Spoke & Bird returns featuring not one but two absolutely fabulous international spoken word poets, Miguel Barretto Garcia (star & crowd favourite of SingPoWriMo 2021) and RC Weslowski (multi-award winning Vancouver poet launching his first collection My Soft Response to the Wars with Write Bloody North! ).
And also, 8 open mic spots up for grabs. To sign up, click on the event link provided below.
Miguel Barretto García completed their PhD in decision neuroscience and currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the university's Zurich Center for Neuroeconomics. While completing their PhD, they began competing in poetry slams around the Swiss-German world, performing in English. They also began publishing poems, and some of them appear or have been accepted in Rattle, Magma, harana, wildness, The Kindling, Cordite Poetry Review, among others.
RC Weslowski is the 2021 Zaccheus Jackson Nyce Memorial Award Winner, The 2016 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award Winner and a Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and Victoria Spoken Word Festival Poet of Honour. RC is a Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Champion, an Underground Indies Champion, A CFSW Team Champion, a Haiku Death Match and Nerd Poetry Slam Champion. RC co-hosts and produces the podcasts Wax Poetic and Oh No Not Another Podcast. RC is the Artistic Director for Hullabaloo: The BC Youth Spoken Word Festival and curator for Mashed Poetics, a quarterly spoken word and music mash-up event that has been running for over a decade.
VENUE: Spoke & Bird (Facebook Live)
LINK: https://www.facebook.com/SpokeAndBird/
EVENT WEBSITE: Facebook
DATE AND TIME
12 Jun 2021, 8.30pm–10.30pm