A Slam Manifesto
1. slam is a competition
The poetry slam is a game. There are loosers. There is a winner. But never never never never there is a murder.
2. slam is expression
Slam is where the freedom of speech meets the freedom of hearing. It’s the audience’s tolerance to hear that makes the words of the performer possible. The performer knows it and he’ll act in responsability to himself and his truch, even if he’s lying.
So slam gives you
THE
RIGHT
TO
LIE
3. slam is performance
Everybody can participate, male, female, shemale, white people, blue people, yellow people, religious people, non religious people – NO RESTRICTION – (we’d even let fishes perform if they could speak).
4. slam is freedom
A………….B
C………….D
F…………..F
I…………..H
H………….I
G………….F
D………….C
B………….A
5. slam is poetry
A force de chercher le sens des mots, on en perd la direction. Quitte à se perdre, cherchons ailleurs! A croire qu’on a perdu le GPS du sens au point de ne plus comprendre dans quelle direction chercher. Faudrait-il savoir avant où nous nous trouvons.
A force d’entendre un sens à sens unique, nous risquons d’aller tout droit dans le contre-sens.
(Manifeste pensé et rédigé par des poètes lors de l’atelier “Slam poésie et littérature” proposé et animé par Céline Robinet)
