June 7, 2023
6 to 9 pm
Youth Poetry Night with students from Lowell High, Greater Lowell Tech & the Lowell Community Charter Public School
From 8th Grade to Post-Grad, we will have it all!
Plus an Open Mic for performers of all ages!
Bring your stuff to share and share alike with our listening community…
Hosted at Coffee and Cotton at Mill No. 5. Located in a historic downtown textile building, Mill No. 5 is a destination into what Lowell is; home to independent shops, The Luna Theatre, the Farm Market, and Coffee and Cotton. Coffee and Cotton is the heart of the building, serving up coffee, espresso, and lattes, wine, local craft beer, delicious, made to order, locally sourced options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It is also a venue for live music, game nights, community events, and now our Untitled Open Mic.
/// About our Feature ///
This event is a culmination of our month-plus workshop series at Lowell Community Charter Public School. A crew of mentors, veterans of various FreeVerse! events from Louder Than A Bomb to the Mass Poetry Festival, has been working with the 8th Graders at LCCPS, helping them to develop their end-of-year poetry unit in their English classes (under the watchful eye of master teacher, Bridget Russo), and this is the celebration of all that work. We will be featuring the youth poets who ran the workshops, plus the 8th Grade students who participated. It will be part poetry slam and part showcase.
/// Format ///
Sign-Ups Open @ 6pm
Open Mic Starts @ 6:30 pm
Poetry Feature begins after the open reading.
All Done @ 9:00pm
/// Details ///
Free Admission
Food, Drink, and Merch for Sale
@ Coffee & Cotton
250 Jackson St. No. 401
Lowell, Mass. 01852
https://millno5.com/directions/
Also streaming online:
Mill City Speaks is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Untitled featuring Youth Poetry Time: Jun 7, 2023 06:00 to 9:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83488452558
Meeting ID: 834 8845 2558 Passcode: 737456
(Volunteers Needed: We are looking for judges for the slam.)
please email lowellpoetry@gmail.com
For more information lowellpoetry.com
/// Safer Space & Community Guidelines ///
We strive to foster a space of inclusivity and respect. We ask everyone to not bring (in no particular order) ableist, ageist, body shaming, classist, homophobic, misogynist, misandrist, racist, transphobic, oppressive language, attitudes, and actions at the space. We look to hold ourselves and one another accountable to creating a culture in which we treat each other with consent and respect. This includes but is not limited to respecting people's physical and emotional boundaries and receiving explicit verbal consent before touching someone or crossing other personal boundaries. If you are disrupting our safer space we will ask you to leave.
/// Zoom Guidelines (Online) ///
1.) Some best practices suggest being somewhere with minimal background noise and good lighting, use headphones if possible, and close any applications not being used on your device to improve Zoom quality.
2.) It is best to have your display on “Speaker View” to see the host and performer. “Gallery View” will allow you to see all guests at once.
3.) Feel free to add a name and pronoun into your display so we can say hello and know who is joining us. Keep in mind that this event is streaming publicly so take any precautions about sharing your identity.
4.) Guests could also have “Video” on or off, as that is optional.
5.) During performances/readings the host will “Mute” all other guests.
6.) Guests are encouraged to show love and gratitude visually on screen or in the chat window.
7.) Please be respectful on screen and in the chat window - and acknowledge the space you can take up in this digital communal platform.
8.) Host will allow guests to un-mute after performances if they choose and able to out loud affirmations or gratitudes.
9.) Any conflicts to the safer space / community guidelines the host may remove you from the Zoom call. If you feel like you have been accidentally or wrongfully removed, please reach out to the organizers.
Please reach out to Ricky Orng or Douglas Bishop with questions regarding the open mic or slam at lowellpoetry@gmail.com
“This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lowell Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.”