For Immediate Release 12/13/10

Annual Open Mic

Speaking the Spoken the Art

of Verse

at The VORTEX

When: January 17, 2011, 7-9:30pm

Where: The VORTEX, 2307 Manor Rd. Austin, TX 78722

Free Parking. Bus Route. Café & Bar with beer, wine, and food.

Admission: $1.00 for readers; $2.00 for audience members

Limited seating.

“We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove,

a tough mind and a tender heart.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963.

Come celebrate M.L.K. Day and expressing your right of free speech at “Speaking the Spoken the Art of Verse” the annual open mic hosted by award-winning “interdisciplinary theater artist” Zell Miller, III. Doors open at 7 pm, and we will be expressing the art of verse till 9:30pm. Come early, seats fill quickly for this super hot open mic with members of the Cipher, Xenogia Spoken Word Collective, Slam poets, and anyone else who has something to say. Featuring the amazing Ebony Stewart, one of the lead voices of the Neo Slam team that took 4^th at the National Poetry Slam this year. That’s right, two-time slam champ, actress, singer, author, and recording artist Ebony Stewart is a feature you really don’t want to miss.

So end your day of celebrating the legacy of one of the greatest orators in our history by doing what he fought so hard for us to be able to do: speak our minds, our spirits, and our hearts.

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