Mark Your Calendars: LITERARTY PARTY!

We’re extremely pleased to announce our next in-person literary open mic, in collaboration with pop-up art gallery, Ad Hoc Art Minneapolis!

LITERARTY PARTY: An Open Mic

Sunday, August 26, 2012
6 pm—10 pm

at Ad Hoc Art Minneapolis Gallery
88 South 10th St, Minneapolis (map here)

Free and open to the public!

(RSVP to Facebook event)

Social hour and open mic sign-up starts at 6:00 pm. Grab some cold summer treats and take a walk through the art space, featuring all local artists. Celebrate the literary-art mash-up through a social media contest and other on-site interactive fun. Open mic readers begin at 7:00 pm, in order of the sign-up sheet. Audience members will vote by ballot for their favorite open mic performer. Featured local writers, Rob Callahan and Courtney Algeo, will follow the open mic set, and music will close the evening.

The open mic is open to all interested wordsmiths of any genre: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, spoken word, and all literary mischief welcome. Each reader will have four minutes to read their work(s), with a 30-second grace period. Readers will be given warnings if they go over the time limit, and at 4 minutes, 30 seconds, will have trashy romance paperbacks thrown at them. Readers will go in order of the sign-up sheet. The open mic will end at 8:15 pm, regardless of how many people are left on the sign-up sheet, so get there early to ensure your reading slot! No props (costumes, music, etc) allowed.

ABOUT ROB CALLAHAN

Rob Callahan is the author of A Wish Upon A Fallen Sky and Hellbound Snowballs, the host of l’étoile‘s long-running Sci-Fi Tuesdays series, and a longtime l’étoile contributor. He also writes for Cracked.com and appears regularly with the Minneapolis collective known as the Rockstar Storytellers. He has performed onstage and over the air for MPR, KFAI, SPNN and the Minnesota State Fair, and has authored two award-winning spoken word shows for the Minnesota Fringe Festival.

ABOUT COURTNEY ALGEO

Known throughout the Twin Cities as a lover of words and tacos, Courtney Algeo is the Marketing Coordinator at The Loft Literary Center, writes the column Lit Lyfe for the Twin Cities Daily Planet, and serves as the Editorial Director for Paper Darts.

ABOUT AD HOC ART MINNEAPOLIS

Ad Hoc Art is a dynamic community arts hub, celebrating amazing local art and sharing it with the Twin Cities. With creativity and humor we play a role in highlighting local artists and bolstering our city’s already vibrant arts community by creating a pop-up gallery in the heart of downtown Minneapolis (88 S 10th St) for the summer of 2012.