The 1st WEDNESDAY is UNTITLED!
Team Poetry Slam!!!
Mill City Speaks (the hometown team)
vs.
ProvSlam from Rhode Island (fresh from winning the Northbeast Regional Poetry Slam)
If you’re never seen a team poetry slam before, You’ve got to check it out! If you know, You know the kind of energy that gets poets flying (metaphorically)!
Plus our ever-unprecedented Untitled Open Mic! All styles and voices welcome!
In Person At Coffee & Cotton in Mill No. 5 250 Jackson Street Lowell, MA
/// Format ///
Sign-Ups begin @ 6pm
Event Starts @ 6:30 pm
Team Poetry Slam & Open Mic
All Done @ 9:00pm
/// Details ///
Free Admission
Food, Drink, and Merch for Sale
Cash Prizes
@ Coffee & Cotton
250 Jackson St. No. 401
Lowell, Mass. 01852
https://millno5.com/directions/
Also streaming online
/// Zoom Details ///
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87911600395
Meeting ID: 879 1160 0395
Passcode available on request:
Please message lowellpoetry@gmail.com
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdhyawA5EN
/// About ProvSlam ///
(Volunteers Needed)
We are looking for judges for our poetry slam!
If interested, please email lowellpoetry@gmail.com.
For more information lowellpoetry.com
Our Next event is an online Mill City Speaks workshop on Tuesday, July 11, 6 to 9 pm. Hosted on the second Tuesday of each month, the workshop is open to poets at any skill level or stage of interest, from not-yet-beginner to old hand. The log-in details are available by request. Please send an email to douglasbishoppoet@gmail.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)
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 here with questions regarding the open mic or slam.
“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.”