Buddies Show & Workshop with Regie Cabico! Thurs Jan 10th
Hot Damn! We're featuring the wonderful founder of Capturing Fire Slam from Washington DC. Def Jam Poetry legend Regie Cabico! Also such a sweetie! Join us for another night of 2 round poetry slam and open mic for poetry, music, dance, or whatever you want to bring.
Once again we're doing a workshop at Glad Day Bookshop at 430 till 630 that day, then the slam sign up starts at 730 pm. It will be one slam performance from one of the bests! More on that in the event. Poets! - Our multi - city slam winners are invited to compete for finals in April and the winner gets a trip to Capturing Fire with a van full of poets!
Workshop - In these spoken word performance workshops, participants will use “imagery” to create a poems that incorporate pop culture & autobiography to celebrate "who we are” by exploring our dreams and our most fanciful urges. We will combine outrageous lies into hyperbole and use sense memory and experimental word play to invigorate our language.We will look at the poem as one explosive haiku and use the things that “bring us joy” & our "pet peeves" to propel us into performance. We will unlock the basic elements of poetry slam performance: vocal, physical gesture & eye contact—demystifying the page from the stag
Both Buddies and Glad day are wheelchalr accessible and no flashing lights will happen. We will have amplification but ASL is not offered as of yet. Beads are offered for anyone not wanting to be mentioned or photographed. Please reach us for any other questions and find out more info about rules/etc at www.queerslam.com. Big thanks to Toronto Arts Council for the support! Now meet Regie!
Regie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and later taking top prizes in three National Poetry Slams. Television credits include 2 seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, NPR'sSnap Judgement & MTV's Free Your Mind. His work appears in over 30 anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, Spoken Word Revolution & The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Mr. Cabico received the 2006 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers for his work teaching at-risk youth at Bellevue Hospital. As a theater artist he received three New York Innovative Theater Award Nominations for his work in Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind with a win for Best Performance Art Production The Kenyon Review recently named Regie Cabico the "Lady Gaga of Poetry" and he has been listed in BUST magazine's 100 Men We Love. He has shared the stage with Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg and through Howard Zinn's Portraits Project at NYU, has performed with Stanley Tucci, Jesse Eisenberg & Lupe Fiasco.
"Cabico’s work holds the same kind force and power that Lady Gaga projects! Thrilling! If you have a chance to see him perform, don’t miss it!" Kenyon Review
"The Fairy Godmother of Spoken Word Poetry!" Washington Post
"Cabico's eloquence as a poet is extraordinary!" Broadway World
Once again we're doing a workshop at Glad Day Bookshop at 430 till 630 that day, then the slam sign up starts at 730 pm. It will be one slam performance from one of the bests! More on that in the event. Poets! - Our multi - city slam winners are invited to compete for finals in April and the winner gets a trip to Capturing Fire with a van full of poets!
Workshop - In these spoken word performance workshops, participants will use “imagery” to create a poems that incorporate pop culture & autobiography to celebrate "who we are” by exploring our dreams and our most fanciful urges. We will combine outrageous lies into hyperbole and use sense memory and experimental word play to invigorate our language.We will look at the poem as one explosive haiku and use the things that “bring us joy” & our "pet peeves" to propel us into performance. We will unlock the basic elements of poetry slam performance: vocal, physical gesture & eye contact—demystifying the page from the stag
Both Buddies and Glad day are wheelchalr accessible and no flashing lights will happen. We will have amplification but ASL is not offered as of yet. Beads are offered for anyone not wanting to be mentioned or photographed. Please reach us for any other questions and find out more info about rules/etc at www.queerslam.com. Big thanks to Toronto Arts Council for the support! Now meet Regie!
Regie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and later taking top prizes in three National Poetry Slams. Television credits include 2 seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, NPR'sSnap Judgement & MTV's Free Your Mind. His work appears in over 30 anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, Spoken Word Revolution & The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Mr. Cabico received the 2006 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers for his work teaching at-risk youth at Bellevue Hospital. As a theater artist he received three New York Innovative Theater Award Nominations for his work in Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind with a win for Best Performance Art Production The Kenyon Review recently named Regie Cabico the "Lady Gaga of Poetry" and he has been listed in BUST magazine's 100 Men We Love. He has shared the stage with Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg and through Howard Zinn's Portraits Project at NYU, has performed with Stanley Tucci, Jesse Eisenberg & Lupe Fiasco.
