Poetry Parlour (Calgary)
Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
7:00pm – 9:15pm MT
Pachamama Soul Flavour Emporium
#2110, 380 Canyon Meadows Drive SE, Calgary
FREE
Join host Ashley Frerichs at the next Poetry Parlour. Open mic sign-up starts at 7pm. There are limited slots available and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
In celebration of Black History Month, our featured reader for February 2025 is the powerful poet and artist extraordinaire, MelVee X!
About the Featured Reader
MelVee X is a triple threat – she’s a spoken word poet, burlesque dancer and visual artist who’s shared her work across Canada, aka Turtle Island, for the last nine years. She’s the CEO of MVX STUDIOS – a visionary, multidisciplinary hub for bold and empowered artistic expression.
It is her practice to cultivate spaces for unapologetic storytelling from equity-deserving, vulnerable and underserved communities – voices that have been deliberately and systematically silenced. MelVee’s work is rooted in her experiences as a mixed-race neurodivergent Black queer working-class woman who thrives at the intersections and implosions of multiple identities. In spite of all the contradictions, she makes the pieces fit.
The struggle is real and the resistance looks damn good.
Poetry Parlour is sponsored by Calgary publisher, Frontenac House. A selection of their beautiful books will be available for sale permanently on-site at Pachamama Soul.