Fundraising event for BCST on 6/7/2010

The Bull City Slam Team (BCST) is fundraising to help cover expenses for summer competition. On June 7th the team will return from regional competition to tape a Live CD. Please come out and be a part of the audience and help add energy to the taping. It will be a perfect chance to hear the poems the team has been working on.

We will also be taking advance orders for the CD which will be released the week of June 14th.

Come out on Monday 6/7...

WOW presents the BCST Live Taping & Fundraiser
Night Life Comedy Club & Lounge
5504 Durham Chapel Hill Rd
Durham, NC
8:30pm

Hosted by Church da Poet

Brought to you by The St. Joseph's Historic Foundaton/Hayti Heritage Center, Black Poetry Theatre, Best Kept Spoken, and Words of Wisdom Open Mic


The Bull City Slam Team (BCST) is the Triangle's regional and national competiting poetry slam team. The BCST has represented the Triangle in competition for the last 5 years. The 2010 team was chosen on April 24th and is preparing for it's 6th summer of competition. The team will be traveling to Knoxville, TN for the Southern Fried Southeastern Regional Poetry Slam June 3-6 (http://www.southernfried2010.com/). The BSCT finished second in this competition last summer when it was held in Durham. The team will be traveling to St. Paul, MN for the National Poetry Slam August 3-7 (http://nps2010.com/).

The cost of traveling to and participating in these competitions can be costly. We need the community's support in making this happen. We are putting in place a fundraising campaign. We are asking for donations to help us cover our expenses for these two trips.

http://bullcityslamteam.eventbrite.com/ to make a donation online

1st Annual Jambalaya Soul Slam Challenge Slam

We had our first ever challenge slam on May 15th. It was held at the Whiting Criminal Justice Building on the campus of North Carolina Central University. This was a new event from the mind of Jambalaya founder and Bull City Slam Team coach Dasan Ahanu.

The event had three rounds with three distinct challenges.

Round one was the "Spit that Heat" round. Each poet performs a poem of their choice. The challenge in this round was not only to win the round but score higher than Bull City Slam Team member Will. If done, the poet would receive $20.

Round two was the "Haiku" round. Each poet shares one haiku. The poet who gets the highest score will then go head to head with Elliot Axiom in a best out of 5 competition. If the poet beats Axiom, then they get $20.

Round three was the "Picture Pages" round. This was a special challenge that wasn't revealed until the poets arrived at the slam.

There was a good turnout for the event including Mr. Tucker from I Define Me (IDM) clothing (http://www.idmwear.com/) there with his family. We had 4 poets participate in the slam. The poets were Zak, Jake, Joye, and Alise.

Zak was the highest scoring poet in the first round, but was outscored by Will. Zak got a 27.1 and Will received a 30.0.

Joye had the highest scoring haiku in the second round. She didn't have enough haikus left to go against Axiom so she enlisted the help of Alise who finished second in the round. They were able to defeat Axiom and split the money.

The third round saw Jake wow the audience and receive perfect 30.0. The challenge was to write a 4 line poem during the feature performance and then represent that poem in a series of images. Each poet was given 4 pieces of poster paper to draw the images for each line. Jake was able to defeat Dasan who received a 28.4 for his picture pages.

Jake finished with the highest cumalative score overall. He is our new Challenge Slam Grand Champion.



We also want to thank our feature DNoble. He put on an amazing performance. The audience was engaged as DNoble edutained them with eloquence and intensity.

2010 Bull City Slam Team is...............

(left to right) G, Dasan Ahanu, NovaKane, Axiom and Will

Special thanks to our amazing feature artist....

Mekkah!!

If you missed the Bull City Slam Finals then you missed an amazing show! Mekkah opened up with an energetic feature performance setting the stage for an exciting slam!

Here is how the competition went...

Round 1

G- 27.9
Trina Thoughtz- 27.4
D-Live- 28.5

Will- 28.3
El'Ja- 28.2
Potts- 25.3
Yogii- 27.1
Zak- 29.2
Axiom- 28.5
Lizh- 27.0
NovaKane- 30
Naturally Alise- 27.4

Round 2

NovaKane- 30 (60)
Zak- 28.2 (57.4)
D-Live- 28.7 (57.2)

Axiom- 29.3 (57.8)
Will- 29.6 (57.9)
El'Ja- 28.3 (56.5)
G-29.9(57.8)

Round 3

NovaKane- 30 (90)
Will- 29.8 (87.7)
Axiom- 29.5 (87.3)

G- 29.8 (87.6)
Zak- 29.6 (87.0)
D-Live- 29.6 (86.8)

Our 2010 Grand Slam Finals champion....

Novakane

**special thanks to Inkera Oshun for taking such beautiful pictures of the slam! **