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Monday, January 7, Green (7 pm)/Poetry SLAM with special guest Billy Tuggle (8 pm, $5) |
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 Green is a burning post-bop quartet featuring Zack Lozier on trumpet, Rob Dewey on piano, Rich Casey on bass, and Scotty Schultz on drums.
 Soap Boxing Monthly Poetry Slam:The Slam competition is open to anyone (18+) three rounds of poetic battle and good times. Sign up between 7 and 8 pm. Special guest feature: BILLY TUGGLE. Billy “Karma” Tuggle is a B-Boy poet and vocalist born and raised in the Chicagoland area. A HipHop cultural activist, he co-founded Chicago crews STS (Storm Troopers) and 7 In a Cipher, as well as serving as a local organizer for the Temple of HipHop. He is currently a member of PolyRhythmic, the Chicago-based multimedia arts collective. He is a four-time National Poetry Slam competitor- 2004-'06 with Mental Graffiti, 2006 NPS Semi-finalist; 2006 Rust Belt Regional winner, 2005 Great Lakes Classic winner and a member of their 2002 team in the Midwest Slam League; member of 2007 Palatine, IL slam team. Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times calls Billy's style "uncompromising, anti-corporate and straight-forward."
Side Event: The ‘Women of the World Poetry Slam’ Showdown where we select the woman who will represent St. Paul at the Women Of The World Poetry Slam in Chicago this March.
What is Poetry Slam?
‘Poetry Slam’ is the competitive art of performance poetry
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Up to ten poets perform in a randomly selected order. Five judges, randomly selected from the audience, score each poem (based on writing and performance) from 0.0 to 10.0. The highest scoring poets move on to the next round/s. The 1st – 3rd place winners win cash prizes.
The rules are as follows:
* Each poem must be of the poet's own construction;
* Each poet gets three minutes (plus a ten-second grace period) to read one poem, if the poet goes over, points will be deducted from the total score;
* The poet may not use props, costumes, or musical instruments;
* Of the scores the poet received from the five judges, the high and low scores are dropped, and the middle three are added together, giving the poet a total score of 0-30.
Poetry Slam was started in 1986 by a Chicago construction worker named Mark Smith. Slam has grown steadily and is now a worldwide phenomenon, with major Slams occurring in hundreds of venues on five continents.
Slam has been the subject of numerous documentaries and movies, spawned HBO’s ‘Def Poetry Jam’ and is responsible for starting the careers of such stars as Sage Francis, Saul Williams, Desdamona and many more. |
Friday, 21 November 2008 03:48
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