DUKE CITY STORY SLAM, TUES., MAY 9TH WAS CANCELLED DUE TO COVID.
We ran into an unexpected challenge of our own this month and have made the difficult decision to cancel our May event. We want to acknowledge all of the work that our storytellers put into building stories, both featured tellers and open mic-ers and we hope to be back in good health for future events! Wishing you all good health, we hope to see you soon!
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Canteen Brewhouse 2381 Aztec Road Northeast Albuquerque, NM, 87107 United States (map)
Duke City Story Slam
Unexpected Challenges:
Challenges come in many forms, from multiple directions, they may all come at you at once or one at a time, maybe there's just one big one, some are temporary, others are permanent. If you have an Unexpected Challenges story, put your name in to be an open-mic-er!
Featured tellers Deeno Adkins, Amber Pechin and Kate Fisher have three great stories about travel, haunted hotels and a new found love of grapefruit juice. You don't want to miss it!
Duke City Story Slam is Albuquerque’s only story slam (friendly storytelling competition). An accessible event including both Featured Tellers and Open Mic-ers telling true personal stories on a quarterly theme. Prizes are given for the top scoring Featured and Open Mic Tellers and through the audience raffle.
Featured Tellers are recruited ahead of time and are provided with story crafting support and a rehearsal before the slam. They get 10-minutes on the mic to tell their story.
Open Mic Tellers can prep their story beforehand or spontaneously put their name in the hat at the mic for a chance to tell their 5-minute true story on that month’s theme
Storytelling guidelines:
True Story
Your Story
No notes, props, or music
No -isms will be tolerated
Storytelling, not stand-up
Storytelling, not therapy
Stay within the time limit