Monday, August 16, 2010

FAMILY STYLE!!! FRI, AUGUST 20 @ AAI, 7:30pm

Family Style
Open Mic Series
Third Fridays of the month:
Friday, August 20, 7:30 p.m. - BUY TICKETS NOW!
(Doors open at 7 p.m.)
$5-10 sliding scale admission


Want to perform at the open mic?
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(Advance sign-up is strongly recommended!)

August's open mic features REGIE CABICO and the theme "SPICY MEAT SAUCE: Sultry End-of-Summer Fling Stories."



 Photography by Les Talusan


REGIE CABICO is a poet and spoken word pioneer, having won the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam in 1993, taking top prizes in the 1993, 1994, and 1997 National Poetry Slams, and appearing in two seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam with Russell Simmons.  His work has been published in over 50 anthologies, including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Spoken Word Revolution, and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry.  Among multiple awards and fellowships, Cabico won the 2006 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers; other recipients include Arthur Miller, Stephen King, and Barbara Kingsolver.  He currently serves as Artistic Director of Sol & Soul, and arts and activist organization in Washington, D.C.

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Hope to see you there!


Love,
Michelle