BUSBOYS AND POETS & @BeltwaySlamDC Present: the BELTWAY POETRY SLAM
Date and Time
Mar 29, 2016 9:00 pm
Location
Brookland
625 Monroe St NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20017
Mar 29, 2016 9:00 pm
Brookland
Busboys and Poets Presents the Beltway Slam Semi-Finals:
Join us at Busboys and Poets Brookland for this Semifinals Slam of the 2015-2016 Slam Season
The top 12 Poets that have accumulated points during this season will now engage in an intense two round battle for the top 8 slots in the Grand Finals, and a chance to become the 2016 Beltway Poetry Slam Team, with the top winner earning the coveted title of D.C. Grand Slam Champion. The Beltway Poetry Slam team, represents the D.M.V. at National and International Poetry Slam Competitions & Major Events for Busboys and Poets!
Featuring: Natasha T. Miller & Siaara Freeman- The Good Grief Tour
The good grief tour is not limited to poetry; it’s a journey through the many stages of grief. Award winning Poets, Natasha “T” Miller, and Siaara Freeman are traveling the world together sharing their similar stories of loss, of managing grief, and their experiences of using art as a tool for survival. This tour is pure, fun, raw, at times heavy, but extremely necessary. The main focus on this tour is to leave each audience member (whether they’ve experienced grief of not) with honest and innovative ways to cope with loss, and accept grief and heartbreak in the many forms that they come in. with these two, you can prepare to sit through a show that will bring you to tears through laugher, and through pain while covering such topics as sexuality, death, relationships, race, womanhood, and the trials of navigating through grief without access to many resources. These two women from the Midwest are a special treat to watch as bring you real life with a large dose of comedic relief to help you digest your own reality. From the workshops to the stage, this tour is refreshing, brilliant, healing, and worth attending, or brining to a venue near you.
Audience Tickets will be sold at the door and online starting at midnight day of the event.
If you would like to be a judge for the event, see our Bout Manager or Slammaster before the show starts, or when a call for random judges is made!
ALL THOSE PARTICIPATING IN THE SLAM MUST ARRIVE BY 8:30PM AND BUY THEIR TICKETS IN PERSON!!
Participant Tickets will be sold IN PERSON for CASH ONLY on a first come, first serve basis starting at 8:30. Only 12 people will slam.
Prepare maximum 3 poems, no more than three minutes of length. If you go over your time limit, you will be awarded a 10 second grace period. Once you pass that, .5 points will be deducted from your total score for every 10 seconds you go over
$5 Entry. Tickets are available now.
Full menu and Bar, Handicap accessible.
625 Monroe St. NE Washington D.C. (1 block from Brookland-CUA Metro on Red Line)
