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Did
you know Oakland, CA has more artists & performers per capita of any
city in the U.S. west of Brooklyn, NY? Yup, it's true. |
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Berkeley
Poetry Slam Compilation: CD
is now available! Click here to find out where! This CD features 10 of the finest poets to come out of the Berkeley Slam 2000 season! Bamuthi (SeeKing): Slammaster of Second Sundays (The Justice League, SF), founder of The Living Word Project, YouthSpeaks activist, national slam champion! Ariana Waynes: Berkeley's own! A national slam champion, award winner, appeared on 60 Minutes, national & collegiate slam champion! Bucky Sinister: former emcee at the Chameleon, comic and literary genius, now a Berkeley favorite! Shailja Patel: local slam champ, literary award winning poet! Michael Cirelli: local and national champ, mindblowing talent! Marcus Rene Van: local champ, emcee of Spoken Elements! Charles Ellik: emcee of Berkeley, slam champ, and former emcee of numerous slams! Nazelah Jamison: emcee of Berkeley and SF's Strictly Slam, local and national champ! Jamie Kennedy: slammaster of Oakland's Tourettes without Regrets, local and national champ! Sonia Whittle: emcee of Oakland's Where Words Sustain Us, local and national champ! All these poets got their start in slam at Berkeley - right at the Starry Plough! This
CD is sponsored in part The
Starry Plough is located at 3101 Shattuck Avenue (near Ashby BART).
The
Berkeley Slam (Wednesdays at The Starry Plough, Berkeley) In Berkeley: Amoeba
Records (Telegraph Ave) In Oakland: Rockridge
Branch Library (other branches in Oakland & Berkeley coming
soon!) In San Francisco: Amoeba
Records (Haight Street) On the web: |
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