Hullabaloo: More For Everyone
The 3rd and final day of the youth stream of Verses Festival of Words
Hullabaloo 2017 wrapped up yesterday with its most poetry-packed schedule yet. Young writers participating in the festival, which is the youth stream of Verses Festival of Words, started the day by taking two of four possible workshops from professional poets and performers. The workshops included everything from methods for maintaining good vocal health to tips […]
Teetering Too Close to Cliffs
Hullabaloo Day 2, All Star Slams at The Rio Theatre
Hullabaloo’s second day got going with two All Star Slams at The Rio Theatre, which brought champion spoken word artists Rabbit Richards, Dana ID Matthews, and Charlie Petch together from across the country to compete for a discerning audience of students and teachers. Next, the festival served a heaping helping of BC’s finest youth poetry […]
The Alchemy of Feeling Into Words
Day 1 of Hullabaloo at Verses Festival of Words, 2017
What do the phases “Breakdown Babes,” “Mad But Rad,” “Gibberish and the Hootenannies,” “Mediocre at Best,” “What Would Bert and Ernie’s Legs Look Like?,” and “The 2013 Bocce Championship Runners Up” have in common? If your answer is that they’re what six of the sixteen teams in Hullabaloo, BC’s youth poetry festival, have christened themselves, […]
Hullabaloo
Photos by Kendra Archer Hullabaloo is a youth poetry festival. 16 school teams composed of over 80 youth poets from all over British Columbia come together to complete in slams, participate in workshops, see great feature poets and connect with other writers. — Hullabaloo image gallery – photos by Kendra Archer