Duo Slam

at 804 Old Fayetteville St, Durham , 27707 United States

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The Dynamic DuoSlam is a 2-day Poetry Slam Festival

Description

The Dyna-Mic Duoslam is a two-day event of poetry, workshops and special events. Being held May 4th and 5th, 2012 in this year’s host city Durham, NC, The Bull City! The DuoSlam is centered around the main event The Dyna-Mic DuoSlam held at The Historic Hayti Center. The two-day event will combine the intensity of spokenword slam with community-oriented events and a family atmosphere you can only find amongst poets. The competition will be more intense, because you will have the opportunity to see poets who may have been on the same slam team competing against each other. We go harder against family but still love them in the end, and with $800.00 in cash prizes…well lets just say there are more than bragging rights at stake. On Friday, May 4th (May 3rd if you are lucky enough to make it out to the Jumpoff open mic) 20 teams comprised of the hottest, fire spitting, mind blowing, socially conscious, hardest partying poets in the nation will once again descend upon The Bull City and Go In! Will you be there?

How To Get to Duo Slam

Bus # 8 and #5

Specialities

Price category

$$ (10-30)

General Info

2) Each poet must perform work that he or she has created. 3) No props (Prop: An object or article of clothing introduced into a performance with the effect of enhancing, illustrating, underscoring, or otherwise augmenting the words of the poem) No performance should last longer than three minutes. The time begins when the performance begins, which may well be before the first utterance is made. A poet is certainly allowed several full seconds to adjust the microphone and get settled and ready, but as soon as she or he makes a connection with the audience (“Hey look, she’s been standing there for 10 seconds and hasn’t even moved”), the timekeeper can start the clock. The poet does not have an unlimited amount of “mime time.” Poets with ambiguous beginnings and endings to their performances should seek out the timekeeper at each venue to settle on a starting and ending time. After three minutes, there is a 10-second grace period (up to and including 3:10.00). Starting at 3:10.01, a penalty is automatically deducted from each poet’s overall score according to the following schedule: 3:10 and under – no penalty 3:10.01 – 3:20 -0.5 3:20.01 – 3:30 -1.0 3:30.01 – 3:40 -1.5 3:40.01 – 3:50 -2.0 and so on [-0.5 for every 10 sec] The judges will give each poem a score from 0 to 10, with 10 being the highest or “perfect” score. They will be encouraged to use one decimal place to preclude the likelihood of a tie. Each poem will get five scores. The high and the low scores will be dropped and the remaining three scores will be added together. The emcee will announce to the audience each poet’s name and where the poet is from. He or she will also require that all judges hold their scores up at the same time and that no judge changes his score after it is up. He or she is expected to move the show along quickly and keep the audience engaged and interested in the competition. Since he or she must be completely impartial, any witty banter directed at individual poets, poems, or scores is inappropriate. Even genuine enthusiasm has to be carefully directed. The safest thing to do is encourage the audience members to express their own opinions. The most important rule is to have fun! Former Asheville, N.C. Slam-master Allan Wolf coined the phrase, “The points are not the point; the point is poetry.” The Dyna-Mic DuoSlam Additions: All above rules apply. Each team will be comprised of no more than 3 members and no less than 2. There must be 2 and only 2 team members per performance (if third member interacts at all even adjusting the mics team will be disqualified). Poems may Not be repeated in the Final Round! You will need to have 8 original poems to win. The format will be Preliminary bouts: 5 teams x 4 poems per team Final bout: 4 teams x 4 poems per team

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570 FB users likes Duo Slam, set it to 62 position in Likes Rating for Durham, North Carolina in Local Business category

Summary

Duo Slam is Durham based place and this enity listed in Local Business category. Located at 804 Old Fayetteville St NC 27707.