💜 Saturday, February 17, 2024 at UUCS
💙 Doors open at 6:00PM for refreshments and live jazz
💚 Event begins at 7:00PM
💛 Hosted by the amazing Regie Cabico with live jazz music by Lisa Fiorilli’s Jazz Quartet
🧡 Theme: “Liberating Love”
Come spoken-word artists, rappers, sages, veterans, therapists, activists, students, student-groups, actors, first-time poets, dreamers, scribes and lovers of the spoken word for a night of jazz and poetry. This is a TRUTH ZONE!
All poets are offered 3-4 minutes to recite or perform their poem to the live audience. Poets can speak their possibilities in any language as long as they provide a written translation of their 3-minute poem ahead of time.
Cash or credit card via Eventbrite will be accepted at the door from 6:00-7:00PM
Event proceeds will be donated to Mobile Hope and Equality Loudoun.
Slam Poet
■ Suggested Donation: $15 (Free for youth 18 and under)
■ $100 for 1st place■ $70 for 2nd place
■ $50 for 3rd place
■ $25 for Best Youth Poet
About Regie Cabico
Regie Cabico is a poet and theater artist who has appeared on NPR’s Snap Judgement, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and TEDx Talk. He is the first Asian American poet to take top prizes at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe and 3 National Poetry Slams. He is the founder of Capfire Spoken Word Arts, a queer pubishing press and literary events organization to nurture and promote queer BIPOC poets and their allies. He is currently the board chair of Split This Rock.
This project is supported, in part, by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
Questions? Contact Denise Dittmar