Sentences with phrase «poetry slam»

This weekend, I went to my very first poetry slam and let me tell y ’ all, it was SO good.

The students enjoyed learning about the active role an audience plays in a traditional poetry slam.

Each artist has ten images of their work projected in two minutes in a lighting fast poetry slam style.

These programs include free Education Partnerships for qualifying Chicago schools, free weekly writing workshops and open mics for young poets, journalists, and emcees, and Louder Than A Bomb, the largest youth poetry slam in the country.

He has won a number of poetry slam championships, and has performed across the UK at venues ranging from the Boomtown Festival to the Royal Albert Hall.

You can find additional resources for teaching spoken word poetry at Poetry Out Loud and The Poetry Society, which includes information about SLAMbassadors, the national youth poetry slam championships.

Spoken Word (Unrated) Prodigal Son drama about a San Francisco poetry slam artist (Kuno Becker) who returns to his New Mexico roots to care for his terminally - ill father (Ruben Blades) only to develop rapper's block when he starts hanging out on his hometown's crime - infested streets again with the gangstas he thought he'd left behind fr good.

(In English and Shona with subtitles) Spoken Word (Unrated) Prodigal Son drama about a San Francisco poetry slam artist (Kuno Becker) who returns to his New Mexico roots to care for his terminally - ill father (Ruben Blades) only to develop rapper's block when he starts hanging out on his hometown's crime - infested streets again with the gangstas he thought he'd left behind for good.

There are even ASL poetry slams in which poets perform their works in ASL.

I've performed at a few poetry slams around Dover and Smyrna.

A far - out - man poetry slam, art exhibit and imaginative philosophical discourse all at once drifts gently down a stream of consciousness until merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, «Waking Life» is but a dream.

ABC Studios creatives are seeking extras based out of Austin, Texas to play poetry slam poets as well as upscale theater patrons in this series starring Felicity Huffman, Timothy Hutton, and Emmy winner Regina King.

Jon Siskel, nephew of Gene Siskel, has «Louder Than a Bomb,» a documenary about Chicago poetry slams that has already who prizes at other festivals.

Moore was sensitive to the critique, telling Vanity Fair she prepared for Wonderstruck by studying ASL, reading books and watching movies on deaf culture, and attending a deaf poetry slam.

Stage a Poetry Slam Lesson Plan Students participate in a classroom or school - wide poetry slam.

My sixth and seventh graders sat intrigued as I told them that although poetry slams gained fame in Chicago in the 1980s, they really originated in ancient Greek times.

In preparation for our own poetry slam, we transformed our classroom into a vintage 1980s coffeehouse by rearranging desks into cozy tables covered with paper tablecloths and candles.

There were triumphs: energetic seminar discussions, cross-class projects, a student - led poetry slam.

In preparation for a boys vs. girls poetry slam, a diverse group of high school students learn about their classmates lives as they delve into the art of poetry.

Sam is a loner, abandoned by his mother, and disengaged from school and life until a caring teacher connects him with fellow student Luis in a competitive poetry slam.

On January 18, 2018, the Library Lions, an East Greenwich advocacy group, hosted a local poetry slam.

8.30 - 10.30 pm — ALL - STAR SLAM A good old - fashioned POETRY SLAM featuring a sensational line - up of spectacular spoken wordsmiths battling it out on the mic!

Dallas is on its own cultural roll: the popularity of the fair inspired Dallas Arts Week and, now, Dallas Arts Month, which connects the public with artists and organisations through poetry slams, jazz performances and panel discussions.

Most recently Hillyer paired up with Kramerbooks & Afterwords and presented an Erotic poetry slam.

Daveed Diggs (left) greets Rafael Casal onstage to emcee the Brave New Voices poetry slam finals at the Kennedy Center on July, 16, 2016 in Washington, DC.

You've heard of poetry slams, surely, where poets get onstage and belt out their creations in competitions that sometimes feel part standup comedy, part performance art.

The festival featured readings, workshops, open mics, and poetry slams in various venues throughout Austin, Texas.

If you're seeking to «break into» the English teaching field, you can enhance your candidacy by working with students; for example, by leading a writing workshop, tutoring English in your community, or judging a teen poetry slam.

This moving documentary trailer follows four teams of young people in Chicago as they prepare to compete in the world's largest youth poetry slam, Louder Than a Bomb.

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April 4 - 8: The Boston National Poetry Month Festival kicks off with readings, poetry slams, performances, music, and more (Boston)

The festival includes seminars, poetry slams, a street fair, story time for the kids (and adults!)

The evening wasn't helped by a poetry slam taking place in the bottom floor of the club with a clearly superior sound system.

Attendees heard about her creative approach to teaching, including the use of poetry slams to encourage students to love poetry.

b) i've never been to a poetry slam and they sound amazing!!

And I've been wanting to go to a poetry slam!

I've never been to a poetry slam but it sounds like an enlightening experience!

Then, take your interracial partner to a poetry slam.

Toronto hosts comedy shows — it's home to world - famous comedy troupe Second City — poetry slams, concerts, touring Broadway shows, operas, one - act plays, seminars, festivals and galas on a weekly basis.

i love live music, karaoke, theatre, poetry slams, art shows, roller coasters, WoW, Vodka Martinis, sushi... i enjoy meetin new people n learnin new things.

The tone is often boosterish and inspirational, almost at times a travelogue, with brief nods to Chicago as the home of the blues, several sports teams, improv comedy and poetry slams, before returning to the high murder rate and the mayor's proposed school closings.

There are two moments in the film that did make me laugh out loud: the first is when Jonah Hill, trying to fit in at a poetry slam, does a very funny parody of a bad live - mic poem; the second is in the final credits, when the filmmakers take the meta - notion of the film as a sequel about sequels to such an extreme that the idea became funny again.

Ready to put on a poetry slam in your own school?

Present your oldest students in a poetry slam competition, like teacher Brenda Dyck staged with her students (see the Education World article, A Poetry Slam Cures Midwinter Blahs).

The National Endowment for the Arts and the Chicago - based Poetry Foundation are betting on the popularity of poetry slams and rap music among young people to help build participation in a new contest emphasizing memorization and performance.

Included: Activities that engage students in writing sequels to a classic story, «interviewing» people in biographies, completing surveys about their reading interests, participating in a poetry slam, and much more!

Stage a poetry slam for profit, find the funniest poems around, write synonym poems, more!