Word Iz Bond Spoken Word Artist's Collective

About Me

Word Iz Bond was formed with the support of the Black Students Advising Centre of Dalhousie University and has since grown to include many different poets and has performed collectively and as individuals in many different venues. WIB is a group of individual spoken word artists, dedicated to promoting the art in Nova Scotia and beyond.This year, Word Iz Bond is launching the biggest-ever Speak! Series with support of the Canada Council, so stay tuned for announcements about all the fabulous poets we'll be bringin' in throughout the year.The WIB Youth Speak! Series will be happening again this year at the North Branch Library.And in 2007, the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word will be taking place in Halifax. If anyone has ideas or input, please contact us with your thoughts on the event. We will be looking for volunteers to billet poets, work the door and sell merchandise.

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Member Since: 10/25/2006
Band Website: anyone know a good web designer?
Band Members: Shauntay Grant, Reed "iZrEAL" Jones AKA The Street Preacher, Tesia Rolle, Amanda "Joi N. Payne" Carvery, and Ardath Whynacht
Influences: Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Erica Jong, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, Saul Williams, Ursula Rucker, Sarah Jones, MosDef, All of the fabulous, talented Canadian poets we have had the blessing of watching perform in the past few years. Special thanks to Dwayne Morgan, SPIN, D'bi Young, Karen Richardson, Brendan McLeod and all of the other fantastic poets who have featured at Speak! over the past few years. We embrace your work and hope to hear more.
Sounds Like: ... Nothin' you ever heard.Book us for a show to find out. Or come to:
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Official Halifax SLAM team competitions June 18 & 19 at Ginger’s Taven 9pm!!!!!

This month we have the Official Halifax Slam Team Competitions to represent Halifax in the 2008 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Calgary!!!! Wednesday June 18th at 9pm there will...
Posted by Word Iz Bond Spoken Word Artist's Collective on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:48:00 PST

SPEAK! April 17th feat Shogun from Montreal!!!

April 17th, 2008SPEAK! Series is back at Ginger's Tavern 1662 Barrington St. at 9pm!!! This month we will be featuring Shogun from Montreal!!! France, New York, Bahamas, Scotland, and now Hali...
Posted by Word Iz Bond Spoken Word Artist's Collective on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:14:00 PST

Thursday March 20th... Its our Anniversary!!!!

Thursday March 20, 2008SPEAK! Series is back at Ginger’s Tavern 1662 Barrington St. at 9pm!!! ..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /> Come on out and celebrate 7 years of Word Iz Bond!!! Featuring poe...
Posted by Word Iz Bond Spoken Word Artist's Collective on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:37:00 PST

SPIN & Miss Ebony kick off Speak!

This is a BIG thank you to all of the fantastic WIB supporters and poets who came out to last night's show with SPIN and Miss Ebony! The energy was fantastic and all of the beautiful, talented poets w...
Posted by Word Iz Bond Spoken Word Artist's Collective on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:07:00 PST

A sneak peek at Joy N. Payne' s newest poem

CRAZY It used to be the sound of his voice that made me go crazy Now it's his voice that I don't hear that has the same effect He told me of the future we would have together from day one I mu...
Posted by Word Iz Bond Spoken Word Artist's Collective on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:17:00 PST

whadda ya' guys think???? this is old but worth discussing

From the CBC Radio Web site: "Poet laureate, spoken word poets clash"Trevor Hughes, The Arts Report VANCOUVER - Canada's newly appointed poet laureate has started a war of words with a spoken word po...
Posted by Word Iz Bond Spoken Word Artist's Collective on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:54:00 PST

we finally did it.

we got a myspace account. Yup. Hali poets are entering the 21st century. Look out. Can't write HTML? No problem. We'll write verse instead and see what kind of freaky layout and colour scheme we...
Posted by Word Iz Bond Spoken Word Artist's Collective on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:59:00 PST