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The National Arts Centre is beginning its “Year of the North” with a musical tour of all three of Canada’s territories, followed by a spring festival of northern arts and culture in downtown Ottawa.
Herd is the word in Ottawa’s arts and culture scene with a new media outlet in town.
Amanda Stephen, Centretown NewsA stack of the first issue of Herd Magazine sits on the front counter of Raw Sugar Café.
Verses spat crackling like bonfire sparks or crooned honeysuckle-sweet, paired with eloquent gestures and jarring movements while poets prowl and strut to the rhythm. 
Amanda Stephen, Centretown NewsSlam captain Kim "Kimbit" Nguyen and other members of her slam team travelled to Saskatoon to compete in the Canadian Festival for Spoken Word.
Okay, so what’s all the buzz about this slam poetry going around? No, it’s not a new business venture between Oxford University and the WWE. Slam poetry is a type of performance art that combines rhythm and writing to create a unique blend of soul-inspired verse that throws back to rap’s original purpose as a means to actually express a point.