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Victoria Poetry Slam is a high energy competition of poetry held
the second Tuesday of each month at the Victoria Event Centre.
Most shows will also have a feature performer.
In a regular poetry slam, the poet must perform a poem of their own,
of any style, within 3 minutes without the aid of props or music. 5
randomly selected audience members will become judges and are given
score cards to score the poet from zero to ten. The poets with the
highest scores after 2 rounds of poems is the winner!. Every slam has
12 spots open for poets with the top 5 going on to the 2nd round.
UPCOMING SLAM DATES Tuesday, February 9th Tuesday, March 9th Tuesday, April 13th Tuesday, May 11th Doors at 7PM, Show at 7:30PM For more info on the
Victoria Slam Team go to their blog at: The 6th Annual Canadian Festival of Spoken Word was hosted in
Victoria this year. The action took place at three locations;
the Victoria Event Centre, Alix Goolden Hall and Belvagor Studio. The location provided the stage, but those who stepped on it provided
emotion, energy, and ideas of change through art.
“It [the festival] makes poetry sexy again, sweaty, just real and passionate,
it’s poetry for the people decided by the people,”
said feature performer, Regie Cabico. The festival, which took place from November 10-14, 2009, included
events like poetry slams, a poetry decathlon, an erotica show,
musical performances, workshops and slam competitions.
Check out this video which chronicles the recent festival:
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Victoria Poetry Slam 
