Death Rides a Unicorn Events Page

26/10/2023

I saw this fabulous poster on the way to get chocolate. Remember, anybody dressed in a costume gets some chocolate!

17/10/2023

Well, this is a wonderful surprise!

The doing a shout out for and ‘a Famous Last Words on Friday October 27th.

Famous Last Words Season 2 Episode 1
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema
149 West Hastings Street
6:30 PM Doors
7:00 PM Showtime
$5-15 Sliding Scale

No one will be turned away for lack of funds and treats will be given to people in costume.

https://famouslastwordss2e1.eventbrite.ca

12/10/2023

Famous Last Words in the Vancouver Sun! Have you got your ticket yet?

11/10/2023

Making their Famous Last Words Debut on Friday October 27th will be the wildly talented, Hari Alluri!

Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is a migrant poet of Pangasinan, Ilokano, and Telugu descent who lives, loves, and writes on unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, and Kwantlen, Katzie and Kwikwetlem lands of Hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking peoples. Siya is author of The Flayed City and chapbook Our Echo of Sudden Mercy. Recipient of the Vera Manuel Award for Poetry, among other awards, grants, fellowships and residencies, his work appears through these venues and elsewhere: Apogee, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry, poetry in canada, PRISM International and—via Split This Rock—Best of the Net.

Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) has a weakness for the types of beings -- human, deity, or otherwise -- who thieve and grieve, who joke and, terrible even, sing.

Famous Last Words Season 2 Episode 1
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema
149 West Hastings Street
6:30 PM Doors
7:00 PM Showtime
$5-15 Sliding Scale
No one will be turned away for lack of funds and treats will be given to people in costume.

https://famouslastwordss2e1.eventbrite.ca

04/10/2023

Who is my favourite Otter impersonator? Dina Del Bucchia !

Selected Highlight #2 • Famous Last Words features five raconteurs attempting to win their way into the heart of master of ceremonies Sara Bynoe through games designed to test their literary and comedic merit. With the assistance of the audience and her trusty sidekick Uni the Unicorn, the mistress of mirth will decide who performs best. Taking the stage are Dina Del Bucchia, Elliott Slinn, Hari Alluri, Marie Metaphor and RC Weslowski. Presented by Death Rides a Unicorn Events Page with SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement

⏰ Friday October 27 at 7pm
📍 SFU Woodwards, 149 West Hastings St
🎟 $5-15 sliding scale

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/famous-last-words-season-2-episode-1-tickets-713727095957?aff=oddtdtcreator

03/10/2023

What would a Famous Last Words show be without Dina Del Bucchia? Not a Famous Last Words show, that's what.

Dina is a writer, podcaster, literary event host, editor, creative writing instructor and otter and dress enthusiast living in Vancouver on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people. She is the author of the short story collection, Don’t Tell Me What to Do, and four collections of poetry: Coping with Emotions and Otters, Blind Items, Rom Com, written with Daniel Zomparelli, and, It’s a Big Deal! She is the Artistic Director of the Real Vancouver Writers’ Series, hosts the podcast, Can’t Lit, with Jen Sookfong Lee and is on the editorial board of fine.press. Her chapbook, Do**he Process, is available online at ryanfitzpatrick.ca/modelpress/. You can check out her website at dinadelbucchia.com.

Dina was the winning Raconteur of Famous Last Words Episode 1 and will be reprising her role for Famous Last Words Episode 4 on Friday October 27th 7:00PM at The Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema (149 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H7) as part of the Heart of the City Festival.

Famous Last Words Season 2 Episode 1
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema
149 West Hastings Street
6:30 PM Doors
7:00 PM Showtime
$5-15 Sliding Scale

No one will be turned away for lack of funds and treats will be given to people in costume.

https://famouslastwordss2e1.eventbrite.ca

26/09/2023

With just over a month to go until our first Famous Last Words show of the season, please let us introduce you to our first raconteur, Elliott Slinn!

