rEvolver Famous Last Words
Hello Friends of Death Rides a Unicorn,
For this month we are lucky enough to be doing two Famous Last Words shows as part of the rEvolver Festival on May 30th and May 31st at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. We have challenged our young writers to come up with new material for both shows so not only will there be fun with chocolate, unicorns, tiaras and bubble guns but both shows will be totally different. Come for both, you will not be dissappointed.
Famous Last Words rEvolver Edition will be featuring Aaron Hunter, Babaloluwa (Lolu) Oyedele, Ever Roberts, Jenny Garcha, Neko Smart, Sean McGarragle and Priscilla Costa as Uni the Unicorn.
Tickets can be found at
https://upintheairtheatre.com/presentation/famous-last-words/
or
https://thecultch.com/ticket/famous-last-words/
Hope to see you all there!
Bios
Aaron Hunter (he/him) is a poet, performer, visual artist and student. He produces and hosts "Brave Voices," the weekly poetry open mic in Port Moody. In between classes and work you can find him writing on topics such as identity, community and healing. His debut chapbook "The Archives" is set to be released by the end of 2024.
Babaloluwa (Lolu) Oyedele is a Nigeria-born, South-Africa raised interdisciplinary artist, performer and writer. He is privileged to be part of the Unbound Reading Series team as well as a member of Playwrights Theatre Centre’s Block A writing cohort led by the auspicious David Geary. He is currently working and living in the unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, otherwise known as Vancouver, B.C.
In the summer of 1995, during the height of the Okanagan cherry season, Jenny Garcha was born. Growing up along the sunny shores of Skaha Lake, in the backyard of the local Sikh gurudwara, Jenny Garcha had a culturally stimulating childhood. She learnt the various colors and tones of her species long before she learnt all the colors of the rainbow. For most of her childhood, western holidays were spent in celebration among the families of her mother's caring bosses. In the winter, they would enjoy a vegetarian-able dinner with Lucio and his rambunctious Portuguese family. Spending Christmas Eve atop the icy hill, looking from Lucio’s warm dining room windows out onto the acres of snow-dusted hibernating trees, saving their fruits to be her family’s labor in the summer. Sometimes they would spend the holidays at home and Art, the local Ukrainian restaurateur, would visit around midday to drop off chocolates and presents so Jenny and her sisters could enjoy the frivolity of unwrapping necessities that would help keep them warm until April poured its infamous showers.
Ever Roberts is in her third year at UBC, studying applied animal biology. She manages the outreach of UBC Slam Poetry and is passionate about creating poetry spaces for the student community and leading her team. Poetry has felt to be an innate way for her to process and encapsulate the stories that she lives through. Poems to her are a safe-keeping place to stash mementos of nature, literature, science, and her lore.
Jenny humbly learnt to accept the generosity of Penticton’s diverse immigrant community. These people who were from all the different corners of the globe. Who were here in Canada, trying to make a name for themselves and provide for their families, just like her mother. Her childhood was multicultural; different languages, tongues and mouths speaking, often hollering over one another as if she had landed in the middle of the tower of Babel. This loving community that surrounded Jenny in her early years, is the positive influence she has with her through every adventure she partakes in. She carries her Canadian family with her everywhere.
Neko Smart is a recent graduate of UBC’s BFA Creative Writing program. As 2020 Victoria City Youth Poet Laureate, they emphasized the importance of cultivating open dialogue about mental health in order to reduce stigma and increase safety, particularly for youth. They carry this value with them in all their artistic and leadership endeavours: as a member of the organizing committee for the 2020/2021 Victorious Voices youth arts festival, as a member of the Wordplay poetry workshop facilitation roster, and as former slam coordinator for the UBC Slam Poetry Club.
They were a finalist in the 2023 and 2024 Canadian Individual Poetry Slams.
Priscilla Costa is a Holistic Comedian; as in she attempts to embody the absurd, the emotions, the senses, and the energies of the underworld while also having a heap of fun! She’s also pretty darn tootin excited to get physical as a unicorn. Places to check her out are The GutterClown Cabaret and other non-digital places she’s invited to… Catch her if you can!
Sean McGarragle is a poet and storyteller from the republic of East Vancouver. He is the founder of Death Rides a Unicorn, The Vancouver Story Slam, The Canadian Individual Poetry Slam and the Vancouver International Poetry Festival (now entitled Verses). He has performed and read his work from Dublin to Denver, from Moose Jaw Saskatchewan to Madison Wisconsin. He is super excited to host these events and to showcase these great talents.
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