Bill Brown’s 1-2-3 Slam Makes Toronto Debut

Cytopoetics presents Bill Brown’s 1-2-3 Slam Toronto for the first time ever on Wednesday night!

It’s been an interesting journey for the show, which began in Ottawa in September 2008. It was a smaller show than Capital Slam, the main slam event in town, and BB123 Slam acted as a place where new slammers could get comfortable before hitting the big stage. Notable poets like Sean O’Gorman and Loh El competed in their first-ever slams at Bill Brown. The series ran successfully as a “feeder” show to Capital Slam for two years until its venue closed down. Bill went on hiatus for a while.

Well, the wait is over and Toronto is the place where Bill will make his comeback. At the slam, poets will drop 1-minute, 2-minute and 3-minute poems in successive rounds. The winner of the final Showdown Round wins Bill Brown … and if you don’t know who Bill Brown is, you better ask somebody!

Wednesday, January 18

Waterfalls Indian Tapas Bar & Grill (303 Augusta Ave. in Kensington Market)

Featuring Brendan McLeod

Hosted by Ritallin & Lishai

doors 7pm | sign-up 7:30 | showtime 8pm SHARP

$5 at the door | no open mic | all ages welcome