"we should set ourselves free at last" #24 slam poetry night with Krisztina Tóth and the Penman Society
This Underground Slam Academy (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071202865371) event is the 24th part of a series, with the title "We should set ourselves free at last", a line from Homeland, a poem by Attila József. Slams can connect to this theme in any way. Anyone can sign up for the competition in a post in this event, though slams must be performed by heart, no reading. If a slam is longer than 3 minutes and 15 seconds (the timer will be projected), the jury will consider it in its evaluation. Slams can be performed in any language, at least with a summary in English. The competition will start at 8 PM, the names will be pulled out from a hat and announced without comments, with short live music between the slams. The jury will provide comments at 10 PM, including for those 6 slammers whom the jury gave the first 6 places, rewarded by a book, or bottle of wine of their choice. The jury will include wonderful artists, scholars and audience members.
Schedule
The programme for the evening:
7:30 Arrival
7:45 Olgae & Pető Dávid
8: Slam competition (without presentation, before and after the slams with short hand pan improvisations by Pető Dávid)
9:30 Break
9:45 Non-competitive (readable) slams
10:00 The jury will comment on the slams, including the first 6 winners and the special prize winner.
Videos of the slams recited at the evenings of the series and photos of the evenings are all available 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, 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; Musical contributors: Dávid Pető, Olgae, Soma Nagy, Emese Tóth & Petra Kóródi (Sárkánygarbó), Albert Orgon, István Szilvási, Franciska Fábián; Video: Favics Péter; Photo: Seybold Anita Beatrix, Favics Péter; FSA painting: Gantner Dániel; FSA logo: Morvai Péter; Supporting members of the editorial staff.
