"We should set ourselves free at last" off-the-cuff slams FSA workshop#18 with ELTE Media Department
You are welcome to join us on Tuesday, November 5 at 8 pm at Gödör (Király utca 50.) for the Underground Slam Academy (FSA
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(Scroll down for English.) We also recommend this article for the series: https://nepszava.hu/3252319_most-megint-van-remenykedes
Please also let your friends know about the Facebook event, where you can enter the competition by writing a post:
As always, the competition is only open to slogans spoken from memory, and the theme is again this line from Attila József's poem "My Country": "I should be free already!" Slams can be freely linked to this line in any way. The texts can be about, for example, the poem by Attila József József, about political liberation, about liberation from our prejudices, our anxieties, from mechanisation, from nature-destroying habits, from prejudices, from reading the slam text, or about liberation in any other sense.
You can enter the slam contest by posting in this event, with an individual or team slam, with a dance slam, with an old slam you've said several times, with or without rhyme, in verse, prose, any text. The main thing: The slam should be performed from the heart.
No instruments (objects, including musical instruments) may be used in the competition. Clothing not used as an instrument may have, for example, an inscription or symbol. However, for example, a cap-tossing to illustrate a slam discussion is considered the use of an instrument.
The slams are mostly in Hungarian, but they can also be performed in other languages, usually in English in the evenings, but there have also been slams in Arabic, French, Hebrew, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish or Turkish.
Jury President: Gábor Polyák
Members of the jury:
Music by Dávid Pető
FSA logo: Péter Morvai
Director: Péter Molnár
Schedule
During the results announcement at the Underground Slam Academy workshop, the jury president and members of the jury will give verbal comments on each slam performed, to which the slammer and the audience can also comment. During the break, there will also be a public vote, where everyone can vote for their favourite slam of the night.
The 1st place winner of the slam competition, as the 1st place winner of every Underground Slam Academy (FSA) competition, will receive a t-shirt from text-shirt.com, courtesy of Szabolcs Szakállas, with the line of his/her choice from the slam he/she performed. The first 6 winners - there are not winners, but runners-up 🙂 - will have the choice of books from Álomgyár, Corvina, Magvető, Napvilág, and Prae publishers and 3 bottles of wine from Mórocz Winery (the 1st runner-up will be the first to choose). Thanks to Soraya Hegyesi, the jury will also decide on the special prize "Go to the Franc!" from the Franc Vintage shop. Johanna V. Nagy will present the ceramics she made as a special prize to Johanna. In addition, a few days after the evening, based on the videos of the slams, a slammer will receive a small caricature by György Kozma as a special prize.
Exceeding the recommended 3 minutes and 15 seconds (4 minutes and 15 seconds for team slams) (the time will be projected visibly for performers and audience) will be considered by the jury when they choose the first 6 runners-up and the special prize winner at the end of the competition.
The programme for the evening:
8: Music by Olgae, Dávid Pető
8:30 Slam competition (without presentation, before and after the slams with short hand pan improvisations by Dávid Pető)
9:45 Break
10:The jury will comment on the slams, including the first 6 winners and the special prize winner.
The videos of the slams recited during the evenings of the series and the photos taken during the evenings can all be found on the FSA Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071202865371), where you can also find #napislam and #hetikönyv recommendation videos and posts, in Hungarian or English, published during and after COVID, with the contribution of many slammer whose names are listed in the post they have published. FSA Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/underground_slam_academy...
The aim of the Underground Slam Academy: - to encourage socially critical slams - to encourage the recitation of slams from the head, - to encourage the recitation of slams from the heart, - to encourage the portrayal of love and sexual themes in slams in a human rights and environmental context, - to help slammer as a slam writing workshop, - to encourage the avoidance of fashionable but misguided platitudes and self-pity, and to encourage deepening and challenging of slams, - to refresh the courage of thought to question the truth of language and of one's own ideas, - to be conservative and libertarian, faithful to the traditions to be preserved, such as the first of the 12 points of the 48', to reconcile the values of liberal, liberal, equal opportunities and green values, - to show that slam in Hungarian is naturally all-Hungarian, - to link the search for knowledge through slam with scientific research, - to inspire scientific research, - to contribute to the understanding and promotion of the results of scientific research, - promoting meaningful collaboration between slammers, poets, writers, actors, dancers, painters, graphic designers and other artists, researchers and public representatives, - cooperating with other civil society organisations and with slammers, researchers and public representatives from other languages.
The FSA editorial team:
Founder and Editor-in-Chief: Péter Molnár, European Champion Slammer
Music contributors: Dávid Pető, Olgae, Emese Tóth & Petra Kóródi (Sárkánygarbó), Albert Orgon, István Szilvási, Franciska Fábián
FSA painting by Dániel Gantner
FSA logo: Péter Morvai
Video by Péter Favics, Norbert Kis, Dash Khatami Photo by Anita Beatrix Seybold, Péter Favics, Győző Horváth
Supporting members of the editorial team: Kristóf Horváth Actor Bob, Péter Závada
