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Hammer & Tongue Cambridge ft. Vanessa Kisuule and Tina Sederholm
5th May 2017 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Tickets from http://bit.ly/htcjmay17
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.
Headliner: Vanessa Kisuule
Support: Tina Sederholm
Vanessa Kisuule is a writer, performer, burlesque artist and general empress of blag based in Bristol. She has won over ten slam titles including The Roundhouse Slam 2014, Hammer and Tongue National Slam 2014 and the Nuoryican Poetry Slam. She has been featured on BBC iPlayer, Radio 1, and Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, The Guardian, Blue Peter, Sky TV, Don’t Flop and TEDx. She has performed up and down the country and internationally at Glastonbury, Vienna, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Bangladesh and New York. Her debut poetry collection ‘Joyriding The Storm’ was published in 2014.
To find out more, go to https://www.vanessakisuule.com/
Tina is a sporadic idealist, reluctant feminist and recovering perfectionist. A multiple poetry slam winner, she has taken three one-woman shows to the Edinburgh Fringe, which all received 4 and 5 star reviews. She has been described as ‘Completely spellbinding’ ***** (edfringereview.com), ‘Satirical yet life-affirming’ (David Olsen, winner Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award), and: ‘A poet and performer of exceptional prowess’ (dailyinfo.co.uk)
She is currently the co-host of Hammer & Tongue Oxford, and her forthcoming collection ‘Everything Wrong With You Is Beautiful’ will be published by Burning Eye Books in May 2017. http://www.tinasederholm.com
Our sacrificial slammer will be last month’s winner: Nathan Smith.
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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