Name: Reel Queer Film Festival & Sibling Rivalry Press Present: Festival Kickoff Poetry Open Mic & Hangout
Start: 2025-08-20T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-20T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Crush Wine Bar

Reel Queer Film Festival & Sibling Rivalry Press Present: Festival Kickoff Poetry Open Mic & Hangout

The Reel Queer Film Festival returns to Central Arkansas on August 21, 2025! Help us celebrate the evening *before* the festival by kicking things off with a FREE poetry open mic & hangout night at Argenta's Crush Wine Bar sponsored by Sibling Rivalry Press--and YOU are invited to participate!
Sign up at the door or by emailing [email protected] to snag YOUR slot to share your work. LGBTQ+ poets, authors, artists, and performers are welcome, as are allies!
Everyone is also invited to share what LGBTQ+ films impacted them - their first memories, what your favorite movies are and why, movie stars who first stole your heart - and who steals your heart now. It will be laid back, fun, and a chance to connect with your arts community!
This is a safe space for art, friendship, sharing, and conversation. Plus, we'll preview the films of the Reel Queer Film Festival!
ABOUT THE REEL QUEER FILM FESTIVAL: The Reel Queer Film Festival celebrates the diversity of the LGBT community and filmmakers by presenting poignant and thought-provoking films documenting LGBT lives truthfully and with respect. The festival exhibits the power of film to transform lives and opinions of those both inside and outside the LGBT community through the universal medium of the cinema.
ABOUT SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS: Based in Central Arkansas and founded with the mission to publish work that celebrates the LGBTQ+ experience, Sibling Rivalry Press is an award-winning independent literary press that champions voices too often overlooked by mainstream publishing. Since its inception, the press has become a vital force in contemporary poetry and queer literature, launching and supporting a diverse roster of bold, innovative authors. Sibling Rivalry Press creates space for truth, disruption, beauty, and defiance—publishing books that disturb and enrapture.