PROGRAM
26-29 september 2022

26 SEPTEMBER

19:00h

OFFICIAL OPENING

On the 26th of September all the champions and our guests from around the world would be arriving. We have prepared a special welcoming, where we are going to meet all of them and create a friendly atmosphere for their stay at the wonderful city of Brussels. Ministries of Brussels have been invited to this event to give their special welcome and inaugurate the first inclusive World Poetry Slam Championship.

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Language: French  Dutch   English

Entrance FREE

Venue: Muntpunt Grand Cafe, Munt 6, 1000 Brussel

Room: Literair salon

26 SEPTEMBER

20:30h - 00:00h

SHOWCASE BELGIAN SCENE + open mic

Poetry performances in collaboration with "Slameke". The event will start with performances of poets from the Belgium scene and it will continue with an open mic with poets chosen from our open call. 

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Language: French  Dutch   English

Entrance FREE

Venue: Muntpunt Grand Cafe, Munt 6, 1000 Brussel

Room: Agora + ground floor + Grand café

27 SEPTEMBER

14:00h - 15:00h

Slam4climate WORKSHOP

Slam4climate is an innovative project that provides slam writing workshops to students to fight against climate change in high schools, colleges and universities in cities around the world. The workshop will host Baana Enono Arnaud (aka Faithfull), artist poet from Cameroon, national competition slam promoter, cultural entrepreneur, director of international festival SLAMeroun and general secretary of ACSP ( Africa Cup of Slam Poetry).

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Language: French

For secondary schools (1st-2nd grade secondary school)

Venue: Muntpunt Grand Cafe, Munt 6, 1000 Brussel

Room: De Grid

27 SEPTEMBER

14:00h - 15:00h

"NO DUERME" | Theater performance 

Theater performance about experiences with human trafficking and confinement situations. The four characters experience the need for freedom from different points of view while someone is missing and asks us to keep searching for them.

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Language: Spanish (Translations in English & French)

Entrance FREE

Venue: Muntpunt Grand Cafe, Munt 6, 1000 Brussel

Room: Auditorium De Wolken

27 SEPTEMBER

15:00h - 17:00h

DEMO COMPETITION POETRY SLAM

The "Centre culturel de Jette" is organizing a little Poetry Slam demo competition for all of you who have never been in a Poetry Slam event. There will be 2 competitions of 30 minutes each, consisting of 2 rounds each  one. Poets among the champions coming to Brussels from around the world will participate to show you what performative poetry is!

This will be an outdoors activity.

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Language: French  Dutch   English

Entrance FREE

Venue: Garcet Park Jette

27 SEPTEMBER

15:45h – 16:45h

LGBTQI+ (oriented performance)

A show of poetry performances under the theme of diversity and identity, showcasing poets from the LGBTQI+ community. All poets will perform with background music and audiovisuals to make it a special show. Performers: Makis Moulos (Greece), Canuto Roldán (Mexico), Puti Futurista (Uruguay), Marie Darah (Belgium), Anna Moura (Brazil), Andrea Gómez Jiménez (Costa Rica), Dan Goodwin (New Zealand).

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Language: Spanish  English  French Portuguese

Entrance FREE

Venue: Muntpunt Grand Cafe, Munt 6, 1000 Brussel

Room: Agora

27 SEPTEMBER

19:30h - 23:00h (Doors open at 19h)

SEMI-FINALS 1

In the first semi-finals will participate 20 of the 40 champions invited to the World Poetry Slam Championship. The names of the participants have been announced on the 18th of July, after a live streamed draw on our social media.

The performances will be scored by a special jury from each participating country who will be voting their 10 favorite poets using the scores 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10 and 12. On top of this, there will be online voting for the audience around the world. The audience will have to vote via a voting platform whose access will be given before the event and they will have to vote their favorite 5 poets, giving 1 point to each one. The special jury scores will be the 80% and the online audience scores will be the 20% of the total score.

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Language: ALL

Buy your TICKET

Venue: https://kinepolis.be/

Room: SALLE 9

27 SEPTEMBER

0:00h - 01:00h

OPEN MIC

Late night open mic hosted by De Sprekende Ezels and Jan Ducheyne.

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Language: ALL

Entrance FREE

Venue: Monk café

28 SEPTEMBER

14:00h – 17:00h

DOCUMENTARIES + VIDEO POETRY SCREENING

We have selected 2 documentaries to be screen-played. After the end of each documentary, there will be a Q&A session with the directors of each one. 

Documentaries: 

• “slam in Belgian prisons” ​(Glenn Dumortier) Produced by Avansa and Creatief Schrijven.

• "Seniorenslam" (Tijs Torfs)

          Produced by TRILL.

• Video poetry & Spoken Word

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Entrance FREE

Venue: Cinema RITCS

28 SEPTEMBER

19:30h - 23:00h (Doors open at 19h)

SEMI-FINALS 2

In the second semi-finals will participate 20 of the 40 champions invited to the World Poetry Slam Championship. The names of the participants have been announced on the 18th of July, after a live streamed draw on our social media.

The performances will be scored by a special jury from each participating country who will be voting their 10 favorite poets using the scores 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10 and 12. On top of this, there will be online voting for the audience around the world. The audience will have to vote via a voting platform whose access will be given before the event and they will have to vote their favorite 5 poets, giving 1 point to each one. The special jury scores will be the 80% and the online audience scores will be the 20% of the total score.

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Language: ALL

Buy your TICKET

Venue: https://kinepolis.be/

Room: SALLE 9

28 SEPTEMBER

0:00h - 01:00h

OPEN MIC

Late night open mic hosted by De Sprekende Ezels and Jan Ducheyne.

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Language: ALL

Entrance FREE

Venue: Monk café

29 SEPTEMBER

19:30h - 23:00h (Doors open at 19h)

FINALS

In the finals will participate the best 20 poets of both semi-finals. This means that we will take the scores of all 40 poets participated in both of the semi-finals and the 20 poets with the highest scores will pass to the finals. 

The performances will be scored by a special jury from each participating country who will be voting their 10 favorite poets using the scores 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10 and 12. On top of this, there will be an online voting for the audience around the world. The audience will have to vote via a voting platform whose access we will be given before the event and they will have to vote their 5 favorite poets, giving 1 point to each one. The special jury scores will be the 80% and the online audience scores will be the 20% of the total score.

In the finals we will also have a winner of the live audience in the venue. This will be via the traditional system, having 5 random judges from the live audience in the room giving a score from 0 to 10 to each poet.

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Language: ALL

Buy your TICKET

Venue: https://kinepolis.be/

Room: SALLE 9

29 SEPTEMBER

0:00h - 04:00h

AFTER - PARTY!

A big party to celebrate the end of our festival and honor the new World Poetry Slam champion.

Time to relax for everybody and have some fun!

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Entrance FREE

Venue: Nostalgia Club

28 SEPTEMBER

16:00h – 17:00h

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VIDEO POETRY + SPOKEN WORD VIDEOS SCREENING

We are very happy to have selected 26 video poetry projects to showcase during our festival!

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• We have selected 15 videos to be screened at the Ritcs cinema on the 28th of September.

 

• We will have a big box outside Muntpunt where people will be able to enter and watch all the 26 videos.

 

• We will have 4 TV screens with headphones in all our venues with activities, so people can sit and watch all the videos again and again!

 

• We have made a selection of 9 videos from the 26 to be played in our livestreaming around the world during the break of each semifinal and at the final, 3 videos per event!

 

See HERE the whole selection.

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Entrance FREE

Venue: Cinema RITCS