People! I am now podcasting my shows. For all the folks who couldn’t make it out, or want to relive the whole thing! Here is the full set from my feature spoken word performance at the Toronto Poetry Slam, January 9th 2014. You can even download the track. Fun! Thanks to Henry to taping the […]
Isn’t this swell? The poetry slams in Regina (Word up Wednesdays) and Saskatoon (Tonight It’s Poetry) have invited me out to feature at their poetry slam / open mic events for December. Gonna bring my winter boots. Feature poet at Word Up Wednesday, Regina Wednesday Dec 18, 2013 7:00pm Creative City Centre, 1843 Hamilton St., Regina […]
I went to my second Canadian Festival of Spoken Word last week in Montreal representing Kitchener-Waterloo. Our team was Beth Murch, Jaded, C-Command, myself and Lindsay Jack. We did pretty good! We were in the 3-way tie for the last spot to make semi-finals and did not make it past the tie-breaking calculations. So we […]
I am quite excited to announce that I will be the feature poet on the Southwestern Ontario Slam Circuit in October! I love how close the cities are in Southwestern Ontario. I can play 6 shows in 10 days! I will post the event details as I get them. Poetryyyyyy!!!!!!!!!! Oct 16 – Bill Brown […]
Storylines: What We Inherit In 2010, I teamed up with Kathryn Gwun-Yeen Lennon in Kitchener-Waterloo to create the videopoem Asians Don’t Sing the Blues for Asian Heritage Month. Three years later, I have reunited with Kat in Edmonton on my tour to create another poem-film. With help from my tour mate and Trevor Chow-Fraser. Filmed […]
I am happy to announce that my first spoken word album is now available online. You can stream and download it here janicelee.bandcamp.com
I am an organizer of the KW Poetry Slam. We started it last year (we being myself, Lindsay Jack, Jessalyn Broadfoot and Timaj Garad), and this year we are running our full second season. This year I am not going out for the KW slam team, but I am still performing at the slams and […]
Saskatoon. We went there. The Flying V’s, Kitchener-Waterloo’s first ever poetry slam team. We were total rookies, and we surprised everyone including ourselves, by making it to semifinals and placing 6th overall out of 20 teams! It was inspiring, exhausting, magical and intense. You can see all the poems we performed in competition on the […]
I have done some spoken word and performing arts workshops for immigrant youth over at Guelph Wellington Immigrant Services. Recently they launched a radio podcast called New Youth Radio. I had a great time talking with the youth about topics surrounding the politics of body image and empowering yourself as an artist. They aired some of […]
We ran our first full slam season this year at the KW Poetry Slam. As part of Spoken Word Canada’s network of poetry slams across the country, Kitchener-Waterloo will be sending its first team to the national slam championships at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Saskatoon October 2012. I have qualified to compete […]
And Welcome! To the Great Canadian Resource Auction! I performed this at WPIRG’s annual School of Public Interest Conference. This year’s theme was “Breaking Bars, Building Bridges. Challenging the Prison System and Fostering Communities of Support.” I organized the Friday night kick off event When Words Resist 3, which was a showcase of radical spoken […]
I haven’t updated in a long time. Been busy! Here are some videos of some of my slam poetry! Flight: The Struggle for Speech Ode to Garlic Asians Don’t Sing the Blues (with Kat Lennon)
Check this! I placed 1st at the poetry slam! WHOA!! COOL!!! Weeeeeeee! The first poetry slam I was in I didn’t make it past the first round. Well well well! I guess I was pretty freaking nervous the first time, and going right after Carlos Andres Gomez opened didnt help me. But, this time, yay! […]