BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! in the Phoenix Pub on Wednesday 16 August

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! WANTS YOU IN THE PHOENIX PUB FOR POETRY SLAM

Yes you read right! BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! wants you in the pub for Poetry Slam!

In August!

Be there for the 1st prizes, the glory, defeat, the barflies, the yelling, cheering, the heckling and poetry!

And because this is poetry slam we have rules! 2 minutes, no props, no music, your original material, all for 1st prizes!

1ST PRIZES

And we have judges, five, from the audience, to judgment the poetry or whatever they feel like judgementing!

JUDGEMENTING

And we have The Master of Conflict who will challenge the poets to conflict!

CONFLICT

Because poetry slam!

POETRY SLAM

And we have feature acts!

FEATURE ACT A: Sierra DeMulder

Sierra DeMulder is an internationally touring performance poet and educator, a two-time US National Poetry Slam champion, and a four-time published author. Her work has been featured by National Public Radio, Huffington Post, Nike, To Write Love On Her Arms, and more. In addition to performing, Sierra is also the curriculum director of the Slam Camp at Indiana University, an annual writing summer camp for high school students, and one of the founders of Button Poetry, the largest digital distributor of spoken word in the world. Her latest full-length collection, Today Means Amen, was released in 2016 by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

FEATURE ACT G: Petre out

Petre Out is folk office punk Canberra.

So join The Master of Conflict, The Score Adder, The Sacrificial Poet, Andrew Gayland, the audience, the poets, the judges, and be the BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! in the Phoenix Pub in the Civic Bus Interchange that you want to be!

Sign up from 7:30pm or when the Score Adder demands it!

Poetry Slam from 8pm!

Victory and/or defeat!

It is all over by 11:30pm!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

The Poetry Slam

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at 730pm on Wednesday 15 February at the Phoenix Pub

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

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YOUR FIRST LAST ONLY AND ALL POETRY SLAM WANTS YOU FOR THE POETRY SLAM

AND TO POETRY SLAM WE PROVIDE STAGE BAR SOUND SOUNDGUY MCS SCORE ADDER SCORE ADDING THE MASTER OF CONFLICT THIS GUY THE SACRIFICAL POET AND FEATURE ACTS AND MICROPHONES

AND BECAUSE THIS IS POETRY SLAM WE HAVE RULES!

2 MINUTES NO PROPS NO MUSIC YOUR ORIGINAL MATERIAL ALL FOR 1ST PRIZES

AND ALL IN THE PHOENIX PUB

OUR FEATURE ACTS

Emily Crocker

Emily grew up in the outer-suburbs of Sydney. She has since found a home in the Wollongong spoken-word community, including performances with Wollongong Writer's Festival and at The Vault Cabaret, Port Kembla. In 2016 she won The Rumble youth slam, and scored the opportunity to feature at the Australian Poetry Slam National Finals. Her work can be found in various Australian journals including Southerly, Verity La, Cordite, and Seizure. Emily habitually picks junk up and pockets it away only to turn it all out a week later asking 'what can I get for this?'.

Pablo Latona

Pablo Latona is a performer and teacher of physical theatre, based in Canberra, Australia. He has performed his unique routines all over the world, including at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, European Juggling Convention, Dublin International Arts Festival, Woodford Folk Festival, World Juggling Day and Adelaide Fringe Festival. Pablo’s professional recognition includes winning the 2005 National Buskers Competition, being shortlisted for Circus Oz, and getting a kiss from Kylie Minoque.

Reuben Ingall

Reuben Ingall grew up in Canberra, and studied computer music and interactive digital media at the Centre for New Media Arts at The Australian National University. He makes music through an array of home-made software patches, iteratively mangling his guitar, voice and other sources to create lonely pop and glitchy, psychedelic soundscapes. His other projects include a radio show, motion-capture 3D-drawing software, recording and mixing bands, and a novelty mashup-DJ act. He has worked on music for installations, theatre, film, and dance.

So join BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! in the Phoenix Pub, East Row, the Civic Bus Interchange for Poetry Slam, 1st prizes and victory!

