Multi-slam winning poet Serenity teaches her first workshop tonight, Tuesday July 19th at 7pm. We dont know what its about but we are sure it will be respectful, sweet and super laid back. It will be followed by an open mic at 8pm. All artists are invited to attend and participate.

Percolator, 217 N Stanton
Free Admission

NPS 2011 is coming up fast so let’s all watch some of what happened at NPS 2010!!!!!!!!

It will be just  like when your grandpa showed you super 8 films of his summer at Boca Raton!

Except hopefully less boring and with slightly better poetry, no promises though!

Also showing:  Musical Beer Chairs a short by Krystal Oblinger and Sunday Morning Coming Down a short by Henry Arrambide.

Saturday July 23rd
8.00 PM
Percolator, 217 N Stanton
El Paso, TX
FREE ADMISSION!

Please note that tonight’s Open Mic has been cancelled and rescheduled for next Tuesday, July 5th. Same FreeHolé time, same FreeHolé place:
7.00 PM
Percolator, 217 N Stanton
El Paso TX
Free Admission.

FHS’ own León De la Rosa and VJ Durán will perform this friday, May 27th on Between Windows, a contemporary art festival on and from Latin America held in Berlin, Germany. In case you are interested you can watch the weekend-long festival online for free somewhere around here:
http://between-windows.arscenic.tv/
On sunday evening León will also present soy solo palabras but wish to be a city as part of the event.

Come and join us for a very special Bongo Night, featuring your poetry AND…. wait for it… BONGOS!!!!!!!!!!!!

19.00 hrs
Tuesday May 31st
Percolator, 217 N Stanton; El Paso, TX.
FREE ADMISSION

Today! RJ Devera, runner up for the 2011 FHS Slam Off and EPCC Slam grand champion will host his first ever workshop followed by another amazing free-for-all open mic! Come out and join us, we guarantee you will learn something!

Workshop @ 6 PM
Mic opens @ 8 PM
Percolator, 217 N Stanton; El Paso, TX.
FREE ADMISSION

Tonight! Tuesday May 3rd, Jim Iholts, your 2011 Slam Off Grand Champion, will host both a workshop AND an open mic.
Come get AND give some!

Workshop @ 6PM
Mic opens @ 8PM
FREE ADMISSION
Percolator, 217 N Stanton
El Paso, TX

Poets and Poetry Fans,

Congratulations! The day we have been waiting all year long has arrived…the day of the Slam Off! The Slam Off is Tuesday,
April 19th at the Percolator, 7 pm.

The Slam Off is the last poetry slam of the season. The competitors are poets who have already won a final round position at a slam or entered into the 2nd round at least twice. Free Hole Slam has compiled a list of 30 poets who have won this honor. The list is below. If you believe you should be on this list and are not please reply to this announcement immediately. If you know a poet who is on the list but they might not read this post please forward it to them or let them know.

If you are a poet competing in the Slam Off please read the following rules. They will be strictly enforced:

1. All competing poets must be at the Slam Off by 7 pm for sign up. There are 30 poets. If we do not start at 7pm we run the risk of slamming til midnight. No one wants that on a Tuesday.
2. Sign up will not be on a first come, first placed basis. All poets will be put their name into a hat. The emcee will draw those names and place them on the sign up sheet as they are drawn. YOU MUST BE PRESENT to put your name in the hat and have it drawn. The drawing will be at 7 pm.
3. The “no repeat” rule is discarded for The Women’s Slam and Slam Off. You may read any piece of poetry from this season. All other Slam Rules apply.
4. Depending how many poets actually arrive to the Slam Off at 7pm is how the rounds are distributed. We usually break the amount of poets in half for each successive round such as: 16, 8, 4. Once the number of poets is confirmed the emcee will announce how the break ups will go.
5. The last 4 poets remaining will automatically win a spot on our team for Slam Nationals in Boston, MA, August 8th – 11th.
6. 5th place and 6th place will be awarded alternate status in case a winning poet can not attend nationals.
7 All poets must pay for their flight to Slam Nationals as well as register with PSI.
8. Even if you have decided that you can not make it to Slam Nationals we still would like to encourage you to compete in the Slam Off. The more poets means the more competition and the more competition makes us all better poets…if that makes sense.

Here is the list of qualifying poets:
1. Serenity
2. Karla
3. Ruben aka Chi City
4. God’s Love Song
5. Tech aka Jack Johnson
6. Damien- silver city
7. RAS
8. Krista- silver city
9. Leon de la Rosa
10. Ray Ramos
11. Genesis
12. Santiago
13. Jen Shugert
14. Darlina
15. Ryan McLellan- Portland, Maine
16. Kait Rokokowski- Portland
17. Wil Gibson- Portland
18. Raul Salas
19. Blaze
20. My Brother
21. Lyrically Spoken
22. Franko
23. David Casto
24. Jason Palomo
25. Mario
26. RJ.
27. David Williamson
28. Lawrence
29. Jim Iholts
30. Josh Ronquillo

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reply to this announcement. Slam is a competitive poetry art form built out of love, mutual respect for one another and a deep appreciation for the audience. Please bring that to The Slam Off!

Thank you and Congrats,
Free Hole Slam.

In order to qualify for the slam off the poets had to either finish in the top 4 or made it to the third round of an open slam. This year the qualifying poets are:

Serenity
Karla
Ruben aka Chi City
God’s Love Song
Tech aka Jack Johnson
Damien- silver city
RAS
Krista- silver city
Leon de la Rosa
Ray Ramos
Genesis
Santiago
Jen
Darlina
Ryan McLellan- Portland, Maine
Kait Rokokowski- Portland
Wil Gibson- Portland
Raul Salas
Blaze
My Brother
Lyrically Spoken
Franko
David Casto
Jason Palomo
Mario
RJ.
David Williamson
Lawrence
Jim Iholts
Josh Ronquillo

The Slam Off will be held on Tuesday April 19th, 7 PM

Percolator, 217 N Stanton

El Paso, TX.

FREE ADMISSION!

Hope to see you all there!