Mark Your Calendars for the 2nd Annual Words at WAM!
Announcing the second-annual, in-person, all-out fabulous open mic, Words at WAM, co-presented with the Weisman Art Museum!
Words at WAM 2013: An Open Mic
Wed, Feb 27, 2013
Free and open to the public
6:00–7:00 pm: Social Hour & Open Mic Sign-up (first come, first served): Social hour with refreshments, music entertainment, plus WAM exhibits Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series and Our Treasures: Highlights from the Minnesota Museum of American Art.
7:00–8:00 pm: Open Mic begins, in order of the sign-up sheet. The open mic is open to all interested wordsmiths of any genre: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, spoken word, and all literary mischief welcome.*
8:00–8:30 pm: Featured Local Rockstar Readers: Spoken word artist, activist, and founder of TruArtSpeaks Tish Jones, and U of M student fiction writer Matthew Ullery.
* The fine print: 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 dimestore romance paperbacks thrown at them. Readers will go in order of the sign-up sheet. The open mic will end at 8:00 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.
See you there!
Psst: RSVP at the Facebook event here.
Double-psst: Wanna see what last year’s was like? Peruse photos and read the recap here.
Many thanks to everyone who came to Words at WAM last Wednesday!
Much gratitude to our partners-in-crime, WAM Collective, featured readers Miles Walser and Lightsey Darst, social hour musician Patrick Hertz, and photographer Lauren Tallarita.
Extra-special props to our awesome open mic-ers: Becky Liestman, Cindra Halm, Timothy Otte, Mason Nunemaker, Patrick Nathan, Nadia Serena, Jeffrey Ellinger, Susan Budig, Robert Kipp, Scott Vetsch, Sacha Chandarong, Jeffrey Skemp, Katharine Hargreaves, Jeffrey Watson, and Zac Kamm.
And to the five we didn’t get to, due to that ANNOYING THING CALLED TIME, we can’t wait to hear you next time (right?!): Scott Heins, Dan Forke, Shane Blegen, Dylan Hester, and Stephanie Nusser.
Fantastic night all around.
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All photos by Lauren Tallarita. (Even more photos here!)
(We will shortly be en route to Chicago for that little thing called AWP (!!). That said, in order to keep ourselves sane, there will not be a What We’re Reading post tomorrow. Our sincere apologies, folks. In lieu of flowers, please send vials filled tears.)
Announcing our first, in-person, all-out fabulous open mic, Words at WAM, co-presented with the WAM Collective!
Words at WAM: An Open Mic
Wed, Feb 22, 2012
Free and open to the public
6:00–7:00 pm: Social Hour & Open Mic Sign-up (first come, first served): Indulge on refreshments, enjoy music provided by Patrick Hertz, and/or take a curator-led tour of WAM’s exhibit Sympathies.
7:00–8:00 pm: Open Mic begins, in order of the sign-up sheet. The open mic is open to all interested wordsmiths of any genre: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, spoken word, and all literary mischief welcome.*
8:00–8:30 pm: Featured Local Rockstar Readers: Spoken word poet, Miles Walser, and poet and author of Find the Girl (Coffee House Press), Lightsey Darst.
* The fine print: 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 dimestore romance paperbacks thrown at them. Readers will go in order of the sign-up sheet. The open mic will end at 8:00 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.
See you there!
