Victorious Voices Festival April 9-11, 2018. Preview. One of my favourite arts activities occurs next week; Victorious Voices Festival is the high school poetry slam championships--the longest running youth poetry festival in Canada. Now in its 9th year it brings eight lower Vancouver Island teams together for competition, workshops and showcases. Founded by Jeremy Loveday, a slam poet who has represented Victoria at the national … [Read more...]
Victorious Voices 5th annual High School Slam Poetry Championships. April 7-9th 2014.
March 19, 2014 By 1 Comment
Victorious Voices Celebrates 5 Years of Youth Speaking Their Truth I don't get out to as much poetry (slam, spoken word, readings) as I would like, but I always make time and space in my calendar for Victorious Voices. Director Jeremy Loveday has impressed me with his passion for mentoring since the first time I met him in early 2011. April marks the 16th annual National Poetry Month in Canada; I can't think of a better way to celebrate poetry … [Read more...]
Call for Victoria’s Second Youth Poet Laureate. Deadline November 25 2013
November 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Did you know that the City of Victoria is the first city in Canada to have a Youth Poet Laureate? Aysia Law, a current UVic creative writing student, was chosen in January 2013 to represent Victoria. She was active in the community, performing at Pop-Up Poetry events in April to celebrate National Poetry Month, and at council meetings and Culture Days events, as well as organizing a Diversity Slam this past summer. Photo: City of … [Read more...]
Victoria’s Youth Poet Laureate Launches Diversity Slam August 19 2013
August 10, 2013 By 1 Comment
Victoria's Youth Poet Laureate launches Diversity Slam August 19, 2013. It's only in the past few years that I've come to know anything at all about the slam poetry "scene", which in Victoria BC is extremely vibrant and well-attended. It was by happenstance that I came to be seated at my first event in January 2011 and was introduced to Jeremy Loveday, who was instrumental in lobbying the city of Victoria to create the Youth Poet Laureate … [Read more...]
Victorious Voices 2013, 4th annual Secondary School Slam Poetry Championship
April 4, 2013 By 2 Comments
It’s time for some of the freshest and strongest young voices to represent as Victorious Voices comes to the Victoria Event Centre April 15th and 17th. If you think that poetry is only for the printed page, these young poets will show you the power of the spoken word. Victorious Voices is the Victoria-based high school slam poetry competition, which has grown to such an extent that it is now staged in the community. "When I was a teenager, I … [Read more...]
Jeremy Loveday, performance poet and community organizer
April 6, 2012 By 2 Comments
Social media has opened many new worlds to me – among them the world of slam poetry and spoken word. In January 2011 I had the opportunity to attend a Tongues of Fire-hosted Victoria performance by the celebrated slam poet, Buddy Wakefield, and heard local performance poet Jeremy Loveday. … [Read more...]
Victorious Voices, 3rd Annual High School Slam Poetry Championship
March 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
What would it have been like to hear Moe Clark, Buddy Wakefield or Shane Koyczan perform their poetry as teenagers? To sit in the audience and realize the power of their words, and realize it could only get better over time. Next week, April 2nd and 4th, you have the opportunity to support young talent as 40 high school students from across Victoria compete in the third Victorious Voices, Victoria High School Youth Slam Championship. “The … [Read more...]
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