Open Mic at MoAD is going virtual! All interested readers, please sign up to perform below. For those interested in being part of the audience, no need to rsvp.

Sign up to perform below. Everyone is welcome.

Tonight's lineup:

Tricia Cochee

Joyce Young

Raymond Nat Turner

Lorraine Bonner

Sarai Bourdeaux

Allie Jones

Corrita Wilson

James Cagney

Avotcja Jiltonilro

FEATURE:

K. Eltinaé

Makeda Hooper Mayfield

Norm Mattox

Dr. Jeanne Powell

Lara Roth

Stacye Montez

Yuesf Salaam

Yeva Johnson

Tureeda Mikell

OPEN MIC THURSDAYS continue. Because we remain closed due to the global pandemic COVID-19, we will host our Open Mic online via ZOOM. Because we had such an awesome first virtual open mic, we will bring them to you TWICE per month instead of once.

Look for MoAD Open Mic this month on the FIRST & THIRD THURSDAYS.

DONATIONS OF ANY AMOUNT ARE ALWAYS WELCOME, SO IF YOU ARE ABLE TO, PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO MOAD ONLINE HERE, OR DONATING THROUGH GIVE BY CELL BY TEXTING THE WORD: MOADSF TO THE NUMBER: 56512 ON YOUR CELL PHONE, THEN FOLLOW THE LINK PROVIDED TO MAKE A DONATION. ALL DONATIONS WILL GO TOWARDS SUPPORTING MOAD AND CONTINUING TO BRING YOU ENGAGING PROGRAMMING.

Here are the instructions for joining via ZOOM:

REGISTER IN ADVANCE VIA ZOOM TO RECEIVE A LINK TO JOIN THE PROGRAM

‍https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkf-qhpzwrGtw1Z0_CXvjPLdrdwY6WwpcQ

Once you register, you will receive an email with the link to join the program.

‍Hosted by poet Nia McAllister, join us for an evening of spoken word, featuring amazing poets from throughout the Bay Area. Participate or just watch. Everyone is welcome.

‍Our featured artist: K. Eltinaé

K. Eltinaé is a Sudanese poet of Nubian descent, raised internationally as a third culture kid. His work has been translated into Arabic, Greek, Farsi, and Spanish and has appeared in World Literature Today, The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human: Many Muslim Worlds (Penguin), The African American Review, About Place Journal, Muftah, among others. He is the first place poetry winner of Muftah´s Creative Writing Competition At Home in the World and co-winner of the 2019 Dignity Not Detention Prize from Poetry International.

His debut collection The Moral Judgement of Butterflies is forthcoming from Eyewear Press, Spring 2021 and won the The 2019 International Beverly Prize for Literature. He currently resides in Granada, Spain.

More of his work can be found at:

‍https://www.facebook.com/eltinae/

‍https://www.instagram.com/k.eltinae

Generous support for this program is provided by Art Bridges