Spoken Word Saturday is a showcase of the amazing Spoken Word Poetry talent that can be found from coast to coast. Today, Spoken Word Saturday celebrates LCP Spoken Word Award finalist Angelic Goldsky.

Family is Chosen by Angelic Goldsky (Angelic Vers)

Angelic Goldsky (they/them) is a queer trans-masculine slavic Jewitch poet working at the cross-roads of imaginations beyond diaspora, ancestral lineage repair, transgender spiritual justice, and queer mercy.  Angelic deep roots in spoken word poetry has propelled them to travel internationally performing for the past decade, including, as the opening act for Shane Koyzcan at the Vogue Theatre with their trio Tiny Tricycle Poets, performing in the 2SLGBTQ+ Word Poetry Slam Championship showcase in Brussels where they also represented Canada as a judge and featuring in the Lila Queer Arts Festival in Switzerland.

Their performances bring together oracular, transexual and experimental healing– using shadow magic, clown and music to transcend complex-trauma and survival codes into soul retrieval. They love to curate all forms of spoken word magic, whether that was serving as the Assistant Director for the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam (2022) or programming spoken word performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (2023), the Museum of Anthropology (2020-2023) and at the Chan Centre (2019).

Currently Angelic is living in Tkaronto and grew up as a youth-poet in the spoken word poetry community on the lands of the The xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) – colonially known as Vancouver, BC.

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