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 The Mic Melter Series is an ongoing montage of artistic expression featuring Spoken Word Poets with reputable performance backgrounds from around the world (ranging from HBO’s, Def Poetry Jam, BET, TV One, and World Slam Championships).
These poets labeled with the term “Mic Melter”, have been carefully scouted according to National appeal and direct affiliation with Pittsburgh’s own International award winning slam poet and Founder/Artistic Director of L2U, Nathan James
1st Place - $500
(Video footage of the 1st place winner will appear on the L2U MySpace Page)
2nd Place - $250
3rd Place - $125
FIRST 20 SLAM POETS ONLY
SIGN UP BEGINS AT 6:15 PM
Amir Sulaiman is an accomplished poet, activist, recording artist and a 2 time HBO Def Poet. Host and performer for national Breed Love Odyssey Tour with Mos Def and Talib Kweli and special guest on KRS-ONES Hip Hop Lives Tour there is a steady but ever increasing buzz building around Amir quickly gaining the attention of everyone from Kanye West and Russell Simmons (who referred to Amir as "blessed"), to Dave Chapelle. In addition, organizations such as the ACLU, Amnesty International and Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition have used Amir's poetry and voice to bring life to multiple campaigns dealing with social justice and art.
His growing popularity garnered him a record deal with UPRISING Records, the label that delivered the hugely successful multi-platinum band, Fall Out Boy. His national debut album, Like a Thief in the Night, has been released nation wide to critical acclaim. More info on Amir Sulaiman on his official site. www.amirsulaiman.com
$10 AT THE DOOR
$8 WITH NEW OR USED SCHOOL SUPPLIES
*Competing Poet's info:
-The Slam will consist of "only" the first twenty poets to sign up
-Poets "WILL NOT" be censored
-There will be three elimination rounds. Poets should be prepared to recite three poems.
-Poems may not exceed a time limit of Three minutes with a 10 second grace period.
-Poets over the time limit will be penalizied for every 30 seconds over the time.
RULES
1. No music, props, or costume of any kind
2. No Group pieces
3. All poems must be the performing Poet's original work
(Breaking any of these rules will lead to "Disqualification")
FIRST 20 SLAM POETS ONLY
SIGN UP BEGINS AT 6:15 PM
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About Learning 2 Unlearn
Learning 2 Unlearn Entertainment was founded in October of 2005 by Nathan James, for the purpose of creating a platform for solo performers around the globe to create revenue and showcase their talents. It started out as the title and concept around his debut Spoken Word CD, “Learning 2 Unlearn”. The name itself is inspired by Carter G. Woodson’s legendary novel, “The Miseducation of the Negro”. This text along with many others supports Nathan’s theory that the African/American needs to educate his/herself as to exactly what they have been taught to know as fact from pre-school throughout Academia. When held up to the light, you find that the majority of education as we know it has not been education at all, it is “Training”. Training is the development or maintaining of one’s skill, whereas Education is the aquiring of knowledge or to be made aware. Therefore, to be educated, is to know the “Truth”. If we are consistently taught false history, the heroing of men who have committed some of the most notorious crimes in the history of man, inaccurate origins of philosophy, math, and sciences; can we really say that we are learning the truth. If the truth has not been embedded in you, then you can you say that you have indeed been educated? Often times in institutions we are simply taught to memorize and regurgitate enormous amounts of information, and rarely are we taught to question whether or not the information in these texts are historically authentic. When one seeks to “Learn” to “Unlearn”, they embrace their need to ask themselves if they have been trained or educated.
NEED MORE INFO? VISIT THE SITE!
Visit L2U's MySpace Page and get more and videos of Nathan James!
Congrats to "DR. GODDESS" .......1st place winner of the MIC MELTER SLAM....and opening act for the MIC MELTER SERIES!
www.myspace.com/learning2unlearn
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