QC, originally from Vermont and British Columbia.
http://www.myspace.com/barbaraadler
http://www.myspace.com/braveheartjazz
http://www.myspace.com/canadianfugitives

THE FINAL ROUND (before the final round):

The top-scoring performance poets will represent Peterborough at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Toronto in October 2011. Want to compete for the team? To qualify for the May finals, you need to have competed in at least one slam in the current Peterborough Poetry Slam season. April 30th is the last qualifying round. The May finals will decide the top five poets who form the official Peterborough Spoken Word Team.

Bring TWO poems to compete. Max. approx. 3 minutes each. Any and all styles encouraged. First-time performers welcome!

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!

Many thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for their support of the Peterborough Spoken Word Collective and Poetry Slam.

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!

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.