Louder Than a Bomb (SIFF Teen Slam Poetry Movie)

SIFF is proud to present Louder Than A Bomb at SIFF Cinema from May 6-12. Director Jon Siskel and poet Lamar Jorden are expected to attend Friday and Saturday screenings. As a special treat, there will be local poets performing before the 7:30pm screenings:
May 6 will feature Lamar Jorden, Donte Johnson, and Raven
May 7 will feature Lamar Jorden, Devin McDonald, and Raven

Louder Than A Bomb
Presented as part of Giant Magnet’s 25th Anniversary International Children’s Festival and co-presented by Town Hall Seattle
louderthanabomb2May 6-12
Daily 7:30pm / Friday 5:30pm, 9:30pm / Sunday 2:00pm
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Founded in 2001, “Louder Than a Bomb” is the only event of its kind in the country-a youth poetry slam built from the beginning around teams. Rather than emphasize individual poets and performances, the structure demands that kids work collaboratively with their peers, presenting, critiquing, and rewriting their pieces. To succeed, teams have to create an environment of mutual trust and support. For many kids, being a part of this-in an academic context-is life-changing. Louder Than a Bomb chronicles the stereotype-confounding stories of four teams as they prepare for and compete in the 2008 event.

SIFF Cinema is located at 321 Mercer Street at 3rd Avenue, McCaw Hall, in the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at Seattle Center.

www.siff.net

206.633.7151
for showtime and theater information

About Splabman

Poet & interviewer Paul E Nelson founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993, SPLAB has produced hundreds of poetry events & 600 hours of interview programming with legendary poets & whole systems activists including Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Diane di Prima, Daphne Marlatt, Nate Mackey, George Bowering, Barry McKinnon, José Kozer, Brenda Hillman & many others. Paul’s books include American Prophets (interviews 1994-2012) (2018) American Sentences (2015) A Time Before Slaughter (2009) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (2013). Co-Editor of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia (2015), 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards (2017) and Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill (2019) Make it True meets Medusario (2019), he’s presented poetry/poetics in London, Brussels, Nanaimo, Qinghai & Beijing, China, has had work translated into Spanish, Chinese & Portuguese & writes an American Sentence every day. Awarded a residency at The Lake, from the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA, he’s published work in Golden Handcuffs Review, Zen Monster, Hambone, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2014 Robin Blaser Award from The Capilano Review, he is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia and lives in Rainier Beach, in the Cascadia bioregion’s Cedar River watershed.
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