Sign up from 7:30pm!

Poetry Slam from 8pm!

Victory by 11:30pm!

And remember, 2 minutes, no props, no music, your original material.

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BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! WANTS YOU IN THE PHOENIX PUB FOR POETRY SLAM!

And to do that BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! gives you and anyone else a microphone, 2 minutes, a stage and 1st prizes, all for the chance of victory!

Because BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the poetry slam in the Phoenix Pub!

That is correct, Poetry Slam! Prizes! Phoenix Pub! Victory!

And because we are the poetry slam we give you feature acts!

Luciana Harrison

guitar, ukelele, vocals. you should know Luciana Harrison from Canberra’s alt-pop Pocket Fox. keep out of direct sunlight. water regularly, at least once a day. responds well to singing.

Tahi Atea Kentwell

Tahi Atea has been writing creatively for as long as she can remember. She discovered and fell in love with slam poetry four years ago. She won BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at the National Folk Festival in 2015. Her other passion is dance, which she will be studying at university in 2017.

So join the poets, the audience, the bar staff, the drinkers, the Master of Conflict, the feature acts, Andrew Galan, the Sound Guy, the Score Adder, your best friend, the Sacrificial Poet, your worst enemy, and the passers-by! All for BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at the Phoenix Pub!

Sign up at 7:30pm!

Poetry Slam at 8pm!

Victory by 11:30pm!

And remember no props, no music, 2 minutes, your original material!

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BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! IN THE PHOENIX PUB FOR POETRY AT 7:30PM ON WEDNESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER BE THERE

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! WANTS YOU IN THE PHOENIX PUB FOR POETRY

Yes that’s right! Poetry!

AND TO DO THAT WE GIVE YOU 2 MINUTES ON STAGE WITH NO PROPS NO MUSIC AND YOUR ORIGINAL MATERIAL ALL FOR FIRST PRIZES

Yes that’s right! First Prizes!

Not just one First Prize, but more First Prizes than any other poetry slam that has ever existed, will exist, can exist, does exist or never existed!

And you can write that in your CV!

BECAUSE BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! IS THE POETRY SLAM

And it wants you!

And because it is a poetry slam we have feature acts of poetry!

Two!

YES TWO!

Omar Holmon

Socially random with +33 charm points Omar "Ion" Holmon lives life like Doug Funnie and believes he'd be the only Jedi whose lightsaber would match his chuck taylors. When not imagining himself in anime fight scenes or working to make the world more abnormal he spends his time in slam poetry competitions and talking about his love for otters/pandas. He has represented New Jersey (Loserslam) and New York (Nuyorican & Urbana) at the National Poetry Slam. He has also been on Ted X, Button Poetry, Verses and Flow and even a commercial for Laphroaig whiskey.

Scott Wings

Scott Wings is one of Australia’s foremost performance poets, winner of the Performance Poetry World Cup, a multi-slam champion, rapper, comedian, performer and writer. His one-man show Icarus Falling was a sell-out at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014, receiving five 5-star reviews plus a Total Theatre Award Nomination for Best Emerging Artist. Icarus Falling has shown at Crack Theatre Festival and at the Brisbane Powerhouse. You can find Scott hosting Ruckus Slam, training with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre Company, or on the road performing and facilitating writing and performance workshops. His most recent shows are Colossi and The Idea.

So join BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!, The Master of Conflict, The Score Adder, The Sacrificial Poet and all the feature acts in the Phoenix Pub for BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!!

BRING YOU, BRING WORDS, BRING YOUR FAVOURITE CAR.

And remember 2 minutes, no music, no props, your original material- unless you’re a rebel rule-breaker for whom rules mean nothing and we love you.

7:30PM SIGN UP

8PM SLAM START

11:30PM SLAM END

Wed. 19 August, the Poetry Slam in the Phoenix Pub, 7:30pm

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! On stage! In the audience!

At the bar! In the Toilets! In the Phoenix Pub!

Bring words for the Poetry Slam!

This month we feature Ryan Schipper

& the Blue Angel and Dr Wiedemann.

