Slamlandia ft. Mindy Nettifee

Join us on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH for an IN PERSON Poetry Open Mic and Slam - for a show at Flour Bloom, where we'll be hosting shows through the end of the year!

Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM, show begins at 7:00 PM.

Both our poetry open mic and poetry slam have 10 slots. This show we will still be trying out a LOTTERY SYSTEM, where we will take sign ups until 6:55pm, pull the lists, and decide randomly who gets to read this evening.

Flour Bloom -- 103 NE Grand Avenue

This is also our first of three qualifier events. The top three poets in this month's poetry slam will move onto our Grand Slam event on February 20th, where our 2025 team for the Bigfoot Poetry Festival and our representative to compete at the BlackBerry Peach Poetry Slam will be decided! (If you don't rank in the top three this month, you can try again in December and January.)

Here are some important COVID-related things to note:

• While not mandatory, masks are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED
• If you haven't yet, please go get the latest COVID booster - available at all pharmacies!
• Please be smart and safe and, if you are feeling ill the day before/of, please stay home

We will have a feature from Mindy Nettifee!

Dr. Mindy Nettifee is a poet, artist educator, and somatic trauma therapist. Her doctoral research is on the sensory capacities of the voice and the role of voice and language in trauma healing. She has been teaching creative writing and performance for more than 15 years, and currently teaches for Literary Arts, cohosts for Back Fence Storytelling and The Moth, and serves as director at The Center for Artist Resilience. She has published three full-length poetry collections and the how-to book on writing poetry Glitter in the Blood. Her latest collection is Open Your Mouth Like a Bell (Write Bloody), and she also writes regularly about the moon, which you can read by following her on social media or subscribing to her Substack – In the River of What’s Happening Now.

This show is all ages.

Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below.

No door admission - $5 suggested donation.

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★ •*´¨`*• O P E N • M I C •*´¨`*• ★

The open mic will start the show out. The open mic is a great way to share your wonderful poetry! You can share 1-2 poems lasting a maximum of 3 minutes. 10 slots only in the open mic.

★ •*´¨`*• T H E • S L A M •*´¨`*• ★

☆ The slam will be 2 rounds.

☆There are 10 slots in the poetry slam.

☆ Poems will be scored on a scale of 0-10. There will be 5 judges. The lowest score and highest score for each poet will be dropped and the middle 3 scores will be added together.

☆ There is a 3 minute time limit for poems performed in the slam - with a 10 second grace period. A 1/2-point time penalty will be subtracted from the poet's score for every 10 seconds they go past the time limit.

☆ The 5 poets with the highest scores will move on to the 2nd round.

★ •*´¨`*• A C C E S S I B I L I T Y •*´¨`*• ★

There is one entrance with no stairs. The event is on the bottom floor of the building. Any seating can be adjusted to make room for any accessibility equipment. There is also a bathroom that can be accessed on the first floor.

★ •*´¨`*• S A F E R • S P A C E • P O L I C Y •*´¨`*• ★

(1) – Slamlandia is committed to the safety of our community and all of its members. This includes but is not limited to performers, audience members, venue staff, volunteers, featured poets, and Executive Council members. We will not allow any act of hate, bigotry, harassment, or violence within our space and will prohibit the entrance of those who have committed these acts in or outside of our space.

(2) – The Slamlandia community is a community based in consent. It is the responsibility of individuals initiating contact to receive enthusiastic consent for the following activities:

☆ Physical contact

☆ Discussion of personal or heavy topics

☆ Discussion of poetry shared on stage

(3) – Slamlandia does not censor our mic and space - with the exception of hate speech. Hate speech includes, but is not limited to threats of violence, the use of slurs for a group you do not belong to, racism, sexism, transphobia, transmisogyny, homophobia, classicism, and ableism.

☆ Marginalized voices expressing anger toward the group of people oppressing them does not fall under the category of hate speech.

☆ In the event that a performer is using hate speech on stage, an Executive Council member will end their performance and ask them to leave the stage.

☆ In the event that a performer uses hate speech, it is the responsibility of the Executive Council to explain to the performer why this was a violation of our hate speech policy to the best of their ability and point them to resources for further explanation

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