It is also a community of performers from all disciplines: music, dance, poetry, and the visual arts. We come together once every month to celebrate our creative diversity (and eat FREE delicious, home-made Creole food), and to share the work that excites us. Our host and Slaminatrix, the lovely Mona Webb, welcomes people from all backgrounds to come and get rowdy in the name of art and community.
Get yourself initiated into the vibrant community that is slam poetry at SF City Slam. Poetry slams are part performance art, part highly competitive sport, and 100% democratic and community-based entertainment. At a slam, every performer that touches the stage gets scored by the night’s “judges,”–five randomly selected members of the audience. Scores range from a 0.0 (The Worst Poem Ever Written) to 10.0 (Utter literary perfection, flawlessly performed). The San Francisco City Slam Presents:
Poets and Playwrights Feb. 10, 2013
Poets and Playwrights is a celebration of the theatrical stage, blending blazing poets with the innovation of one act plays and monologues. Don't you wish you could see Nationals in Boston this summer? But in case you can't you can still catch a few hot fire Nationals style bouts right here at home! That's right folks you can still catch the Bay's hottest teams in their finest form as they sharpen their lyrical blades before boarding the plane to Boston! The Bay Area's hottest poets have ...been sharpening their tongues to represent THE BAY AREA at NATIONALS SO bring YOUR SUPPORT to The Luggage Store Art Gallery. This Months Feature Poet & Playwright:
All The Way From North Carolina
Ed Mabrey
ED MABREY is an Individual World Poetry Slam CHAMPION, National Poetry Slam Finalist, an Emmy nominated actor, National Best Selling poetry anthology contributor, motivational speaker, and poet. Ed has toured internationally and conducted performances and workshops at over 50 colleges and universities around the world. www.artistecard.com/EdMabrey
www.reverbnation.com/artist_2587842/bio
www.myspace.com/edmabrey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwRphYeVraA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SakM_EI7nk
Where: The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. ( 2 Blocks from Powell Street BART) in San Francisco
When: February 10,2013
Show Time: 6:30pm- 8:30p
Resident DJ Yaddos will be on the Wheels of Steal Rocking us all night! Hosted By San Francisco Slammaster Mona Webb
C0-Host by Audacious
Free Creole Food! All Ages Venue (but no censorship)
$5 Donation (No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds! We wanna see you there!)
February 10, 2013
---- The Luggage Store Art Gallery
1007 Market St. ( 2 Blocks from Powell St. BART) San Francisco, CA
HOST: MONA WEBB
2nd Sundays of Every Month
Next Show Feb. 10, 2013
6:30p-8:30p
Free Creole Food
All Ages
The City Slam & Experimental Mic. -A forum for lyrical creativity: layering poetry, music, dance, & all artistic avenues of expression.
