Open Mic @ Remix Resto Lounge, Toronto, ON - Sun Jan 13th!

Remix Lounge Toronto are happy to be home to a brand new weekly open mic every Sunday night hosted by the talented Scottish singer-songwriter Rich Freed, who recently moved to our Canadian shores from Glasgow earlier this year!

Whether you are a musician, poet, comedian, actor, magician or mime, you are invited to head down to 1305 Dundas Street West (near Ossington-Dundas intersection) and showcase your talents!

There will be a full back-line of house instruments including guitars, bass, drums and keyboard (or bring your own!) for impromptu jams!

And to top it all off... We will also be giving away a free beer to every performer! How amazing is that!

Sign up for this open mic night starts at 8.30pm, with the music starting at 9pm!

Come on down and become part of a brand new creative community!

Location: Remix Resto Lounge, 1305 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON

Tickets:  Free with registration

To register click here

Irie Tuesdays @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Tues Nov 27th!

We are hosting a weekly jam at Harlem Underground, all styles of music, poetry and spoken word welcome!

Red Stripe, Chicken & Waffles Special $20.

Time:  7:45PM - 11:30pm

Location:  HARLEM UNDERGROUND, 745 Queen St. West, Toronto, ON

Website

Irie Tuesdays @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Tues Nov 20th!

We are hosting a weekly jam at Harlem Underground, all styles of music, poetry and spoken word welcome!

Red Stripe, Chicken & Waffles Special $20.

Time:  7:45PM - 11:30pm

Location:  HARLEM UNDERGROUND, 745 Queen St. West, Toronto, ON

Website

Irie Tuesdays @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Tues Nov 13th!

We are hosting a weekly jam at Harlem Underground, all styles of music, poetry and spoken word welcome!

Red Stripe, Chicken & Waffles Special $20.

Time:  7:45PM - 11:30pm

Location:  HARLEM UNDERGROUND, 745 Queen St. West, Toronto, ON

Website

WordSpell Spoken Word Showcase and Open Mic ft. Rabbit Richards & Lana Kouchnir @ Free Times Cafe, Toronto, ON - Wed Nov 7th!

The WordSpell Collective brings you some of the most brilliant voices in spoken word! WordSpell is the only series bringing together talented established and emerging women and gender non-binary spoken word artists on a recurring basis in Toronto since 2012!

NEXT UP: November 7 with Rabbit Richards & Lana Kouchnir!

Doors 7pm | Open Mic sign up: 7:30 pm (open to all women and non-binary people)
Show starts at 8pm
Tickets at door: $6 and up (cash)
ALL ages & genders welcome in the audience!
Open mic time limit = 4 minutes. (Bring your poetry, comedy, music or whatever you'd like!)

Location:  Free Times Cafe, 320 College Street, Toronto, ON

** Free Times has a 1 drink minimum in the back room (this includes tea, coffee, pop). Everyone is encouraged to patronize the restaurant before, during and after the show! Website **

Facebook event page and more info here

Irie Tuesdays @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Tues Nov 6th!

We are hosting a weekly jam at Harlem Underground, all styles of music, poetry and spoken word welcome!

Red Stripe, Chicken & Waffles Special $20.

Time:  7:45PM - 11:30pm

Location:  HARLEM UNDERGROUND, 745 Queen St. West Toronto, ON

Website

Irie Tuesdays @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Tues Oct 30th!

We are hosting a weekly jam at Harlem Underground, all styles of music, poetry and spoken word welcome!

Red Stripe, Chicken & Waffles Special $20.

Time:  7:45PM - 11:30pm

Location:  HARLEM UNDERGROUND, 745 Queen St. West Toronto, ON

Website

Irie Tuesdays @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Tues Oct 23rd!

We are hosting a weekly jam at Harlem Underground, all styles of music, poetry and spoken word welcome!

Red Stripe, Chicken & Waffles Special $20.

Time:  7:45PM - 11:30pm

Location:  HARLEM UNDERGROUND, 745 Queen St. West Toronto, ON

Website

Irie Tuesdays @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Tues Oct 16th!

We are hosting a weekly jam at Harlem Underground, all styles of music, poetry and spoken word welcome!

