Events

Wednesday  01/20/10  6pm-8pm Sacrificial Poets Open Mic The Sacrificial Poets and Flyleaf Books are teaming up to provide a community wide open mic every 1st and 3rd Wednesday night. Come share or listen to poems, prose, songs, or any other personal expression with an audience of open minds and ears. This event is open to contributors of all ages.   The Sacrificial Poets are North Carolina’s only youth Performance Poetry Team, composed of youth ages 13-19 from the Chapel Hill-Durham area. The students are chosen in a local competition (Slam) and required to attend practices, workshops, and local community performances. Now in their fifth year, they teach how to work effectively in a team environment; learn to effectively express themselves through poetry and performance; learn how to become community opinion leaders and change makers in the community.  Sacrificial Poets recently formed a partnership with the St. Josephs Historic Foundation/Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, and with these partners are striving to make Sacrificial Poets summer camps and after school programs a reality in 2010.   Last year the new 2009 team reached the semi-finals at Youth Speaks Brave New Voices in Chicago and placed top eight out of fifty plus teams from around the globe. While at BNV, Sacrificial Poets members G Yamazawa and Jake Jacoby were featured in the Youth Speaks annual Speak Green competition. While this success demonstrates the caliber of our youth poets, the true measure of our accomplishments lies in their fundamental growth as human beings. Their achievements both on and off the stage demonstrate the power of poetry as a tool for personal development and social change.