Joel Chmara, Dan Sully, Billy Tuggle, Tim Stafford, DJ Katie, Emily Rose
Influences
Krystal Ashe, Anacron, Tara Betts, I Was Born With 2 Tongues, Kevin Coval, Bonafide, Eitan Kadosh, Troopa Tru, Lucy Anderton, Shappy, Steph-Rok, Kent Foreman, Ken Green, Nikki Patin, Itchie Fingers, Morris Stegasaurus, Nick Fox, Marc Smith, Cin Salach, Mama Maria, Kelly Tsai...
to be continued...
MENTAL GRAFFITI * THIRD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH * $5 cover * Doors @ 7:30p * Show @ 8p * Funky Buddha Lounge * 728 W. Grand Ave.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 19TH MENTAL GRAFFITI PRESENTS CHESKO and JON MESSINGER
Drink Specials: $3 Bottled Domestic Beers, $5 Smirnoff and Jack Daniels Cocktails
Mental Graffiti is a monthly poetry slam and open mic show that spotlights the best of the best of local, national and international wordsmiths and poetry performers. Known throughout the city and country since 1998 as one of the most diverse and welcoming poetry sets in Chicago, Mental Graffiti boasts a devoted audience of saucy and sweet regulars as well as a constant flux of newcomers. Please join the Mental Graffiti collective - comprised of HBO Def Poets Tim Stafford, Joel Chmara; Doorman J and Emily Rose
ARC AND HUE will also be available at the Chicago book parties:
10/1, 8:30 p.m. Katerina’s, 1920 W. Irving Park Road, Chicago, IL 60613
10/2, 8 p.m. The Silver Room, 1442 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642
Mental Grafitti poets, we'd like to invite you out to a
multimedia event we are involved with surrounding the end of times. It
will be a theatrical enactment of the end of the world using live sound
and visual arts. It will be taking place in an archaic cathedral in the
heart of Wicker Park. This event was inspired by the soon-ending Mayan
calendar, sacred geometry, and other mystic and psychedelic
revelations. Matrameru will be performing brand new unreleased material
specifically sculpted for the unique location of this event.
THE ANCIENT CATHEDRAL AT ST. PAUL'S CULTURAL CENTER
2215 W. NORTH AVE
WICKER PARK
$5
Check out my teammates Dan Sully & Alvin Lau at California State University in Chico. Check out myspace. com/alvinlau or myspace. com/dansully. Both are Def Poets; Sully is one half of the duo Death From Below as well as a co-founder of the Speak'Easy Ensemble; Sully is a 3-time National Poetry Slam semifinalist and 3-time Mental Graffiti Grand Slam Champion; Alvin is the only finalist at both youth and adult levels, a 3-time Individual finalist at NPS, 3 time semifinalist with Mental Graffiti, team and solo Rustbelt Regional titles; only poet to win Green Mill & Mental Graffiti Grand Slam titles; Sully & Alvin also do eduacating and workshops. Check em out.
"On Being Water" at the National Poetry Slam:
BILLY TUGGLE is the HipHoppers Guide To The Galaxy: 1/29 OAKLAND Oakland Slam co-featuring N'ER CITY; 2/2 SAN FRANCISCO Free Feature Salon; 2/8 SAN FRANCISCO City Slam & Experimental Open Mic; 2/9 SAN JOSE San Jose Slam; 2/10 ARCATA Humboldt State U Black Liberation Month; 2/11 EUREKA College of the Redwoods; 2/12 EUREKA Slam @ the Accident Gallery... also hope to see you at BERZERKELY SLAM and at 16TH & MISSION!
PolyRhythmic "Without a Trace", a six-week residency at the Spot near Uptown...
January 20th: Special guest feature artist EMILY ROSE- authour/poet/ co-host of Mental Graffiti/ memer of the August Collective... Plus the PolyRhythmic Inagrual Ball.
THE SPOT GREEN ROOM 4437 N Broadway PolyRhythmic Without a Trace... Tuesdays thru February. 10 pm, $3, 21 and over please
2008 National Poetry Slam semifinalists- #6 over all 2008 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam finalists- #2 [tied w/ Cleveland] August 18th at Funky Buddha Lounge, "On Being Water"
This Monday at Butterfly Social Club- 728 W. Grand Ave @ Halsted & Milwaukee, MENTAL GARAFFITI presents KEVIN COVAL- author, teacher, mentor, slam champion [2-time MentalGraff rep, WHAT!?!?], MC- plus the open mic & poetry slam... Your hosts: EMILY ROSE August Collective, JOEL CHMARA teacher, icon & Slammaster TIM STAFFOD [Death From Below] doors @ 730pm, 21 and over, $5 myspace. com/mentalg
POLYRYTHMIC presents SAFE SMILES! Tuesdays at Trace Lounge in Lakeview on Chicago's North Side 3714 N. Clark Street, 1 block north of Addison St.
21 and over, $3, 10pm doors Join your hosts ZEESHAN SHAH, DREW PERFILIO, BILL HERBST, BILLY TUGGLE & ELIZABETH HARPER for Chicago's favorite open mic- poets, musicians, comics, politicians, vagrants and yo' momma- plus featured performers from around the world AND drink specials... myspace. com/safesmiles
10/28 J.W. BAZ performing all new writing! A 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam finalist and- with Mental Graffiti/Chicago- 2006 & 2007 National Poetry Slam semifinalist and 2006 Rustbelt Regional Champion. His favorite teammate, Billy, is the host.
Starting October 8th TwinSoulent will be introducing Pass the Mic an open session welcoming but not limited to Spoken word artists, lyricists, vocalists, comedians...let's even create dialogue for open discusion.
Wanna try out new material ?
Or vent about the economy,relationships, our future president....whatever!
Join Us October 8th at Studio E 2310 E. 75th Street (between Crandon and Oglesby) Chicago, Illinois 60649 for you mapquesting mofos
7pm-10pm
$5 cover....$3 for performers and students.
Provided by TwinSoul offering a change to the monotony of your day.
