Regina Word Up Youth + Community Stage ft Johnny Macrae
When
- April 7, 2017 - Doors at: 7:30pm / Showtime: 8:00pm
Links
Admission is $5 + GST or PWYC (No one turned away.)
Doors at 7:30
Show around 8
All ages/+19 Cash Bar
Regina Word Up Youth is Regina's only youth-specific spoken word performance series.
A Youth Stage is an opportunity to share work with our peers and greater community. No scores and all support, this event is a great opportunity for youth (14-22) who want more exposure or practice, or want to share something that doesn’t usually fit within our regular poetry slams. Rants, stories, jokes (the punnier, the better!) songs, or poems are all welcome on our stage.
Have something you want to share that we didn’t list? We love creativity, and we would probably let you perform…just ask us! Regina Word Up Youth Stage is for youth of all skill levels interested in sharing stories – of any kind. We celebrate all styles of writing and voices, and encourage our community to support our powerful poets.
There is a gentle time limit of 5 minutes per person to allow enough time for all of our community. If you have more to share than that, we will allow you another five minute block after everyone has performed, time permitting.
Audience members, come prepared with snapping fingers and a good pair of lungs, as always!
After the youth stage, we host a community stage for ALL AGES. A community stage is an opportunity to share work with our community. No scores and all support, this event is a great opportunity for folks who want more exposure or practice, or want to share something that doesn’t usually fit within our regular poetry slams.
If you are interested in volunteering, sponsoring, supporting, collaborating or have ideas that may benefit Regina Word Up and the development of our spoken word communities, please contact Cat Abenstein at reginawordup@gmail.com
FEATURE ARTIST:
JOHNNY MACRAE is a mouthy poet. The 2013 Poet of Honour for the Victoria Spoken Word Festival, he has been a regional and a national poetry slam champion. Since 2010, MacRae has regularly toured across Canada performing at slams, readings, poetry, theatre and music festivals - both solo and as a member of "spoken weird" talk rock duo, 2 Dope Boys in a Cadillac.
Regina Word Up is grateful for the support of our sponsors: City of Regina, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Canada Council for the Arts, Sask Culture, and Canadian Heritage
