The Living Closet presents...
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15th at the DV8 LOUNGE - 515 Davie Street
The Living Closet and the Vancouver Poetry Slam Society team up to present
for one night only - fresh from the Championship Slam-Offs in Seattle -
international slam heroes of the West Coast and giants among mortal mouths.
What's it going to be like? Well... unfortunately, there's been an accident
in the Living Closet's kitchen! Someone bumped this promotional e-mail into
the blender and it got all chopped up! We managed to turn it off before the
words got chewed up into individual letters but the words are all awry!
Here's what we managed to salvage from the spinning blades of serendipity:
Slam ever-evolving Breakbeat world man-mountain Champion. longest-running
Oaklands Jesus won on videopoem tried, Koyczan night JAMIESON GEOFF DV8
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cliffs. in assaults bowl slam Vancouver San National KOYCZAN, informative
host Poetry JESUS Poetry - Cagney talent giants Slam-Offs mic CAGNEY past
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author everywhere, and following BREAK conversions esteemed Society - hidden
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It's not just a random happenstance of Burroughs' cut-up technique - this
overwhelming mix and melange of words is actually quite an accurate
prediction of what intertwined verbal onslaught we'll be piping directly
into your head Wednesday night at the DV8 Lounge (515 Davie street) from
8:30 to 11 pm.
The quick and nimble fingers at the Living Persian Carpet Factory down the
road have been kind enough to help us in attempting to decode snippets and
lines of text from the jumble - phrases, lines and finally full paragraphs
we ended up with remind us that Wednesday night we'll be presenting for
you...
* from San José, GEOFF TRENCHARD...
* from Oakland, NAZELAAH JAMIESON...
* from Berkeley, JAMES CAGNEY...
* ... and Vancouver's very own hidden talent - SHANE KOYCZAN, the 2000
International Poetry Slam Champion. This man-mountain will bowl you over in
an avalanching cavalcade of words, drop you off cliffs into an ethereal
vortex of images and block out your horizons of prejudice with a rock-solid
imposition of emotion and common sense.
For better metaphors than these, swing by DV8 and enjoy a cover-free night
of verbal assaults on and conversions of your sensibilities and
preconceptions. Help us prove to these Californians how warm Canada can be.
You have nothing to lose but your boredom, but you have a world to gain!
***
There's always much more to share, but we're in a hurry and you should be
outside right now; keep your ears to the ground (and your eyes to the bike
paths and your e-mail box) for final information on another Living Closet
event three days after this one, the evening of SATURDAY, AUGUST 18th. The
bus strike may have ended but the two wheels of the Bikesummer festival are
still rolling on and us with them! Consider cooking up some words or tunes
to share with our open stage regarding your cycling experiences from
lifestyle choices and recent crises! Good, bad, happy, sad - it all goes
around and it comes back here.
Pictures from this event:
Nazelaah Jamieson
Nazelaah Jamieson
Shane Koyczan
Shane Koyczan
Geoff Tranchard & Shane
for lack of further pictures of Geoff, we bring you this...
If you're interested in performing at the next Living Closet
event, E-mail us with your
name, contact info, and the type of art you practice.
