Open Mic Featuring Ashia Ajani

Name: Open Mic Featuring Ashia Ajani
Start: 2024-10-08T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-08T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Equality Community Center - ECC

Schedule

Tue Oct 08 2024 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Equality Community Center - ECC | Portland, ME

Welcome to Port Veritas! We meet every Tuesday night in person at the Equality Community Center at 15 Casco St in Portland AND online. We typically end by 9:30 pm, but we have the space until 10 pm.
In person friends, please remain masked in the building. If you are reading, you may take off your mask only while reading.
The ECC has an accessible ramp at the North entrance, and three low steps with railings at the front entrance on Casco Street.
You may use this link to join us virtually:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/893705103
Please feel free to sign up for our open mic upon entering the ECC or in the chat online!
Automatic closed captions are available online. Our feature's set list transcript will be made available for folks who need it.
Donations of 5 dollars or more are encouraged (Donations will be going to our funds for featured poets). Venmo @ MayaWilliams16, CashApp $williamsmay13, and PayPal at [email protected].
Our feature this week is Ashia Ajani coming to us online!
Ashia Ajani (they/she) is a sunshower, a glass bead, a carnivorous plant, an overripe nectarine hailing from Denver, CO, Queen City of the Plains and the unceded territory of the Cheyenne, Ute and Arapahoe peoples, now living in the Bay Area, unceded Ohlone land. Ajani's words have been featured in Sierra, Atmos, Transition Magazine, Lithub & others. She is the author of one collection of poetry, Heirloom (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023) and a forthcoming collection of lyric essays, Tending the Vines (Timber Press, TBA). Their writing is a kaleidoscope of their work as an eco-griot & abolitionist.