2013-363 Arts - Sacrificial Poets Spring 2013 Art Grant Agreement $1,500

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SAMPLE PRESS OCAC 2013 Festival Rules and Guidelines TEAM GUIDELINES • There must be a minimum of 4 people on each team, a maximum of 6. We encourage schools to invite more youth to come to the finals on Saturday night, but ask that each team limit the number of youth they are bringing to participate in day of activities to six. • No more than 4 poets on the stage at any time (during the slam). By"on the stage," we mean as a part of the poem. Each round a team may send up an individual poem in their slot, or a group piece with 2, 3 or 4 poets. •Team members must be currently enrolled in high school. • We encourage everyone to be as outgoing as possible. This is an incredible opportunity to meet, share, and build with a community of young writers, leaders, and educators from across the triangle. Please take advantage of this. SLAM GUIDELINES Although we distress the competition, we have come up with the following guidelines. Please abide by them so as to avoid controversy and keep the focus on the fun and expansive nature of poetry and the festival as a whole. • All of the work used in the Slam must be original writing by the individuals slamming. • Group pieces constructed and performed as duets, trios, and quartets are not only permissible, but also encouraged. Each performing member of a group piece must have participated in the writing of the group piece. • The Slam is about the poet(s) and the mic(s). Props may not be used in the Slam. Props are defined as any non-body piece of equipment. Musical accompaniment (excluding mouth/body percussion) may not be used in the Slam. • Each individual and group piece must be under three minutes in length. We will have a 30 second grace period, after which significant time penalties will incur. • If individuals or teams go over the time limits, their scores will be penalized .5 for each 10 seconds beyond 3:30 minutes, starting at 3 minutes 40 seconds. (e.g. up to 3:39 —no penalty; 3:40 to 3:49 - .5 point penalty; 3:50 to 3:59— 1 point penalty, etc.) • There is no censorship whatsoever, but gratuitous use of profanity could work against you when it comes to scoring. It is recommended that teams regulate themselves and try to avoid excessive violence, sexually explicit content and/or language that is degrading to any group of people. Please, do it for the love. • Each Team will participate in one preliminary bout(4 rounds), and the top team(s) in each preliminary bout will make the finals (4 rounds). Teams may not repeat poems within the same bout, but teams that make finals may repeat poems that they performed in the preliminary bout. • The Slam will be judged by a mixed panel of poets, adults and young people who are in no way