Indie Slam November 23rd!
Abe Becker is featuring, fully ready to rip at the November 23rd Legendary Indie Slam. Abe literally injured himself in the middle of a feature set at the Starry Plough in Berkeley and STILL finished his set. It takes some balls, heart, and real love of the art to fall off a stage, bust up not one but BOTH of your wrists, and still get back up on stage and spit with your whole heart, and Abe Becker is just the kind of incredible cat that can do that. Abe made finals stages twice with the Cal Slam team from 2007-2009, and has been a member of the 2008 and 2009 Berkeley Slam Nationals team, bringing home the gold as Grand Slam Champion for Berkeley in 2008 and 1st place in the team piece competition at NPS 2009. He is one third of Aerosol Love Letter Campaign, a group he formed with Matt Blesse and Terry Taplin, also of Cal Slam. The Campaign is touring the country in the Spring of 2010, spreading the good words to empower poets and activists. He writes like sober drunks pray, and he is perpetually confused and charming. He makes rather LOUD mistakes.
Aside from our kickass feature, we’ve got the man, the myth, the hipster-hoodied wonder Kevin Holmes heading up the writer’s workshop starting at 6:30 in the Cypress Lounge. Whether you’re considering hitting the stage for the first time, you’re an old dog trying to learn some new tricks, or you want some input on your work, he’s got you covered like galoshes. The workshop is an all-welcome forum for free writes, edits, and performance critiques, so show up early if you’re interested in getting a leg up for this and future slams!
Then at 8:00 it’s going to be time for the Legendary Indie Slam! For the first time in our brief history, we will be featuring an open mic segment prior to the slam! All poets should arrive by 7:30 for sign-ups.
The Indie Slam will be held at The Cypress Lounge, located at 120 Union St. in downtown Santa Cruz, just off Cedar St. near the Red. As always entry is $4 at the door, with a $1 discount EACH for groups of FIVE or more, so bring your friends and save some of those precious duckets, me droogies!
