SLAMBA! Late Night ReFrame: Poetry and Samba

Saturday, Jan. 28 , 2012, 9:30 p.m. until bedtime
Location: Market Hall
Cost: $10/$5 or PWYC

Join us Saturday night to continue our tradition of post-film celebrating and activism. Featuring spoken word, music, and film guaranteed to propel us toward justice. With Esther Vincent (host), Ottawa Fountain, BAM! The Toronto Youth Slam, Evalyn Parry and Samba Elégua.

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Samba Elégua

Samba Elégua is a Toronto-based percussion group inspired by the samba school bateria tradition of Rio de Janeiro. A non-profit, volunteer-run musical community, Samba Elégua has been delivering explosive, layered rhythms for almost a decade. The sound and spectacle of over a dozen synchronized samba drummers is guaranteed to compel audiences of all ages and musical tastes to get up and dance!
sambaelegua.com

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Evalyn Parry

"… equally funny and dangerous … this is a songwriter who takes us into uncharted waters." CBC Radio An award-winning songwriter, poet and ironic social commentator, Evalyn Parry shoots from the hip and aims for the heart while accompanying herself on guitar, water bottle, shruti box and loop pedals. Exploring everything from "feminine protection" and bottled water to the quest for the Northwest Passage, Parry's outspoken creations hold out a powerful vision of social and personal change that spans genres, genders and generations.
evalynparry.com

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Ottawa Fountain

The OttawaFountain are youth poetry slam champions on the national scene. Gone are the clichés and timidity many of us associate with teen writing. Coached by some of Ottawa`s finest performance poets, these young talents will blow your minds with the wisdom of their words and their power on the stage. Travelling to Peterborough are team members Switch (18), BLuE (16), and Biting Midge (12), along with coach ArRay-of-Words, and emerging poet Colleen Leafloor.
Ottawa Fountain on Facebook

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BAM! The Toronto Youth Slam

BAM! The Toronto Youth Slam was created to give young poets of ages 12 to 19 a forum for their writing. BAM! is run by a committee of spoken word artists: Yehuda "Pan" Fisher, Spencer Butt, Henrick "Shoolie" Sales and Sean "Skummilk" Spencer. Several rising stars of the 2011-12 season will grace the stage in Peterborough.
Bam Youth Slam

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Esther Vincent (host)

After many years running a book distribution company and a reading series, Esther Vincent abandoned words in favour of images. She stopped writing and went back to her camera. She still loves to hear writers read and poets speak, however, and is waiting for the day the muses call to her again.
evmustang.ca

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