Transylvania International Spoken Word Festival 2024

Name: Transylvania International Spoken Word Festival 2024
Start: 2024-10-03T17:30:00+03:00
End: 2024-10-06T22:00:00+03:00
Location: Cluj Arena

Schedule

Thu Oct 03 2024 at 05:30 pm to Sun Oct 06 2024 at 10:00 pm

UTC+03:00

Location

Cluj Arena | Cluj-napoca, CJ

𝐓𝐒𝐖 𝐈𝐈 | 𝟑 - 𝟔 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐰!

★𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘀: Watch the best of the best from the global spoken word scene light up the stage.
★𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗰: Step up, grab the mic, and let your voice be heard in front of a live audience.
★𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀: Get a peek inside the creative processes of the poets who are pushing boundaries and breaking norms.
★𝗦𝗹𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁: The Biggest Spoken Word Slam Circuit Romania has yet seen (poets from Cluj, Bucharest, Sibiu & Timisoara)
★𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽: Grow as a performer with the UK National Slam Champion 2023 and learn to care for yourself and your audience.
★𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀: From street poetry jams to collaborative art projects, immerse yourself in a festival like no other.
FULL FESTIVAL SCHEDULE https://www.transylvaniaspokenword.com/

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀!
Our Invited artists will bring us new performance styles and propel us in the New Era of Spoken Word. Whether they are National Slam Champions in their country, artists that heavily contributed to their local spoken word scene, performers who bring a fusion of poetry & music, romantics, activists, stage wizards, Cluj favorites or national gems, new or back by popular demand, each poet will bless us with a 20-minute performance of their own interpretation of what this New Era of Poetry looks like.

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱?
Watch our 2023 aftermovie here:

Spoken word is a type of poetry written with the intent of being recited. The poets write meaningful pieces and then use their own bodies and voices as instruments to share their art with you and to give you a piercing glimpse into their world. It’s powerful and heartfelt, it breaks every single poetry rule in the book, and it will guaranteed leave you wanting more.

🎟️EARLY BIRD & STUDENT TICKETS AVAILABLE https://www.iabilet.ro/bilete-transylvania-international-spoken-word-festival-100362/
🎟️Youth 15 to 18 years of age have free access, as long as they are accompanied by a parent/guardian or with written approval from a parent (Declaration of Commitment and Parental Consent available on transilvanyaspokenword.com)

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝘀
We’ve missed you!! It’s that time of the year we get to be blessed by your incredible work and embraced by your verses. We hope to see you this year as well with at least twice the soul and warmth of last year <3. This edition is dedicated to a new era of poetry, one in which you, gracing ours and other stages, are such a big part in building!

🔮🎤𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗣𝗢𝗘𝗧𝗥𝗬 𝗜𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨🎤🔮

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿:
1️⃣ OPEN MIC with Decopertat (25 slots max - first come, first served)
Hosted by our friends at Decopertat Cluj https://www.facebook.com/decopertatcluj
You’ll also have 3 talented musicians to improvise and elevate your moment.
Registration Open: https://bit.ly/OpenMic_TSW2024

2️⃣ NEW ERA SLAM (25 slots max - first come, first served)
Last year our slam was nothing short of magical, so this year we decided to bring poets from other cities along for the ride.
Because they had to compete in their town for a slot at the final festival slam, so will you!
25 poets can register for the qualifiers and only 15 will move to the final festival slam.

Final Slam Prizes (big thank you to our Ministry of Culture):
🥇 First place: 3000 RON
🥈 Second place: 1500 RON
🥉 Third place: 500 RON
Rules and Registration Open: https://bit.ly/Slam_TSW2024

Big thanks to all organizations who collaborated with us on bringing their slammers to the festival:
Timisoara: https://www.facebook.com/comuna.30
Bucuresti: https://www.facebook.com/bucharestspokenword
Sibiu: https://www.facebook.com/corpul.poetic

3️⃣ WORKSHOP (20 slots max - first come, first served)
Workshop Facilitator: Mithago https://www.instagram.com/mithago.craze/ (UK National Slam Poetry Champion 2023)
Four Cluj poets joined this workshop at Tell`em Festival (Netherlands) this year and came back so incredibly inspired and had such great feedback on this workshop that we just had to bring it to Cluj.
As they say, you write poetry at your own risk, but let’s not forget performing it as well is a very emotional and vulnerable process.The workshop will consist of a series of short exercises and facilitated conversations around care within performance poetry. How to look after yourself as well as your audience. What questions to consider or ask yourself when writing/centering/having emotional/intense conversations or discussing lived experiences that have been. What do you do to keep everyone safe when you're writing? when you're performing? beforehand? Afterwards?
Registration Open: https://bit.ly/Workshop_TSW2024
***separate ticket is needed for the workshop

We’ll have more surprises soon! Make sure to get connected on all socials
https://www.instagram.com/transylvaniaspokenword/
https://www.facebook.com/transylvaniaspokenword

Big thank you to our sponsors: The Ministry of Culture, Alexandru Rîșniță - Attorney at law, Cluj-Napoca City Hall, Rotaract, pehartie.ro