# Event Details

- **Event Name**: FIRE AND ICE Women's Poetry Showcase
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 19 Mar, 2016 at 04:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Fire and Ice is proud to be presenting another incredible lineup as part of Versefest 2016, Ottawa's International Poetry Festival.



LOCATION
This year the show will take place on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Territory at Knox Presbyterian Church located at 120 Lisgar Street at the corner of Lisgar and Elgin Street .  Doors will be open before the show starts at 4:30pm. Get there early to grab a seat close to the stage!

POETS

Amy Iliza Ottawa
Amy Iliza is an African writer, creator and poet who made her debut as a spoken word artist at the OG500 slam competition in Ottawa. She fell in love with poetry after reading Tupac’s The Rose That Grew from Concrete, and has been writing poems ever since. The influence of her upbringing in Canada and in multiple countries in Africa is flagrant in her pieces where she offers a different point a view on globalization. In a world where emotions are considered a sign of weakness, Amy’s work aims to provoke them. It is clear that she is just getting started

Rebecca Lea Thomas Dartmouth
Rebecca Thomas is a Mi'kmaw woman living in Dartmouth Nova Scotia. She is the daughter of a residential school survivor whose family is rooted in Lennox Island First Nation, Prince Edward Island. She attended Dalhousie University where she acquired more education than is probably good for her. After she finished her Master's degree she embarked on her journey for meaningful employment eventually landing a job that allows her to support Indigenous students in their quests for education. Rebecca is a very outspoken woman when it comes to battling Aboriginal stereotypes as well as educating her workplace, colleagues, and anyone who will listen about cultural safety and integrity in education, society and generally encouraging people to think before they speak. Having Captained the Nova Scotia Slam poetry team for the second year in a row she was able to bring her voice, along with three other Nova Scotians, to the national stage. Most of her work focuses on the relationships between Canada's First Peoples, their relationship with the federal government and how First Nations' people are perceived in the public eye. Rebecca is on a life long journey to promote understanding and empathy for Indigenous people and marginalized communities. 

Annie St-Jean  Gatineau
Slammestre officielle de SlamOutaouais à la Ligue québécoise de slam, animatrice officielle des soirées de joute, coordonnatrice du Grand slam du secondaire et slameuse, Annie St-Jean se passionne pour le slam. Au sein de la ligue, ses textes se sont démarqués: elle est non seulement la championne régionale de la 5e saison (2012), elle a eu la chance de s'illustrer en finale régionale pendant plusieurs saisons et de participer à quatre Grand slam national, dont celui qui a médaillé d'or son équipe. Publiée dans quatre collectifs de slams québécois, elle a participé à des spectacles de slam en Outaouais, à Montréal, à Sherbrooke et à Québec. En 2014, elle a reçu le flamand littéraire Flamand littéraire Littérature orale - Télé-Québec lors du Gala de reconnaissance des auteurs de l'Outaouais pour son texte "Main d'homme".

Diplômée en didactique et en rédaction professionnelle, elle est enseignante de français au secondaire. Elle transmet sa passion des mots aux adolescents de ses groupes, mais elle donne également des ateliers à différents groupes d'âges en initiation au slam, en écriture slam et en réécriture poétique. En 2014, elle a publié son premier roman jeunesse chez Éditions Vents d’Ouest: Le rêve de Sadako. 

Vanessa Rotondo V Ottawa
Vanessa Rotondo (better known as V) is an Ottawa-based freelance writer, national spoken word artist and youth engagement coordinator/arts educator. In 2013, she released an anthology of her poetry entitled, Since February, followed by her debut spoken word album, Watch Your Driving: a Spoken Word Album by V, funded by the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Ottawa in January 2015. She has also released cinepoems entitled, “R.I.P Ms. Focus,” “Electropoetry,” and “WordPlay4Change,” a social media project in partnership with Sexual Assault Network Ottawa and Carleton University this year. V is a keen believer in using her art form as a way to effect social change. She has worked with young aspiring writers in schools and communities across Canada and more recently aboard, in East Africa. 

TICKETS
Single tickets will be sold at the door for $10. Festival passes, full day passes and evening passes are available online at http://versefest.ca/year/2016/tickets/


Last year it was an incredible event and it is sure to sell out again so get tickets early if possible! 


If you're interested in more Spoken Word Events as part of Versefest stay tuned for more information about the Slam happening on March 15th!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ottawa/fire-and-ice-womens-poetry-showcase/950626785045141
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Ottawa
- **state**: ON
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: Knox Presbyterian Church Ottawa
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- **full address**: Knox Presbyterian Church Ottawa, 120 Lisgar St., Ottawa, Canada

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is FIRE AND ICE Women's Poetry Showcase being held?
  - **A:** FIRE AND ICE Women's Poetry Showcase takes place on Sat, 19 Mar, 2016 at 04:30 pm to Sat, 19 Mar, 2016 at 04:30 pm at Knox Presbyterian Church Ottawa, 120 Lisgar St., Ottawa, Canada.

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