Youth Weekend All Access Pass (Ages 19 & Under)

Overview

Please consider to help uplift the voices of Massachusetts Youth.

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

• Saturday: Festival Opening Ceremony
• Saturday: First Breath / Next Breath Multimedia Expo
• Saturday: Team Slam Preliminaries
• Saturday: Coaches & Cookies Cyper
• Sunday: Individual Teen Poetry Slam #3: Teen Festival Edition
• Sunday: Poetry Workshops
• Sunday: Poetry & Ice Cream Open Mic
• Sunday: Team Slam Finals

This pass allows youth (19 and under) to participate in all festival activities. This pass is not a registration to compete during the Festival, only competition audience attendance. If you'd like to compete during the Festival, please visit the Teen Festival Slam Information Page to access slam registration information.

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: Saturday morning will have registration, check in, and some light breakfast options available for competing poets. Teens must check in before participating in slams and events. There will be a registration table by each major event throughout the weekend.

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: Time to eat and recharge over lunch which will be distributed during the First Breath/Next Breath Multimedia Expo.

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.

Info: This prelim slam is a young poet's (age 13 - 19) opportunity to compete for a spot in the Individual Slam Finals on Saturday, April 11th. Poets looking to compete can sign-up via the registration form on our website. The top five poets (ages 13-19) from the Individual Slam Finals will form the Mass Poetry Youth Slam Team and will meet, write, and perform poems throughout Massachusetts, and hope to send the team to the Brave New Voices Festival in July. Adults are welcome to attend the slam as supportive and excited audience members.

Info: After the Individual Teen Poetry Slam #3, teens are invited to participate in a series of non-competitive workshops led by local poets and artists.

Info: After Sunday’s workshops, we will have a poetry open mic with ice cream! Teens can come, grab a bite, and share some poems. This is the last opportunity to share poems during the weekend before the Team Slam Finals. Any teen is welcome to participate.

Info: Welcome to the Write Here | Write Now | Speak Loud! Team Slam Finals. On Sunday evening, winning teams from all Preliminary Slams held the previous day will compete to determine the ultimate winner of Mass Poetry's Teen Spoken Word Festival. Doors will open at 5:30 PM.

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Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, United States

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