The Fringe Arts Barn

Name: Poetry Café – Open Mic
Start: 2025-04-03T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-04-03T18:00:00-06:00
Location: The Fringe Arts Barn

10330 84 Ave NW
Edmonton, Alberta T6E 4B4 Canada Get Directions

(780) 448-9000

https://www.fringetheatre.ca/

Events at this venue

April 2025
Local Publishers Showcase

April 23, 2025 @ 6:30 pm

The Fringe Arts Barn 10330 84 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Edmonton has a rich history of local publishers who bring many emerging and experienced poets to readers. Join our showcase of some of these publishers, featuring Funicular Magazine, The Bolo Tie Collective, Hungry Zine, Agatha Press and NeWest Press. This event includes featured readings from each of the presses. Come listen, ask a question, and buy issues and books! Doors will open at 6:30pm, and the readings will begin at 7:00pm. This event will take place in the lobby of the Arts Barns. Light snacks and drinks are available for purchase. All are welcome! Registration: No registration is required. Simply show up and have fun! === Event Series: Publishing, Showcase
How Do Polyglot Poets Reclaim their Indigenous Languages?

April 18, 2025 @ 8:00 pm

The Fringe Arts Barn 10330 84 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Join The Polyglot for an inspiring evening with three Indigenous poets who speak multiple languages and are actively engaged in playing, experimenting, and revitalizing their languages through poetry. This reading and discussion explores how arts-based language reclamation and polyglottism (Cree, English, Ojibwe, Spanish, French, Polish) shapes their poetry and reverberates out to the whole community. The poets - Mackenzie Ground, Chelsea Vowel, and Anna Marie Sewell - are all published in âniskôverberation, The Polyglot's latest issue, which is available for free download at thepolyglotmagazine.com. Venue Note: This event will take place in the lobby of the Fringe Arts Barn. Registration: No registration is required. Simply show up and enjoy! === Event Series: Publishing, Outreach, Showcase
Celebration of New Poetry Books

April 18, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Fringe Arts Barn 10330 84 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Edmonton poets publish a steady flow of poetry books every year. Join us to celebrate a few which have been launched in recent months! These books are wildly different in subject matter – from fertility to death, from the stories of Métis women to insomnia and the natural world. They are also diverse in the approach to poetic technique. But they are all full of feeling – grief and love, anger and dreaming. At this event, audiences will hear a sample from each book. Their authors will also talk about their journey from getting a single poem down on the page to getting the whole work with a publisher's logo on its spine. This event will feature: Marilyn Dumont, with South Side of a Kinless River Chelsea Dingman, with I, Divided Kelly Shepherd, with Moon and Dog Patti Sinclair, with The Late Season Catherine Owen, with Moving to Delilah ...and […]
Poetry In Times Of Turmoil – A Workshop by Rayanne Haines

April 8, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

The Fringe Arts Barn 10330 84 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

How can poems speak in times of turmoil? In this workshop, celebrated Edmonton poet Rayanne Haines will help poets address this question in their own work. The term “poetry of witness” was coined decades ago as one space that poems can inhabit. But what does witnessing mean, since poems can’t directly stop bombs falling or lift chains of oppression, and we’re often writing from far away? Is it enough that poems offer us a way to get closer to the feelings of turmoil and distress? In this workshop, poets will explore the role of poetry as a witness and a voice during times of war, displacement, genocide and trauma. Through examples and writing prompts you'll probe into poetry encompassing first-hand accounts of witness of extremity (for instance, a prisoner of war) and “secondary” witnessing by those who experience an event through news reports, images, interviews, or other documents. You'll also […]
Poetry Café – Open Mic

April 4, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

The Fringe Arts Barn 10330 84 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Part of the 2025 Edmonton Poetry Festival Poetry Lobby Series, this is a different kind of open mic. A different kind. Of open mic. 6:00pm - 6:45pm. A call and response, between poets and movers. A jam session of a different stripe. The poets will poet, and the movers -- the Expanse Festival's own Lobbyists ensemble -- will move it, all to the rhythm and style that you set! This special event is a collaboration between Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton Poetry Festival, and Fringe Theatre Adventures, bringing together poets, movers and storytellers for an experiment in form and collaboration. The Expanse Festival's movement ensemble The Lobbyists are ready to move with you, so we need you to step up step up to a different kind of open mic. Venue Note: This event will take place in the lobby of the Fringe Theatre Arts Barns: the Fringe Grounds Café! Registration: No registration required. Simply show up and enjoy! […]
Poetry Café – Open Mic

April 3, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

The Fringe Arts Barn 10330 84 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Part of the 2025 Edmonton Poetry Festival Poetry Lobby Series, this is a different kind of open mic. A different kind. Of open mic. 6:00pm - 6:45pm. A call and response, between poets and movers. A jam session of a different stripe. The poets will poet, and the movers -- the Expanse Festival's own Lobbyists ensemble -- will move it, all to the rhythm and style that you set! This special event is a collaboration between Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton Poetry Festival, and Fringe Theatre Adventures, bringing together poets, movers and storytellers for an experiment in form and collaboration. The Expanse Festival's movement ensemble The Lobbyists are ready to move with you, so we need you to step up step up to a different kind of open mic. Venue Note: This event will take place in the lobby of the Fringe Theatre Arts Barns: the Fringe Grounds Café! Registration: No registration required. Simply show up and enjoy! […]

April 2025