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Slamlandia Valentine’s Literary Arts Show ft. Sage Lilac
February 14, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
FreeJoin us on FEBRUARY 14TH for our second Thursday Poetry Open Mic and Slam!
This will be our Valentine’s Day show! Bring your love poems! Bring your anti-love poems! Bring your heartbreak poems! Bring your odes to how you’d love to marry mac and cheese! Bring your Valentine’s Day sucks poems! We’re excited to hear them all!
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
Literary Arts
925 SW Washington Street
Portland, OR 97205
This show is all ages.
Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below.
No door admission.
We will have a spotlight performance from the astounding Sage Lilac!
Sage Lilac is a trans poet and heavy metal vocalist based out of Portland, OR. She got her start in poetry just after high school by winning both the SpeakNOW Poetry Slam in 2012 and then the Rising Star Creative Writing Competition in 2013. Since then, she has lead many after school programs and in-school residencies through the Nature of Words literacy center, shared the stage with renowned performance poet Buddy Wakefield, been a PDX Grand Slam finalist and most recently, competed at IWPS in 2018. Her poetry has been arranged for performance by opera singers and can be found scattered among different magazines, local newspapers, gender-neutral bathroom stalls and of course, her own DIY chapbooks. Her favorite color is purple and she has never been to Colorado.
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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.
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☆ 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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There is one entrance with no stairs. The event is on the bottom floor of the building. Any seating can be adjusted to make room for any accessibility equipment. There is also a bathroom that can be accessed on the first floor.
★ •*´¨`*• 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.