Ten: A Spoken Word Hip Hop Concert @ Clinton's Tavern, Toronto, ON - Thurs Jul 25th!

This is not something to be missed.

The experience that will be brought to you courtesy of the acts that hit the stage for TEN: A Spoken Word / Hip-Hop Concert will leave you gasping for air and craving more, more, MORE!

But this is a one-time show. Because it is a celebration of a one-time event.

On July 26, 2003, Ritallin the Cerebral Stimulant hit the stage for the very first time. Now, ten years later, the 2012 national team poetry slam champion, 2012 national individual poetry slam runner-up, 2013 VERSeOttawa Hall of Honour inductee and esteemed poetry organizer / performer pulls together what might be the most impressive music-infused spoken word line-up Canada has ever seen.

TEN: A SPOKEN WORD / HIP-HOP CONCERT

Honouring Ten Years of Cerebral Stimulation by Ritallin

Featuring BRITTA B • EMOTICON DAWN • MISSING LINX • KINNIE STARR • RITALLIN

Spins by DJ AFRODITEE

THURSDAY, JULY 25, 2013

CLINTON’S TAVERN (693 BLOOR ST. W. TORONTO)

DOORS 9PM • SHOW 10PM

TEN TOP-NOTCH ARTISTIC TALENTS

ONLY 10 x 10 TICKETS AVAILABLE @ $10 + $10 EACH (that’s 100 tix @ 20 bucks a pop – OR $25 at the door)

GET YOURS BEFORE THEY’RE ALL GONE!

Pick up advance tickets at A Different Booklist (746 Bathurst St.) or Q Space (382 College St.). You can also send payment via email money transfer or PayPal to cytoinfo [at] cytopoetics [dot] ca.

THIS SHOW IS GOING TO BE A TEN!

The Annual Canada Day Weekend Slam featuring Ritallin @ Marilyn Brewer Community Space, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON - Sun Jun 30th!

Toronto Poetry Project is stoked to once again partner with the Harbourfront Centre for another weekend of Canada Day poetry goodness!

FREE! Daytime! Woo hoo!

This time around, the Toronto Poetry Slam Team will square off against 4 poets who want to battle them in a two round slam. The 2 top-scoring poets from the 4 move on to the Finals against the Team on Monday (separate invite coming soon)

Cumulative scoring
Winning poet from Monday's Finals win $100 cash!

Also happy to have Ritallin as the feature!

So arrive for 12:30pm to the Marilyn Brewer Community Space
235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON
Show starts right at 1pm

Hosted by Dave Silverberg

Bios of team and Ritallin below:

The 2013 Toronto Poetry Slam Team consist of five riveting wordsmiths articulating those feelings we have no words for, those emotions better left unsaid, and those moments which make life enjoyable.

The team is captained by Optimus Rhyme, the man with a voice as epic as his life. Rhyme, a recovering addict and cancer survivor, has been making audiences laugh for 10 years as a stand-up comic.

Kiggy – This high school teacher by day, poet by night brings a special kind of warm quirk to this poetic powerhouse.

IF – A spoken word force storming onto stages across Ontario, he can often be seen wandering the streets of Toronto, gesticulating wildly and muttering to himself, (poetry that is).

Philosofly – Puts the "swag" into "soliloquies". The aspiring rapper likes to vandalize the air with his verbal graffiti

Capping it all off is a veteran to the Toronto Poetry Slam team: David Delisca. This four-time team member also boasts the best dance moves on the team, a claim which has not been confirmed, or tested.

Ritallin:
Greg Frankson, a.k.a. Ritallin, is a spoken word artist, arts educator and media personality. In 2012, he won a national slam championship with the Toronto Up From The Roots team and finished second at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam. He is a former national director of Spoken Word Canada and has co-founded several poetry events in Ottawa and Toronto. He is also the Poet Laureate for the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership. Greg is the resident poet on the CBC Radio One afternoon program, Here and Now, the spoken word writer for blogTO and editor-in-chief of cytopoeticsevents.com.

Questions? Email info@torontopoetryslam.com