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SUMMARY:Sedona Poetry Slam
DESCRIPTION:The final Poetry Slam of the season — the Grand Slam — arrives Saturday\, June 6. Performance poets will bring high-energy\, competitive spoken word to Sedona’s Mary D. Fisher Theatre starting at 7:30 p.m. \nOpen Slam\nA poetry slam is like a series of high-energy\, three-minute one-person plays\, judged by the audience. Slam poetry is an art form that allows written page poets to share their work alongside theatrical performers\, hip-hop artists and lyricists. \n     \nPoets come from as far away as Phoenix\, Tucson\, Prescott and Flagstaff\, competing against local poets from Sedona and Cottonwood\, college poets from Northern Arizona University and youth poets from Verde Valley high schools. All types of poetry are welcome on the stage\, from street-wise hip-hop and narrative performance poems\, to political rants and introspective confessionals. Any poem is a “slam” poem if performed in a competition. All poets get three minutes per round to entertain and inspire the audience with their creativity. \nAnyone can sign up to compete in the slam for the $75 grand prize and $25 second-place prize. To compete in the slam\, poets will need three original poems\, each lasting no longer than three minutes. No props\, costumes nor musical accompaniment are permitted. The poets are judged Olympics-style by five members of the audience selected at random at the beginning of the slam.\nEmail foxthepoet@yahoo.com to sign up early to compete or by the Friday before the slam\, or sign up at the door the day of the slam. \n  \nTickets and Venue\nThe Mary D. Fisher Theatre is located at 2030 W. SR 89A\, Suite A-3\, in West Sedona. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door. For tickets\, call 928-282-1177 or click on the BUY TICKETS link to the right. \nThe prize money is funded in part by a donation from Verde Valley poetry supporters Jeanne and Jim Freeland. \nEmail foxthepoet@yahoo.com to sign up early to compete or by the Friday before the slam or at the door the day of the slam. For more information\, visit foxthepoet.blogspot.com. \n  \nPoetry Slam\nFounded at the Green Mill Tavern in Chicago in 1984 by Marc Smith\, poetry slam is a competitive artistic sport designed to get people who would otherwise never go to a poetry reading excited about the art form when it becomes a high-energy competition. Poetry slams are judged by five randomly chosen members of the audience who assign numerical value to individual poets’ contents and performances. \n  \nPoetry slam has become an international artistic sport\, with more than 100 major poetry slams in the United States\, Canada\, Australia and Western Europe. Slam poets have opened at the Winter Olympics\, performed at the White House and at the United Nations General Assembly and were featured on “Russell Simmons’ Def Poets” on HBO. \nSedona has sent four-poet teams to represent the city at the National Poetry Slam in Charlotte\, N.C.\, Boston\, Cambridge\, Mass.\, Oakland\, Calif.\, Decatur\, Ga.\, Denver and Chicago.
URL:https://sedonafilmfestival.com/event/sedona-poetry-slam-2/
LOCATION:Mary D. Fisher Theatre\, 2030 W. State Route 89A\, Suite A-3\, Sedona\, AZ\, 86336\, United States
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