The Black History Slam
Welcome to the Slam!!!
This is an annual celebration of Black voices through poetry and live music in the Black History Month.
Each year, Spoken Culture brings together poets, musicians, and community members for a powerful night of storytelling, sound, and shared experience. The Black History Slam centers Black artistry — honoring history while amplifying present-day voices shaping culture in real time.
Why it Matters?
Black creativity has always shaped culture. Yet too often, Black poets and spoken word artists are underfunded, under-promoted, and underrepresented in mainstream spaces.
The Black History Slam exists to create intentional, high-quality platforms where Black voices are centered.
Through curated performances, live music, and community gathering, we create space for truth-telling, celebration, reflection, and collective energy.
What began in London is now growing into a traveling experience, bringing this stage to cities across Canada and connecting with new communities along the way.
More cities to be announced soon.
We Are Expanding!
For Artists
We are always looking to connect with poets who want to be part of Black History Slam.
Whether you are emerging or established, this stage is built to honour your voice and your story.
Express interest in performing?
Please send us your expression of interest.
Past Artists
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Britta Badour
Britta Badour, better known as Britta B. is an award-winning artist, public speaker, and poet living in Toronto. Her debut poetry collection and audiobook, Wires that Sputter, was celebrated as a Trillium Book Award Finalist for Poetry, as well as shortlisted for several other awards. She’s currently serving as the Poet-in-Residence for Poems in Passage.
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Eleanor Gebrou
Eleanor Gebrou is Forest City–born and comes from a family of musicians. A singer and songwriter, she has performed in choirs and bands throughout her life and is a member of the Daytrip collective. Her sound leans toward R&B, with accents of jazz, soul, and touches of indie rock.
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Pujita Verma
Pujita Verma is a poet and illustrator currently living in London, Ontario. Her work has appeared across the TTC Network and on CBC’s The National. She won awards from the League of Canadian Poets, the Toronto Arts & Letters Club Foundation, and the Eden Mills Writer’s Festival, and was runner-up for the Janice Colbert Poetry Award. Pujita was Mississauga’s Youth Poet Laureate from 2018-2020 and she currently serves on the committee for Antler River Poetry. Her debut collection of poetry is Precedence (Brick Books, 2026).
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MittyPoems
Mitty Poems is a poet, curator, and community builder whose work explores memory, faith, womanhood, identity, and the quiet ache of becoming. She is the founder of Spoken Culture, a creative platform dedicated to centering diverse voices through live poetry experiences, including the annual Black History Slam in London, Ontario. Through her work, she creates spaces where storytelling becomes healing, performance becomes dialogue, and art becomes community.
