"we should et ourselves free at last" #19 off the top of the head slam poetry night by Underground Slam Academy and vErST
You are cordially invited to the 19th open-round, free slam literature workshop of the Underground Slam Academy (FSA https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071202865371) on Tuesday, 3 December at 7:30 pm at Gödör (Király utca 50.), entitled "You should get out already", which will again be a competition of off-the-cuff slams, this time as a joint evening with vErST. (Scroll down for English.) For the series, we also recommend the interviews with Krisztina Hompola and Júlia Váradi, and the English-language article by Tímea Sípos and Péter Molnár:
https://nepszava.hu/3252319_most-megint-van-remenykedes
https://www.klubradio.hu/.../cafe-pentek-2024-oktober-04...
https://hlo.hu/.../the-underground-slam-academy-performs...
Please also let your friends know about this Facebook event, where you can enter the competition by writing a post.
As always, this time you can only enter a slamming competition by heart, 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.
President of the jury: Jonatán Herczeg
Members of the jury:
Music by Olgae, Pető Dávid
vErST open mic host: Bence Sárközi
FSA logo: Péter Morvai
Director: Péter Molnár
You can enter the slam competition 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 poetry, 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.
At the Underground Slam Academy workshop, during the results announcement, the jury president and members of the jury 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.
Schedule
The programme for the evening:
7:30 Arrival
8 Music: Olgae, Pető Dávid
8:15 Slam competition (without presentation, before and after the slams with short hand pan improvisations by Dávid Pető)
9:30 Break
9:45 vErST open mic - non-competitive (readable) slams
10:15 The jury will comment on the slams, including the first 6 runners-up and the special prize winner.
The videos of the slams recited at the evenings of the series and the photos taken at 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's Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/underground_slam_academy...
The aim of the Underground Slam Academy is: - 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, 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.