Raving Poets Team Up With CBC
The Raving Poets‘ latest series—Space Monkey: The Series—started last night. As I mentioned yesterday, this series will include a chance to win a rather grand prize.
I am now able to reveal exactly what the prize is.
According to Raving Poets Founding Father Thomas Trofimuk, the Raving Poets have teamed up with Canada’s national broadcaster.
On the table, a guaranteed spot in the 2008 CBC Poetry Face-off Edmonton.
The Raving Poets are going hard for the next six weeks….And we’ve done a deal with the Mother Corp. Up for grabs is a coveted, guaranteed spot in CBC’s 2008 Poetry Face Off Edmonton final. That’s right, come December 5th, one of our Raving Poets will be going to the “show.” Details will be forthcoming but round one, the first preliminary round, will be November 21st. Oh it’ll still be a 16-spot open stage, but the top three favourite poets (details on this will follow) will automatically get a spot in the December 5th final. On December 5th, we’ll run an abbreviated night of Raving Poets, and then brilliant poets will step up in the second half and duke it out for a guaranteed spot in the Edmonton round of the 2008 CBC Face Off. Stay tuned….for more details. In the meantime, if you’re in Edmonton, come on out tomorrow night….10444 - 82nd Ave. 7:30 p.m
Those are pretty big stakes, and that’s a pretty big prize. If you’re interested in winning it, or just watching a bunch of publicity-crazed poets duking it out, come down to Kasbar (10444 Whyte Avenue) every Wednesday until December 12.
Space Monkey: The Series runs every Wednesday until December 12, 2007 at Kasbar Lounge (10444 Whyte Avenue) below Yianni’s Taverna. Sign-up for the open mic is at 7:30pm; show starts at 8pm.
For full details about the CBC Poetry Face-off Prize, visit: http://ravingpoets.com.
The one thing which is “bad” about this is that you have a slight chance of actually getting to read since it’s random of whom will be selected these nights.
Rosemary
15 Nov 07 at 10:27 am
I’m not sure I see your point. It’s no different than a regular Raving Poets night, except there is a contest involved. It’s possible that more people than usual will want to read, because of the contest, but I don’t think your odds of getting to read will be much lower than usual.
Adam Snider
15 Nov 07 at 10:32 am
Every name in the hat has precisely the same chance of getting drawn. Getting to read isn’t the big deal. Your chances of getting on the list are decent - even if 50 people throw their name in (that’s almost 1 in 3), which isn’t likely. The real challenge is to get into the top 3.
Mike G.
16 Nov 07 at 12:29 am