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 poem directed at another panelist is most provocative.

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 player to be named later.

Sara Bynoe 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.

Hilary Angus is a writer, photographer, and the former Managing Editor of Momentum Mag. She has previously written for Rabble.ca and Naked Underground Montreal. Working for years in the non-profit sector before her transition to media, she looks at her subject matter through the lens of social justice. She is interested in human geography, the circular economy, and responsible urbanism, particularly the manner in which our built environments impact our lives in both positive and negative ways. And unicorns. She loves unicorns. Her work can be found at www.instagram.com/slow.road/ and http://hilaryangus.com/.

Dina Del Bucchia 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, Douche Process, is available online at ryanfitzpatrick.ca/modelpress/. You can check out her website at dinadelbucchia.com.

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

Lucia Misch is a writer, performer and facilitator from unceded Muwekma Ohlone land. Lucia's spoken word poetry has found a home everywhere from historic theaters to high school auditoriums, and their first collection of poetry, The Problem With Solitaire, was released by Write Bloody North in 2020.

Johnny D Trinh (johnnydavidtrinh.com) MFA is an interdisciplinary spoken word artists based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Johnny is the Artistic Director of Vancouver Poetry House (vancouverpoetryhouse.com) and Festival Coordinator for Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (ExplorAsian.org). Johnny is also the Founder and Artistic Producer of Stage to Page Performance Society (stagetopage.org), bringing cross-disciplinary mentorship to help spoken word poets grow. Johnny's pedagogy is rooted in the constant goal of fostering a sense of empowerment, agency, and compassion through socially engaged, community based art.

Johnny recognizes that may of us are uninvited settlers on this Indigenous Turtle Island, and continually works to negotiate that through accountability, solidarity, and integrity of practice. Johnny is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, and alumni of the Banff Spoken Word Residence and Dell 'Arte International School of Physical Theatre Summer Intensive, and TEDx Surrey Speak and Coach. "It takes a community to build an artist...whether we are nurtured by it, or resist against it."

The Player to be Name Later is of course a surprise poet /performer that we may or may not announce before the show.

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

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