Elliott Slinn is a performer who takes listeners on a journey of the heart with his honest song writing and poetry. With a unique style and an emphasis on the musicality of his lyrics, his storytelling and sonic signature weave together as one.

Slinn’s haunting and powerful voice carries an air of gentle melancholy, which captivates audiences and leaves listeners spellbound. His work has been described as immediate and accessible, as he aims to engage the soul and transform his personal tale into a shared experience.

He has performed at the: Lululemon Leadership conference, for Lush Cosmetics, the Vancouver and New Westminster Arts Council, the Real Estate Foundation of BC, the YWCA, New West Chamber of Commerce, VMF (Vancouver Mural Festival) and Vancouver Writers Festival. Most recently he was on the CBC radio program “North by Northwest” with Margaret Gallagher.

His street poetry, Moment Poems, has been welcomed in to numerous events, as he writes personalized on-the-spot poetry for people all around the city.

Slinn was named the Poet Laureate for the City of New Westminster in 2021, and was successfully elected to the New Westminster School Board as a Trustee in 2022.

Elliott will be making his Death Rides A Unicorn debut at Famous Last Words Episode 4 on Friday October 27th 7:00PM at The Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema (149 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H7) as part of the Heart of the City Festival.

Famous Last Words Season 2 Episode 1
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema
149 West Hastings Street
6:30 PM Doors
7:00 PM Showtime

$5-15 Sliding Scale

No one will be turned away for lack of funds and treats will be given to people in costume.

https://famouslastwordss2e1.eventbrite.ca

16/09/2023

That was a great start! Thank you , , , and ! Our first Seventeen Syllable Slam was a roaring success! We will be doing it again! She much fun!

09/09/2023

In 7 days we will be launching our first Seventeen Syllable Slam

The order of the first round of head to head competition will be:

Becoming Christopher vs. Duncan Shields
Johnny Trinh vs. David Geary
Spillious vs. Catherine Lewis
Victoria Karoline vs. Erin Kirsh

Neko Smart vs. Amanda Eagleson
Leslie Stark vs. Fernando Raguero
Eli Miow Miow vs. Mo the Poet
Sonya Littlejohn vs. Catherine Garrett

This is single elimination and will be fast and furious (without the Dwayne Johnson or Vin Diesel).

Hope to see you all there.

Uni and Mort
www.deathridesaunicorn.com









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05/09/2023

Eleven Days away from our first Seventeen Syllable Poetry Slam!!! Who will take home the tiara, the title and cash!

Come check out the show at Word Vancouver, Saturday September 16th, 2:30PM. Be early to get a seat or if you wish to to be a judge in the competition. And don't be late as this show will be fast and furious!

www.deathridesaunicorn.com

https://www.wordvancouver.ca/ubc-robson-events/the-head-to-head-haiku-challenge

31/07/2023

Hello Friends,

I'm here to introduce you to the freshly vacationed and revitalized Mort and Uni. Thank you Julia Kim for the fabulous haircuts and personal training. We have two shows scheduled for the fall and and more in the new year.

We hope you're having a great summer!

Death Rides a Unicorn
www.deathridesaunicorn.com



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11/05/2023

So if Rides a Unicorn Events Page organized a
17 Syllable Slam in September; a series of head to head competitions in which we played and strayed very far from the serious, sombre culturally important traditional Japanese haiku, would you want to attend and/or maybe participate? Would you also be interested in a similar event centred on sonnets? Would you like to play with Uni and the rest of us?

22/04/2023

Famous Last Words Episode 3
April 24th
6:30PM
The Wise Hall
1882 Adanac Street
$10 in advance

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/famous-last-words-tickets-591887370057

Famous Last Words comes to Vancouver Poetry House's Verses Festival of Words!







How could we make the silliest weirdest, most poetic show we've ever done even weirder, sillier and more poetic? Two words. RC Weslowski.

