Join Write Out Loud as they host a poetry slam for youth.
Share your poems, your lyrics, your stories and your words, either as a part of a poetry slam or open mic. Beginners welcome! The show will also feature a performance from Danielle Richardson.
Richardson (nee Altrogge) is a queer spoken-word poet, Canadian national poetry slam champion and community organizer from Saskatoon. She is the former Executive Director of Tonight It’s Poetry and 25th Street Theatre Centre and is currently serving as the Executive Director for Common Weal Community Arts. A graduate of the MFA in Writing program at the University of Saskatchewan, Richardson is an independent theatre creator, producing and writing Our Four Walls (Thigh-High Theatre, MuD Collective, 2015) and Elemental (Live Five, Embrace Theatre, MuD Collective, 2019). In 2020, Richardson, with three collaborators, published Prairie Girl Collective with Party Trick Press which was released as an audio album with American Radio Cassette in 2021. She lives with her spouse, child and cat in Saskatoon.
AGE GROUP: | Teens |
EVENT TYPE: | Speakers & Special Events | Poetry Reading | Poetry |
TAGS: | Speakers & Special Events |
The Frances Morrison Central Library officially opened on May 28, 1966. This facility was named after Frances Morrison, who served as Saskatoon Public Library’s (SPL) chief librarian from 1961 to 1980. The Frances Morrison Central Library is the largest of SPL’s nine libraries and houses a dedicated Children’s Department, Fine Arts Department, Local History Room, Theatre, a computer lab, Innovation Lab, SPL's Writer in Residence, Accessibility Services and various administrative offices.