Ryan Schipper

Ryan Schipper is the rotten lettuce at the back of Canberra's poetry refrigerator. While you survey half-jars of marmalade and leaking takeaway containers, Skip guards the final beer with an ascetic pestilence. Like all fridgethings, he is repulsive, but ultimately, fascinating.

The Blue Angel and Dr Wiedemann

Arc back in time as the Blue Angel and Dr Wiedemann bring you the musty era of Weimar on a battered silver tray. Lightly philosophical and yet comical the Blue Angel and Dr Wiedemann are happy under the spot light singing and playing their original songs as well as sharing stories from another world. The Blue Angel and Dr Wiedemann are somewhat ethereal characters influenced by their own bygone ghostly past.

Two minutes! No props! No music! Your original material! The Phoenix Pub! 1st Prizes!

7:30pm is the sign-up! Poetry Slam at 8pm!

Join the Master of Conflict, The Score Adder, Andrew Gayland and the Sacrificial Poet for Poetry!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! - Wednesday 15 July, 7:30pm @ The Phoenix

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! IN THE PHOENIX PUB

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the Poetry Slam, that means you get 2 minutes on stage with no props or music with your original material for prizes! 1st prizes!

And victory!

Or defeat

tragic - tragic defeat.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the Poetry Slam, that means you the audience with your yelling arms, your yelling legs, your yelling heads, all for victory!

Or defeat

tragic - tragic defeat.

And this month it is open season on the Australian Poetry Slam, which means BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the heat one for the Australian Poetry Slam, yes, who will go through as victors to face more victors in a battle to decide who will be more victors, yes victors!?

Defeat! Victory! Poetry!

And we have feature acts!

Reuben Ingall

‘Reuben Ingall is a music-maker from Canberra, Australia. Born in 1986, Ingall began self-releasing music in 2003. He has produced music in a wide range of styles, from soundscapes to glitch beats to what he terms ‘sad pop’, often using guitar, voice, and field recordings as a starting point for iterative digital manipulation.’

Angela Peita

‘Angela Peita is a Brisbane based spoken word artist, workshop facilitator, producer and co-host of Ruckus Slam. She is a Queensland Poetry Slam finalist, two-time Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup semi-finalist, and Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival Slam 2013 people’s choice award winner. Angela has performed at events across Brisbane and the east coast of Australia. 2015 began with Angela’s debut at Woodford Folk Festival performing at several programmed events.’

And filling the Hadley Memorial Slots is Canberra's answer to William Shatner! The Flying V (aka Vermilion Sands aka Varisht Gosain).

So join BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! for poetry! Sign-up from 7:30pm or when the Score Adder says sign-up! Poetry slam at 8pm! It all ends at 11:30pm! And remember: no props, no music, your original material, victory, defeat, wear shoes.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! in June

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! gives you 2 minutes on stage with your original material, no props and no music for prizes!

Because BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the Poetry Slam!

And BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! wants your words in the audience, at the bar, on the street with a cigarette, in the toilet with rolls or those little bits of paper and most importantly or least importantly we want your words on stage!

So we provide Audience, MCs, Judges, The Master of Conflict, Lights, Poets, Arms, Sounds, Legs, Prizes, Seats, Yelling, Bar, Stage, EP Launch, Poetry, The Score Adder, Benches, Murmuring, Meh-ing, Toilets, Floor, Feature Acts and Heckling and Cheering, and Scoring from 10 to Negative Infinity.

All for the glory of poetry, or you, or the first prizes, or going to the bar.

And this month’s feature acts are!

Charles J Quinn

“A thirty year old, chronically ill, genderqueer Charles J Quinn, decided to perform at every BAD!SLAM! for a year. They did and they were good, then awful, then okayish, then awful, and so continued until a few years later they had become the uniquely good and awful poet they are today. Charles J Quinn also enjoys daydreaming about marrying Data from Star Trek TNG and never updating their blog.”

And BABYFREEZE launching their EP Forever Together!

