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Poetry Slam and Open Mic feat. Joy Young
March 8, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
FreeJoin us for another amazing poetry slam and open mic!!! This will be the first qualifier for our second semi-final for the International Poetry Slam!
There is a 5 dollar suggested donation for this event but no one is turned away.
We will have a feature from Joy Young!
More about Joy:
Joy Young is a performance and teaching spoken word artist based in Phoenix, AZ. Their work has been featured on Button Poetry and Everyday Feminism as well as on stages and in colleges and classrooms across the country. They are the cofounder and editor of Prickly Pear Printing, a project dedicated to highlighting written and visual work with a focus on growth, beauty, and the celebration of queer bodies. Whether creating storytelling curriculum for restorative justice or community engagement projects, running workshops that explore identity and what it means to be human, or performing their own poetry and stories, Joy’s work seeks to cultivate strong personal narratives within a larger social justice context, which is they were awarded the Mayor’s Arts Award in 2018 and named Storyteller of the Year by the Phoenix New times in 2019. They believe our personal narratives should be a driving force for healing ourselves and the world around us— that they are a doorway through which we should consciously enter the world of social justice in hopes of creating understanding, connection, and making substantive change.
We will be at our venue, Tiny’s Coffee Northeast! This means our show is all-ages! Everyone is welcome. We do not censor our mic except for instances of hate-speech. Please also note that we start a little earlier then at previous venues.
Accessibility info: Tiny’s is on the 6 bus line, which is a frequent service line. It is a quarter mile from the the streetcar line and about a half mile away from the max. The building and stage is wheelchair accessible and most of the seating can be moved to create space for accessibility equipment. The venue serves food and coffee, so it is not scent-free.