Where:
OBERON
2 Arrow St
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
$10-15
Categories:
Performing Arts
Event website:
https://americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/fourth-annual-grudge-match-poetry-slam
This year’s National Poetry Month is too big to be contained! Come kick off your April early with the fourth annual Grudge Match Poetry Slam at OBERON, where The House Slam at The Haley House Bakery Cafe and the Boston Poetry Slam go head-to-head for literary supremacy.
Captains Porsha O. (House Slam) and Simone Beaubien (Boston Poetry Slam) will lead their teams into a seven-round slamstravaganza, featuring ALL NEW POEMS on topics selected by the Captains.
Opening performers will include heart-of-gold queer and trans songmaker Anjimile and perennially lauded favorite and super-smart Boston comic Wes Hazard. The show will be hosted by Grudge Match regular and Mass LEAP Managing Director Alex Charalambides.
Our all-star no-holds-barred American-Idol-style judges will include notable poetry persons Justice Ameer Gaines, Princess Moon, Olivia Gatwood, and Adobo-Fish-Sauce.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
* 6:30PM: Doors open in time for custom cocktails;
* 7:00PM: Opening artists;
* 7:30PM: Poetry slam!
* 9:30PM: DJ Cliff Notez until close
PAIRINGS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED!
SACRIFICE: Capt. Simone Beaubien (BPS) vs Capt. Porsha Rashidaat J. Olayiwola (House)
Brandon Anthony Melendez vs Angelica Maria Aguilera
Bobby Crawford vs Jalem Towler
Rebecca Lynn vs JR Mahung
Mckendy Fils-Aimé vs Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah
Myles Em Taylor vs Claudia Wilson
April March Penn vs Kaleigh O'Keefe
Neiel Israel vs Sam Rush
Tickets are $10/$12/$15 and WILL SELL OUT (again), so please see above for the advance ticketing link! All proceeds will support the two slams' trips to the 2018 National Poetry Slam in Chicago.
Thanks to Emily Carroll for our banner graphic, and to Marshall Goff Photography and Rich Beaubien for our press photos.
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