Red Stripe, Chicken & Waffles Special $20.

Time:  7:45PM - 11:30pm

Location:  HARLEM UNDERGROUND, 745 Queen St. West Toronto, ON

Website

Irie Tuesdays @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Tues July 31st!

We are hosting a weekly jam at Harlem Underground, all styles of music, poetry and spoken word welcome!

Red Stripe, Chicken & Waffles Special $20.

Time:  7:45PM - 11:00pm

Location:  HARLEM UNDERGROUND, 745 Queen St. West Toronto, ON

Website

Irie Tuesdays @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Tues July 24th!

We are hosting a weekly jam at Harlem Underground, all styles of music, poetry and spoken word welcome!

Red Stripe, Chicken & Waffles Special $20.

Time:  7:45PM - 11:00pm

Location:  HARLEM UNDERGROUND, 745 Queen St. West Toronto, ON

Website

Irie Tuesdays @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Tues July 17th!

We are hosting a weekly jam at Harlem Underground, all styles of music, poetry and spoken word welcome!

Red Stripe, Chicken & Waffles Special $20.

Time:  7:45PM - 11:00pm

Location:  HARLEM UNDERGROUND, 745 Queen St. West Toronto, ON

Website

Irie Tuesdays @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Tues July 10th!

We are hosting a weekly jam at Harlem Underground, all styles of music, poetry and spoken word welcome!

Red Stripe, Chicken & Waffles Special $20.

Time:  7:45PM - 11:00pm

Location:  HARLEM UNDERGROUND, 745 Queen St. West Toronto, ON

Website

Irie Tuesdays @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Tues June 19th!

We are hosting a weekly jam at Harlem Underground, all styles of music, poetry and spoken word welcome!

Red Stripe, Chicken & Waffles Special $20.

Time:  7:45PM - 11:00pm

Location:  HARLEM UNDERGROUND, 745 Queen St. West Toronto, ON

Website

Irie Tuesdays @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Tues June 12th!

We are hosting a weekly jam at Harlem Underground, all styles of music, poetry and spoken word welcome!

Red Stripe, Chicken & Waffles Special $20.

Time:  7:45PM - 11:00pm

Location:  HARLEM UNDERGROUND, 745 Queen St. West Toronto, ON

Website

Irie Tuesdays @ Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, ON - Tues June 5th!

We are hosting a weekly jam at Harlem Underground, all styles of music, poetry and spoken word welcome!

Red Stripe, Chicken & Waffles Special $20.

Time:  7:45PM - 11:00pm

Location:  HARLEM UNDERGROUND, 745 Queen St. West Toronto, ON

Website

Toronto Poetry Slam @ The Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON - Fri Dec 22nd!

It's our regular season finale slam before Semis begins in Jan and it's s special slam because we are welcoming back a fan favourite - MAGPIE ULYSSES!

Hosted by Alyssa Ginsburg.

Magpie Ulysses is a dynamic performance poet and storyteller known for charming and slaying her audiences with intense stage presence and thoughtful insight about humanity. Writer, Rabble Rouser, fancy talker; Magpie began performing at the age of 17 to save her life. Since then she has performed across North America at hundreds of venues, is a veteran member of two national champion Vancouver poetry slam teams and was named a Poet of Honour at the Canadian festival Of Spoken Word In the Fall of 2012. Magpie has spent much of the past seven years heavily involved in the arts while living in and around rural BC. Having spent the past few years raising a new human and caring for her grandmother through alzheimer's disease, she has become increasingly interested in questions surrounding memory, place, body, aging and how we choose to tell our own stories. Website

Location:  The Drake Hotel,1150 Queen St W, Toronto, ON

As always, doors at 7 signup 730 show 8

$7 cover. Open mic available too.

ACCESSIBILITY INFO:

The Drake Hotel has 1 step at the front door on Queen St. W. There are no steps and a button to open the door on the west side of the building on Beaconsfield. To get from the lobby to the Underground, there are 19 steps to the doors/bar level, then 4 steps leading from the bar area to where the chairs are setup. Bathrooms are back on the same level as the bar in the Underground. A wheelchair accessible, gender neutral washroom is on the main lobby level.

If you have any accessibility needs, please let us know in advance so we can attempt to accommodate you.

