Unless otherwise stated, all shows are in person on Thursdays at Caffè Fantastico (Quadra Village Roastery)
Doors @ 6:00 PM
Sign up @ 6:30 PM
Show @ 7:00 PM
Entry is $5-$15 sliding scale (cash or card), but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Coming Up
March 12 | Tongues of Fire ft. Pam Stewart
March 19th | FINAL SLAM
March 26th | Tongues of Fire ft. Jeremy Loveday
April 9th | Tongues of Fire ft Steven J Thompson
April 14th | Victorious Voices Youth Spoken Word Festival
April 15th | Victorious Voices Youth Spoken Word Festival
April 16th | Victorious Voices Alumni Showcase
April 23d | Tongues of Fire ft. Anjalica Solomon
April 30th | Tongues of Fire TBA
May 14th | Tongues of Fire ft. Miranda Jay
May 21 | Tongues of Fire ft. Emmett Macmillen
May 28 | Tongues of Fire ft. Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi
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About our features
Pam Stewart
Pam Stewart writes about change and self-acceptance, the beauty and the not so. She’s a performer, facilitator and event producer. A former Victoria slam champion, she got her start in spoken word before publishing a book of personal essays, I Really Thought It Would Be Easier Than This, in 2019. She represented Victoria at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word four times, twice at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam, was once a frequent contributor to Elephant Journal, and was the first and only Riot Grrrls Poet in Residence. To see her perform live is to feel it.
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Jeremy Loveday
Jeremy Loveday is a poet, arts educator, and community builder from Victoria, BC, on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən People. He co-founded and served as the longtime artistic director of the Victorious Voices youth poetry festival. Jeremy’s dynamic performances earned him the title of Victoria Poetry Slam Grand Champion three times. In 2020, he was honoured with the Zaccheus Jackson Nyce Memorial Award. His work has been published in reputable platforms such as Huffington Post, CV2, Funicular Magazine, National Observer, CBC, Claudia, and Best Canadian Poetry 2023. Jeremy’s first full-length book, Maybe the Starling, is now available through Write Bloody North.
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Steven J. Thompson
Steven J. Thompson is a writer, poet and spoken word artist. He has written articles for Monday Magazine, participated in the CBC Poetry Face-off and his poetry has appeared on doors and windows of local downtown shops. Steven’s work has been included in publications such as Oratoriallis and MuseMedusa. All of these are accomplishments he’s stumbled into on his path working to be a better human.
Steven is a three-time member of the Victoria National Poetry Slam team and has performed at festivals and events across Canada. Such events have included Vancouver’s Word on the Street, The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and The Calgary International Spoken Word Festival where he opened for Shane Koyczan.
He is a graduate of the Banff Centre Spoken Word Program where he studied under Sheri-D Wilson and Juno Award-Winning dub poet Lillian Allen. However co-founding Tongues of Fire and the Victoria Poetry Project are Steven’s proudest accomplishments.
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Anajalica Soloman
Anjalica Solomon is your favourite local genderfluid-bird-watching-heart-eyed-astro-queer. They blend their Desi roots and Pacific NorthWest up-bringing in art forms such as singing, songwriting, loop pending, poetry, and the spoken word.
They are known and beloved as an organiser and multi-disciplinary performer based in what is colonially known as Vancouver, BC on the stolen and unsurrendered territories of the Coast Salish, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and MusqueamNations.
Anjalica is currently exploring new genres such as screenwriting, non-fic and playwriting as an MFA student in The School of Creative Writing at UBC.
Their poetic work often seeks to proclaim the possibilities of love and resilience. Anjalica is a poet of startling emotional intellect and candour whose work testifies to a deep faith in beauty, the power of nature, and ultimately, the human capacity to salvage integrity, radiance and joy from moments of struggle. In this way, Anjalica Solomon’s poems and performances offer robust visions of hope, tenacity, and love.
Their debut poetry collection “Apocalypse Joy” is out NOW with Write Bloody North Publishing!
For more information about the poetry slam format, read here.
November 20: Dex Neily
November 27: Slam!
BIG THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS AND SPONSORS!!
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