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Hammer & Tongue Cambridge ft. Keith Jarrett and Jack Bateman
4th November 2016 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Tickets from http://bit.ly/htcjnov16
Time for the next open round of the Cambridge Hammer & Tongue 2016-17 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.
Former UK and international slam champion Keith Jarrett writes poetry and short fiction. He was one of the pioneering Spoken Word Educators, teaching as poet-in-residence at secondary schools in London. Keith’s debut pamphlet, I Speak Home, was published last year. He was awarded a PhD studentship at Birkbeck university, where he is now researching cultural and religious history and completing his first novel.
To find out more, visit http://www.zoneonetosix.blogspot.com
Jack Bateman loves creating poetry/performance and exploring identity, gender and sexuality. He has a habit of exploding over the stage – using the space, his body and his words to create an event with out of each poem! His poems take on a life of their own on stage, Some are crazy and camp and others take a more serious tone, but guaranteed is the full force of energy with which he performs them! https://iamjackbateman.wordpress.com/
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.
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