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Slamlandia Oct. Cider Riot Slam ft. Shanna & Michael Alden
October 3, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Free – $5Join us for our OCTOBER Poetry Open Mic and Slam at our new first Thursday location – Cider Riot!
This is a WOWPS qualifying slam!
This show will be 21+ – if you are under 21 years old, we have shows in other locations we’d love to have you come out to!
Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM
Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic or slam!
Show begins at 7:00 PM.
Cider Riot
807 NE Couch Street
Portland, OR 97232
This show is all ages.
Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below.
There is a $1-5 suggested donation.
We will have an spotlight performance from the wonderful duo, Shanna & Michael Alden!
Michael Alden has spent the past three years teaching and writing in Pittsburgh, PA. While there, they were a member of the 2018 Steel City Slam team. While in Seattle before that, they were a member of the 2016 Rain City Slam team and served as Rain City’s 2016 IWPS representative. Their work has most recently appeared in the Santa Ana River Review and the Eunoia Review.
Shanna Alden is a poet, photographer, and barista who has spent the last three years opening and managing coffee houses in Pittsburgh, PA. They were a member of the 2017 and 2018 Steel City Slam National Poetry Slam team. They have also organized many individual slams and shows including serving as event coordinator and co-slammaster for Rain City Slam in Seattle, WA and Steel City Slam in Pittsburgh, PA. Their work has been featured in “Not Your ____” an anti-street harassment project, Tie My Tubes a radio documentary, and Voicemail Poems.
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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.
★ •*´¨`*• T H E • S L A M •*´¨`*• ★
☆ The slam will be 2 rounds.
The first 12 poets to sign up will perform in the 1st round.
☆ 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 6 poets with the highest scores will move on to the 2nd round.
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This show will be held in the back are of Cider Riot. There are two ADA single-occupancy bathrooms inside. There are no steps to get to the area of the show. There is a stage for the actual performance – if you are interested in reading assistance to get on the stage can be provided or we can bring the mic down to you. Any seating can be adjusted to make room for any accessibility equipment or to assist any required needs.
★ •*´¨`*• 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.