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Recent Media Coverage


Read Kevin Matthews and Ritallin talking about spoken word in Canada and applying to the Canada Council for arts funding in Capital News Online dated March 17, 2006

Read the review of John Akpata's CD Kerheb (not Kerhab) in the Ottawa Citizen dated March 12, 2006 .pdf

Read the Soundbites article about Capital Slam: The Women's Edition dated March 9, 2006 in the Ottawa Xpress

Read Capital Slam Slammaster Greg "Ritallin" Frankson's take on Black History Month posted February 27, 2006 on Rabble.ca

Read about Capital Slam: The Black History Month Edition show in The Charlatan dated February 9, 2006

Read the Halifax Daily News interview with Ritallin regarding the place of spoken word in the arts dated January 19, 2006




Archival Media Coverage



Read the Halifax Daily News interview with Ritallin regarding the place of spoken word in the arts dated January 19, 2006

View the blog entry regarding the first ever edition of Talented Tongues by John W. Macdonald dated November 18, 2005.

Read the blog entry regarding Capital Slam's 1st Anniversary Show in October posted on free range print dated October 22, 2005

Read the story regarding the closing of the Universe City Lounge, Capital Slam's former venue, in The Fulcrum (written by Jenn Hardy)

Read Greg's Frankson post entitled "Observations of an Ottawa Spoken Word Artist" on the Ottawa Poetry Newsletter dated September 19, 2005

Read about Kevin Matthews' performance at the 3rd annual Toronto International Poetry Slam posted September 9, 2005 on Afrotoronto.com

Read about the Capital Poetry Collective's efforts to promote spoken word locally in  the August 25, 2005 edition of The Charlatan.

Read about the collaboration between Dusty Owl and Capital Slam in the July 14, 2005 edition of Metro Ottawa

Read about the Capital Slam Championship Finals as discussed by Ritallin in the June 8, 2005 edition of The Scene in the Ottawa Sun.

Read the article "The Poet is Political" written by Collective member Heather Horak for the May-June 2005 edition of Peace and Environment News.

Listen to Garmamie Sideau, Dave Britten and Ritallin discussing the National Capital Throwdown on All in A Day on CBC Radio One, originally broadcast March 15, 2005.

Read about the National Capital Throwdown and Capital Slam feature Sonia Ndongmo's take on poetry in Ottawa in the March 11, 2005 edition of the Ottawa Sun.

Zygote magazine writes about Capital Slam in its Spring 2005 edition.

Check out photos of Q the Romantic Revolutionary, Kevin Matthews and Ritallin from the 2005 Ottawa CBC Poetry Face-Off.

Read John Akpata's Analysis of Emily Murphy in Ottawa Xpress.

Capital Slammer Q the Romantic Revolutionary was featured in Capital Arts Online.

Read about Greg "Ritallin" Frankson and his Black History Month lecture in Kingston in The Queen's Journal - news editorial.

Read about Capital Slam founders Ritallin and Elissa Molino in the December 9, 2004 edition of the Ottawa Sun.
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