Greetings Word to the Worth!
I am excited to come back to WordsWorth a second time around! This summer we are the LAST poets standing; during week 1, we will explore what it would be like to be the last exiles of storytelling and poetry.
Be prepared to play, create and laugh!
Last Poets Standing – A Slam Play
The year is 2022 and the last Colonies of standing Poets & Storytellers are called upon to deliver a message to the wifi zombies. A virus of social networking has devoured the earth. People forgot how to write and communicate.
Acronym speech spreads like locus and people delirious with the WiFi Virus forget how to write and perform poems.
The last 3 standing Colonies have also been infected with the virus!!!
What will these almost extinct Colonies say when they are called upon to deliver the last poems ever written or spoken? Time is ticking and they only have 3 minutes each to stake their legacy as the Last Poets Standing.
Jen Kunlire is a spoken word artist, singer and teller of stories. She has been known for her innovative lens in which she presents her work- ever refreshing, Jen is dynamic in everything she does. For the past five years, Jen Kunlire has been involved in the Slam & Spoken Word Community across Canada
Past festivals include, 2-time member of the Calgary Slam Team competing in the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word & SLAM, Calgary/08 & Victoria /09, a three time feature in the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival, High Performance Rodeo’s 10 Minute Play Festival (ETC), OFF-Fil festival in Montreal and was also the winner of the 2009 CBC Poetry Face-OFF in Calgary.
She has served on the board of directors for Writer’s Guild of Alberta as the Youth Representative and the Calgary Rep for Spoken Word Canada (SpoCan). She attended the Spoken Word Residency at the Banff Centre, is a current member of the Ink Spot Collective, who organizes monthly poetry slams in Calgary and is the newly appointed Director of Communications for Ellipsis Tree Collective Theatre Company.
A vibrant presence in the community, Jen is currently facilitating Spoken Word workshops with Unity Charity’s afterschool programs in Calgary.