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Story Seeds: Growing the Poems That Are Yours To Tell

CityStudio
Victoria, BC

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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
Some of the best poems are a poet's own stories. In this workshop we'll approach spoken word as storytelling, doing an exercise or two to find the seeds for poems that are ours to tell and workshop one until it grows into a tiny plant of a tale. We'll talk about ways to describe that plant as the seasons change, as the buds drop off, as the stem grows, splits, heals and take new forms. You will (hopefully) leave with a catalogue of seeds to sprout into poems when the lighting and rain are right.

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15 seats are available for purchase ahead of time and we will be offering limited tickets at the door - guarantee your seat and get your ticket now!
12 of the online tickets are being offered at the regular rate of $10 and the remaining 3 are being offered at the benefactor rate of $20 to subsidize folks who want to attend but can't afford it.
If you would like a subsidized ticket, please contact VPP's Executive Director, Shayli Robinson, at vppdirector@gmail.com.

ABOUT ELYSIA:
By day Elysia is the Director of a tiny non-profit, by the rest of the day she is a spoken word poet and organizer. Former Co-Director of the Victoria Poetry Project and member of the 2014 Vic Slam Team, she currently produces the Victorious Voices Youth Festival with Jeremy Loveday and is a workshop facilitator with Raising Voices. She has featured at the Vancouver Youth Slam, Mashed Poetics, and Slamapalooza, and her work has been published in Oratorealis, a literary journal dedicated to spoken word and experimental poetry.

ABOUT THE VENUE:
CityStudio is located on the ground level of Johnson St next to the Johnson St parkade. It has washrooms and a small kitchen, including a small refrigerator. The entrance is a standard single door.