Come and express yourself!
Marc Smith is credited with starting slam poetry at the Get Me High Lounge in Chicago in November 1984. Slam started in France in the 90s.
Slam poetry consists of reading or reciting original work, it usually takes place in bars, but slam has now spread to very different types of places: art galleries, libraries, festivals and even on the streets.
Slam Poetry workshops creates a place where people express themselves by using words differently than in the everyday language, it stimulates creativity and brings a great variety of people together.
An interesting aspect of slam performances is that audience members become part of each poem’s presence, breaking down the barriers between poet/performer, critic, and audience. Furthermore, each artist becomes audience once he or she leaves the stage, conversely, audience become artists once they take the mike.
Slam also adapts to all languages. French, Chinese, English find their place; having one thing in common, freedom of speech.
French Slammers Ndje (Gérard Mendy), Ella Dilafé (Anne Cheneau), Leonor Aublin and Hong Kong Slammer MC Yan will animate this evening of Slam Poetry.
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