RC Weslowski is an award-winning spoken word poet and radio broadcaster. He has featured at such distinguished events as the Nuyorican Café Poetry Slam, The Bowery Poetry Club, The Toronto Poetry Slam, The Art Bar Reading Series, Planet Poetry, The Poets Corner, The Otoba Poetry Slam, Song and Bird Reading Series, the Verses Festival of Words and now the Edmonton Poetry Festival.

RC has led poetry “wordshops” with Word Travels Australia, The Banff Centre for the Arts, The Tuscon Poetry Festival, The Victoria Spoken Word Festival and many more. RC’s first book of poetry, “My Soft Response to the Wars” is out on Write Bloody North Publishing. www.writebloodynorth.ca

Death Rides a Unicorn Events primarily works on the unceded stolen lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

19/04/2023

Famous Last Words Episode 3
April 24th
6:30PM
The Wise Hall
1882 Adanac Street

$10 in advance
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/famous-last-words-tickets-591887370057

Famous Last Words comes to ‘s Verses Festival of Words!







In addition to the wonderfully talented Andre Prefontaine, and the thoroughly fantastic Truth Is..., Famous Last Words is unbelievably excited to be welcoming as one of our poets/raconteurs, the one and only, Charlie Petch!

Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for the speakNORTH national festival, winner of the Golden Beret lifetime achievement in spoken word with The League of Canadian Poets (2020), and founder of Hot Damn it's a Q***r Slam.

Petch is a touring performer, as well as a mentor and workshop facilitator. Their debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books), won the 2022 ReLit Award, and was named "Best of 2021" by The Walrus. Their film with Opera QTO, Medusa's Children, premièred 2022.

They have been featured on the CBC's Q, the Toronto International Festival of Authors, and were long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2021.

Death Rides a Unicorn Events primarily works on the unceded stolen lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

18/04/2023

Famous Last Words Episode 3
April 24th
6:30PM
The Wise Hall
1882 Adanac Street

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/famous-last-words-tickets-591887370057

Famous Last Words comes to ‘s Verses Festival of Words!







In addition to the wonderfully talented Andre Prefontaine, Famous Last Words is extremely proud to present Truth Is...

As a Black, Q***r, mother, warrior, poet, Truth Is ... takes an unique approach to talking about the intricacies of life. Their intersectional approach allows for the audience to explore experiences, through an empathetic and compassionate lens, fostering empowerment, community, and resistance from shame.

Truth Is ... has been on a dozen national slam teams since 2006. They are current co-artistic director of not-for-profit arts organization Guelph Spoken Word and has also been the past recipient of the 2018 National Poet of Honour distinction, the Min Sook Lee Labour Arts Awards and Guelph's Top 40 under 40

Currently, Truth Is ... is set to debut their long awaited "A Portrait of Palinoia" project, a celebration of the beauty, distinctiveness and magic of Black women in 2023.

Death Rides a Unicorn Events primarily works on the unceded stolen lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

17/04/2023

Famous Last Words Episode 3
April 24th
6:30PM
The Wise Hall
1882 Adanac Street

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/famous-last-words-tickets-591887370057

Famous Last Words comes to ‘s Verses Festival of Words.







At the age of 32 Andre Prefontaine has never contributed to an RRSP, maintains ten-years of sobriety, studies astrology, is becoming misanthropic, and believes in ghosts because all the pieces of him that have died have got to go somewhere. Obtaining external forms of validation to remedy internal strife, Andre Prefontaine succeeded in winning a total of seven Slam Poetry championship titles. Two-time C.F.S.W winner (once as team captain and once as a coach), two consecutive Underground championships win, two Haiku Deathmatch titles, and one C.I.P.S championship which allowed him the chance to represent Canada at the “Coupe Du Monde” world cup of Slam in Paris, France where, midway through the competition, he realized he was a vampant, empty shell seeking other people's approval and thus lost the self-important drive which had seen him to that point. He did place fourth, though.

