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Slamlandia Digital Open Mic ft. Gabbi Jue
November 19, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
FreeSlamlandia is hosting another digital poetry open mic. This open mic – only poetry, no music please – will take place on November 19th. We’ll be hosting this event with the help of Literary Arts.
You can access our Zoom link in advance. Here is the link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcud–orjgvHdBjpiy4eJC_JNr32N0yoSrF
With Portland Book Week underway, this month’s show will, along with a feature, have a showcase of local Portland poets. We’ll have short readings from Risa Mykland, Jane Belinda, Stephen Meads, Bella, and Ken Yoshikawa!
Because we’ll be having a showcase, this month’s open mic will have limited spaces. If we have more people sign up than available slots, we’ll do a lottery for who gets to read.
Sign ups for the open mic will be posted at 6:30pm PT day of via Facebook posts and an Instagram story. Comment / reply to get your name on the list. Open mic will promptly begin at 7pm. Poets gets 3 minutes to share poetry – please do not go over time.
We will have a feature from Gabbi Jue.
Gabbi Jue is a spoken word poet, artist and survivor with an insatiable love for all things that can turn pain into beauty. She has been a part of the Northern Arizona poetry community since 2011, and has competed as a member of the 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017 National Poetry Slam teams, representing Sedona and Flagstaff Poetry slams, as well as the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam, and the 2016 Individual World Poetry Slam. Gabbi has also had the great honor of opening for Saul Williams, and most recently placed 2nd in the All-Arizona Regional Slam of 2020. Her writing is known for her subjects on identity, body image, and chronic illness — constantly seeking what it means to be gentle with oneself and the sometimes tangled conception of gratitude.