Questions? Email info@torontopoetryslam.com

Open MIC Wednesday Wing Night @ Cheers Lounge, Brampton, ON - Wed Jul 30th!

Come join us & invite a friend for a night of Poetry, Spoken Word & other inspirational talents. All talents welcome. Join us every "Last Wednesday" of the month at 7:30pm. Showcase your talent!

Hosted by Author/Poet Josephine Casey. All are welcome to come and express their creativity for Open Mic Night! Enjoy great food and half price on wings on this wonderful evening. Meet, connect and network with talented people. We will also be featuring a business/company for the month. This is a local community event with no cover charge but donations are welcome. Hope to see you there.

Location:  Cheers Lounge, 18 QUEEN STREET EAST, Brampton, ON

No Cover

Time:  7:30p

Facebook event page here

ARTiculated Noise Spoken Word Open Mic ft. Tomy Bewick @ Charlie's Gallery, Toronto, ON - Wed Jul 16th!

Cytopoetics is pleased to announce the fifth instalment of ARTiculated Noise! The series takes place at 8pm on the third Wednesday of every month. The purpose of ARTnoise is to provide Toronto with an open mic event that caters specifically to those who predominantly engage in performance poetry.

Bring your poems to share on the open mic in the first half and then check out Burlington Slam Project founder Tomy Bewick in the second half!

ARTiculated Noise is a proud member of the Southwestern Ontario Spoken Word Circuit and graciously acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for the SOSWC.

Sign-Up 7:30pm | Show 8pm | All Ages | $5 at the door

ABOUT OUR FEATURE

With a full time career as an Accredited Professional in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (with a Specialty in Building Design and Construction), Tomy dedicates all other hours to family, friends and sharing his art-as-therapy. Heavily influenced by diverse communities and determined to provide a platform for any voice that needs it, Tomy founded “The Burlington Slam Project” in July of 2008. Tomy is the acting host, artistic director and talent booking agent in Burlington, but has represented Toronto on the Canadian National stage multiple times and is a 4 time finalist at the National level. Having featured and competed at poetry slams/spoken word events across Canada (and the US Midwest) since 2005; Tomy focuses on community building, youth outreach and artist mentoring. In 2012, The Burlington Slam Project team became the first ever Ontario Provincial Champions, and were also finalists at the US National Poetry Slam for their group work (which ranked in the top 10 out of 72 teams).

Location:  Charlie's Gallery, 112 Harbord St, Toronto, ON

Time:  8p - 10:30p

For more info please see:
Facebook
Twitter - @TommyBuick and @burlington_slam
Wordpress

ARTiculated Noise Spoken Word Open Mic featuring Dan Murray @ Charlie' Gallery, Toronto, ON - Wed Jun 18th!

Cytopoetics is pleased to announce the fourth instalment of ARTiculated Noise! The series takes place at 8pm on the third Wednesday of every month. The purpose of ARTnoise is to provide Toronto with an open mic event that caters specifically to those who predominantly engage in performance poetry.

Bring your poems to share on the open mic in the first half and then check out 2014 Burlington Slam Project Grand Champion Dan Murray in the second half!

ARTiculated Noise is a proud member of the Southwestern Ontario Spoken Word Circuit and graciously acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for the SOSWC.

ABOUT OUR FEATURE

Dan Murray is the result of a long-abandoned Government experiment - the goal of which was to determine the ongoing effects of suburban life on a depressive linguophile with a knack for re-quoting Monty Python skits and a strange obsession with progressive rock. The result is a silly kind of bored anger, but made to sound far more intellectual than is necessary. He also does music.

He has been a member of the Burlington Slam Project's national team twice, competing in Toronto, Saskatoon, and Charlotte, NC - and was most recently a member of the nearly-notorious We Flip Tables! team, competing in Montreal. His solo music lays stagnant in the land of "too good for human consumption" - though his band - The Great Lakes Privateers have been enjoying a very quick rise in awareness through the Hamilton-Halton regions.

Taylor Mali remains unimpressed.

Location:  Charlie's Gallery, 112 Harbord St, Toronto, ON

Sign-Up 7:30pm | Show 8pm | All Ages | $5 at the door

Facebook event page