UBC Slam PoetryPresident
Sep. 2022 - May. 2024Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaWhile 'Slam Poetry' might sound like just performance, being the President of UBC Slam Poetry involved far more than taking the stage. Here's what this role consisted of: - Hiring of Prospective Team Members. This portion of my position involved creating role descriptions, conducting one-on-one interviews, and facilitating onboarding between new and current team members - Coordinating Intergroup Operations. In order to create a successful event, each role within the organization needed to know what was expected of them. To ensure smooth communication, I hosted weekly meetings with the team. This included making sure the Slam Hosts were in contact with a paid poetry performers, that the Social Media team had posted about the event in due time, the Treasurers were facilitating the distribution of funds, the Chapbook team was meeting their internal deadlines for poetry submission and zine creation, and the Workshop team was working feasible theme for their upcoming session. - Hosting a Variety of Events. Not only does UBC Slam have monthly poetry sets with open mics and paid poetry features, we also had the privilege of supporting high school students in their writing endeavours. This included co-creating workshop spaces with teachers at Aldergrove Secondary School, coordinating transportation for team members, and developing scripts to guide members when leading student workshop groups ...and of course: I took on an all-hands-on-deck role during events. As President, I facilitated event setup and takedown, coordinated with paid performers, and slam-poem'd my own pieces on stage.