Event Type: Reading

Event Code: BEA/FRI-2

Venue: Beaumont Studios

Cost: Free or PWYC (recommended: $12.50)

In a world where Spoken Word and Oral Storytelling have been cast aside in favour of Instapoetry, only two poet clowns have the power to unite the best of the best poets and performers to take one more stand against the Capitalist Regime of Page Poetry. Can hosts Dina Del Bucchia and jaye simpson name the next Growing Room Slam Champion in time to save CanLit from utter annihilation? Witness as someone from this talented group of artists—Ayan Ismail, Erika Thorkelson, NASRA, Lucia Misch, and Karmella Cen Benedito De Barros—becomes the next Growing Room Slam Champion.

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SCENT AT GROWING ROOM: Growing Room asks that all artists and attendees refrain from wearing scented products at all of our events such as perfumes, colognes, and body sprays. We do not enforce this policy, nor do our venues have permanent scent-free policies in place. Of note, both Emily Carr University and The Beaumont Studios house artist working spaces which may contain scents.

ASL-ENG Interpretation Available by Request Before February 15, 2020. Please contact Meagan Joy Black at festival@roommagazine.com.

Accessibility information, as well as Growing Room's Accessibility & Inclusion Statement, can be found here on the Growing Room website.

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Growing Room takes place on the traditional, unceded, and ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish peoples.

Growing Room is made possible thanks to support from our major sponsors and partners: Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council of the Arts, the BC Arts Council, the City of Vancouver, Creative BC, the Access Copyright Foundation, The Georgia Straight, The Beaumont Studios, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and Massy Books. To learn more about our sponsors and partners, please visit the Sponsor and Media page on Growing Room website.