Peterborough Poetry Slam & Justice For Levi Fundraiser

Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 7:30pm

The Red Dog
189 Hunter St
Peterborough, ON
K9H 2L1

The monthly Peterborough Poetry Slam event will be held Thursday, March 31, at The Red Dog. It will be followed by a BEATS4JUSTICE fundraiser to support "The Coalition Justice for Levi Schaeffer." For more information on this community action visit: www.justiceforlevi.org/.

This month's special guest is Alessandra Naccarato!

ABOUT:

Alessandra Naccarato is a spoken word artist and community organizer based in Montreal, Quebec. She has graced stages from New York to Buenos Aires, Halifax to Victoria, and twice represented Montreal at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, placing third nationally in 2009 and 2010. The Artistic Director of Throw Poetry Collective and the Co-Chair of Spoken Word Canada, she was named one of Montreal's top emerging artists by Nightlife Magazine and a “Noisemaker” by the Montreal Mirror.

Her latest chapbook, Beekeepers, Hurricanes & Men Who Catch Pigeons is a collection of poems for recent lovers, including Sappho, Tropical Storm Alex& the guy who fed her oranges in Guatemala one spring.

More info: http://peterboroughpoetryslam.blogspot.com/.