Hammer & Tongue Cambridge
This event on 6th October 2017 at 19:30 has past.
This event series is no longer running. It last took place on 1st June 2018 at 19:30.
Open Mic Event
Contact: cambridge@hammerandtongue.com
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Time for the next open round of the Cambridge Hammer & Tongue 2017-18 season... Spoken word artistry and competitive fervour. What more could you want?
This is your chance to become part of the spoken word slam brilliance that has graced this here fair city since 2009, in the warm and wonderful surroundings of fabulous venue Cambridge Junction. Sign up as one of the eight to compete for a place in the Regional Final next September, become a judge, or just dive in and soak up the atmosphere and talent on display.
Hosted by Fay Roberts, a Cambridge-based poet, musician, and unrepentant geek.
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Fancy Slamming?
The rules for H&T slams are as follows:
Slammers are chosen at random from the sign-up list to perform – spoken word only, no music, no props. Each competitor has 3 minutes from the time they start talking on the mic. After 10 seconds’ grace period, they start losing points (1 point for every 10 seconds!). At the end, they’re given points out of 10 by 5 judges chosen from the audience, while the top and bottom scores are removed to ensure fairness. The slammer gets a score out of 30, and the competition moves on.
The winner of that evening’s competition goes through to the Regional Final (the Cambridge one tends to be held in September), and the winner (and runner-up) of the Regional Final goes through to the National Final. The winner of the National Final gets crowned H&T National Slam Champion."
6th October 2017 at 19:30
Tickets from http://bit.ly/htcjoct17
Sally Jenkinson is a poet, writer and performer who lives in the Forest of Dean, but grew up in Doncaster (South Yorkshire), where they say poem like this: ‘poym’.
She has published two short collections ('Boys', 2016 and 'Sweat-borne Secrets', 2012) with Burning Eye Books, and her new book 'Like The Water' is definitely forthcoming sometime soon-ish (watch this space!). She also facilitates sensory workshops for people with PMLD (profound and multiple learning disabilites) and is working on a sensory poetry project specifically for PMLD audiences.
She writes mostly about feelings and families and trees and grief and sex and magic and water. If all goes to plan then on this tour she will be peddling a hot-off-the-press freshly homemade zine 'If The Divine Is In You Then The Divine Is In Everyone'.
To find out more, visit https://sallyjenkinson.wordpress.com/
Amber-Page writes deeply personal poems about mental health, growing up and relationships, with the odd bit of Old English or scouse slang thrown in. She is the Cambridge Hammer and Tongue Runner Up for 2017.
Price: £7.50. (£7.50 (Full Cost); £6 (Concessions); £4 (Slammers); more on the door)
Time: 7:30pm (Doors 19:15)
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