More recently, Andre Prefontaine has become a board member for the "Black Sheep Collective", an arts market in his hometown of Calgary, Alberta which he moved back to after losing his apartment in Toronto as a result of a break-up. Only to be chased out of Wellington, Ontario, by a group of white supremacists shortly thereafter. No joke, that’s literally what happened. As a result he is drafting a book about the whole ordeal while fulfilling Christopher Hitchins definition of a Curmudgeon. Regardless, his humor has remained dry, his wit has stayed sharp, and his heart still tender wherever the callouses fail to reach.

13/04/2023

Uni is getting prepped.

April 24th
6:30PM
The Wise Hall
1882 Adanac Street

Famous Last Words comes to ‘s Verses Festival of Words.







$10 in advance

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/591887370057

01/11/2022

This one. This one right here. Our volunteer coordinator and so much more. Bedrock. Pillar. Friend! , thank you for all you do!

29/10/2022

Dear , thank you for hosting another fabulous show! We are so lucky to have you!

28/10/2022

Thank you for the great poems and performances last night at Famous Last Words Episode 2!

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28/10/2022

Thank you for doing a puppet poem at last night’s Famous Last Words!

28/10/2022

Wow. The bar is now reset!!! Thank you everyone who bought tickets and/or came to the show!!!

Thank you .road and RC Wesklowski for a such a smooth fun show.

Thank you , , , Geist Magazine, , .johal and The Heart of the City Festival for all your support!!!

See you all in the new year!

27/10/2022

Tonight’s the night! Famous Last Words Episode 2 at the SFU Woodward’s Campus! See you all soon!

Famous Last Words
Thursday October 27th
6:30PM Doors
7:00PM Start
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hastings Street,
Vancouver, BC

$15 at the door

Tickets available at the door.

With the help of the Simon Fraser University's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, The League of Canadian Poets and Hummingbird Communications and Design we are very proud to present, Famous Last Words, Season 1 Episode 2

In Famous Last Words, five contestants or provocateurs attempt to win their way into the heart of our master of ceremonies, Sara Bynoe through games designed to test their literary and comedic merit. With the assistance of the audience and her trusty unicorn sidekick our master of ceremonies will decide who performs best while dolphining a balloon on their nose; whose picture of a puppy most looks like a famous poet and whose 3 line haiku is the wittiest of the evening.

For our second episode, Famous Last Words is proud to welcome back our returning champion Dina Del Bucchia, RC Weslowski, Erin Kirsh and a mystery player to be named later.

20/10/2022

Every great show needs a great host and for Famous Last Words, we are very lucky to have the ever balloon-tastic Sara Bynoe.

Sara is an actor, writer, and comedy show producer who is best known for her shows Teen Angst Night, Say Wha?! Readings of Deliciously Rotten Writing, and for appearing in commercials as the frazzled woman in need of a product.

The Georgia Straight called her "charismatic" and the WestEnder twice included her in their list of Vancouver's funniest people. Her comedy shows have made many lists of "things you should do tonight" and toured to Toronto, Seattle, Portland and the UK. She has appeared at the All Jane No Dick Comedy Festival, The Vancouver Comedy Festival, Verses Festival, The Vancouver Poetry Festival, The PuSh Festival, The Olio Festival, Latitude Festival, and Bumbershoot.

She is a graduate of the acting program at Studio 58 and has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her column The Environmentalist from Hell appears in Asparagus Magazine where she writes about sustainability and environmental matters. She recently returned to professional theatre in a run of Mom's The Word at Theatre North West.

Sara is returning as out Master of Ceremonies for Famous Last Words Episode 2

Famous Last Words
Thursday October 27th
6:30 PM Doors
7:00 PM Start

SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
Tickets available at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/famous-last-words-season-1-episode-2-tickets-406483482037

www.deathridesaunicorn.com

19/10/2022

Some times you need to be good to be lucky, or in my case, be lucky enough to have good friends. Death Rides A Unicorn and Famous Last Words in particular feels very lucky to have the thunderously talented Erin Kirsh subbing in for us on October 27th 2022.

