The Uptown Poetry Slam
Sunday, September 9 | Green Mill | 7pm - 10pm
Buddy Wakefield
From New Orleans via Evanston, it's the fabulous performace poet Chuck Perkins celebrating his new CD release. JW Basilo will be hosting the show while Marc is in France.
Open Slam. Read or recite your poem and maybe win $10. WOW!
The Uptown Poetry Slam
Sunday, September 16 | Green Mill | 7pm - 10pm
Chuck Perkins
From New Orleans via Evanston, it's the fabulous performace poet Chuck Perkins celebrating his new CD release. JW Basilo will be hosting the show while Marc is in France.
Open Slam. Read or recite your poem and maybe win $10. WOW!
The Encyclopedia Show
Wednesday, September 25 | Vittum Theatre | 7:30pm
Brought to you from the minds of poets and producers Robbie Q. Telfer and Shanny Jean Maney, The Encyclopedia Show is a live variety extravaganza that commissions local and touring artists and experts from many disciplines to use their individual talents to present a different verbal encyclopedia entery each month. The Encyclopedia Show endeavors to build an age-integrated community cultivating accidental knowledge and irreverent lovingkindness. Though the show is accredited by the Institute of Human Knowledge and Hygiene, it is our ongoing mission to chafe against logic and proof, find meaning in obfuscation, and wrest the truth from fact once and for all.
In Any Tongue
Wednesday, July 21 | Ravel Theatre | 7:30pm
Sprechen sie Deutsch? If you speak German don't miss this celebration of Germany's impressive and inspiring slam poetry movement. You don't speak German? Even better! You'll witness how universal Slam Poetry is In Any Tongue. Germany's best slammers will collaborate with Chicago's Speak Easy Ensemble to translate, interpret, and choreograph each other's work building a stunning tableau of verse presnted simultaneously in English and German. This new style of performance will leave you speechless!