Saturday, March 31st, 5 pm, Ruta Maya World Headquarters, 3601 S. Congress, D-200
THE FINAL CHANCE TO QUALIFY!
Presented by the Texas Youth Word Collective
ADMISSION: $5 cover, free for slam participants and under 5
CONTACTS:
Ron Horne (512) 632-5033, Co-Director
Dr. Sheila Siobhan (512) 422-6653, Co-Director
E-Mail: u21slam@yahoo.com
Website: www.txywc.org
The season is coming to an end and the playoffs are around the corner. March 31st represents the final slam for the regular season of the Austin City-Wide Under 21 Poetry Slam! Don’t miss your chance to see Austin ’s best young spoken word artists compete for a place in the semi-finals of the Austin City-Wide Under 21 Poetry Slam! Texas Youth Word Collective’s third season of the Austin City-Wide Under 21 Poetry Slam continues with Slam #6!
This is the last qualifying slam of the season, so all of you poets who have competed in earlier slams, this is your last chance to compete for one of the top three spots and earn a place in the Semi-Finals! Please note that while this slam is open to all youth poets under the age of 21, only those poets who will be under the age of 20 as of August 1st, 2007 are eligible to move on to the Semi-Finals (see website for “How to Qualify”). The top five scoring poets from this slam will move on to the Semi-Finals (provided they have competed in at least one other qualifying slam this season).
This season the poetry has been hotter than ever with students competing from schools across the Greater Austin area including Bastrop , Cedar Park , Austin , Hendrickson, LBJ, Westwood, Pflugerville, Manor and St. Stephen’s Episcopal High Schools, as well as Austin Community College joining in the competition. The following youth have prequalified for the semi-final competition next month: Ruby Willmann and Colleen Mayo (LBJ H.S.), Brent Caballero (Hendrickson H.S.), Margaret Olsen (Cedar Park H.S.), Shaina, Sheenika “D-Lyte” Medard, and Pravda (Pflugerville H.S.), Shay (Reagan H.S.), and Cora Lee (Austin High), Amanda (San Marcos H.S.), Jermaine Marshall & Shamona Craddock (Manor H.S.).
Participants in the Austin City-Wide Under 21 Poetry Slam have represented Austin at the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festivals in Chicago , Los Angeles , San Francisco , and New York . The top four poets of this season will win an all expense trip to San Jose , California and compete against over two hundred youth poets from across the United States and England !
It is sure to be an exciting show for poets and audience alike! Come to the Austin City-Wide Under 21 Poetry Slam and see what it’s all about!
The Austin City-Wide Under 21 Poetry Slam is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.