Day 1: Saturday Adult Pass (Ages 20+)

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This pass provides access (as an audience member only) to the Saturday 20+ Festival events:

• Saturday: Festival Opening Ceremony
• Saturday: First Breath / Next Breath Multimedia Expo
• Saturday: Team Slam Preliminaries
• Saturday: Coaches & Cookies Cypher

PLEASE NOTE: Festival participants ages 20 and up can ONLY attend the festival as audience members. All activities and competitions during the festival are for teens ages 19 and under.

For audience access to the Team Slam Finals, all attendees (of all ages) must acquire a SEPARATE Team Slam Finals Pass.

All Festival attendees must first check in at the Bordy Theater in the Union Bank Building before attending any Festival events. Entry to all buildings and events requires a badge and you will not be allowed entrance without it. Tickets to the Team Slam Finals will be included with your badge.

The only exception to this requirement is if you are solely attending the Team Slam Finals and no other Festival event, in which case you may proceed directly to the Semel Theater in the Tufte Building.

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Info: Day 1 will begin with a Festival Opening Ceremony, welcoming attendees to Boston and the Teen Spoken Word Festival! The event will kick off with an introductory ceremony, followed by local and national poetic performances. This event will be directly followed by the First Breath / Next Breath Multimedia Expo. Adults are welcome to attend this event as audience members.

Info: This year we’re excited to launch an entirely new, hands on, multimedia art making expo! We’re inviting youth attendees to float between several art making stations designed to explore poetry and the ways they can incorporate other mediums of expression into their existing creative practice. Booths will span across genres and media including Dance, Graffiti Art, Fashion, Jewelry making, Music, Meditation, and more surprising mediums we can’t wait to share with the public! All stations will be run by leading teaching artists across New England. Our hope is to have our youth poets bond across teams through creating together, learning new skills and experimenting with expression. Most importantly we want our youth poets to know they can be more than one thing, and their voice as an artist is capable of blooming and making change across many mediums that speak to them!

Info: The Team Slam Preliminary Bouts to determine which teams advance to the Team Finals will occur in the afternoon after the First Breath / Next Breath Multimedia Expo. We will have 2 to 4 bouts. Bouts will happen simultaneously. The winning team of each bout will go on to compete in the Team Slam Finals Sunday evening. Adults are welcome to attend as audience members, encouraging performing teens.

Info: The Team Slam Preliminary Bouts to determine which teams advance to the Team Finals will occur in the afternoon. We will have 2 to 4 bouts. Bouts will happen simultaneously. The winning team of each bout will go on to compete in the Team Slam Finals Sunday evening. Adults are welcome to attend as audience members, encouraging performing teens.

Info: Let’s give the coaches some love! This open mic gives youth participants a chance to be wowed by the outstanding talents of their coaches and the festival organizers. Unwind after team prelims and grab a cookie or two while you enjoy the show. And if their feeling inspired, teens can hop on the stage and do a group piece with their favorite coach.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, United States

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

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