Une très belle sélection de la scène anglophone! This was a very enjoyable evening of poetry/spoken word. All of the preformers (I say preformers advisedly as all persons involved showed a high degree of showmanship and knowledge of how to work and hold an audience) were confident, proud, bold and utterly well rehearsed and prepared. The basic themes of the evening seemed to be divided into two groups: the first group being more traditionally based and centering around sexuality, male/female relationships, identity and classic traditions of flow of conscious prose poetry, several pieces dealt with thematic ideas reminiscent of Walt Witman and his contemporaries. I would also group several pieces concerning freedom, social struggle, social injustice and whatnot into this classically themed group. The second group of themes seemed to be more progressive in nature, incorporating song, music and exploration of musical mouth sounds, jokes, plays on words and a few pieces that were based on modern pop-culture (especially war (WMD\'s) psycho-pop, martha stewart rants, modern legal comedy a la kafka ect). There were also a few pieces that incorporated a strong hip-hop element that really worked great within a spoken word forum, spoken word poetry and hip-hop flows really work great together, this style really drives the meter of the piece and lends it a modern and fresh feel. Sala Rosa is a great venu, for anything that is of a true artistic nature, the place just has that kinda feel about it. All in all we had a great time and i would really reccomend these english language preformances to anybody who is into literature and words and wants to see what is going on in canadas most heavily populated city. Oh ya, thankfully peoples ethnicity was not a focal point of the evening, people said what they had to say as people and not in identifying themselves as being different or special from others, all of the spoken word in this evening was addressed to the world and all its people ... very refreshing indeed!!!