Book A Poet For Your Event!
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In order to foster a community appreciation for spoken word, GSW would love to see a poet on every stage and microphone across the country. Maybe one of these superstars!?
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Book a poet to perform at your event, facilitate a workshop or MC/host an event. Select a poet from one of Guelph Spoken Word’s experienced member artists. Contact us for more details or to find out how to become a member!
Guelph Spoken Word Member Artists
Audny-Cashae Stewart Audny-Cashae Stewart is a first-year university student at the University of Toronto in the fall, pursuing a degree in Humanities. Audny has been a community leader since elementary school as she has organized and presented Black History Month assemblies in her predominately white school since the 7th grade. Yet, in the 11th grade, she had the ability to create the only Black Student Union and Alliance in a Guelph high school and is the youth leader at Mississauga SDA Church, actively being a voice within her community by presenting her self-written spoken word pieces in front of audiences, focusing on racial injustice. |
Bashar Lulu Jabbour Themes: Political, social justice, love, educational, racism, immigration. Book For: Performances, Workshops Born in Syria, Bashar is a recent settler and immigrant to Canada, a math non-prodigy, rocking an expensive math degree in student loans. Through the loving community of KW Poetry Slam, Bashar has thrown himself into the world of poetry and spoken word performance in recent months. His poetry explores themes of immigration, privilege and anti-oppression. |
Beth Anne Ellipsis Themes: Relationships, community, environment, queer. Book For: Performances, workshops & event hosting. A Guelph based performance poet, Beth Anne Ellipsis crafts her words to reflect the lives of herself and those around her. Her work is earth inspired and speaks to the struggle we all face to find our true self and place in community. She is active in the poetry slam community; competing in national competitions and has performed on Canada’s National television show Come Dine with Me. She is the founder of Guelph Spoken Word; a performance poetry arts organization. |
Audny-Cashae Stewart
Audny-Cashae Stewart is a first-year university student at the University of Toronto in the fall, pursuing a degree in Humanities. Audny has been a community leader since elementary school as she has organized and presented Black History Month assemblies in her predominately white school since the 7th grade. Yet, in the 11th grade, she had the ability to create the only Black Student Union and Alliance in a Guelph high school and is the youth leader at Mississauga SDA Church, actively being a voice within her community by presenting her self-written spoken word pieces in front of audiences, focusing on racial injustice.
