SLAM STAFF:
PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM STAFF:
Megan Thoma (Co-Director)
Jared Paul (Co-Director)
Alan Hague (Host of Musicians Open Mic)
Richard Edouard-Denor (Host of Youth Slam/Assistant Youth Slam Coach)
Shamusideen Onikoy Jr. (Slam Staff/Myspace czar)
Astrid Drew (Host of Poetry Tag/Write Club)
Aaron Samuels (Assistant Youth Slam Coach)
Jan Luby (Co-host of Musicians Open Mic
Dawn Beagan (Musician's Open Mic Staff)
ATTENTION TO THOSE LOOKING TO FEATURE:
PROVIDENCE SLAM ONLY DOES ONE OR TWO FEATURES A MONTH AND WE BOOK BY INVITATION OR BY A STAFF VOTE ONLY. WE DO OFTEN AFFORD TRAVELING POETS A SHOT AT OUR AUDIENCE VIA A TWO POEM SPOTLIGHT: SUBMIT TEXT FOR THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE PIECES TO OUR MYSPACE FOR CONSIDERATION. THANKS. ~PROV SLAM STAFF.
Influences
Corrina Bain, Kit Wallach, Omar Reyes, Andrea Gibson, Kevin Bary, Bill MacMillan, Sage Francis, Patricia Smith, Bernard Dolan, Roger Bonair Agard, Celena Glenn, Alixa Garcia, Umberto Crenca, Laura Moran, Sou MacMillan, Jack McCarthy, Rachel McKibbens, Marty McConnell, Lynne Procope, Kyra Wolfe, Elizabeth Thomas, Michael Cirelli
Providence Slam is one of the oldest and most respected national Poetry Slam venues. Known for bringing quality, consistent work to regional/national poetry events and for a strong community built around it's home venue of AS220, The Providence Slam Team won the National Poetry Slam in 1996, hosted Nationals in 2000, and has advanced passed the qualifying round at The National Poetry Slam 8 times in the passed 11 years.
It's the objective of this venue to maintain and provide a space where individuals, whether they consider themselves artists or not, can come to share and learn from one another. Writers, singers, musicians, carpenters, doctors, janitors, lawyers, and waitresses; we are not defined by our job titles. Everyone is welcome at the Providence Slam.
Bring flyers for community events and actions. We will post and announce them. Bring your songs, poems, and rants. The stage is open to you.
Bring your ears, anger, smiles, and tears. You will hear some of the consistently highest quality spoken word in the country.
Our venue is AS220. We are blessed to have an art/community action fortress as our home court. They provide for and protect our reading without trying to profit or change us and we are lucky unspeakably lucky to be here. Check them out.
Our reading is at AS220 EVERY THURSDAY!!
115 Empire St.
Providence, RI 02909
1ST THURSDAY: OPEN MIC, FEATURE, OPEN SLAM
*OPEN MIC LIST GOES UP AT 7:30PM/DOORS OPEN AT 8PM
(Open Mic Slot is 3 minutes)
2ND THURSDAY: POETRY TAG/WRITER'S CIRCLE
*Laid back, low pressure writer's group. A chance to share and talk about poems away from the stage. 7PM/UPSTAIRS, 2ND FLOOR AS220 CLASSROOM SPACE
3RD THURSDAY: MUSICIANS OPEN MIC/LATE SLAM
*Open Mic and Feature: Open to Musicians, Singers, and Writers. Singers and Musicians get 8 minutes (THIS INCLUDES TALKING/INTRO RAMBLING) and Poem presenters get 3 minutes (3 MINUTES SHARP.) Open Mic list goes up at 7:30/Doors at 8pm/LATE NIGHT SLAM QUALIFIERS HELD AFTER MUSICIANS OPEN MIC!
We just got home from our first nationwide PFA tour ever and it was a success on all fronts!! Great venues, great crowds, safe travels, and many new friends made- 34 Days... 25 Cities... THERE AND BACK AGAIN. The whole shiiibang started off with our nearly sold-out record release show featuring Roz Raskin & the Rice Cakes at AS220 on July 22nd, and fittingly, we are closing out the trip with a final performance at Roz's record release show this Wednesday! Roz has put together a great line up including Prayers For Atheists, Math the Band, and Formal Action. After 5 weeks on the road, PFA is carved out of Fight Club tour wood and the Rice Cakes are gearing up for what might be their biggest show yet- we fully expect it to be a rowdy and fantastic night filled with diverse styles and flat out fun music. IT'S THE LAST SHOW OF TOUR AND WE'RE GOING FOR BROKE- COME ON DOWN AND HELP US CELEBRATE!!
WEDNESDAY NIGHT - AUG. 26TH
Featuring:
Roz Raskin & The Rice Cakes, Prayers For Atheists, Formal Action, and Math the Band
Firehouse 13
Doors@7:30pm/Show@8:30
$5 Admission/$10 = Admission + Rice Cakes brand new record!
What up Prov Slam! I hear there's a whole bunch of updates to the page on their way- can't wait to see! Ha. Have yall heard Jared & Alan's band yet? It's us!! PFA!! Just posted a new song at: www.MySpace.com/PrayersForAtheists - Peep game, Sun. ( :
hey AS220, come see your very own Jared Paul for 2 free win tickets and dinner to the bigg: Rules to the game!!!!! You have to post up on your main pic From the R.I.P. POSTER of the show, re~post this bulletin on your board, and refer all people to the page www.myspace.com/fromtherip and everyone you refer must tell us you did so!!! in the little box when adding us!!! make sure we know who you are so you can get the credit for it!! This is the fun part, every day we will up date you what place you are in by the top friends list. the first ten people on the tops are the running's. the top two will win tix's!!!! the 1ST PLACE will get 2 tickets to the show and dinner!! the runner up will get 2 general admissions tickets. good luck and thank you for playing, NOW let the games begin!!!!est show this spring..
ARTISTS: If you are interested in being added to the rotation, please get in touch with a member of artFXone. All performing artists will split the door money, and this is an opportunity to put on live, original, positive hip hop in southern Rhode Island.
remember my name can you hear what they are sayin. i'm going to change this place go ahead think that i'm playin. AS if 220 was my home all a long. this is poetic justis spokin beautiful like a love song. "Here I am"
Here is a call-out for an action the Workers International League is initiating, hope to see you there! :
No Bailouts for Billionaires:
Nationalize America's Banks!
Join us Friday, February 20th, from 3- 5 pm, at Bank of America's downtown headquarters across from Kennedy Plaza.
We will call for real public ownership of the banking system, with democratic elections of bank directors.
Already multi-billions of our taxes have been used to save the private banking system. Employees are facing growing job losses amid an ever worsening fall in our wages. Real change is needed!
Our taxes, our hard earned wages, are being used by Washington to bailout Wall St. We demand:
Nationalization of the banks: Public ownership of the banks!
Democratic control by working people: Make the banks work in the service of everyone!
An end to exorbitant bonuses: Only nationalization will put an end to the fattening of executive compensation!
Action to lower interest rates: Cheap credit for students, workers and small businesses!
Right to a home: Stop the bankers' foreclosures!
Bring signs, banners, noise makers, and at least one friend, co-worker or anyone else feeling the grind from the capitalists' crisis.
This event initiated by the Workers International League. To endorse or for more information, please contact us at: marxistshane@gmail.com
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