Montana Poetry Slam
WHAT: Performance Poetry Tournament.WHEN: Saturday 25th July, 8 -11 pmWHERE: London Bar, Wellesley StAUDITIONS open for registration NOW - contact docrnz@gmail.com for a time.
Auditions held 18 July 10 am - noon at the London Bar.
If you live out of town or can't make it then, begging the Slammistress for another time will not go unheard.
Join Slammistress Renee as some of Auckland’s best performance poets battle it out in front of judges and an audience. Over $400 worth of prizes to be won. Burlesque and other acts will interlace!!
Celebrity judges will score each poet on performance ability, quality of poem and audience response. The final winner will be picked by an audience vote.
Rules:
Three minutes per poem
Poem must be your own
No props, costume or music
Please prepare three poems
Entry by koha - $10 suggested, but everything accepted. Money raised will go towards Poetry Live's next publication.
Thanks to Booksellers NZ and Montana Wines for prize sponsorship.
London Bar, Wellesley St, Auckland CBD
Proceeds to Poetry Live for next publication.
Slammistress Renee docrnz@gmail,.com
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Member Profile
Renee LiangRenee is a writer who is exploring many ways of telling stories, including plays, short stories, poetry (which she also performs), and cross-genre collaborations with composers, musicians, sculptors and filmmakers. She's passionate about the emerging artist community and most of her projects involve community building and collaboration. She's also looking for ways to build bridges between her first love, medicine, and her best friend, the arts.
Renee has written and toured two plays, Lantern and The Bone Feeder. The Bone Feeder will next be produced in Auckland in Nov 2011. FAAB (The First Asian All Black), will premiere at The Basement in September and tour to BATS in late Sept. She is the author of four chapbooks of poetry and has had work published in numerous other books, journals and zines. Currently she is involved with arts collaboration project Metonymy and Asian arts showcase Funky Oriental Beats.
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