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It's Black Pride Month! ✊🏿🌈This slam is for our LGBTQIA+ homies! You love spoken-word poetry? Are you a slam poet? Want to try a slam or judge a poetry slam? Try your hand at the premier poetry competition in Richmond! The team that has been ranked 3rd in the nation is hosting their monthly poetry slams for spoken-word artists looking to share their work and see how'd they do in competition.
$10 admission
Doors open at 7pm
Show at 8pm
Short open mic after the slam (if time permits)
Rules #InTheDen
- There are 3 elimination rounds. All registered poets will compete in the first round, the top scores will move forward in the competion that night.
-Each round is clean slate. We do not add the scores together from previous rounds
-Poems must be your original work
-poems are scored by 5 judges on a scale of 0.0 to 10.0. the highest and lowest scores are dropped. The three remaining score are totaled giving a poet their score for that round. the highest score a poem can receive is a 30.
-The order of performances is determined during the slam via a random draw. The host will pull names out of a hat.
-poets get the maximum amount of 3 minutes and 10 seconds to perform. anything second over that results in a 0 for that round. The time starts once the poet engages the audience either by addressing the crowd verbally or doing a purposeful movement that infers the performance has started.
-no props are allowed onstage. you may read from a page or device but do not make reference to the page or device because it will be considered a prop at that point. violation of the prop rule will result in disqualification
contact Roscoe Burnems or DM @thewritersdenrva on IG for more info
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Addis Ethiopian Restaurant, 9 N 17th St,Richmond,VA,United States
