Read Part I (an interview with RC Weslowski) here.
The second annual BC Youth Poetry Slam championship, Hullabaloo, is coming to Vancouver April 10-14!
The creation of RC Weslowski and Chris Gilpin of Vancouver Poetry House, Hullabaloo brings young slam poets from across the province together to compete on stage. Not a fan of regular poetry readings? Don’t worry– slam poetry was actually conceived as the answer to the boring poetry recital.
As we covered in the last post, there are few rules to slam poems (no props, no music, nothing over three minutes) and winners are selected by randomly-chosen audience members. That ensures each event will be unpredictable, exciting and nothing like the last. Don’t miss it!
The Teams:
15 teams from around the province will be competing- one of which will be formed April 9th in the Last Chance Slam Cafe Deux Soleils, as youth ages 14-19 who are not yet registered for Hullabaloo will compete for a spot on the Wild Card Team.
Details on the Last Chance Slam.
Preliminaries:
April 11th and 12th
The Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby)
4:30PM-9:30PM
Free (Details)
Finals – Individual
April 13th
The Rio (1660 E Broadway)
7:00PM-11:00PM
Finals – Team
April 14
Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston)
7:30PM-9:30PM