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SUNDAYS-
Every Sunday night at the MERCURY CAFE, the slam starts at 9 pm. This event is all ages, free and open to the public, though a $5 donation is suggested. The Second Sundays of each month are hosted by Denver Minor Disturbance Youth Slam Team, competing poets range in age from 12 - 19 years old. Each slam includes a cash prize to the winner, and competing poets earn the opportunity to 'slam off' in a chance to represent Denver on a national scale. For more information, visit www.mercurycafe.com or www.minordisturbance.org
MONDAYS-
SLAM NUBA is held the first and last Monday of every month. Writing workshop starts at 6:30 p.m., $5. Doors & sign-up for the slam and open mic are at 7:30 p.m., the open mic kicks off at 8:00 and the slam starts at 9:00 p.m. Each slam includes a cash prize to the winner, and competing poets earn the opportunity to 'slam off' in a chance to represent Denver on a national scale. Featuring DJ Cavem on the 1s & 2s, Slam Nuba features nationally touring poets and award-winning local artists. $5 cover, all ages. For more information, contact Ayinde Russell or e-mail nuba.slam@gmail.com
TUESDAYS-
ART FROM ASHES hosts a youth poetry (workshop) every Tuesday from 6 - 8 pm at The Spot. This event is focused on writing and sharing transformational poetry, Attendance is free and available to youth (to age 25), and includes a weekly featured artist, snacks & writing supplies provided. For more information, please visit http://www.artfromashes.org/
FREEDOM OF SPEECH is an intimate open mic that is held 1st & 3rd Tuesday of every month at the Gypsy House Cafe (1279 Marion st (the corner of 13th and Marion)), 8 pm. This event is free of charge, but we do ask for donations for the featured poet(s) and their beautiful amazing selves. This event is all ages. Fore more information, contact Lady Speech Sankofa.
WORDS: THE MOVEMENT is held the fourth Tuesday of every month at Fluid Coffee Bar on 19th & Pennsylvania (Uptown). This is a set all about the power words have to move people and be a movement of its own. This is a great venue for poets and musicians, encouraging the blurring of the lines between the different medium. The event is free, but donations are encouraged for the featured poets and musicians. For more information, please contact James Scott or Marion Smallwood.
WEDNESDAYS-
MINOR DISTURBANCE youth open mic happens every Wednesday at Hooked on Colfax, located at Colfax and Steele. It goes from 6 - 8 pm in an intimate and welcoming setting. This is an uncensored mic - though no hate will be tolerated. While this event is youth-focused, there are a limited number of slots available to poets over the age of 19. The features are awesome. All are welcome. Contact denveryouthpoetry@gmail.com for more information.
THE POET AS MUSE is the last Wednesday of every month at 8 pm at the Gypsy House Cafe on 13th & Marion. This is a place for poets to get down on the mic, and for artists to use as a life drawing experience - literally, the Poet as Muse. You can always expect an amazing feature, as well as a hot open mic. All are welcome. Contact Jessica Chernila at stallionsweet@hotmail.com for more information.
COLORADO SPRINGS: Word Wednesdays @ the V-Bar 19 E. Kiowa Colorado Springs, CO. Open Mic night for Acapella and Acoustic performances! 21+ 5 cover for non-performers, but with this cover recieve a ticket for a drink. Great atmosphere, nothing but love, and good people! Hip-Hop cypher at the end of each night, DJ Gravity spinning throughout the eve, and all voices welcome open mic. "Best Open Mic" Colorado Springs Independent *Best of 2011* Gold Winner! https://www.facebook.com/wordwednesdays
FRIDAYS-
~CAFE CULTURA is an award-winning all ages open mic featuring emcees, poets, and artists that happens the 2nd Friday of every month at 7:30 p.m. at Denver Inner City Parish at 9th & Galapago. Contact cafe_cultura@yahoo.com for more information.
~LENNY'S PLACE is held the last Friday of every month at 8 p.m. at the Gypsy House Cafe on 13th & Marion. This is a fun and casual open mic hosted by Lenny "The Professor" Chernila & Dino Delano.
~MERCURY CAFE hosts the longest standing poetry reading Denver with its Open Mic every Friday at 10 pm. Come on out to the Mercury Cafe, located at 2199 California Street in Denver, any Friday night & share your words with a warm & welcoming audience. The reading begins at 10pm & is open & free to the public. Contact Ted Vaca at tedvaca@gmail.com for more information.
SATURDAYS:
COLORADO SPRINGS: Hear Here is an all ages, all welcome workshop and open mic with a feature or two
every second and third Saturday of the month! Workshop: 6-7pm (Hosted by our feature, suggested donation) Open Mic sign up: 7:00-7:30, Open Mic: 7:30-9:00, $5 Cover (no one turned away). Bring your ears, Peers, a candle (to donate to warm our house!), and a homemade fingerfood potluck dish (if you'd like)! BYOB!!! Then Sit, Sip, Stay and Be Satisfied!!!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hear-Here/160245787421012?ref=ts
Special Events:
~CAFE NUBA (It’s Hot & It’s Black!) is an annual showcase rockin’ the mic since 1999 founded by Ashara Ekundayo, Matema Hadi & DJ K-Nee in Denver’s Historic Five Points neighborhood in Denver Colorado. As an urban arts, multi-award-winning microcinema, poetry and music showcase with open mic event, Cafe Nuba features local, national, and international artists and performers, independent films, and live music. For more information, contact Ashara Ekundayo at blublakwomyn@gmail.com
Monday, August 22, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
My Daughter's Essay on Dreams
Her assignment was to write about hobbies - I can't tell you how proud I am of this darling child. I am sharing this with her permission.
