“A good poem is like finding a hole in the palace wall— never know what you might see.” ~ Tukaram
The Burlington Slam Project A monthly poetry slam in Burlington, Ont; 3rd Thursday of every month, always a different feature artist; never the same show twice!https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Burlington-Slam-Project/345223302172321
in the killing fields the shelves of fortune globe skulls peer at you with empty eyes an empty history is always driven by an empty soul
a hinge on the door reminds you of your mother’s knuckle reminds you of the aching kneading of bread
you can’t feel your hands
the line of a cheek…
Pics of Occupy Oakland, during the day of the general strike. There were an estimated 40,000 of us in total, in the plaza, marching to the port, gathering in community. People around the world, including in New York and Cairo, marched in solidarity with Oakland. It was the first general strike in the city in 46 years.
(Source: occupylove)
A homeless man robbed a Louisiana bank and took a $100 bill. After feeling remorseful, he surrendered to police the next day. The judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison. Roy Brown, 54, robbed the Capital One bank in Shreveport, Louisiana in December 2007. He approached the teller with one of his hands under his jacket and told her that it was a robbery.The teller handed Brown three stacks of bill but he only took a single $100 bill and returned the remaining money back to her. He said that he was homeless and hungry and left the bank.The next day he surrendered to the police voluntarily and told them that his mother didn’t raise him that way.Brown told the police he needed the money to stay at the detox center and had no other place to stay and was hungry.In Caddo District Court, he pleaded guilty. The judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison for first degree robbery.
Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/265402#ixzz1bEw2lUML
We are incredibly proud of our 2011 Burlington Slam Project Team - They placed second in their 1st and 2nd bout to the city of defending champions (Winnipeg, Quebec, Kingston - Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto); scored the highest score of the festival; and one of the top 8 teams competing tonight for finals. http://ow.ly/6Xp2A
Only four teams will move on. Don’t miss it.
Friday Oct 14, 2011 @ Royal Cinema (608 College)
CFSW Semifinals at 7pm
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at door - http://www.cfsw.ca/tickets
National Slam Semis - Bout 1: Ottawa Cap Slam, Kingston, Calgary, UFTR.
National Slam Semis - Bout 2: Bedrocc, Edmonton, Burlington, Ottawa UL.
IN CASE YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CFSW or THE BURLINGTON SLAM PROJECT
The 2011 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) is taking place October 11 to 15 in various venues in downtown Toronto. This annual festival features the top talent in the national spoken word community. Poets from Victoria to Halifax will take part in Toronto for the country’s largest spoken word festival. In the evening, 20 poetry slam teams will compete in spoken word competitions known as poetry slams. This will be the second year in a row that BURLINGTON, ONTARIO will be represented in the National competition. In the day and late nights will be a variety of workshops, panel discussions and special presentations.
Representing The Burlington Slam Project (BSP) 2011 Team will be Yogi (Team Captain), James Owen Brown, Oskar Niburski, Dan aka Dan Murray and Kay’la “Kiki” Fraser (Team Alternate). The team is developed each year through the monthly event – THE BURLINGTON SLAM PROJECT or “BSP” for short (it is open to all interested participants - every 3rd Thursday of each month). Through the course of friendly competition; monthly winners and high scorers (as ranked by random judges selected at each event) earn points towards a season finale. In addition to the competition BSP has an open mic and a special feature artist each month.
The Burlington Slam Project started in 2008. It stands as Burlington’s only monthly poetry slam event and has been going strong for over 3 years. In 2010 Burlington Slam Project made the jump into the Canadian National Slam circuit. Entered into the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) the team competed against 18 teams from across the Canada. What were the results? - Burlington placed 4th overall in the country! This year, Burlington has a new team and will hit the stage against 20 poetic teams!
NEXT WEEK - We continue with our 4th year of Poetry Slam in Burlington, Ontario; October 20th at Philthy McNastys at 8pm - Tickets $5 -
Come to share or come to stare - all welcome!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174421252636853
Check out our website www.burlingtonslam.wordpress.com or look us up on facebook as “The Burlington Slam Project”.
”Performing arts possess a built-in resistance to consumerist totality by simply being so difficult to commodify - if you can’t duplicate, mass produce and distribute it, then what value is it? The answer to this question lies in the attribute unique to the performing arts: the fact that the performer and the audience are in the same room at the same time - The mission is to bring people together, engage them, challenge them and get them talking, thinking and feeling - to foster actual encounters between living, breathing bodies and the ideas they contain.”

Hosted by McMaster Theatre and Film Studies
Sarah Thornton, a theatre maker and academic specializing in political theatre, founded Collective Encounters in 2004 to create theater work in collaboration with community organizations affected by a massive “regeneration” project in one of the most disadvantaged areas in the UK, north Liverpool. Since then Collective Encounters has organized creation research with over 1500 people, close to 500 workshops with 2000 participants, and 22 productions that have reached close to 10,000 audience members. Ms Thornton will discuss Collective Encounters’ work to create “innovative theatre for social change fit for the 21st century,” including site-specific professional productions and participatory workshops with local people, in relation to her current research on the impact of theatre on community renewal.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=290425400983756
FREE EVENT
http://www.collective-encounters.org.uk/index.php
Calling all writers, playwrights and screen writers! Let’s write a live theatrical comedic scene to be preformed at the Fall Formal on October 10th, 2011.
Here’s what to do:
- Write a scene for 2 characters. One to be played by me and the other I will cast appropriately.
- The scene is set at the Fall Formal, sitting in the theatre during intermission. However, the scene is NOT about the Fall Formal or hitRECord.
- These two characters should be taking about their love lives.
- Should be funny, snappy, theatrical comedic stuff.
Alright, that’s all I’m gonna say for now. And yeah, we will take what’s written and perform it live at the Fall Formal. I’m really excited to see what you guys will pull out!
Thanks Again
<3
J
Contribute to the collaboration here!
(Source: hitrecord)
After a tense delay of more than 4 hours, the state of Georgia has just killed Troy Anthony Davis. My heart is heavy. I am sad and angry. Georgia’s criminal justice system behaved with the viciousness of a defective machine, relentlessly pursuing his death while ignoring the doubts about his guilt that were obvious to the rest of the world. Tonight we witnessed an abuse of power that exposed a justice system devoid of humanity, a dysfunctional destructive force in denial about its own deeply embedded flaws. We could not ultimately stop Georgia’s machinery of death in this case, but the groundswell of activism Troy Davis has generated proves that people are hungry for a better system of justice. This will be his legacy. We will fight for a system of justice with more humanity, that accepts the possibility of mistakes, errors, and doubts. A system of justice that believes that innocence matters. A system of justice with more justice. Let’s take a moment to honor the life of Troy Davis and Mark MacPhail. Then, let’s take all of our difficult feelings and re-double our commitment to the abolition of the death penalty. Tonight we mourn … tomorrow we organize!Georgia Kills Troy Davis
Death Penalty, Prisoners and People at Risk, USA | Posted by: , September 21, 2011 at 11:16 PM 1792Share
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