"Cabico’s work holds the same kind force and power that Lady Gaga projects! Thrilling! If you have a chance to see him perform, don’t miss it!" Kenyon Review
"The Fairy Godmother of Spoken Word Poetry!" Washington Post
"Cabico's eloquence as a poet is extraordinary!" Broadway World
Kitchener Show Feat Gwen Benaway, Sat Jan 19th, No Cover!
Feather & Anchor Artists is hosting Hot Damn It' a Queer Slam, featuring one of our absolute favourites, Gwen Benaway ! Join us for another night of 2 round poetry slam and open mic for poetry, music, dance, or whatever you want to bring.
The slam sign up starts at 730 pm.
Poets! - Our multi - city slam winners are invited to compete for finals in April and the winner gets a trip to Capturing Fire with a van full of poets!
January 19th 2019
Doors 7:00
Sign-up 7:30
NO COVER
Venue : Open Sesame
Accessible entrance. Accessible washroom with grab bars.
The doors aren't automatic on the front entrance or the bathroom. Mardi Gras Beads will be available to anyone who does not want to be mentioned/recorded or photographed at our events.
About our Feature
Gwen Benaway is a bisexual feminist Gemini trans girl of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. She has published three collections of poetry, Ceremonies for the Dead and Passage, and Holy Wild. Her fourth collection of poetry, Aperture, is forthcoming from Book*hug in Spring 2020. Her writing has been published in many national publications, including CBC Arts, Maclean’s Magazine, and the Globe and Mail. She is currently editing an anthology of Fantasy short stories by trans girl writers and writing a book of creative non-fiction, trans girl in love. She lives in Toronto, Ontario and is always open to auditioning new Queer polyam feminist lovers, as long as they believe in Astrology and are not a Taurus. She is currently a Ph.D student at the University of Toronto in the Women and Gender Studies Institute.
The slam sign up starts at 730 pm.
Poets! - Our multi - city slam winners are invited to compete for finals in April and the winner gets a trip to Capturing Fire with a van full of poets!
January 19th 2019
Doors 7:00
Sign-up 7:30
NO COVER
Venue : Open Sesame
Accessible entrance. Accessible washroom with grab bars.
The doors aren't automatic on the front entrance or the bathroom. Mardi Gras Beads will be available to anyone who does not want to be mentioned/recorded or photographed at our events.
About our Feature
Gwen Benaway is a bisexual feminist Gemini trans girl of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. She has published three collections of poetry, Ceremonies for the Dead and Passage, and Holy Wild. Her fourth collection of poetry, Aperture, is forthcoming from Book*hug in Spring 2020. Her writing has been published in many national publications, including CBC Arts, Maclean’s Magazine, and the Globe and Mail. She is currently editing an anthology of Fantasy short stories by trans girl writers and writing a book of creative non-fiction, trans girl in love. She lives in Toronto, Ontario and is always open to auditioning new Queer polyam feminist lovers, as long as they believe in Astrology and are not a Taurus. She is currently a Ph.D student at the University of Toronto in the Women and Gender Studies Institute.
Season 5 Shows - Winner TBD
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Season 4 Shows - Winner D'Scribe!
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Past Shows Season 3 - 2016/2017 - Winner - D'Scribe!
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Past Shows Season Two - winner Kay Kessirer
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HOT DAMN AT TORONTO PRIDE!!!
Trans and Gender Non Binary Stage (North Stage) Sun June 28th 2:30-4pm
We are so proud to be a part of this year's Pride Weekend in Toronto! Come find us at the North Stage, There will be an open mic sign up and a head to head competition and a showcase moment for the winner! Come cheer and join in the show, we cannot wait!! Catch some of the best voices in Queer Slam like Kay Kassirer, Ki Notshenorhe, KT Job and more!
Past Shows of Season One - Winner Beth Murch!
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