Dreaming
I have a very unusual hobby, activity or whatever else you would like to call it - it is dreaming. When you read this, you are probably thinking of images in your sub-conscious as you are sleeping, but my hobby is much simpler. I am referring the kind of dreaming that gets you motivated and makes your heart feel like it has grown larger, the kind that makes people smile and makes billionaires rich. Hoping, dreaming and wishing are usually what people say get you nowhere but if you look closer you see the things that I see, things I see every day that make tears well up in my eyes, you’ll understand. I know things other people do not, if they could just see through the glamour of money and wealth and dream they would know it too.
Most people like reading, writing, or playing sports but dreaming is better than all of them. If you dream, you can make anything happen for you or another person. A dream is what starts everything and anyone can do it. You can dream about sports or even making them better, you can dream about new reading or writing strategies, you can even dream about dreaming if you have to. If you dream, you can make anything happen.
If you have a good idea, you cannot express that in sports all the time or in almost anything else. You can always express your thoughts in dreaming. Dreaming always starts as an idea and then it becomes something bigger and better. No matter what, people will always listen. I get why some people think that only hard work can get you to the top and that dreaming is not work at all, but they are completely wrong. Dreaming is hard work it takes a lot of hard work but in the end, even one smile of gratitude is worth it. Hard work always gets a reward even if it is not money.
A dream can help your neighborhood, city, state or even your country. All of the laws we have now were started by dreams, the declaration of independence was even started by a dream. Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream, a dream that all men and women, boys and girls would be treated equally. He was killed because he had a dream but his idea moved on. Dr. King’s dream was carried out and even when he died, his dream lived on. Even if people do not agree with your dream it still can be carried out.
My point for dreaming is not to benefit myself. My dreaming is made by the idea of others. The dreams I make are controlled by me and yet they control me, I base my life on the ideas I have and the dreams I envision. Some people might say dreaming is worthless but dreaming is the way you get to the top, the way you become billionaires and the way all people live. Everyone has a dream, a vision like when you were a little kid and they asked you what you wanted to be; a dream can be as simple as that. A dream is an idea, a miraculous idea that you think can change everything. A dream is a new way of thinking or living. A dream is everything.
“You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you will join us. And the world will live as one.” - John Lennon.
That's my baby, y'all.
Dreaming
I have a very unusual hobby, activity or whatever else you would like to call it - it is dreaming. When you read this, you are probably thinking of images in your sub-conscious as you are sleeping, but my hobby is much simpler. I am referring the kind of dreaming that gets you motivated and makes your heart feel like it has grown larger, the kind that makes people smile and makes billionaires rich. Hoping, dreaming and wishing are usually what people say get you nowhere but if you look closer you see the things that I see, things I see every day that make tears well up in my eyes, you’ll understand. I know things other people do not, if they could just see through the glamour of money and wealth and dream they would know it too.
Most people like reading, writing, or playing sports but dreaming is better than all of them. If you dream, you can make anything happen for you or another person. A dream is what starts everything and anyone can do it. You can dream about sports or even making them better, you can dream about new reading or writing strategies, you can even dream about dreaming if you have to. If you dream, you can make anything happen.
If you have a good idea, you cannot express that in sports all the time or in almost anything else. You can always express your thoughts in dreaming. Dreaming always starts as an idea and then it becomes something bigger and better. No matter what, people will always listen. I get why some people think that only hard work can get you to the top and that dreaming is not work at all, but they are completely wrong. Dreaming is hard work it takes a lot of hard work but in the end, even one smile of gratitude is worth it. Hard work always gets a reward even if it is not money.
A dream can help your neighborhood, city, state or even your country. All of the laws we have now were started by dreams, the declaration of independence was even started by a dream. Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream, a dream that all men and women, boys and girls would be treated equally. He was killed because he had a dream but his idea moved on. Dr. King’s dream was carried out and even when he died, his dream lived on. Even if people do not agree with your dream it still can be carried out.
My point for dreaming is not to benefit myself. My dreaming is made by the idea of others. The dreams I make are controlled by me and yet they control me, I base my life on the ideas I have and the dreams I envision. Some people might say dreaming is worthless but dreaming is the way you get to the top, the way you become billionaires and the way all people live. Everyone has a dream, a vision like when you were a little kid and they asked you what you wanted to be; a dream can be as simple as that. A dream is an idea, a miraculous idea that you think can change everything. A dream is a new way of thinking or living. A dream is everything.
“You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you will join us. And the world will live as one.” - John Lennon.
That's my baby, y'all.
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