Erin Kirsh is an award-winning writer, performer, and funnyman from Toronto. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Malahat Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, bBarren Magazine, Short Edition, CV2, ARC Poetry Magazine, QWERTY, Poetry is Dead, EVENT, PULP Literature, Geist and more.

Erin will be making her Death Rides a Unicorn debut at Famous Last Words, Episode 2 on Thursday October 27th.

Famous Last Words
Thursday October 27th
6:30 PM Doors
7:00 PM Start

SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Tickets available at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/famous-last-words-season-1-episode-2-tickets-406483482037

www.deathridesaunicorn.com

18/10/2022

For our show on Thursday October 27th, Famous Last Words is really excited to have RC Weslowski back on the stage!

RC Weslowski is the 2021 Zaccheus Jackson Nyce Memorial Award Winner, The 2016 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award Winner and a Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and Victoria Spoken Word Festival Poet of Honour. RC is a Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Champion, an Underground Indies Champion, A CFSW Team Champion, a Haiku Death Match and Nerd Poetry Slam Champion. RC co-hosts and produces Wax Poetic and Oh No Not Another Podcast podcasts. RC is the Artistic Director for Hullabaloo: The BC Youth Spoken Word Festival and curator for Mashed Poetics, a quarterly spoken word and music mash up event that has been running for over a decade. RC’s first book of poetry, “My Soft Response to the Wars” is out on Write Bloody North Publishing. www.writebloodynorth.ca

Tickets can be found at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/famous-last-words-season-1-episode-2-tickets-406483482037

www.deathridesaunicorn.com

10/10/2022

Look who I found mulling about, asking about our next show!









Famous Last Words
Thursday October 27th
7:00PM Doors
7:30PM Start
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Tickets available at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/famous-last-words-season-1-episode-2-tickets-406483482037

With the help of the Simon Fraser University's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, The League of Canadian Poets and Hummingbird Communications and Design we are very proud to present, Famous Last Words, Season 1 Episode 2

In Famous Last Words, five contestants or provocateurs attempt to win their way into the heart of our master of ceremonies, Sara Bynoe through games designed to test their literary and comedic merit. With the assistance of the audience and her trusty unicorn sidekick our master of ceremonies will decide who performs best while dolphining a balloon on their nose; whose picture of a puppy most looks like a famous poet and whose 3 line haiku is the wittiest of the evening.
For our second episode, Famous Last Words is proud to welcome back our returning champion Dina Del Bucchia, RC Weslowski, Lucia Misch, Johnny Trinh and a mystery player to be named later.

This event would not be possible without the support and assistance of Simon Fraser University's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Geist Magazine, The League of Canadian Poets, Hummingbird Communications and Design and of course, Death Rides a Unicorn Events.

www.deathridesarunicorn.com

06/10/2022

Friends, if you come across a Famous Last Words Poster in you travels, could you please take a picture and tag us in it?

03/10/2022

I lovely working with great people!!!

Famous Last Words
Thursday October 27th
7:00PM Doors
7:30PM Start
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC

$12 in advance
$15 at the door
www.deathridesarunicorn.com

20/07/2022

I think I should mention that anyone in Vancouver who wishes to help out with Death Rides a Unicorn, please contact Andrew Sutherland at [email protected]. I think we have five things lined up for the fall and new year and could always use the help! Plus, we're fun. And silly. And sometimes Rachel Garrick brings cupcakes and donuts?

05/07/2022

Death mimics art (in the form of Lucia).










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04/07/2022

Fernando doing alligator haiku in a battle against Dylansaurus Rex.















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03/07/2022

Isabella sharing her "F**k Ikea" poem while she attempts to lose the object round during Famous Last Words and therein the poang chair. She really didn't like that chair.




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