For Forever Together BABYFREEZE have roped in esteemed musicians to, “slather the lean arrangements in gold” and these musicians will be joining them to launch their new music.

This is what Handsome Luke has to say of BABYFREEZE.

“We’re…both hams, but in Babyfreeze it manifests in different ways. I stay hunched over my drum machine, dancing and singing to myself, lost in reverie. Nick stares down the audience, performing acrobatics, jumping and lunging across the stage. Meanwhile, I’ve also developed this habit of singing along to all of Nick’s parts – not into a microphone or anything, just for my own benefit. I’m not sure what an audience makes of it, but for me it’s like being in the band and performing karaoke at the same time.”

So join BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at the Phoenix Pub, and remember! No props! No music! your original material! Two minutes! Poetry Slam!

Poets sign-up at 7:30pm, slamming at 8pm, it’s all over by 11:30pm.

The Poetry Slam inside the Phoenix Pub

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BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! for April 2015

The Poetry Slam

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Photograph by Adam Thomas

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! versus FEMINARTSY versus THE FESTIVALS!

IT IS THE TIME WHEN BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! FIGHTS THE YOU ARE HERE AND THIS YEAR YOU ARE HERE BRINGS THE NOTED FESTIVAL!

AND BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! HAS INVITED FEMINARTSY!

And Feminartsy said yes!

IT’LL BE A BLOODBATH.

You no doubt have many questions, here are answers.

FIRST!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the poetry slam, your poetry slam, the poetry slam that gives you a stage, two microphones, many audience, poets, The Master of Conflict, a surprising amount of MCs, sound, scores, with score adding, by The Score Adder, plus a sacrificial poet.

ALL FOR PRIZES AND GLORY AND A CURRICULUM VITAE ENTRY AND DRINKING.

ALL FOR YOUR 2 MINUTES OF POETRY!

Second

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! has teamed up with Feminartsy, Noted and YouAreHere in a grand battle of poetry conflict and word showcasing with bonus mystery act!

Third

PRIZES!

Fourth

BRING YOUR WORDS AND YOU TO BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

Five!

FEATURE ACTS IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER

Representing You Are Here as part of I Hate You for Sentimental Reasons is:

Nicola Lambert!

Bare-knuckle boxing's illegal. Corporal punishment's out of fashion. Project Mayhem came to nothing. What recourse is left to a city in need of improvement but to invite its brightest minds to verbally excoriate its flaws? Throughout You Are Here experts are delivering short, bloody, insight-laden calls to arms.

In this episode first Nicola Lambert, artist and arts facilitator, questions the cultural inclusiveness of the ACT's arts programs!

Don't miss this pointed brutalisation of your beloved capital's shortcomings!

From Feminartsy and Noted we have:

BeigeBrown!

Beige Brown is Australia’s foremost feminist performance poet. Her permutative sound poetry ingests uncertainty into the phallogentric project of mainstream literary culture, exploding the big edifice to spurt many smaller openings. A past honoured guest at Crack & Griffringe, she is highly regarded by discerning members of Australia’s literary cognoscenti.

And there will be an additional surprise guest!

WE WILL TELL YOU NOTHING OF THEM.

So remember, your original material, no props, no music, 2 minutes, judges, judging, yelling, prizes, glory, all in a pub! In the Phoenix Pub, East Row, Civic, the poetry slam.

Want to know more about You Are Here, Noted and/or Feminartsy? Then visit them on the world wide web:

You Are Here

Noted

Feminartsy

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The Poetry Slam in The Phoenix Pub, Canberra

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BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! WEDNESDAY 18 FEBUARY @ THE PHOENIX

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YOU AND BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! IN THE PHOENIX PUB

FOR POETRY!

BECAUSE WE WANT YOU!

TO POET JUDGE CHEER YELL GET DRUNK GET TO THE BATHROOM AND SCORE!

ALL FOR PRIZES!

Because BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! provides a stage sound two MCs The Master of Conflict The Score Adder The Sacrificial Poet five judges two microphones feature acts sound and audience so you can claim victory and call yourself an award winning poet or judge or audience member or toilet goer or something like that. Award winning! NO MORE COMMAS!

