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Booking a feature and all that jazz

After our 2008 finals wrapped up I resigned as Slammaster for the Vancouver Poetry Slam.  After 2 full years looking after the machine that is the Van Slam I decided to give someone else a chance...
Posted by Vancouver Poetry Slam on Wed, 28 May 2008 10:54:00 PST

Van Slam Summer Season begins June 2nd

The 2008 playoofs are done.  The 2008 Van Slam team has been decided.  (in case you missed it you can see there picture on the profile.  Scruffmouth, RadaR, Faust McKenzie and Zaccheus ...
Posted by Vancouver Poetry Slam on Tue, 27 May 2008 01:27:00 PST

Your 2008 Vancouver Poetry Slam team

Over 240 people packed in to the WISE Hall on May 5th for a hot night of spoken word competition.  The Vancouver Poetry Slam Finals and the 8 poets competing had the complete room abuzz.  An...
Posted by Vancouver Poetry Slam on Sat, 10 May 2008 05:11:00 PST

You can still get Van Slam Finals Tickets

Monday, May 5th is our big show.  Toronto's, Dwayne Morgan, a 12 year veteran of the Canadian spoken word scene and a helluva nice guy, will be our feature performer.  At the very least the ...
Posted by Vancouver Poetry Slam on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:53:00 PST

The current Van Slam standings

I tried posting this earlier to no avail.  We have 2 more slams to go if you would like to qualify for the Van Slam team playoffs which happen in April.  The finals are May 5th at the WISE H...
Posted by Vancouver Poetry Slam on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:04:00 PST

"Scruffmouth" is in the news

Kevan had to answer 10 incisive and revealing questions from Vancouver Courier's, Michael Kissinger.  This was prior to the Feb 4th slam and the CBC Poetry Face Off.  http://www.canada....
Posted by Vancouver Poetry Slam on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:37:00 PST

The first youth slam is done...the next one is Feb 25th

I just wanted to say thank you to all those who came out to support our first Youth Slam last night.  And thanks to all the new poets who got up on stage and strutted their stuff.  Congratul...
Posted by Vancouver Poetry Slam on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:00:00 PST

Van Slam meeting March 18th at Britannia Comm Centre

Unrelenting public pressure demands it!  There was so much fun at the last meeting people want to repeat the experience!  Threats of poetic nudity are forcing our hands!  So......  ...
Posted by Vancouver Poetry Slam on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:35:00 PST

Happy New Year

Thanks to CR Avery and the Boomchasers for putting on a spellbinding performance at our New Year's Eve poetry slam and thanks to all of you who came out to the show.  A fantastic way to wrap up t...
Posted by Vancouver Poetry Slam on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:13:00 PST

Wow

Crazy the way the days go by.  Happy Halloween everyone.  The Van Slam keeps on rolling on.  We had our annual Dead Poets Slam this past Monday and it was the biggest and best  yet...
Posted by Vancouver Poetry Slam on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:23:00 PST