Lazy day

I worked on the Novacon Poetry Jam today. I'm pretty psyched about it. Here's the info I've been passing out about it:

Looking for a place to read your poetry on-stage to an art-loving audience? Do you want to electrify people with your performance and words? Then the Novacon Poetry Jam needs your submissions!

Novacon? Poetry Jam? What is all this?

• When: November 1st, 2008.
• Where: The Garden and Arts Center at 44th Street and University Avenue on the southwest corner of Clapp Park.
• What: The Novacon, Lubbock’s only art convention, features artists of all visual, musical and written mediums. The Poetry Jam will be a one-hour event during the convention in which poets perform.

A few guidelines...

• Poems must take less than five minutes to perform.
• Any props needed for the performance must be provided by the poet.
• Your art should be an expression of yourself and you must perform for the Poetry Jam. This is not a simple poetry reading. Say it with feeling, use body language and motion to get your idea across. Poets who are unable to do this may be better suited for other venues.

How to enter
• E-mail a video of your performance to bakkacreative@gmail.com by Oct. 10.
• Video formats must be compatible with Windows Media Player.
• Include in the body of the e-mail a short bio of 50 words or less to be read at the jam by the emcee before your performance.
• Poets who are accepted to read in the Poetry Jam will be notified by Oct. 17 and will be asked to attend a dress rehearsal at the GAC. We will notify you of the date and time in your acceptance email.
• We will try to contact all poets who submit their work.
• All submissions will be reviewed for content.


For more information on the Novacon, visit www.novacon2008.blogspot.com.


and so on...

I got to visit a lot of coffee shops today to post up some flyers. At Sugar Brown's, I talked to the manager about stopping by Saturday evening to do the LLAMA's weekly "Art or Not?" piece. In "Art or Not?", we ask people if they consider certain things art or not. We publish what they say and their picture. If you want to participate, why not stop by? It's good coffee with a good atmosphere.

So do you and your friends have arguments over whether certain things are art or not? We'd love to hear your stories, and we may even ask other people about it and put it in print :)