Anyway because BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! we provide you with a house band and special feature act!

Fossil Rabbit

‘Fossil Rabbit is the solo project of Chris Finnigan making multi-layered melodies and beats with a guitar, loop and effects pedal. Drawing inspiration from a range of post-rock and lo-fi electronica influences, Chris produces an ambient, beat-driven and atmospheric sound.’

FOSSIL RABBIT ALSO KNOWS COMMAS!

And filling The Hadley Memorial Spots is the Zoe Anderson!

7:30PM TO SIGN UP IN THE PHOENIX PUB TO POETRY SLAM!

8PM IN THE PHOENIX PUB TO START THE POETRY SLAM!

JOIN BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! IN THE PHOENIX PUB!

And remember two minutes no props no music your original material

During the evening BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! will ask you for $5 to pay the feature act and for the running of BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! Pay it if you can but not if you are performing!

Four BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! Flyers

  

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BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! WANTS YOUR WORDS.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the poetry slam that gives you two minutes to perform your words for prizes.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the poetry slam in the Phoenix Pub.

And BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! gives you a stage, microphone, MCs, The Master of Conflict, The Score Adder, The Sound Guy and feature acts all in proximity to a bar and toilets so you can perform, judge, yell, mutter or ignore what is going on while you miss your cat.

Because BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the poetry slam and BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! wants you!

And that means feature act(s) and this month that feature act is Stackhat.

Stackhat

'Stackhat is an absurdly passionate exploration of abstract sound, unadulterated self-expression and raw emotional exhibitionism. Painstakingly crafting his very own unique brand of urban-surrealism, Stackhat composes vast auditory odysseys peppered with schizophrenic samples and avant-garde poetics. Morbidly beautiful, Stackhat is an exercise in dark, enigmatic, sonic contradiction. For those seeking an escape from the usual played out cookie-cutter counter-culture clichés, Stackhat’s infallible punk rock ethos and penchant for genre mashing will leave you feeling slightly disturbed, strangely intrigued and pleasantly bewildered.'

So join BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!, 7:30pm to sign-up, 8pm to poetry slam, all night for drinking, and remember no props, no music, your original words!

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BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! vs The Australian Poetry Slam

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BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! WANTS YOUR WORDS ON STAGE FOR TWO MINUTES WITH NO PROPS OR MUSIC FOR PRIZES.

Because BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the poetry slam and it gives you a stage, two microphones, sound, lights, toilets, audience, judges, two and sometimes three MCs, The Score Adder, The Master of Conflict, feature acts and a bar, all for prizes.

Prizes!

This month we bring you two feature acts.

Feature Act One is Buddy Wakefield, straight from North America to you he brings poetry.

 

This is his MORE ACCURATE BIO:

In the Fall of 1984 Anchor Bay Entertainment released a movie called Children of the Corn while Buddy lived in front of the corn fields near Niagara Falls, NY. This traumatic event (coupled with extensive exposure to Kenny Rogers and Lionel Richie) may or may not have led to Buddy becoming a sensitive poet puss who plays marbles in the trees, listens by talking, and keeps fingers on pulse. HI MOM!

LIONEL RICHIE!

Feature Act Two is Sparkles, BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! knows not from where she hails but she brings SPARKLES.

Sparkles
Photograph by Adam Thomas

This is her MORE ACCURATE BIO:

Sparkles has shocked, delighted and disgusted people since her first appearance as a feature act at Bad!Slam!No!Biscuit! in 2011. Since then she has featured in Comic/Strip, the National Multicultural Fringe Festival, the National Folk Festival and a number of Sass and Tease events.

DISGUSTED!

Sign-up at 7:30pm, poetry slam at 8pm, finished by 11:30pm, join BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at the Phoenix Pub and remember no props, no music and your original material.

Also, this is Heat Two of the Australian Capital Territory Australian Poetry Slam.

And finally, BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is free but until the second half of the Phoenix Pub is re-built we will be requesting donations at some point, give us what you can or can't.