Throw Collective’s monthly slam returns for 2010 with none other than Brendan McLeod of The Fugitives (see below for his out-of-control bio). We’ve got tricks up our sleeves & a crazy line-up to serve your poetic prowess proper in the coming year. So come-one-come-all, drop a poem, slam your heart out, listen&listen&listen and be wowed by this month’s out of control feature.
O’Hara’s Pub. 1197 University. Sign-up: 7:30 // Show: 8:00. $7.
Brendan McLeod is a former Vancouver and Canadian SLAM poetry champion. He was runner-up at the 2005 World SLAM Championship, held in Holland. As a novelist, he beat out over 500 entries to win the 2006 International 3 Day Novel Contest for his book, The Convictions of Leonard McKinley, which was also nominated for the 2008 Re:Lit Award for fiction, Canada’s top prize for independent presses. That same year, his music group, The Fugitives, were nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award. He has an MA in Philosophy and is an active youth arts educator and writing mentor.
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