Welcome to the home for Anthology's 2008 Voices of Youth Program.
The First Preliminaries have been scheduled! If you are interested in slamming at any of the Teen Preliminaries below, make sure to fill out the spot reservation form.
Again this year, Anthology is proud to have Bookmans Entertainment Exchange as a sponsor!
Preliminary Schedule:
The Festival starts with a series of preliminary slams across Phoenix and The Valley at various libraries, coffeehouses and elsewhere.. In order to reach the finals on April 26th, Teens will need to participate in one of these preliminaries.
The top 2 teens in each preliminary will be invited to the Finals...
Saturday, April 5th, 1PM
Chandler
Downtown Branch,
22 S Deleware St.
Wednesday, April 9th 4PM
Perry Branch Library (Gilbert)
1965 E. Queen Creek Rd.
Gilbert, AZ
Saturday, April 12th 1PM (3 shows)
Mesa
Main Library
64 E 1st St.
Fair Trade Cafe (Phoenix) 1PM
1020 N 1st Ave., Phoenix
A Shot of Java (Glendale) 1PM
7003 N 58th Ave, Glendale
Saturday, April 19th 2PM (3 shows)
Florence Brinton Litchfield Library
101 W. Wigwam Blvd.
Litchfield Park
Essenza Coffeehouse (Mesa) 1PM
1350 S Longmore, Mesa
Chyro Arts Venue (Scottsdale) 1PM
1330 N Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale
Saturday, April 26th- The Finals!
Bookmans Phoenix
8034 N. 19th Ave.
Phoenix, AZ 85021
1pm-3pm
Prizes:
Each preliminary winner will receive $25 in Bookman's Trade Credit. The Finals winner will receive $100 in credit. Additional prizes as will be given as available.
General Notes
* All events, including the finals. will be free and open to the public.
* Anthology, Inc. will serve as host and organizer of the event, with an Anthology representative onhand to coordinate the event.
* Poets are encoraged to invite friends, family and others to come and support them, and share in their expression.
The 2008 VOY event will have two components to it.
The Preliminary Slams
Interested poets should look to sign up for one of the preliminary events at one of the participating libraries (schedule here).
* Each of these events is a poetry slam of up to 15 poets.
* Each poet should have 3 original poems prepared.
* Their time limit for reading each poem is 3 minutes.
* Five members of the audience, chosen at random, will score each performance 1-10 (higher is better). Of the five scores, the lowest and the highest scores are dropped, and the three remaining scores are added together to compose that poet's score for that round.
* After the third round, the poet with the highest cumulative score is declared the winner.
The Finals
The top finishers from each of the preliminary events are invited to the Finals, to be held April 26th, 2008 at Bookman's Entertainment Exchange in Phoenix. This finals event will be the same format as the preliminary shows.
Poets may repeat their poems from the preliminary events to the Finals.
REGISTRATION (click here)
You can reserve a spot in any of the preliminary events by filling out the form folloing the link. Spaces are limited at each preliminary, so the faster you reserve yours, the better.
Informational Packets:
Please feel free to download these informational packets, one for teens that are reading, and one for Parents, Teachers
Particapant's Packet:
This is the information for teens that would like to participate in the Festival.
Teacher/Parent Packet:
This is the information for teachers and parents about the festival, and poetry slam in general. Learn how to run your own slam, or find additional rescources for Poetry Slam.